Newcastle Soldier Falls Ill On Way From Japan
SYDNEY.—Granted compassionate leave from Kure to visit his seriously ill mother in Newcastle, a corporal became sick…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1947
922 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 29 of 47
"Monty" Is Lucky To Be Alive: Left For Dead In First War
It is only by a lucky chance that Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery is in Australia today. He might easily have been lying in a British war cemetery under a cross recording the fact that Lieutenant…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ask U.S. Senate To Televise If Atomic War "Herald" Service
WASHINGTON, July 7.—The fertile brain of Senator Ayexander Wiley (Republican, Wisconsin), who has long been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mayor Wants Ex-Soldiers As Aldermen
Ex-servicemen should stand for election to Greater Newcastle Council, the Mayor (Ald. Quinan) said that night at the annual dinner of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Spending For War Wrong, Says "Monty"
ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—Real preparedness for war was necessary to-day as never before, but to do that, it was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Blew Safes As War Job: Man Back In Gaol "Herald" Service
LONDON, July 8-John Ramsay, a former gaolbird, who blew safes for Britain in wartime, is back in gaol again…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Bride Helped To Get Back Home
DETROIT, Wednesday: Mrs. Marie Wolverton, Detroit business woman, who befriended penniless Australian war bride, Mrs. Phyllis Wood, today…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ruhr War Plants Now Likely To Be 'Reprieved' "Herald" Service
LONDON, July 9.—Many Ruhr war plants, already declared surplus to a unified German economy, and Scheduled for allocation as…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Muswellbrook War Memorial Fund £5000
MUSWELLBROOK. Thursday— Muswellbrook and District War Memorial Committee decided to engage an architect to prepare the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →War Pigeons Win "Victoria Cross"
MELBOURNE: Two army pigeons were honored at the Army Headquarters by the Minister for the Army (Mr. Chambers)…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Politicians Not Good Soldiers"—Lord Montgomery
PERTH, Thursday.—"I do not know of any politician who has made a good soldier," Field Marshal Lord Montgomery said to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Fined £75 Over Farm Sale To Soldier
SYDNEY: "I don't think it is assisting a returned soldier to charge him £475 extra for his land," said Mr. Collins, S.M., in the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Village for German War Orphans
BERLIN.—Germany has thousands of homeless children aimlessly roaming the streets. Eventually they become the victims…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Australian Leads Post-war Arctic Dash
LONDON, Saturday; An Australian, Mr. A. J. Marshall, will lead a dozen Oxford scientists who will start this week on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Woman Suffered "War Injury" Running From Flying Bomb
LONDON, Friday.—A London housewife who hurt herself running for cover during the London blitz was declared yesterday, to have suffered a war Injury. Mr. Justice Denning gave this ruling in the High Court when he…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →First Hunter Land Allocated To Soldier Settlers
The rich river flat property, "Dartmouth." Muswellbrook, has been allocated for closer settlement. It is the first of a number…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Japanese Saw "Saucers" During War
TOKYO, July 13.—A Japanese business executive, Toyamo Kailo, to-day sneered at reports that "flying saucers" had just been seen over Japan…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Builders Start League To Prevent War
CANBERRA, Sunday.—Building workers at Eastlake builders' camp, Canberra, to-day formed a "peace and freedom league, which has as its…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Goossens Urges Music Centre As War Memorial
SYDNEY, Sunday.—A building in Sydney for a music centre as a war memorial was suggested to-night by Eugene Goossens, newly appointed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Looking At The World Many Fear Another War Inevitable
A speech on the international situation that can be described only as sensational was made in London by Lord Altrincham when he was the guest, with several peers, of Dominion journalists…
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