Centenary of the Great War

By David Dial
June 19 2018 - 10:00pm

Newcastle Morning Herald transcriptions and Hunter Valley enlistment and death details for June 17-23, 1918.

PRAISE FOR AUSSIE TROOPS: "I can only say that I feel it the greatest honour to have commanded such men," General Birdwood. Photo: The Digger’s View by Juan Mahony
PRAISE FOR AUSSIE TROOPS: "I can only say that I feel it the greatest honour to have commanded such men," General Birdwood. Photo: The Digger’s View by Juan Mahony

THE WEST FRONT

Mr Philip Gibbs reports: Much rain and increasing mud promise to hamper the German offensive. The Americans are coming in in vast numbers, and are billeted in districts where in 1914 and 1915 British troops were encamped on their way to the fighting line. The Americans seem wonderfully young.

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