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

The wars & local soldiers, 1901

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Bor War

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 June 1901 · page 4

Sir Bindon Bloos operations are driving the Boers to the Duntains. The Roslyn Case, wit, 400 bushmen, has sailed for Melbourne…

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Gallant Act and Wonderful Escape. Lieut.-surgeon Horne Five Times Wounded

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 11 June 1901 · page 4

Traralgon (Vic.), Sunday.-- Lieut-Surgeon Home, of Cameron's Scouts is now in Traralgon, after being invalided home, suffering from five…

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The Boer War. London, June 8

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 June 1901 · page 3

Several of the commandants owning large farms are disposed to surrender. June 10 Troops serving under the command of Colonel G…

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The Transvaal War. London, June 8

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 June 1901 · page 4

Lieutenant-Colonel Benson, marching to Carolina, captured 40 Boers and drove many others into the hands of other columns When tracked to the ravines the Boers simply surrender…

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The War in South Africa. London, June 6

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 11 June 1901 · page 4

THE Boers admit that at the battle of Vlakfontein they had 56 killed. It is believed that the number of their wounded…

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The Boer War. French Sweeps Cape Colony London, June 8

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 11 June 1901 · page 2

With the advent of General French as Commander in Cape Colony, events have been of exciting interest. Malan's commando has, crossed the…

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The Boer War. London, June 11

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 June 1901 · page 2

Lord Kitchener has simultaneously allowed the Netherlands Consul at Pretoria, Mr. Tobias Smuts, Commandant de Wet, and General Botha's secretary to freely cable to Mr. Kruger…

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The Boer War. London, June 11

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 June 1901 · page 4

The Capetown correspondent of the "Times" reports that Lord Kitchener intended that Jamestown, which was recently captured by Commandant Kruitzinger, should be a bait, but the scheme…

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Homecoming Soldiers. More Yass Volunteers Return

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 13 June 1901 · page 4

By the mail from Melbourne on Monday night two more Yass natives, back from the front in South Africa, reached Yass. They were Corporal Harry Mair and his…

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Homecoming Soldiers. More Yass Volunteers Return

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 13 June 1901 · page 6

By the mail from Melbourne on Monday night two more Yass natives, back from the front in South Africa, reached Yass. They were Corporal Harry Mair and his…

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Homecoming Soldiers. More Yass Volunteers Return

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 13 June 1901 · page 2

By the mail from Melbourne on Monday night two more Yass natives, back from the front in South Africa, reached Yass. They were Corporal Harry Mair and his…

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The War in South Africa. Kruitzin[?] Defeated

The Burrowa News · Friday 14 June 1901 · page 3

The garrison at Je[?]stown, Northeastern Cape Colony, consisted of 50 men, and made a splendid defence of the town before it surrendered to Commandant…

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The War in South Africa. London, June 10

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 14 June 1901 · page 4

TROOPS serving under the command of Colonel Bullock have brought to Standerton 15 waggons filled with men and women…

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The War in South Africa. London, June 11

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 14 June 1901 · page 2

GENERAL RUNDLE has devastated Ficksburg in the Bethlehem district, and made extensive captures of cattle, sheep, horses, and forage. The…

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The Boer War. Presentation of War Medals. London, June 13

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 June 1901 · page 4

A parade was held at the Horse Guards, the headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief, yesterday, for the purpose of the presentation of medals to soldiers who had served in the…

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The Transvaal War. London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 June 1901 · page 4

Colonel Scobell, with the Cope Mounted Rifles, has routed Commandants Lategan and Kruitzinger's commandos of 400 strong and captured fourteen prisoners and a gun…

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The Boer War. Tax on Gold Production. London, June 14

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 June 1901 · page 2

The report of Sir David Miller Barbour, who wee appointed to inquire into the financial condition of the Transvaal and of its ability to bear a proportion of the cost of the war, has been published The…

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War Heroes [?]

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 17 June 1901 · page 2

London. Thursday Alderman Among those who received medals at the Horse Guards yesterday, were: Major-Generals Sir R. Pole-Carew and Sir B. J. Ruston…

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Returned Soldiers

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 17 June 1901 · page 2

News has just reached town that the returned Yass boys from the front will come to town by the paper train on Wednesday. It is proposed to give them…

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The Boer War. a Victorian Force Surprised. Eighteen Men Killed. Forty-two Wounded. London, June 17

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 June 1901 · page 2

A detachment of Victorians was surprised at Steenkool Spruit. They sustained 60 casualties and lost two guns. Later…

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