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

The wars & local soldiers, 1902

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Soldiers' Memorial

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 16 July 1902 · page 3

A SPECIAL meeting of the Borough Council was held yesterday afternoon to deal with the question of a site for the Goulburn and District soldiers memorial. There were…

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Returning Soldiers

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 17 July 1902 · page 2

Very shortly nearly all of the Australian soldiers who went to South Africa will be home again. Information was received in Sydney on Tuesday that the…

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Soldiers' Memorial

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 July 1902 · page 2

A meeting of a committee of the whole Council was held at the Town Hall on Tuesday afternoon for the purpose of selecting a site for the projected memorial to the soldiers who left this district for the…

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Soldiers' Memorial

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 23 July 1902 · page 2

A CUMMITTER meeting of the whole council was held at 3 p.m. yesterday to further consider the question of a site for the Soldiers' Memorial. The Mayor presided, and there…

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The Soldiers' Memorial

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 July 1902 · page 4

A committee of the whole Council was held on Tuesday afternoon to further consider the question of a site for the Soldiers' Memorial. There were present the Mayor, and Aldermen Richardson,…

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Shooting Outrage at Redfern. a Constable Shot Dead. Another Seriously Wounded. Escape of the Two Culprits

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 July 1902 · page 2

The usual quietness of the thickly-populated neighborhood of Shepherd-street, Redfern, was disturbed about a quarter to 9 o'clock on Saturday night by…

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The Latest. Sydney, Thursday. Returned Soldiers

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 31 July 1902 · page 2

The Manchester Merchant with returning troops arrived this morning. THE REDFERN TRAGEDY. The search for the suspects goes on, but…

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History of the Boer War

The Burrowa News · Friday 1 August 1902 · page 1

IF candour is the cardinal merit of the historian, the writers responsible for the Times history of the Boer war have earned an imperishable reputation…

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Soldiers' Memorial

Goulburn Herald · Friday 1 August 1902 · page 2

THE Goulburn and district soldiers' memorial committee met in the Town Hall on Wednesday afternoon. The mayor presided, and there was a fair attendance. The meeting was…

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Returned Soldiers

Goulburn Herald · Friday 1 August 1902 · page 2

THE returned members of the Australian Commonwealth Horse, Fifth Battalion, were handed in Sydney from the troopship Manchester Merchant yesterday morning. There…

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The Conduct of the Late War. London, July 31

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 August 1902 · page 4

Mr. A. J. Balfour, the Premier, announced in the House of Commons last night that a Royal Commission of seven members would be appointed to inquire into the conduct of the war in South…

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Soldiers' Memorial

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 August 1902 · page 2

At a meeting of the committee of the Goulburn and District Soldiers' Memorial Fund on Wednesday afternoon,, the Mayor presiding, two designs submitted were not approved by…

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After the War Labour in South Africa

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 9 August 1902 · page 2

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH in an article in its issue of Wednesday, thus makes the following reference to what is taking place in South Africa with regard to labour for working the mines:—…

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The Latest. London, Monday. Colonial Soldiers

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 August 1902 · page 2

The King reviews the colonial troops privately in Buckingham Palace Garden on Tuesday afternoon. The Commonwealth Contingent will return…

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Voyage of the Drayton Grange. Australian Soldiers’ Plight

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 14 August 1902 · page 2

In the dusk of last Sunday evening the troopship Drayton Grange, homeward bound with returning Australian soldiers, reached anchorage in Sydney Harbor near…

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Returned Soldiers

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 15 August 1902 · page 2

NEARLY 700 troops from the Drayton Grange disembarked on Monday afternoon. The men were officially welcomed by the State Governor. Some…

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Lecture on the War

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 August 1902 · page 4

Rev. Harry Wilson, who acted as chaplain to the New South Wales Mounted Rifles in South Africa, and who received a pleasing mark of esteem from the men on his return, will give…

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After the War. the Reeling in Cape Colony. Kruger’s Probably Return

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 20 August 1902 · page 4

THE DAILY (TELEGAPH’T Capetown correspondent writes under date of July 14th as follows:— THE cessation of hostilities and the dawn of…

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War Horses Present and Future

The Burrowa News · Friday 22 August 1902 · page 1

IN a handy little volume of 200 pages, War Horses, Present and Future, or Remount Life in South Africa, by Sydney Galvayne, Hon. Lieutenant…

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Soldiers' Memorial

Goulburn Herald · Friday 22 August 1902 · page 5

A meeting of the committee of the Goulburn and District Soldiers' Memorial was held in the Town Hall yesterday afternoon, when further designs which had been submitted…

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