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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
2,083 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 68 of 105
During this war Australia has become vitally interested in community life. On every hand there is talk of setting up new centres Municipal councils, the Department of Postwar Reconstruction, voluntary groups, the churches are all displaying interest and experiments are already…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Friday. — Included in the 41 soldiers who returned to Sydney to-day from Wewak under the five-year release scheme was Private…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE: Brutal treatment by German guards, while he was a war prisoner for four years, will cost Sergeant Jock Drain, of Elsternwick, 12 months in an Australian hospital. Drain kept a record of his adventures by etching his diary on mess…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Sunday: "High military authorities on Guam with whom I have talked recently predict that the war will be over by September," says the special correspondent of the "Sunday Observer" with the British Fleet…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY: During the war 200 milas of strategic military roads were built in the Newcastle-Sydriey-Port Kembla area at a cost of £1,400,000. Over the whole of Australia 5000 miles of main roads for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY: Three sodiers, each serving 23 months for army offences, used iron spikes to break out of Berrima Gaol at the week-end…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Marks Point Dinghy Club was crowded for the unveiling of the honour roll. It was made by two boys of the club, Eric Metcalf and Verne Stallard…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Man o' War, favorite for the Newcastle Cup, arrived in Newcastle to-day. Fourteen horses came from…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Sydney, Monday.—A peculiar position has arisen following the action of a returned soldier, Mr. G. H. Phillips, in taking possession of an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY: More than 200 long service soldiers returned to Sydney from Wewak today Practically all the 77 New South Wales members have already planned for the future. Prewar jobs are available to some. Others plan to go…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir.—One wonders to what extent returned men are given consideration for State Government positions. A recent case was the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Lambton Send-off and Welcome Home Committee at a social evening held in the New Lambton Scout Hall last night welcomed home…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Carmen Cheteuti, 23, domestic, of George-street, City, was shot in the left thigh following an altereation…
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Continued on Trove, page 7 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—British and U.S. airmen, who knew where every prisoner-of-war camp was in Japan, had given an assurance that they…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Aug. 7.—Field-Marshal Sir Herny Maitland Wilson's favourite charger, Purple Kiss, is giving the War Office a headache…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Science, in evolving the atomic bomb, seems not only to have caught up with the colored Sunday supplement characters, "Speed Gordon", "Brick Bradford" and "Superman", but to have outdistanced the wildest imaginings of their creators…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Though granted loans by the Repatriation Department to commence poultry farming, ex-servicemen have been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BALIKPAPAN, Aug. 7.—Believing that his brother, who had been shot down in an R.A.A.F. Liberator, night still be alive and need his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"This man was before this Court in July last year on five charges. He received a suspended sentence," said Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.M., at…
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