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The wars & local soldiers, 1945

2,083 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 105

More for Peace Than War Mr. Simpson on Coal Output

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 January 1945 · page 2

For several years there would be a great demand for Maitland coal, the Northern District Secretary of she Miners' Federation (Mr. J. B…

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C.P. Tilt at Unions Rob Soldiers of Job Preference

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 January 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Trades-unions were attempting to deny to Australian servicemen the justice to which they were entitled, Mr. Rankin (M.H.R.,…

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Settlement of Soldiers Talks Next Month

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 January 1945 · page 5

CANBERRA, Sunday.—Eligibility of applicants, including women, to participate in the soldier settlement scheme will be discussed at two…

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Mr. Curtin on Preference for Soldiers

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 22 January 1945 · page 3

CANBERRA.—While prepared to hear the A.C.T.U. and trade unions, the Government will push on with soldier preference…

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War Cartoon

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 23 January 1945 · page 6

[?] and you can go on killing Non-Germans and Germans—[?]ll the war ends". [?]cky in the London "News Chronicle")…

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War Production Board May Come Here

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1945 · page 1

NEW YORK, Jan. 22. A.A.P.—The columnist. Walter Winchell, reports that Mr. Donald Nelson may go to Australia to establish there a…

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U.S. War Output Behind Schedule

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1945 · page 1

NEW YORK, Jan. 22. A.A.P.—Hiland Batcheller, War Production Board Chief of Operations, reported that munitions production and war…

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Ex-War Prisoners to Tour U.S.A.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1945 · page 1

NEW YORK, Jan. 22. A.A.P.—The New York "Herald-Tribune" says that a group of former war prisoners, including men who escaped…

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Nazis Destroying War Plants in Silesia East Prussian Railway System Imperilled

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1945 · page 1

LONDON, January 22. A.A.P.—Russian armies on the move along a front stretching from the takes of East Prussia to the industrial regions of Silesia are threatening the very vitals of the Reich. Battle zone repots…

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"Let Soldiers Build Now" Islington Plea

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1945 · page 2

Permission for returned men, with the necessary capital and land, to build homes now will be recommended by Islington sub-branch to the…

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Grovely Inquiry A.W.L. Soldier Had Nobody To Report To

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 23 January 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: A former A.I.F., man said today that when he reached Narellan Camp, after his home leave from the…

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Killed in Action

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 January 1945 · page 4

Mrs. M. Verdon, of Frederick-street, Merewether, has been informed of the death of her younger son, Able Seaman…

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Want More Beer for Anzac Day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 January 1945 · page 2

Going one better than New Lambton-Lambton, Wallsend sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League decided to add to its claim for…

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Certificates for War Dogs

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 24 January 1945 · page 2

WASHINGTON, Tuesday.—The U.S. Army announced today that eight war dogs, killed in the Southwest Pacific, had been posthumously…

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Lambton Remembers War Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 January 1945 · page 5

The presentation was made of the first lot of Lambton Soldiers' Welfare and Patriotic Committee's framed certificates for the next-of-kin of dead service…

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War Service Won University Course

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 January 1945 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Conspicuous ability during war service has won a Ninth Division Digger a University training course. He has…

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Want "Monty" to "Shorten" War

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 24 January 1945 · page 3

NEW YORK Tuesday The appoint merit of Field-Marshal Montgomery to the principal field command on the Western Front would shorten the war says the New York "Journal American."…

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Longer Pacific War Forecast in U.S.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 January 1945 · page 1

NEW YORK, Jan. 23. A.A.P.—Unofficial military opinion in America once though that the Japanese would fold up 30 months after the…

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Soldier, Dancer to Die for Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 January 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Jan. 23. A.A.P.—The American soldier Karl Gustav Hulten, 22, and the English strip-tease dancer Elizabeth Jones. 28, were…

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Wounded at Leyte

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 January 1945 · page 6

Mrs. R. W. Heaston, of 64 Corlette-street, Newcastle, has been informed that her husband,…

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