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

The wars & local soldiers, 1901

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The Transvaal War British Enveloping the Commandoes London, Jan. 24

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

The southward march of the Boer commandoes operating in the neighbourhood of Calvinia, Cape Colony, has been checked, and Brigadier-General Settle, with Colonel De Lisle, Colonel Thorney…

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The Boer War. Boer Commandants

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 31 January 1901 · page 4

Commandant Louis Botha's new quarters are at Roosenkaal. Commandant Viljoen commands in the eastern districts, and Commandant Tobias in the southern…

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The Boer War. London, Jan. 25

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 31 January 1901 · page 4

UNDER the pressure exerted by the forces of General Lord Methuen, a portion of the commando which Lord Methuen recently engaged west of Taungs has re-entered the Transvaal Colony…

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The Transvaal War De Wet Engaged

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 31 January 1901 · page 3

At latest Major-General Knox was engaging Commandant De Wet 40 miles from Thab'anchu. Colonel Smith-Dorrien has dispersed the…

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The Transvaal War. Raiders Twice Repulsed. Boer Losses. London, Jan. 29

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 31 January 1901 · page 2

The Boer raiders were twice repulsed at Oudtshoon, and abandoned a number of horses and waggons. A number of cattle belonging to Mr. Cecil Rhodes…

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Cable Intelligence. (Specially prepared). the Boer War. the Invasion of Cape Colony

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 31 January 1901 · page 2

LONDON, January 27.—The Boers at Slypklip captured some Dublin Fusiliers, and then waylaid and captured a train with cattle and provisions sent from…

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The Transvaal War. London, Jan. 28

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 1 February 1901 · page 2

THE cattle which were captured at Slypklip have been ra[?]ptured. The fireman of the captured train escaped. He raised the alarm and so prevented…

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The Transvaal War. London, Jan. 24

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 1 February 1901 · page 4

THE march of the Boer commandoes in the neighbourhood of Calvina, Cape Colony, has been checked, and…

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The Boer War. London, Jan. 30

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 February 1901 · page 6

Major-General Smith-Dorrien dispersed the Boers around Carolinia. The British had four killed and 18 wounded. Jan. 31…

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The Boer War. a Peace Envoy Shot

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 February 1901 · page 4

Ten thousand remounts are ready in England, and the first batch will leave on Tuesday. Andries Wessels, who accompanied…

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The Transvaal War. Large Operations Imminent. London, Feb. 1

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 February 1901 · page 2

ACTIVE field operations on a large scale are imminent in South Africa. Large numbers of mounted men are being employed as infantry and are being moved in mule waggons…

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A Soldier's Dog

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 2 February 1901 · page 1

AT the Southampton docks there waits (says the Express), and has waited for nearly a year, a terrier dog; out on the…

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Cable News. West Indian Soldiers Mutiny. London, Jan. 31

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 February 1901 · page 4

Quarrelling between bluejackets and West Indian soldiers at St. Helena led to the West Indians being confined to their barracks. The West Indians mutinied, but finally, under the…

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South Africa and the War. a Yass Man’s Story

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 4 February 1901 · page 2

No. 3.— On the March. Major-General Hutton. The Native Bullock-drives. Feeding. Just previous to the advance to Pretoria,…

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Cable Intelligence. (Specially prepared). the Boer War. Large Operations Imminent

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 4 February 1901 · page 2

LONDON, February I. — Active field operations on a large scale are imminent in South Africa. Large number of mounted men are being…

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Returned Soldiers and Their Pay

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 4 February 1901 · page 4

“Anti-Red Tape” writes “ to air a friend’s grievance against the military authorities. the Government. or some. body.”…

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The Boer War

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 February 1901 · page 2

Campbell's column defeated a Boer force of four hundred at South Middleburg. The British casualties were nineteen. Major-General French has expelled the…

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The Transvaal War. London, Jan. 31

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 5 February 1901 · page 2

THE British Commissioner at Kroon[?]tad has obtained the evidence on an eyewitness that when Morg[?]ndaal, an envoy from the Orange River Colony…

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The Boer War. Retreat of Raiding Boers. London, Feb. 2

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 February 1901 · page 4

The Boer raiders in the Oliphants River Valley abandoned many horses and carts and endeavoured to retreat through Mioringspoort. The British repulsing them occupied the pass and drove a portion…

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The Transvaal War. a Convoy Attacked. De Wet's Movements. British Garrison Captured. London, Feb. 4

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 February 1901 · page 3

A PARTY of Beers attacked the scouts preceding a convey which was journeying from Koffey fontein, on the Riet River, in the south-western portion of the Orange River Colony, to the Modder River…

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