The British Soldier
You may march him, quarter-column, into hell! You may riddie him with ballets by surprise! You may send him with a pop-gun 'Gainst a long-range French tip-top gun,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Hunter Valley · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1900
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Weights for Soldiers
The following weights are carried by the soldiers of the principal Continental armies:—The French infantryman, with full field equipment, carries 631b…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Transvaal War Lord Roberts' March Delated. Boers Concentrating. Lord Methuen Recalled. a Secret Expedition. General Buller at Elandslaagte. Australians Appreciated. President Kruger Boasts Again. the Queen's Condolence with Mrs. Joubert. London, March 30
President Kroner has convinced the Boers that 150,000 foreign troops have already landed at Delagoa Bay, and that they are proceeding to the aid of the republics…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War. Death of General Jou[?]ert. the President Commander-in-chief. Siege of Mafening. Presidents' Desire for Intervention. Russia's Reply. British Mines on the [?]And. Undermined by Kruger's Orders. the Hiding of Arms. Lieutenant M. E. Lindsay. London
Lieutenant M. E. Lindsay, of the New Zealanders, has received a commission in the 7th Dragoons…
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Colonel Price has sent a report of the doings of his mounted contingent to the Victorian Government. He says that a large number of the horses have been knocked up through bad saddles. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Boer War Notes
The King's Royal Rifles lost Colonel Gunning at Colens[?], and Colonel Buchanan-Riddell at Spion Kop. The latter was the ton of a Roxburgh Baronet and the former the son-in-law of a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Poetry. Civil War
"Rifleman, shoot me a fancy shot Straight at the heart of you prowling vidette; Ring me a ball in the glittering spot That shines on his brest like an amulet."…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Boers and the War
There seems to be much ignorance on the subject of the Boer. It may be well, therefore, to explain what the personnel of the army is against which our troops are just now pitted. The Boer is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Transvaal War the Battle of Karee. New South Wales Troops Under Fire. the Enemy Retreating. the Relief of Mafeking. Men and Stores for Rhodesia. English Burghers Ordered to Fight. an Incident of the War. President Kruger's Threats. London, March 31
Lord Roberts has sent the following despatch to the War Officer:-"On Friday, owing to the enemy's activity in our immediate front, and the hostility they displayed towards the Free State…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Boers' Kind Treatment of the Wounded
A REUTER'S telegram from Arundel on February 17 says:—Captain Longhurst R. A. M. C., spent a night with the Boors at Hobkirk's Farm looking after the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Topics
Neil Gillies, one of the Bushmen's Contingent, writes to his mother from Fremantle, March 14: "We had a grand time last night. We were entertained in a right royal fashion. The banquet…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War Against Filth
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Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. London
THE South Australians and West Australians attached to Lieutenant General Clement's right-flanking column, with the Victorians, N. S…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Actualities of Modern War. a Grim Picture
One of our war correspondents, in the course of a private letter to a friend, gives some vivid pictures of the realities of war under modern…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War. Death of General Joubert. London
General Jubert died unexpectedly from an internal complaint on Tuesday night last. Major-General Sir George White, a few hours earlier,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest War News. Further Fighting. Battle of Karee. Boers Retreating. Kruger's Bluff. London
Reports reached Lord Roberts' headquarters that the enemy were showing great activity in the north. Several thousands occupied a strong…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Plucky Soldier, London
The B[?]ers at Ladybraed captured three of Colonel Pilcher's troopers. One of the British soldiers with a sword fought a duel with a Boer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War. Lord [?]Derts' Further Success Enemy in Good Position. H. S. Wales Troops Participate [?] Retreat From Bra[?]fort a Pro-boer Meeting. London
The Nationalists are greatly irritated that the resolutions passed at Nottingham did not mention anything about Home Rule…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Transvaal War the Battle of Karee. How the Boers Were Defeated. New South Wales Troops in Action. British Fall Into a Boer Ambush. Guns Captured and Re-captured. the New Boer Commander-in-chief. London, April 2
Commandant Smuts was in charge of the Boer Force, largely composed of Johannesburg police, at Kares. The defeat of the Boers is ascribable to the Sinking movements made by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Topics
The question whether Lord Kitchener was ever in the French Army has been answered by a relative who resides at Dinan. It appears that during 1870 he actually joined the "Moblots" of Dinan as a…
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