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

The wars & local soldiers, 1902

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Wireless Telegraphy Useless for War. London, Oct. 19

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 October 1902 · page 2

The marœuvres of the Channel and Mediterranean squadrons off Argostoli, on the coast of Greece, demonstrate that wireless telegraphy is useless for war purposes…

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Court Cases.—Returned Soldiers' Claim

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 October 1902 · page 2

The final sitting of the Fell Court for the present year was commenced on Monday. In the case of Howarth v. Walker (the test case regarding a claim of certain returned soldiers to arrears of pay from…

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Pay of N.s.w. Soldiers

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 22 October 1902 · page 2

The case of Hewarth v. Walker, in which the government was sued by a returned soldier for alleged arrears of pay and which was decided in favor of the plaintiff, was…

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The France-German War

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 25 October 1902 · page 6

The battle of Sedan brought to a conclusion the first phase of a most remarkable campaign; and, quite apart from political and dynastic results, it is…

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The Franco-German War

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 25 October 1902 · page 5

The battle of Sedan brought to a conclusion the first phase of a most remarkable campaign ; and, quite apart from political and dynastic results, it is…

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Our Soldiers

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 1 November 1902 · page 2

WE understand that the members of the First Australian Horse will soon change the color of the main portion of…

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War Honours. London, Nov. 1

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 November 1902 · page 4

The London "Gazette" of last night contains a long list of honours granted on account of services rendered during the late war in South Africa. Lieutenant-General Lord Methuen, K.C.B.,…

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Poetry. the Soldier's Dream

The Burrowa News · Friday 7 November 1902 · page 1

Our bugles sang truce, for the night clouds had lowerd. And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky:…

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Late War Stories

The Yass Courier · Friday 14 November 1902 · page 4

The story which conies from South Africa of a [?]lockhouse being saved by a gramophone I do not remember to have heard before ( says a…

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Returned Soldier Suicides. by Gashing His Throat

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 18 November 1902 · page 4

A man named Henry Bryant has committed suicide at Rockingham, near F[?] mantle ( W. A), being found dead in an untenanted house, with a…

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Soldiers' Memorial Fund

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 December 1902 · page 2

A meeting of the committee of the Soldiers' Memorial Fund was held on Friday evening for the purpose of considering the site submitted by the Council at the intersection of…

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Soldiers' Memorial

Goulburn Herald · Monday 8 December 1902 · page 2

THE committee of the Goulburn and District Soldiers' Memorial met on Friday night to consider the site submitted by the council, at the intersection of Auburn and Montague…

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After the War. London, Dec. 10

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 December 1902 · page 2

An influential meeting was held in London yesterday to impress upon employers the crying needs of 70,000 reservists and time-expired soldiers who are now Idle…

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The Seizure of War Vessels

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 December 1902 · page 5

The four Venezuelan warships which were seized by The British squadron in La Guayra harbour were vessels of no power, and offered no resistance to the seizure…

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The French Shipping Strike.—police Attacked and Wounded. London, Dec. 13

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 December 1902 · page 4

The bakers at Marseilles have struck work. The army bakers have replaced the men now on strike. Owing to some gangs of labourers resuming work on the quays at Marseilles the dock labourers…

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Supplies to the War Office

Goulburn Herald · Monday 22 December 1902 · page 2

SERIOUS complaints have been made by the war office authorities in reference to the shortage in weight of jam supplied by a Victorian firm for troops in South Africa…

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Women in War

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 27 December 1902 · page 4

Fighting women are no novelty, either in the pages of the mythological legend or in the stirrng volumes of history, for they have existed from time…

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How the German Soldier Camps Out

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 December 1902 · page 4

It is, of course, impossible to get beds for all, and each regiment is obliged to be under canvas several times in the course of tile manœuvres. When we say under canvas we do…

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