Soldier Killed At Level Crossing
MELBOURNE: Private C. Cox, driver of a military utility truck in a convoy was killed at a level crossing at Chiltern today…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1945
2,083 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 105
Killed in Action
Mr. and Mrs. F. Elliott, of Ers kineville, have been notified that their son. Private Keith Elliott, has…
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BAPTIST LEAGUE.—The treasurer (Mrs. Sedunary) reported at the fifth annual meeting of the Newcastle and Norther District Baptist Women's Patriotic League…
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The decision of the Commonwealth Disposals Commission to establish auction markets in each State is to clear quickly second-hand and used…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—A soldier was killed and three others injured when a gale struck Redbank military camp…
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CANBERRA, Friday.—The Duke of Gloucester will send the King a special message giving impressions of his inspection of Australian…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Three months' imprisonment with hard labour was imposed at Central Court on Richard Malcolm Blake, charged with having…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Correspondents Watch Battle
WAR CORRESPONDENTS VIEW FIGHTING IN LUTREBOIS.—A captain of the 35th Infantry Division paints with his cane to the town of Lutrebois. Belgium, as he explains the battle in progress to three war correspondents. Fierce fighting took place here as the Americans…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lost: Minefield; Reply War Office
LONDON, Sunday: The war Office has lost a minefield hidden under a South Coast beach against a German landing…
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The capture of Manila—the much richer prize of the harbour is now being won—may be regarded as the end of the Pacific,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →China's Set-up After War Midway Between Russia and West
LAPSTONE, Sunday.—China's economic set-up is, and will be, a middle way economy somewhere between that of Russia and that of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldier Killed by Lightning
Lightning killed a soldier and injured two others who were sheltering in a tent at a military establishment near Singleton yesterday…
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AT LEFT: CAPTURED.—German nurses and women soldiers await shipment to camps after their capture at Strasbourg, France. Some were glad that it was over and that they were safe from…
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SINGLETON, Monday.—The soldier killed by lightning during a storm on Saturday afternoon was Kevin Robert Francis Riley, 30. He…
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Two aldermon—the Deputy Mayor (Aid. J. Grahame) and Aid. E. Lewis —last night assured members of the Islington R.S.L. sub-branch, at their…
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The Singleton District Coroner (Mr. A. Morrison) explained today that the burial of the soldier killed by lightning on Sunday had been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Goods for Scrap Heap
OTTAWA, Feb. 20. A.A.P.—Mr. J. B. Carswell, Chief of the War Assets Corporation, which disposes of obsolete and surplus war…
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The Northern District Board of Management of the Miners' Federation continued its sitting in Newcastle today…
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LONDON, Feb. 21. A.A.P.—Buildings covering approximately 164 acres out of a total of 460 acres of built-up land in the City of London had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Prosecutions in Mosquito War
Ratepayers who continue to allow stagnant water to remain in receptacles in the gardens of their dwellings after having been warned that they…
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