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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
2,083 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 105
Some soldiers discharged almost a year ago are still not able to get a civilian suit or hat and there is apparently no hope of an issue being available in the near future. Repeated applications for an issue…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The President of the Wickham-Carrinston R.S.L. sub-branch (Mr. R. Rose), who was elected as president when the branch was formed over…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY: Royal Navy commando, John William Reid, 25, formerly a miner, of Hell Island, Newfoundland, was found yesterday at the British Centre, Pitt Street, hidinff behind a magnificent beard…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →State headquarters of the Returned Soldiers' League will be asked by Islington sub-branch to press for an immediate amendment of the Soldiers'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Government should do something now to help our soldier lads. My son, like many other boys, volunteered in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A U.S. pilot, wounded during a mass attack on the big Japanese island of Formosa on October 11, 1944, is helped from his bomber…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Jan. 9. A.A.P.—The Fifth Army in Italy is using White clad ski troops to patrol the front on which snow is lying a foot deep,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Monday: Allied strategy and supply plans are based on the assumption that it will take years rather than months to defeat Japan after Germany is beaten. Stating this, the military correspondent of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WASHINGTON, January 9. A.A.P.—Announcing that the estimated war expenditure in 1946 would amount to 73,000 million dollars, President Roosevelt, in his Budget message to Congress, said…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The record of the A.I.F. in five years of war will be portrayed in the "Army Hour" at 7.20 tonight from 2FC and 2NA. Sergt…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →WOLLONGONG Tuesday.—While swimming in Shellharbour baths this afternoon, Oliver Morell, 33, A.I.F., collapsed and died, His wife and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Decisions on the medical care, discharge and after-treatment of forces were made to-day by War Cabinet…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stanley F. Martin, 21, a soldier, was unaware when he sold a bottle of wine and a bottle of gin for £3, that the purchaser was a member of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An A.I.F. gunner in military custody was shot in the left hand this morning when a revolver hidden in a palliasse at the Broadmeadow…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →THE long and damaging delay in the official announcement of the operations of Australian troops in the islands was a first-class…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ADAMSTOWN PRISONERS OF WAR AUXILIARY held its first general meeting of the year in the Adamstown Soldiers' Memorial Hall yesterday, The secretary…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle branch of the Hospital Employees' Union last night appointed the Secretary (Mr. H. King) to attend a mass meeting of hospital employees in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEW YORK, Wednesday.—The fifth war correspondent killed in the Philippines since the U.S. invasion of Leyte on October 20 was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Jan. 10. A.A.P.—The battle for Athens during the Greek crisis had some queer incidents, says Athens correspondent of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW YORK, Jan. 10. A.A.P—Sinking of 40 Allied merchantmen and five destroyers in the last 10 days has been claimed by Berlin,…
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