5441 N.z. Prisoners of War Recovered
AUCKLAND, Friday.—The Minister for Defence (Mr. Jones) announced that 5441 New Zealand prisoners of war had reached safety…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1945
2,083 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 46 of 105
G.M.C.'s Immense War Turnover
NEW YORK: General Motors Corporation, of Detroit (Michigan), has made more than 31,000 tanks, tank destroyers, and armored cars, more…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ex-Soldiers Attack Government on Rehabilitation Bill
"Four-fifth of the population of Australia in the postwar years will be ex-servicemen and their relatives, and I suggest that these supposed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pillaging on Wharves Gang of Soldiers Confined to Camp
SYDNEY, Friday.—Soldiers working on the wharves have been confined to barracks following allegations of pillaging…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stowaway Soldier Guilty, Loses Pay
BRISBANE, Friday.—Private A. W. Neilan, Brisbane infantryman who stowed away oil a ship and fought with Americans in the Philippines,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A.I.F. Wounded
Wounded Australians of the Tarakan campaign at a base hospital. These soldiers were members of the first Australian amphibious forces who landed on Tarakan…
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HAMILTON YOUNGER SET of the Send-off and Welcome Home Committee entertained more than 20 members of the Services at tea and a social evening…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →War Artist's Paintings for Newcastle
An exhibition of paintings and drawings by Captain Ivor Hele depicting the war in New Guinea will be displayed in Nesca House from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →News From Former Prisoners Of War
Notification has been received by Mr. A. H. Osborne, 101 Railway St., Cook's Hill, that Sergt. V. R. Caile, who has been a prisoner of war in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Cost Ukraine 7,000,000 Civilians
LONDON, May 27. A.A.P.—Russian Ukraine lost 7,000,000 civilians during the war, according to "Red Star." Of these, 2,500,000 were killed, 1,500,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Cabinet Plan to Release 45,000 Servicemen by End of June
CANBERRA: Releases from the services totalling 45,000 will be achieved by the end of June, according to a War Cabinet agenda under discussion today. The War Cabinet today has to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nazi War Prisoners at Work in France
LONDON. Monday: German war prisoners already are working in Caen and other badly damaged Normandy towns, the "Daily Herald"…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Superforts Begin "Bomb to Finish" Phase "Smash Japanese War Plants In Months" "Herald" Service and A.A.P.
LONDON, May 28.—Superfortresses have begun the "bomb to a finish" phase in the war against Japan. It is intended to destroy Japanese war potential in months, as against the years it took to develop the bombing of Germany…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →One Killed, 29 INJURED Car Crashes Into Soldiers
SYDNEY, Monday.—An N.C.O. was killed and 29 soldiers, including two officers, were injured when a car crashed into a group of servicemen…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →100 Soldiers Break Out of Camp
SYDNEY, Monday.—Early to-night 100 soldiers broke out of the military detention barracks at Tamworth and marched a mile and a half to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Suburban and District Wallsend Returned Soldiers
The question of violating the league's non-political policy was discussed by Wallsend sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League when it was invited to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Uncle Dead While Soldier Waited
ADELAIDE. Monday.—Ignorant that his uncle, William Stanhope Blumson, lay dead in a shed at the rear of his home a young soldier…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldier's 21St Birthday Party
Mr. and Mrs. W. Crooks, of Lambton, entertained more than 120 relatives and friends, including a number of Royal Marines, last night, to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Anzac Day Holiday
Sir,—A matter has arisen from the stoppages at Lysaght's works, which the returned soldiers of the Ironworkers' Union should not lose sight…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War News in Pictures
"NOTHIN' DOING!"—Joan Harris In the Creche at the American Consulate has upset Derek Hover by rejecting his peace offering while they waited for their mothers, both Australian wives of U.S. servicemen, to arrange passage to America. WAR CRIME.—U.S. Army nurses who survived a Japanese suicide attack on their fully-marked…
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