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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
922 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 47
Once the Italian cargo-passenger steamer, Leme, Lowlander now flies the British flag. She was seized by the United States Government after Italy declared war and was taken over by the British Ministry of War Transport…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WASHINGTON, Tuesday: President Truman issued a proclamation terminating the period of hostilities of the Second World War as at noon today. While this proclamation precludes any further seizure of coal mines…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lambton-New Lambton sub-branch of the R.S.L. last night decided to nominate a member to attend the Anzac celebrations in New Zealand…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Jan. 2. A.A.P.—Orphan children who fled to Britain from prewar Nazi persecution will be granted British citizenship, says the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Thursday.—Britain and Prance will sign an agreement today settling all outstanding questions concerning the. British use of French…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →PRAGUE, Jan. 2. A.A.P.—The first issue of the new Czechoslovak army newspaper. "Obrana Lidu." criticises the Western Powers' policy in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Although last year was the first year of peace figures for the Port of Newcastle indicate that shipping is still more or less on a wartime footing. Released by the Maritime Services…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JERUSALEM, Thursday: Using flame throwers for the first time, Jewish terrorists launched attacks against the British along a 100-mile front in Palestine yesterday and last night, on a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mrs. Marjorie Stelling, 26 (right), Australian war bride, comforts another war bride from Australia, Mrs. Iris A. Kemble, 22, who…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON.—When Mr. O. Pacey, a Yorkshireman, then serving with the B.L.A., entered a house at Arnhem, which had formerly been a German…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A man who in 1941 was declared unfit for sea service with the Australian Navy later did these things— Piloted an American destroyed into a lagoon in the Gilbert Islands…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JERUSALEM, Sunday: Eleven British soldiers, bound from Egypt to Palestine, were injured, three seriously, when three bombs Were thrown at their train near Cairo today. The bombs were aimed at the three…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEW YORK, Sunday: A gorgeously befurred 23-year-old English war bride was arrested today in fashionable Fifth Avenue and charged with the theft of 25,000 dollars worth of luxury items from "smart" hotels…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Sunday.—Ex-servicemen and women studying under the Commonwealth reconstruction scheme should receive at least the basic wage…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Jan. 5. A.A.P.—A 25-year-old soldier, Walter Edwards, of Norwich, brought a woman he loved from Italy to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →TOKYO, Jan. 6. A.A.P.—Admiral Osami Nagano, who was Chief of the Japanese Navy General Staff at the time of the attack on Pearl…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DARWIN: The first solo flight to Australia since the beginning of the war was completed at Truscott (virtually abandoned aerodrome on the north west coast) yesterday. The pilot was Group Captain A. P…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dissatisfied with the portion of lobster served for three shillings at Toni's Cafe, in Hurlter Street, a soldier used an insulting term to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →OTTAWA, Jan. 8. A.A.P.—The Canadian Government announced that for official and legal purposes, December 31, 1946, is to be regarded…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Jan. 8.—Mrs. Minnie Vincent was astounded to learn that her divorce from her G.I. husband had been annulled after the discovery…
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