The Boer War
SIXTY Boers who were concealed in the Megaliesberg, in the Transvaal, have been captured. The Boers are surrendering in twos and threes…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1901
314 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 12 of 16
South African War. London
GENERAL ELLIOTT'S division captured 800 Boers and women and children, also 300 waggons and great quantities of live stock…
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A GALLANT soldier of the Empire, Sergeant McNamara, late of His Majesty's 82nd Regiment, has given to a reporter, upon request, some particulars of his life…
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THE Boer women who were allowed from the concentration camps as peace envoys found their husbands reading the Queen's Hall pro-Boer speeches…
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LORD Kitchener's repot for the week ending September 7 states that seven Boers had been killed, 67 wounded, 331 were taken prisoners, and 163 surrendered. The captures also…
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The Times publishes some verses by Budyard Kipling on "The Lesson" of the South African war. Our London correspondent describes the…
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A good deal has lately been written about dogs and their work in the Army, but so far few details of the actual work have been given to the…
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In connection with the request by the Imperial Government that the Victorian State Minister for Agriculture should consider a scheme for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Narrative of the War. Six Months in the South African Light Horse
AFTER knocking about Durban for 10 days last November (1900), and seeking no prospect of the war being finished for some considerable time, Fred, Cann and myself decided to join the South…
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A gallant soldier of the Empire, Sergeant McNamara, late of His Majesty's 82nd Regiment, has given to a reporter upon request, some…
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MR. STEYN and Commandant do Wet refused to listen to the appeals of Pastor Murray, who visited them to endeavour to persuade them to to recall or disband the Boers who were invading…
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LORD KITCHENER and the Governor of Cape Colony favor the extention of the martial law to the Cape with the view of extirpating the rebels, but the…
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WE were in Thaba Nchu for about ton days patrolling around to a farm called Padfontein, where we were joined by 153 recruits from Cape Town. These brought up our squadron to a…
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We get the cable news that suits us, just like patients of the doctors get medicine most calculated to bring. them round—or send them to the angels. The remark is induced…
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THE torpedo boat destroyer "Cobra," while on a steam trial from the constructor's yard, Newcastle-on-Tyne, to Portsmouth, struck a rock on the Dowsing Shoals. She broke in halves and…
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THE Capetown correspondent of the DAILY MAIL states that Lord Kitchener and Sir W. F. Heley Hutchinson (Governor of Cape Colony) are in favor of martial law being proclaimed at…
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AFTER leaving Murraysburg we went to a place called Willowmore and just beat the Boers in there, though if they had tried to get in they would have had a rough time, as it was a good…
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Lieutenant-General Sir C. Tucker reports that approximately the casualties of the engagement at Vlakfontein, 15 miles south of the Bloemfontein Waterworks on the 16th instant, were as…
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THE official list of the losses sustained near Utrecht shows that 229 British are prisoners or missing. The Seventh Lancers used every…
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DURING the march to De Wet's Dorp the Boers did not trouble as it all; but after we left there, they hung about our flanks and were continually sniping the whole way in to…
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