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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
1,410 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 71
The Dean's verger turns a page of a volume of the first lists of civilian war dead of the British Commonwealth and Empire which have been placed in Westminster Abby. The Shrine is fixed to the west wall of the Chapel of St. George, close to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →These American war brides are rather amusing. They have received so much cheap publicity during the past 18 months, that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →CANBERRA, Thursday.—Major Dudley McCarthy and Squadron Leader John Herington, both returned from this war, will each write a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WASHINGTON, Thursday: The effects of atom bombs bursting above a fleet, on the surface of the sea and deep under water are to be noted by thousands of experts in a huge U.S. Navy task force…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Carrington Welcome-home Committee will hold its next function on February 7, when 15 men who have returned from the forces…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25. A.A.P.—One hundred and twenty-two Canadian war brides, 25 with babies and children, left for Australia in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"A still tongue makes a good citizen. This war-time slogan is still appearing on envelopes bearing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Jan. 25.—The Australian National War Memorial at Villers Bretonneux has been badly damaged and repairs will be costly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No one but a fool would prophesy about the future of this incredible, lop-sided Parliament, but we think before it is a year old we are going to see some queer things happen. The phoney political war which folio wed the election is over. Both the Tories and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Some of the patriotic committees which have functioned in Newcastle throughout the war years under permits granted by the Australian Comforts Fund may be established, with possible chances of name, as permanent bodies…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CANBERRA, Friday.—Servicemen in agricultural occupations should be able to obtain re-establishment loans within the next week, said the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Discharged servicemen in search of work waited in a queue for the Ex-Servicemen's Employment Bureau to open at Legion House at 9 o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ex-servicemen wishing to take a part-time course under the re-employment scheme would be catered for within the technical college…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It was impossible for rehabilitation machinery to place in jobs lads who had just returned from war service, the Secretary (Mr. H. Raine) claimed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON. — A vivid summary of Britain's colossal contribution to the winning of the Second World War, is contained in a record of British War. Production, compiled and just issued by the London "Times." The record, in a series of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Sunday: A new crisis with Russia is imminent ove[?] the continued existence of a Polish army of 100,000 at preset carrying out manoeuvres on the eastern Italian seaboard. THE ARMY is under the command…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Georgetown Waratah A.L.P. wants free railway passes for incapacitated returned servicemen to enable them to have a holiday each…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Magistrate Samuel Boyd, of Baltimore (Maryland), said when fining Curtis White, a Virginian, for beating his wife: "All my life…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Whereas discharged men in Queensland crowded recruiting centres, only two applications for re-enlistment were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Monday.—The body of Lawrence Patrick Meehan, 32, of West Maitland, was recovered from 20ft. of water in Georges River…
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