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The wars & local soldiers, 1945

2,083 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 25 of 105

War Picture Exhibit

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 March 1945 · page 3

"America Strikes Back," a series of still pictures of Americans in peace and at war, is being exhibited in premises next to the Tatler…

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Helping the War Effort

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 27 March 1945 · page 6

HAMILTON —BROADMEADOW SEND OFF AND WELCOME HOME COMMITTEE has made gifts to the Newcastle A.C.F. totalling £860 since March 6, 1944, reported the…

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British War Brides Arrive

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 March 1945 · page 6

SYDNEY, Monday.—A ship carrying 47 English war brides, bound for all States, and their 32 children arrived this morning…

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Club Has £1200 In War Loans

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 27 March 1945 · page 14

Investment of a further £400 in the Commonwealth War Loans, bringing the total to' £1200. was disclosed by the report adopted at the annual meeting of the…

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Killed in Action

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 March 1945 · page 3

Mrs. F. B. Gordon, of Gavey-sheet, Mayfield, was notified that her husband. Private Ronald Clyde…

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Policy Stated By Ironworkers On Returned Men

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 28 March 1945 · page 4

Where the jobs of returning servicemen had disappeared, it was the policy of the Federated ironworkers' Union the juniors should go out of the industry to make way for the returned men, the Secretary of the Union…

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Suburban and District Wallsend Anzac Celebrations

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 March 1945 · page 5

Observance of Anzac Day at Wallsend, as arranged by Wallsend sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League, will be on the lines of last year's…

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Want Hotels Open on Anzac Day

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 28 March 1945 · page 8

At a meeting of the Wallsen.d R.S.L. last night it was decided that a protest be sent to the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) at the decision…

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Prisoner of War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 March 1945 · page 6

Flight Lieut. J. A. Rowland, D.F.C., previously listed as missing following air operations over Germany in January, is a prisoner of…

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Helping the War Effort

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 28 March 1945 · page 13

P.O.W. MEETING.—The president (Mrs. Ritchie), treasurer (Mrs. Hutlon). and vice-president (Mrs. McPherson) of WaratahMayfield branch of the Red Cross society…

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Greatest Smoke Screen of War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 March 1945 · page 1

The greatest smoke screen of the war marked the Britain Army's for preparations for the offensive in the Rhine. The picture shows a mechanical smoke generator in action.—British Official War Office photograph…

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Japan Sees 20 Years' War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 March 1945 · page 1

NEW YORK, March 27. A.A.P.—"There is a growing feeling in Japan that the war will last 20 years and may even carry…

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War Over For These Nazis

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 28 March 1945 · page 9

CRASHED.—An aerial view of battered Julich, one of the hotly contested Nazi bastions before the Rhine; The city was entered by the Allies on February 24 in their victorious drive to Cologne. GONE!—Chumphon Bridge on the Bangkok-Singapore rail-…

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The Churchill of the Last War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 March 1945 · page 2

Time dealt kindly with Earl Lloyd George in denying him the opportunity of taking a seat in the House of Lords, for in the…

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Visual Education Held Up By War

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 28 March 1945 · page 3

Visual education gives reality to lessons," said the Deputy Director of Education (Mr. J. W. Hayes, M.A.) at the annual meeting of…

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New "Long War" Party in Japan

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 28 March 1945 · page 3

NEW YORK Tuesday.—A "Sure Victory" Party, called the "Political Association of Great Japan." has been created under the leadership…

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Took Part in War's Longest Raid

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 March 1945 · page 4

Some of the Australian airmen who took part in the 3000-mile world's record bombing mission from an Indian base, photographed on a wing of one of the Liberators after its return from the raid. The group includes two New South Wales men, both seated—Warrant Officer W. H. Wheeler, of Bellevue Hill (third from left), and Flying Officer V. E. Willing, of Rose…

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Bells to Peal War's End Newcastle Ready

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 March 1945 · page 2

Immediately news that the war with Germany has ended is received bells in all Anglican churches will be rung and radio stations will suspend…

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Battleship Power Vital Factor in Pacific War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 March 1945 · page 3

WASHINGTON, March 27. A.A.P.—The renewed importance of battleships is an interesting feature of the Pacific campaign states Admiral…

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Soldier Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 March 1945 · page 5

Private Palfrey 19, of Rawson-street, Aberdare, was admitted to hospital yesterday with an injury to his right foot. Mounted on…

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