Helping The War Effort
CARRINGTON COMMITTEE.— Contributions by Carrington Send-off and Welcome Home Committee to the Newcastle A.C.F. branch during the past 12 months…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1945
2,083 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 105
Industrialists Saw War Clouds Coming
LONDON, Feb. 21. A.A.P.—Sir Miles Thomas, Vice-chairman of the Nuffield organisation, in a speech revealed how before the war leading…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War's Grim Hand At Wedding
LONDON, Wednesday.—Four airmen two of them Austrahans, at a wedding in Edinbutgh yesterday are artificial legs…
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"We frequently hear the remark 'Look at the way money is being wasted'," said Mr. B. H. Froude, Publicity Officer of the War Loan…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Details of R.s.l. War Memorials
Hamilton and Merewether R.S.L. sub-branches will cooperate with the State Branch in supplying information about war memorials…
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Advance subscriptions to the Third Victory Loan in Newcastle had reached £80,000. That included £5000 subscribed yesterday by Soul…
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LONDON, Wednesday: Berchtesgaden Village, near Hitler's hide-out, is not accustomed to war, according to pilots who, on Tuesday, figured in this area's first raid of the war…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australian Soldiers Make Motor-boat
Australian soldiers of a light aid detachment made this power motor-boat out of discarded belly tanks in the Numa…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldier Preference Safeguards
RETURNED soldier preference may be subject to a time limit of seven years from the war's ending. If this is the final decision of the…
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U.S. TROOPS USE NEW SLED LITTER FOR WOUNDED ON NORTHERN FRONT.—A U.S. corporal palls a soldier through the deep snow of a field in Luxembourg as he demonstrates the use of the sled-litter. Luxembourg civilians are constructing the sled-litters for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Waterfront Union War Continues
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The dispute on the waterfront between the Building Workers' Industrial Union and the Ship-Joiners' Union is still…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Forced Soldier to Take Winter Shower in Grovely
BRISBANE, Thursday.—Warrant Officer Terence William Bilton, who had made a soldier awaiting court-martial take a cold shower at 9 p.m…
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Mrs. Joan McNeil, of 15 Dumaresq-street, Hamilton, has been informed by the Department of the Army that her husband, Lieutenant…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Seven Corvettes Back After War Service
Having sailed about 750,000 miles since leaving these waters, the Australian-built and manned H.M.A.S. Ipswich, Geraldton, Cessnock,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →24,000 Prisoners of War Here
MELBOURNE, Friday.—There are 4000 Japanese prisoners of war in Australia, in addition to 20,000 of other nationalities. There are about…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£56,000 to Run War Homes Commission
CANBERRA, Friday.—No building activities were engaged in by the War Services Homes Commission last year, says the annual report, tabled…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Minister Not Forecasting End of Pacific War
CANBERRA, Friday.—It was impossible to forecast when the war against the Japanese would end, the Minister for Air (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →3.30 a.m. Turkey at War
LONDON, Feb. 23. A.A.P.—The Turkish National Assembly has unanimously decided to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nazi Soldier Surrenders
A German soldier surrenders to an American'as the Third U.S. Army neared Bastogne. Belgium, at the finish of a 60-mile dash north from the Saar front to join forces with encircled airborne men fighting in the Belgian city…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Pensions Returned Soldiers' League Critical
Delegates to a special meeting of the Hunter Valley Council of the Returned Soldiers' League at West Maitland yesterday criticised the…
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