Welcome Home at Carrington
Eleven returned servicemen will be entertained by Carrington Welcome Home Committee at a social in Carrington School a Arts next Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1946
1,410 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 66 of 71
Shooting Puzzle; Boy Dead, Second Wounded
PERTH, Thursday.—No light has been thrown on yesterday's shooting of two boys, aged 10 and 14, on a farm near…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Chiefs Confer
General de Lattre de Tassigny (right), Chief of Staff of the French Army, is visiting England as a guest of the Army Council of Great Britain. He is seen enjoying a joke with Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, Chief of the British Imperial General Staff,…
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CANBERRA, Thursday.—During the foreign affairs debate in the House of Representatives to-night, Mr. Burke (Lab., W.A.), said he…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldiers' Reunions
The 30th Battalion. A.I.F., will hold its annual reunion dinner at the Dangar Park (Mayfield) Bowling Club to-morrow night…
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PRESIDENT of the Hunter Water Board Welfare Committee (Mr. Fred Cooksey), presenting a certificate to Flight-Lieutenant J. G. Spence, D.F.C., at a welcome borne function in the Supper Room at the City Hall last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Social for Teralba War Workers
Teralba Welcome Home Committee's final social on November 30 will be a get-together of all war workers and not the usual banquet…
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The motor trade had been one of the hardest hit industries during the war, the Mayor (Ald. Norris) said at the annual dinner of Associated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Blamed For Increase Of American Murders
WASHINGTON, Friday.—The nation's homicide rate is going up. It was almost a third higher for the first six months of 1946 than for the corresponding period in 1945. Last year only four persons out of…
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LONDON, November 15.— Many marriages which the war had apparently smashed are being saved because it takes so long to get a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To Train China's Blinded Soldiers
LONDON, Nov. 15. A.A.P.—St. Dunstan's announced that the Chairman. Sir Ian Fraser, has accepted an invitation from the Government…
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The Women's Auxiliary of the Legion of Ex-Servicemen will hold a Christmas party for the children of ex-servicemen in Legion House…
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 A.A.P.—The Reparations Commissioner (Mr. Edwin Pauley) has urged President Truman…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Chinese War Fears Make Prices Leap
NANKING, Sunday.— Fear of a full-scale civil war in China has caused prices to skyrocket here and at Shanghai, where people…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Ex-Soldiers Launch Building Scheme
SYDNEY.— A. cooperative building scheme has been launched by ex-servicemen at Serviceton, an entirely new suburb not far from Brisbane,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Welcome Home At Carrington
Final welcome-home function to be conducted by Carrington Committee will be on December 19. The committee, in its original form,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Plans For Living War Memorial
TOKIO. Tuesday: Plans are virtually complete for a chain of permanent scientific outposts throughout the Pacific "as a…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Tojo Not Proud of War Blame
TOKIO, Nov. 18. A.A.P.—General Tojo, Japan's wartime Prime Minister, had admitted he was chiefly responsible for the launching of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Welcome Home at New Lambton
New Lambton Welcome Home and Patriotic Committee entertained about 60 former servicemen and women at a dance and social in New Lambton…
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Nearly 250 returned servicemen and women employed at Newcastle Abattoir, Electric Supply Department and the City Hall were entertained…
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