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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1900

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Boer War Biograph

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 August 1900 · page 2

A Boer war biograph will be exhibited in the Oddfellows' Hall on Saturday evening next We are assured that the firing of the guns, "Long Tom" and "Joe Chamberlain," will be shown, also…

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The Boer War. Australian Casualties. London, Tuesday Afternoon

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 August 1900 · page 4

Privates Moore and Tothill, wounded at Stinkhoutboom, have died. Private James McClure, of Victoria, has died of wounds received at Rustenberg…

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The Transvaal War. Surrender of General Prinsloo. London, July 31

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 August 1900 · page 4

Field-Marshal Lord Roberts has sent the following despatch to the War Office relating to the surrender of General Prinsloo and 5000 men to Lieutenant-General Sir A. Hunter, near…

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The War in China. Legations Again Reported Safe. London, Tuesday. a Mistake

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 August 1900 · page 4

The Japanese mistaking the Russians at Tientsin for Chinese fired on them, killing one and wounding two. RUSSIA AND ENGLAND…

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The Transvaal War. Surrender in the Orange River Colony. Large Numbers of Boers Escape. London, Aug 1

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 August 1900 · page 2

General Prinsloo, Commandant do Villiers, and Commandant Crowther, with 986 men, chiefly belonging to the Ficksburg and Ladybrand commandos, with 1432 horses, 955 rifles, a Krupp…

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Great Britain and War

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 3 August 1900 · page 3

IN the House of Lords the Earl of Wemyss asserted a military attache had declared that it would be all-important, for Great Britain to be…

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The Transvaal War. London, July .31

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 3 August 1900 · page 2

SIX thousand Boers, with their waggons and stores, are hemmed in in the mountain passes, Dear Fouriesburg, which was occupied a few days…

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Late War News. London, August 1

The Burrowa News · Friday 3 August 1900 · page 3

General Prinsloo, Commandant do Villiers, and Commandant Crowther, with 966 men, Chiefly belonging to the Ficksburg and Lady[?] commandos…

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Cost of the War. London, July 26

The Burrowa News · Friday 3 August 1900 · page 2

In Committee of Supply in the House of Commons yesterday the Suppementary War Estimates on account of South Africa and China, amounting to…

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The War. General Advance Movement. London, July 25

The Burrowa News · Friday 3 August 1900 · page 2

Field Marshal Lord Roberts has commenced a general advance movement from Pretoria to the eastward. Lieutenant—General Ian Hamilton, who…

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War in South Africa. Surrender of Three Commandants. Further Surrenders. the Hospital Inquiry. London, August 1

Goulburn Herald · Friday 3 August 1900 · page 4

COMMANDANTS Prinsloo, de Villiers, and Crowther, and 986 men, chiefly of the Ficksburg and Ladybrand commandees surrendered to Lieut-General…

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Military Memos. Returned Soldiers

Goulburn Herald · Friday 3 August 1900 · page 2

CORPORAL CYRIL FOWLER and Private William Taylor, members of E Company, Australian Rifles, will arrive in Sydney on Monday by the an Aberdeen…

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Dr. Morrison Slightly Wounded. Aug. 1

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 August 1900 · page 4

Dr G. E. Morrison, of Victoria, the correspondent of the Times at Peking, was slightly wounded during the attack on the Legation. He is now convalescent…

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Treatment of Sick and Wounded. Aug. 1

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 August 1900 · page 6

The committee appointed to inquire into the treatment of sick and wounded in South Africa has commenced its sittings. Witnesses who have been examined supported only…

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Was It War?

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 4 August 1900 · page 2

It was two days after the final signing of the peace papers between the United States and Spain when the lady called on an American editor…

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The Cost of the War

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 August 1900 · page 6

Sir M. Hicks-Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer, stated in the House of Commons to-day that the cost of the war in South Africa up to the present had been £42,000,000…

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Invalided Australians: Their Opinions on the War

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 August 1900 · page 6

The steamer Aberbeen from London, via Teneriffe and Capetown, arrived in Melbourne on Tuesday shortly before noon with 80 invalided soldiers. A fairly large crowd of visitors was present to welcome…

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Back From the War. Private a Creech Invalided Home

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 4 August 1900 · page 2

THE S S. Aberdeen which arrived in Melbourne on Thursday, brings back a number of Australian soldiers who have been invalided home from South Africa. Amongst the list of names of those…

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The Transvaal War. Twelve Hundred More Surrender. Four Thousand Expected to Submit. the Cost of the War. London, Aug. 2

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 August 1900 · page 6

Field-Marshal Lord Roberts reports that 1200 more Boers have surrendered to Lieutenant-General Sir A. Hunter near Fouriesburg, in the Orange River Colony, and that Lieutenant-General Sir A…

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The Transvaal War. General Prinsloo's Surrender. the Cordon Round De Wet and Steyn. London, Aug. 3

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 August 1900 · page 2

General Louis Botha, the Boer Commander-in-Chief, has asked the British to put him in a position to obtain confirmation of the news of the surrender of General Prinsloo to Lieutenant-General Sir A…

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