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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · The wars & local soldiers
476 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 23 of 24
The War Office has published the following despatch from General Sir Redvers Bailer, the British Commander-in-Chief in South Africa :—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Her Majesty the Queen has authorised collections to be made in the churches throughout England and Wales on January 7 in aid of the sick and wounded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colonel Bullock, three officers, and 40 men of the Devonshire Regiment were captured while searching for wounded after the battle of Tugela, despite the fact that a flag-of truce was shown…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The TIMES in a leading article comments upon the extreme gravity of' the military situation and says that Lord Methuen is hemmed in while Buller is unable to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It has transpired that the Boers have received 150,000 rifles from Europe, via Delagoa Bay. To the British Government's protest to Portugal for having allowed these munitions of war to pass…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The friends of Major-General Sir William Butler, late Commander-in-Chief in South Africa, declare that he had fully advised the War Office of the Boer preparations…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir James Sivewright has told a little story of the last Boer war which affords a graphic illustration of what might have been. The story was told to a gentleman who has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR—In Thursday's Post you reprint a poem by the Primate of Ireland entitled " Is War the Only Thing that has No Good In It?" Admitting the beauty of expression in the poem, one cannot but…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It has been ascertained that the Boers have posted their German, Hollander, and Irish soldiers in front in every engagement and in the most dangerous positions…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Queen gave her patronage to a concert held in the Albert Hall last night, under the auspices of the United Empire League, iL aid of a relief fund for the widows and orphans of colonial soldiers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. HERBERT GLADSTONE, M.P, in an address, said that the volunteers had saved the country from panic. Great Britain's duty to-day, he continued, was to "sit…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Several correspondents of the English journals assert that the Boers have secured the guns which were abandoned by Colonel Long's artillery near the southern bank of the Tugela River…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DETAILS continue to come through concerning the battle of Tugela. Previous to the engagement the Boers dammed the river, thus deepening the water…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No army in the world has a balloon service equal to that of the British army, says the Illustrated Mail, for the very balloons themselves are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IT is asserted that the Boors secured the abandoned guns at Togela. The following is a revised list of the British casualties at the battle of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A third of the British soldiers who were wounded at Magersfontein have recovered and rejoined the forces at the front…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Trooper G. Bradford, one of the members of the New Zealand contingent who was wounded in the engagement near Arundel, is likely to recover…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE siege of Mafeking is weakening. Among the spirited defenders are several women and boys. The New Zealand and New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DEAR SIR,—Your correspondent, "Pax Vobiscum," has cleverly imitated the verses of Archbishop Alexander. But I should like to point out that he has fallen into the very common error of mistaking…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FURTHER details of the battle of Tugela, fought on Friday, December 15, show that the use of smokeless powder by the Boers largely contributed to General Sir Redvers Buller's reverse, as it rendered…
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