Aid Move On Anzac Race Fund
A suggestion that £750 from the Anzac Day race meeting in Newcastle this year should go to 15 Northern Rivers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1954
614 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 31
Wreath On War Memorial
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh lay a wreath on the war memorial at Canberra yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →'War Footing' for Kenya
LONDON, Feb. 16. A.A.P.—Kenya may be placed on a full war footing. This may be done, the political correspondent of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Queen Inspects Australian War Memorial
THE QUEEN escorted by Australian war historian of World War I., Dr. C. E. W. Bean, at the Australian War Memorial. Canberra, yesterday. THE QUEEN walking to the Australian National Memorial to the U.S.A. for the unveiling ceremony at Canberra yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News For Women Girl Runs Own 'Soldier Settlement' Farm Alone
In Newcastle this week to sell the first wool clip grown on her property is Miss Maisie Schaefer, the only ex-servicewoman in New South Wales to win a block in the Soldier…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →British War Bride In U.S. Called Red
WASHINGTON, Thurs. (A.A.P.): Mrs. Esther Gebhardt, a British war bride, of Schenectady, New York…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Atomic Weapons On Both Sides In Next War
LONDON, Fri, (A.A.P.): Britain was warned yesterday that both sides would use atomic weapons if another world war came. A Government report said that British forces…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers Learn To Grow Rice
COLOMBO.—Ceylon army personnel are to be given a vacational training in rice cultivation…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Caning Order For Soldier
HONGKONG, Feb. 24. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Judge Wicks to-day ordered a 20-year-old British soldier eight strokes of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Millionaires Go To War "Herald" Service
NEW YORK, Feb. 25.—America's biggest financial war in half a century is giving New Yorkers a ringside seat at a rare "battle of multi-millionaires.''…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →"War Cabinet" Sought Against The Mau Mau
NAIROBI (Kenya), Fri. (A.A.P.).—A "war cabinet" of six men to direct the fight against Mau Mau…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Man O'War Sting Kills Boy
DARWIN, Sunday.—A boy was killed by a Portuguese man-o'-war on Darwin Beach this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Civil War Averted Syria Gets New Head
LONDON, Feb. 28. A.A.P.—Hashem el Attasi to-day succeeded as President of Syria the man who had ousted him in 1951…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Five Members Wounded By Puerto Ricans' Wild Fusillade
WASHINGTON, Mon., (A.A.P). Three Puerto Rican Nationalists opened fire in the U.S. House of Representatives today and shot five Congressmen. Two of the victims were seriously wounded in the chest and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Chilean War on Rabbits
SANTIAGO DE CHILE (O.S.R.): Chile, like Australia, has declared war on the rabbit—a germ war by man against 35,000,000 rabbits…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Office Pays For Boys' Deaths
LONDON: The War Office has made grants of £250 each to two women in Ridsdale…
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CORNWALL (Ontario), March 1. A.A.P.—Second Lieut. Peter Balcombe, of the 4th Canadian Guards, was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Radio Picture of Wounded Congressmen
WOUNDED.—Arrow shows Democrat Kenneth Roberts being carried on a stretcher from U.S. House of Representatives after being shot by a Puerto Rican rebel.—Picturegram. "The most bloodthirsty set of moppets ever created," is the description given to the typical "sixth formers"…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Anzac Service At Metewether
Merewether R.S.L. will hold its own Anzac service at the Mitchell Park Memorial Gates at 6 o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Germ-War Inquiry In United States
WASHINGTON, Wed., (A.A.P.): A Marine Corps court of inquiry saw a Communist propaganda film as it opened the first formal investigation of germ warfare…
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