£4022 from Wallsend for War Prisoners
With £1522 for the year ended June 30, Wallsend collections for the Red Cross prisoner of war fund under the stret group adoption scheme totalled…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1945
2,083 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 66 of 105
Bolton Point Favoured Site for Soldiers' Rest Centre
By 21 votes to 2, delegates at the City hall last night decided on Bolton Point in preference to Marmong Point as the site for the Lake…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A.M.F. to Be Halved Big Realignment In War Effort
CANBERRA, Friday.—The three Australian Army divisions which will remain in the field probably will be the Sixth, Seventh and Ninth. Reduction of the Army from six divisions to three,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Support for "Adopt a Soldier" Scheme
There had been a revival of interest in the Australian Comforts Fund "Adopt a Soldier" scheme, and firms and employees whose subscriptions…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Divorces Washington Disturbed at Reports
WASHINGTON, Sunday: State Department officials were surprised and disturbed to hear that many Australian war…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Huge Tally of German War Casualties
LONDON, Sunday: Authentic .documents seized in Berlin show that German losses in all services from the outbreak of war to last November totalled 4,064,438. OF these 1,911,300 were killed and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldier Farmers to Ballot for Land
SYDNEY, Sunday.—The Minister for Lands (Mr. Tully) said servicemen would ballot for farms made available under the State…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Helping The War Effort
WARATAH-MAYFIELD Send Off and Welcome Home Committee in future will meet each month, instead of fortnightly. The president (Mr. W. Bennett) said this had…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →War Crime Trials Begin August 12
LONDON, Monday: The first of the war crime trials in the British zone in Germany will begin on August 12. Among the accused will be the former commandant of Belsen con-…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →60 Canadian Ships for Pacific War
CANBERRA, Monday.—Canada expects to have 60 ships and more than 13,000 seagoing personnel in the Pacific war, the Office of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Housing Should Be Regarded As Essential War Expenditure
Finance to overcome the housing problem, should be regarded as essential war expenditure and should be provided by the Commonwealth at once, said the R.S.L. State President (Mr. J.C. Neagle) in Newcastle today…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Cabinet Refused U.N.R.A.A. Passports: Decision To Call Halt
SYDNEY: A War Cabinet decision is understood to be responsible for the refusal of passports to seven Australian women appointed by U.N.R.R.A. to work in Europe…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →British Soldiers' New Rifle
LONDON, July 30. A.A.P.—British soldiers in the South-east Asia Command are being issued with a new rifle…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Let Down by 'Australia" Ex-Soldier's Plea for Home
SYDNEY, Monday.— "Economic security, a house for a wife and family, a house that his wife could take a price in, and where his son…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Repatriation of Russian Soldiers
CANBERRA, Monday.—The Soviet Government has already rebuilt many towns and villages which were totally obliterated by the Germans, it was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Soldiers Admit Detention Break
BRISBANE, Monday. — Two of eight men who escaped from Grovely detention barracks oil July 19 were tried by court-martial to-day. Both…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldier Killed By Wild Pig Trap
AUCKLAND, Tuesday.—Ernest Albert Wilde, soldier, of Palmerston North, was killed yesterday in a trap set by himself for wild pigs…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →First Aid Saved Wounded Girl
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Parramatta Coroner (Mr. J. S. Wright) said that 15-year-old Daphne. Pound owed her life to a first-aid man being…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Policeman Shot War Criminal
LONDON, July 31. A.A.P.—An Italian policeman walked up to the dock in the courtroom at Brescia and shot dead Ferruchio Sorlini,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Helicopters For Pacific War
NEW YORK, July 31. A.A.P.—It is officially disclosed that the Navy will soon use helicopters in support of combat operations in the Pacific…
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