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The wars & local soldiers, 1898

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Soldiers and Sabbath Service

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 December 1898 · page 16

An amusing incident of life at Chickamauga Camp of the United States Army is related by a returned trooper. The story began when Private Jack Holland was kicked by a…

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A Typical British Soldier

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 December 1898 · page 8

Colonel Rowland Hill Martin, who led the 21st Lancers at the memorable charge at Omdurman, was a guest at the annual banquet of the Glovers Company, in London, on November 7, and, in…

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Colonel Wright's Christmas. The Strange Meeting of Two Old Rivals on a Christmas Eve of War Time—Carey's Terrible Temptation, and the Tragedy that Followed

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 24 December 1898 · page 2
Also in The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette

AS Colonel Wright walked up the steps of the Park National…

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Is War Popular

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 29 December 1898 · page 3

War may be popular, but, according to Colonel Sir. G. S. Clarke writing in the Ninel[?]enth Century soldiering is not. He declares that the peoples of Europe have ceased to like war as a business. The…

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An Imperial Preserve of Soldiers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 29 December 1898 · page 2

ALTHOUGH the British army is not a large one as armies are counted in Franco, Germany or Russia, its possible numbers are not so limited as would appear while we confine our attention…

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Is War Popular?

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 December 1898 · page 7

War may be popular, but, according to Colonel Sir G. S. Clarke writing in the Nineteenth Century soldiering is not. Ha declared that the peoples of Europe have ceased to like war as a business. The…

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An Imperial Preserve of Soldiers

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 December 1898 · page 4

ALTHOUGH the British army is not a large one as armies are counted in France, Germany or Russia, its possible numbers are not so limited as would appear while we confine our attention…

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