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The wars & local soldiers, 1901

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The Boer War. Serious Reverses

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 September 1901 · page 3

Fifty Hussats and Imperial Bushmen while pursuing twenty Boers were suddenly surrounded by 300 others who had driven out of Klerhudorp. A sharp fight ensued at close quarters, two British…

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The Latest. London, Friday. Boer War

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 September 1901 · page 4

Many of the Natal Local Corps have been summoned to the front. The Durban Volunteers have proceeded by train north. wards. General Lyttleton's regular troops…

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The Boer War. London, Sept. 19

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 September 1901 · page 3

A patrol of Grenadier Guards was surrounded on a farm it Riot Siding, on the De Aar-Naauwpoort loopline, and was captured after a stubborn resistance. An…

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Boer War. British Reverses. Attack by a Thousand Boers. London, Sept. 20

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 September 1901 · page 4

Lord Kitchener in a telegram dated Tuesday evening, 8 o'clock, reports:—"Three companies of Mounted Infantry and three guns, under Major Gough, reconnoitring…

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War in South America. an Impormant Engagement

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 23 September 1901 · page 2

London, Friday Afternoon. — The combined forces of the Venezuelan Government and the Colombian Liberals (insurgents) have been badly defeated at…

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The War in South Africa. LONDON, Sept. 20

Werriwa Times and Goulburn District News · Monday 23 September 1901 · page 3

A third British reverse has occurrcd. The War Office reports that a superior force of Boers at Vlakfontein, 15 miles south of the Waterworks, surrounded and captured two…

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The War in South Africa. Serious British Reverses. LONDON, Sept. 20

Werriwa Times and Goulburn District News · Monday 23 September 1901 · page 4

Lord Kitchener in a telegram' dated Tuesday evening, 8 o'clock, reports:—"Three companies of mounted infantry and three guns, under Major Gough,…

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Boer War. London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 September 1901 · page 4

An impression prevails that Commandants Botha and do Wet are co-operating in an invasion of Natal. Commandant Botha has disinterred a…

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The War in South Africa. London, Sent. 19

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 24 September 1901 · page 2

THE British troops received serious reverses at Utrecht and Elands River Poort. Forty Hussars and Imperial…

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The Boer War. Two Guns Captured. London, Sept. 20

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 September 1901 · page 4

A third British reverse has occurred. The War Office reports that a superior force of Beers at Vlakfontein, 15 miles south of the Waterworks, surrounded and captured two guns and a…

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The Boer War. the Invasion of Natal. London, Sept. 23

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 September 1901 · page 2

The Buffalo River, the north-east frontier of Natal, is swollen. Reuter's correspondent says that General Louis Botha is approaching Zululand,…

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The Boer War

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 September 1901 · page 4

Natives report that the Boers in the vicinity of Utrecht are retiring. Lieutenant Rundle, with a patrol composed of a volunteer composite regiment,…

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At the Seat of War

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 26 September 1901 · page 2

THE recent cablet tell of Strange and startling events in South Africa: strange because it was understood the war was over and only the fitful…

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Boer War. the Engagement at Eland's River. London, Sept. 24

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 September 1901 · page 4

Particulars of the engagement fought at Eland's River Poort, west of Tarkastad, where the Boors rushed a squadron of the 17th Lancers, under Major V. S. Sandeman,…

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The Boer War. the Raid Into Natal. Retirement of the Boers. London, Spt. 25

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 September 1901 · page 2

Lord Kitchener reports that British reinforcemtns have worked into Natal and the raiders in that colony are retiring to the east and the north-east…

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The War in South Africa. London, Sept. 25

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 27 September 1901 · page 2

LORD KITCHENER reports that British reinforcements have worked into Natal and that the raiders in that colony are retiring to the east and the north-east…

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The War in South Africa. London, Sept. 23

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 27 September 1901 · page 4

REUTER'S correspondent says Louis Botha is approaching Zululand, intending thence to invade Natal. Sir Charles Tucker reports that the…

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The War in South Africa. British Reverses. Serious Repulses Near the Natal Frontier. Three Guns Captured London, Sept. 20

The Burrowa News · Friday 27 September 1901 · page 2

Lord Kitchener, in a telegram dated Tuesday evening, 8 o'clock, reports.—"Three companies of Mounted Infantry and three guns, under, Major Gough…

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Boer War

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 September 1901 · page 4

Dr. Leyd is engineering a great revival of Anglophobia on the Continent and stimulating the pro-Boerism of Great Britain coincident with a vigorous summer campaign…

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News from the War

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 28 September 1901 · page 2

Writing from Hulbron to his mother (Mrs Schroeder) at Garangula Trooper Sid Duke says:-We hare been 8 or 9 days days after De Wet and gave…

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