British Soldier Killed in Egypt
CAIRO, Jan. 8. AA.P.—A British soldier was stabbed to death when an Army post-office at Abbassia, near Cairo, was broken into and…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1947
922 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 47
German Soldier Baffles U.S. Federal Court
DETROIT, Wednesday: Private Rudolph Solech, a former bodyguard to Hermann Goring, baffled the Federal Court here by refusing to disclose how he escaped from a prison camp in California…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lambton Welcome Home Committee
The Lambton Welfare and Welcome Home Committee will hold their first meeting this year on Tuesday and the annual meeting on Tuesday, January 28,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Holy War" in Indian Province
LONDON, Jan. 9. A.A.P.—The Indian Interim Government has taken stern measures to check a localised "holy war" by Moslem…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Soldier Turns Diplomat
It is against the British tradition to take a general, however distinguished, out of the army and make him foreign secretary…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers Hold Five Key U.S. POSTS "Herald" Service and A.A.P.
NEW YORK, Jan. 9.—With the elevation of General Marshall to the position of Secretary of State, no fewer than five posts most critical to the relations of America with the rest of the world are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldier Admits Theft From Room Mate
Henry Levack left his room at Macquarie House, Watt Street, Newcastle, on the morning of January 7, and on his return found that the whole…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Anzac to Amiens"—A Tabloid of War
In the preface to "Anzac to Amiens," Dr. C. E. W. Bean says: "A condensed war history, occupying perhaps a 20th of the space of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Prisoners-Of-War Had "Fling" Before Surrender
SYDNEY.—Five escaped Italian prisoners of war this week surrendered to the military authorities at Victoria Barracks…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Soldier Killed, Five Hurt In collision Between Car And Blitz Waggon
SYDNEY: In a terrific impact between a three ton military "blitz waggon" and a motor car in Parramatta Road at the Ross Street intersection, Camperdown, this afternoon, one soldier was killed and five ohers injured…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wounded Rabbit Led Men to Coal
SINGLETON, Sunday. — A wounded rabbit led a hunting party at Glendon Brook, 16 miles from Singleton, to an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War In Indo-China Is "No Phoney"
HANOI (Indo-China), Jan. 12. A.A.P.—"This is no 'phoney war' and none are more aware of this than the French as the Viet-Namese…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldiers' Wives Land in Japan
LONDON, Jan. 12. A.A.P.—The Tokyo correspondent of the British United Press says that the first party of wives and children of men…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No. 1 U.S. Soldier
SELDOM has such a complete contrast of activity been offered a successful man as the transfer of General George Catlett Marshall…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A.W.L. Soldier Is Gaoled For Theft
An A.W.L. soldier was sentenced to one month's hard labor by Mr. CarrBoyd, S.M., at Newcastle Police Court today for stealing clothes valued at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Four Dead, 62 Police Wounded In Haifa
JERUSALEM, January 13. A.A.P.—Two British policemen and two Arab temporary constables were killed, and 50 Arab and Jewish constables, and 12 British police were wounded when a small car, which was driven up to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Saw Londoners Survive Grim War Test
"When I arrived in London three weeks after the outbreak of war there were the most extraordinary stories in circulation and published…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Want War Pension Increase To Basic Wage
Payment of the basic wage to former servicemen receiving full war pension will be urged by Newcastle Sub-branch of the Legion of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Taught Changing of Guard to German Soldiers"
LONDON, Jan. 14. A.A.,P.—The British actor, Anthony Cedric Steane, 53, drilled German soldiers during the war and taught them the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Trophy Kills Ex-Soldier
A returned soldier, who had served in the Middle East, was blown up and killed when a souvenir mortar shell exploded at his home…
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