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Hunter Valley · The wars & local soldiers
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The transport Orient, with returned Queensland and New Zealand Soldiers on board, arrived off Cape Moreton this morning. The Britannic with the Imperial troops arrived an hour earlier. The steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Tuesday. IN pursuance of the Beer plan of campaign, the northern commandoes under Generals Louis Botha and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday. NINETEEN members of the Victorian contingent of the Imperial-Australian Regiment, who were invalided to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A squadron of the Johannesburg Mounted Rifles ambushed a party of Boers at Holtfontein, 15 miles south-east of Pretoria, on Sunday. Five of the enemy were killed, including Commandent Van der Heever…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Further details of the reverse near Lindley, in the Orange River Colony, when Colonel Laing, two other officers, and fifteen men were killed,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lord Kitchener, the Commander-in-Chief reports that three agents of the Orange River Colony Peace Committee were taken prisoners to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →D[?] Wet has recrossed the Vaal River and joined Transvaal commandos. Beyers, with twelve hundred men and five guns, continues trekking to the north-east. A big…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Wednesday last the sorrowful intelligence reached here that another local soldier, Corporal H. Ayling, had been numbered with the slain in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commandant Do Wet has recrossed the Vaal River from the Orange River Colony and has joined the commandos in the Transvaal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A determined attack on a convoy proceeding to Yryheid was repulsed at Blood River. The Boers are raiding farms five…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE stream of bookson South Africa and the Boer war is ondless. One of the most interesting and enlightening…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →EACH man of Lord Kitchener's fighting scouts is provided with two spare horses, which 300 Matabeles are riding and leading…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →De Wet has recrossed the Vaal River and joined Transvaal commandos. Beyers, with twelve hundred men and five guns, continues trekking to the north-east. A big…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A sharp fight occurred between Britis forces and a considerable body of Boer raiders, who were ultimately routed, at Murraysburg, on Friday, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Oh rank and file of England, Bold privates of the line, Oh Austral's sons unnumbered, Whose deeds in glory shine…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—It is announced in your columns that a reception is to be accorded next week to our Soldiers who have returned from the South African War, covered with the glory of the battlefield and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Spanish Government, on the occasion of the marriage of the Princess of Asturias, pardoned 16,000 soldiers who deserted during the war…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The residents of the Cape Peninsula, except officials and soldiers, are forbidden to possess arms find ammunition after February 1. The whole of Cape Colony with the exception of a few towns, is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A grand demonstration took place at Hinton on Saturday evening for the purpose of welcoming home from the war in South Africa, Troopers James Weston. and P. W. Stuart. At East Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—In the report of the Soldiers Reception Committee, published in Saturday night's issue of the Daily Mercury, I notice that Captain Markwell is reported to have sais—" He was of the…
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