Convalescent Homes for War Veterans
Sir,—The War Veterans' Homes Board of Directors is now embarked on a scheme of expansion. The first of what is believed to be a series of…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1946
1,410 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 64 of 71
Oddfellows' Centre For Aged War Members
A COMMUNITY centre, including cottages for aged and infirm members, a war memorial hospital for members…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →U.S. War Medal For Pigeon
NEW YORK, Friday: A strutting little pigeon, "G.I. Joe,' credited with saving the lives of over 1000 British soldiers, has left the United States for England to take a bow before the Lord Mayor of London. There the pigeon will receive a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Open War In U.S. Against Drug Smugglers
NEW YORK, Friday: Customs authorities are fighting one of the worst outbreaks of smuggling of narcotics in the nation's experience. Controls, almost as strict as in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Irish War Bride Killed Husband "Involuntarily"
IAS VEGAS (Nevada), Sunday.—Pretty, dark-haired Irish war bride, Bridget Waters, 26, who shot her U.S. soldier husband dead, was convicted yesterday of "involuntary manslaughter."…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →12,000 U.S. War Marriages Have Collapsed
NEW YORK, Nov. 3. A.A.P.—At learnt 12,000 wartime marriages between American soldiers and foreign women have already broken up, said…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Jews Plan Underground War in Britain Secret Talks By "General Staff"
LONDON, November 3. A.A.P.—Jewish terrorists are planning to carry the underground war into the heart of Britain, says the diplomatic correspondent of the "Evening News."…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldier Charged with Stabbing Two Provosts
A soldier stabbed two Army provosts with a table-fork during a scuffle in Scott Street on Saturday night, police stated in Newcastle Police Court today. The soldier, John Gullefer, 27, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lambton Appeal For Ex-Soldier
Lambton Patriotic Committee is appealing for assistance for a former soldier and his wife, who lost all their clothing and belongings in a fire on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Soldier Settlers
OF all rehabilitation plans, as shown by the debate at Federal Congress of the Returned Soldiers' League,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hungarians Executed For War Crimes
BELGRADE, Monday: The former chief of the Hungarian General Staff, General Ferene Sombathely, who had been sentenced to death for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Play Centre as War Memorial
A children's play centre, erected at Werribi-street, Mayfield, with funds of the "M" Division Canteen Services, will be dedicated as a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Former War Secretary 7m. Dollar Estate
NEW YORK.—Former Secretary of War Dwight P. Davis, who died in Washington last November, left an estate valued at 7,648,764 dollars,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Harbors May Be Peace Haven
LONDON: Caissons from the Mulberry harbors, which made such a notable contribution to the invasion of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wallsend War Workers to Be Entertained
Patriotic workers in the Wallsend areas are to be entertained by the Wallsend R.S.L. at the Masonic Hall, Wallsend, on November 11…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Irish War Bride Convicted of Manslaughter "Herald" Service
LAS VEGAS (Nevada), Nov. 4.—Bridget Waters, 26, an Irish war bride, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for having killed her…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.S. Rejects War Spoils Claim by Soviet
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. A.A.P.—The United States has rejected the Russian move to eliminate from the Japanese reparations settlement…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Newcastle Girls Reach Home After War Years In London
SYDNEY: Stranded Australians, some of them hostile over shipping priorities, and a few Britons who intend to live here, formed the bulk of the 57 passengers, who arrived at Sydney today by the Port Hobart…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U.s. Soldier Strangled in Nuremberg Cellar
BERLIN, Monday: Police discovered the bodies of an American soldier and a German girl in a cellar amid the ruins of Nuremberg's old…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wickham Welcome Home
A welcome home presentation social will be given to 105 ex-servicemen and five former servicewomen, by Wickham Welcome Home Committee. It will be…
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