Wallsend R.s.l. Has £1550 in War Loans
Wallsend R.S.L. last night decided to invest £350 in the Third Victory Loan. The league now has £1550 invested in war loans…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1945
2,083 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 22 of 105
Suburban and District Trees to Honour Soldiers
Charlestown Send-off and Welcome Home Committee is to ask the State Forests Commission for 65 trees for planting in Charlestown Park in honour…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Plaques for Soldiers
Members of the Newcastle Timber Merchants' Association donated 1000 plaques to the Returned Soldiers' League Welfare Sub-committee…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Research on Soldier Nerve Cases
CANBERRA, Thursday.—Everything possible was being done to modernise medical treatment of soldier nerve cases, the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Making Bad Soldiers Better ... or Worse
MR.F.M. DALY, M.H.R., seeking a Royal Commission to inquire into the conduct of military detention barracks, rightly says the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bowls for Diggers on Anzac Day
Newcastle City Bowling Club has again Invited Dinner bowlers to slay in the annual Anzac Day match. Six rinks will be filled by Diggers, who should…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wounded Have More Chance of Living
LONDON, Friday: Nine out of ten soldiers shot through the head — even through the brain — live Although their lives were saved, all who recovered were not first-…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hospital Ship Not For War Brides
CANBERRA, Friday.—Suggestions that Australian hospital ships, now lying idle, should be used to transport Australian wives of American…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Kittyhawks Won Desert War, Says Newcastle Man
From the standpoint of Army close support, the air war in the Western Desert was won by the Kittyhawk. This is the opinion of Flight Lieutenant K. N. McRae, M.B.E. (R.A.A.F), of Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Pensions Cost £2,996,000 a Year
CANBERRA, Friday.—Government is spending £2,[?]96,839 a year to pay 85,327 war pensions of which 40,548 are paid to dependants of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Soldiers' Memorial "Black With Grime"
The Soldiers' Memorial outside the Post Office was no credit to the City Council or to Returned Soldiers, the President of Civic Returned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Legal Aid for U.s. Soldiers
WASHINGTON, March 16. A.A.P.—The War Department announced that it had handled, since March. 1943, more than 4,000,000 cases…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pressure for Open Anzac Day
It was felt that pressure must be exerted in every direction possible to prevent a closed day being declared in this State for Anzac…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stop Press Argentine May Declare War
NEW YORK, Sunday.—A report from Buenos Aires says that the Argentine Cabinet will meet on Tuesday and is expected to declare war…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Park As War Memorial Ambitious Scheme for Wallsend
The proposed transformation of the Federal Park, Wallsend, into an elaborate war memorial community centre, was outlined to the Wallsend…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire War Against Japan Nagoya Left In Flames
GUAM, Monday: For the second time in a week, Nagoya, Japan's third city, has been left ablaze by a mass Superfortress raid. Unofficial reports say that at least 300…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Few Wealthy People Left "Incomes Only Part of War Cost"
MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Australia had few wealthy people left the Governor of the Commonwealth Bank (Mr. Armitage) said in a broadcast…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →1000 Nazi Soldiers Executed
LONDON, March 18. A.A.P.—Mobile courts-martial have executed 1000 Wehrmacht men and officers for desertion and other military offences,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Girl's Five Years As Soldier
LONDON, Sunday.—A 20-year-old girl captured by the U.S. First Army on the Rhine, while wearing German Army uniform, had done guard…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Young Soldier-jockey Wounded in Action
SYDNEY, Monday.—The former Sydney apprentice jockey, D. Nicol, has been wounded in action. Until last December, Nicol was…
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