Mayfield Returned Soldiers
Waratah-Mayfield sub-branch of the Returned Sofarers' League decided to write to Greater Newcastle Council in Support of the scheme to establish a…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1945
2,083 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 39 of 105
Preference to Everybody and Nobody Soldiers' Criticism of Federal Bill
"The Preference Bill should be entitled 'Preference for Ex-Service Men and Women, Workers, and Shirkers,' "says Mr. S. F. Webb, State Councillor of the Returned Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen's Imperial League of Australia, in a…
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Private Douglas Peter Blair (A.I.F.), son of Mrs. A. Blair and the late Mr. P. Blair, of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Service Homes
Sir,—As an occupier of a war service home for 18 years. I think it about time the glorified house agency—known as the War Service Homes…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Nerves the Chief War Casualty Soldiers' Case for Special Hospitals
The greater number of casualties caused by the war fall under the many varieties of nerve and metal type. "For five years these men have been dumped out of the army all without adequate treatment and many without…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Correspondent Killed in Burma
LONDON, May 4. A.A.P.—The Exchange Telegraph Agency announces that its war correspondent in Burma, William West, has been killed by a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Airships To Australia After War
NEW YORK: Possibility of of an airship service using giant dirigibles of the luxury liner class between the United…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →May Pool Biggest War Criminals
SAN FRANCISCO, May 4. A.A.P.—France's demand for the extradition of Laval led to an unscheduled consultation by the Big Four…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Prisoners Of War Reception Fund
Following a motion by Mr. H. J. Boorman at a meeting of Lambton-New Lambton R.S.L., that the Mayor be asked to call a public…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Eight Lists of German War Criminals
LONDON, Friday: The United Nations' War Crimes Commission has sent to the authorities charged with the arresting of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →How To Address Mail For War Prisoners
Unless relatives and friends of Australian prisoners of war know they have been liberated, they should continue to address mail to their camp addresses advised the Deputy Director of Posts and Telegraphs (Mr. J. Ma'one) in a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To Take Day Off After European War Ends
Newcastle theatre employees will not present themselves for work on the day following the declaration of the end of hostilities in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stockton Returned Soldiers
Stockton branch of the Returned Soldiers' League decided to meet at the Memorial Hall at 8 p.m. on the day on which the official announcement is made…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Returned Soldiers to Demonstrate
All ex-servicemen and women as well as members of the serving forces were invited to march to-morrow in protest against the preference…
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SINGLETON, Friday.—The youngest Singleton soldier to enlist, in this war. Private Norman White, who sailed with the 6th Division…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldiers' Bill Called "Sell-out;" Redrafting Demanded
The Federal Government's Reestablishment Bill was described at yesterday's R.S.L. protest meeting in Islington as "a complete sell-out", "not worth a tuppenny-dump", and "all eyewash."…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Review
An illustrated synopsis of the war against Germany and her European allies appears on Pages 5, 6, 7 and 8 of this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Britain's Many-Sided War
Left to right: "D" Day in Sicily. First landing in Europe, and a rehearsal for the larger…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →£1,000,000 War Damage Claim
SYDNEY.— Warn damage claims of Bulolo-Gold Dredging, Ltd., amount to 3,582,761 Canadian dollars (£A1,023,600)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This War Moved Farther and Faster Than Any Other
THE WAR which began in Poland in 1939 has developed a dynamic power astounding and confounding those who set it in motion. The sweep of its military operations has been wider the speed of its movement infinitely greater, than in 1914-18, and there have been fluctuations of fortune which, even considered in…
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