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The wars & local soldiers, 1901

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The Transvaal War. London, Jan. 17

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 22 January 1901 · page 2

THE residents of Cape Peninsula except officials and soldiers are forbidden to use arms after February 1 the whole of Cape…

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The Transvaal War. London, Jan. 17

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 22 January 1901 · page 4

THE eastern commandos of the raiders have reached Aberdeen 50 miles south west of Murrays burg It is expected that…

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The Transvaal War. Western Invaders Checked. London, Jan. 18

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 January 1901 · page 4

Only 100 Colonial Dutch have joined the eastern commando under Commandant Kruitzinger. Jan. 19. Lieutenant-General Lord Methuen,…

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The Transvaal War. Arrest of Farmers. London, Jan. 21

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 January 1901 · page 2

Eleven farmers have boon arrested and brought to Cradock (in Cape Colony, 56 miles south-east by south of Middleburg), for drilling and for inviting the Boers to invade the territory…

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The Boer War. Capture of a Boer Outpost. a Train Captured. London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 January 1901 · page 4

Sixty-seven Dutch colonists at Aberdeen have joined the raiders. Three squadrons of the Johannesburg Mounted Rifles captured a Boer outpost at…

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The Queen's Health. Her Majesty Broken Down by Bereavement and the Worries of the War London. Jan. 18

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 22 January 1901 · page 2

AE announcement concerning the health of Her Majesty has been received with deep regret throughout Great Britain. For some days the…

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Welcome to Our Returned soldiers. LANCE-CORPORAL McGANN and Trooper Hoffman

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 23 January 1901 · page 2

Ok Monday night Lance-Corporal McCann and Trooper Hoffman, two of our volunteers who after over twelve months’ service in South Africa returned to Young last week,…

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The Transvaal War. Raiders Defeated. London, Jan. 22

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 January 1901 · page 2

In the engagement which Lieutenant-General Lord Methuen had with the Boers west of Taungs on January 14 fourteen Boers were killed…

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The Transvaal War Mr. Kruger and the Bond. London, Jan. 22

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 January 1901 · page 4

Mr. Bennet Burleigh, the war correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, states that the majority of the members of the Afrikander Bond have commissioned Mr. J. C. Merriman…

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South Africa and the War. a Yass Man’s Story. No. 1.—Early Experiences and Impressions

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 24 January 1901 · page 3

ON arrival at the wharf at Capetown for the first time, probably the first thing that strikes the visitor from Sydney as strange or foreign is an army of bustling darkies…

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Light on the Guerilla War

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 January 1901 · page 1

MR. JOHN STUART has an interesting and highly instructive article in the Morning Post on the guerilla phase of the war…

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The Transvaal War. London, Jan. 22

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 25 January 1901 · page 2

MR. BENNET BURLEIGH, the war correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," states that the majority of the Afrikander…

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The Transvaal War. London, Jan. 21

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 25 January 1901 · page 4

ELEVEN farmers have been arrested and brought to Cradock (in Cape Colony) for drilling and for inviting the Boers to…

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News from the War

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 26 January 1901 · page 1

WHITING to his mother, at Hardens from Bloemfontein, on December 21s last, Trooper W. J. Simpson says:--Just a line to let you know I am quite…

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The Transvaal War. the Work of the Hospitals. London, Jan. 23

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 January 1901 · page 2

The report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the work of the military hospitals in South Africa states that though there were serious evils no scandal…

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Our Soldiers

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 26 January 1901 · page 1

WITHOUT a doubt, Murrumburrah and Harden have hadal good many representatives at the South African war, and to…

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A Soldier’s Dog

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 26 January 1901 · page 1

AT the Southampton docks there waits (says the EXPRESS), and his waited for nearly a year, a terrier dog; out on the veldt, under a rough-hewn cross, lies the body of…

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South Africa and the War a Yass Man's Story. No. 2.—Through the Free State the Native Women; Bloemfontein

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 28 January 1901 · page 2

THE country in the Southern Free State is much superior to that of Northern Cape Colony. The farms are more numerous and comfortable looking; the owners also…

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England and France. Secret War Preparations

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 January 1901 · page 3

Some months ago (says the Melbourne Age of Jan. 4) considerable excitement was caused in England when it became known that France was purchasing and storing enormous…

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The Transvaal War. Movements of the Western Commando

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 January 1901 · page 2

The western commando, after occupying Vaurhynsdorp, divided, part moving south to the Doorn Rive and part marching towards Delgrift and Brahdvlei…

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