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Hunter Valley · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1889

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How an Irish Soldier Won the Victoria Cross

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 28 December 1889 · page 4

Mr. Arahibald Forbes tells in the August number of the English Illustrated Magazine how Lord William Beresford saved one of his troopers in a skirmish with the Zulus. Buller and Beresford, with…

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Mercury Junior. a Soldier's Son. in Seven Chapters.—chapter Ii. Cavalry on the March

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 28 December 1889 · page 4

It was a lovely June morning when the Fifth Cavalry started on its march. Camp was struck at daybreak, and, soon after five o'clock, while the sun was still low in the east…

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