The Boer War
All the remaining heavy guns of the Boer army are now at Komati Poort, on the Portuguese frontier. The remnant of the Boer army is now a broken and…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1900
309 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 15 of 16
The Transvaal War. Letter From the Front. with the Bushmen
Mr. Herbert Fackender, in a letter dated 28th July, to his sister at Unanderra, says:—That though he had received some letters yet many had undoubtedly gone…
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THE returned soldiers, Trooper Pestell and Private Watts, were recorded a public welcome at a master picnic held at Maroo Mosdows on Wednesday last…
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ON Saturday night last what was designated the Citizens' Banquet to local soldiers invalided home from the South African War eventuated in Dymock's Exchange. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Return Soldiers' Banquet Franks, M'clelland and Halliwell
ON Saturday night, in Dymock's suction room, a public banquet was given to Corporal S. Franks and Privates E. M'Clelland and R. Halliwell on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Relies. Souvrnirs From Mafeking. Mr. Jack King's Trophies
THREE arrived at the Kiama railway station yesterday one large unexploded shall, two smaller ones (exploded) and some other felice of war paraphernalia, sent home…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Foxground. Welcome Home to Lance-corporal Wilson
THIS district had he pleasure of welcoming back last week one of our returned soldiers who has been invalided from the South African war, in the person of Lance-Corpl…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lauce-Corporal Wilson Welcome Home at Gerringong
ON Thursday night, of last week, Lance Corporal Wilson, son of Mr. R. Wilson (Mayor of Gerringong), was entertained [?] complimentary social at the residence…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Squire and His Tenants. Welcome Home to Coolangatta
MR. AND MRS. ALEX HAY returned to Berry on Wednesday night, and on Thursday were welcomed at Coolangatta by the tenants and employees of Coolangatta,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →South African War. Local Soldier's Grave in Africa
Mrs. Frank Andrews, of Bourke-street, Wollongong, has received a letter from Rev. J. A. Reynolds, dated Otto's Hoop, August 28, 1900, as follows:—" As Church…
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Equally hearty and successful as the welcome to Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Hay at Coolangatta last week was the demonstration to welcome them at Berry on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Welcome Home at Berry. to Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Hay
PERFECT weather favoured the residents of Berry and district last Wednesday on the occasion of their "Welcome Home" to Mr. and Mrs. Alex, Hay after their…
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On Wednesday evening, there was a meeting in the Wollongong Town Hall, the business of which was to commemorate the death of Private…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Commemorating the Death of a Fallen Soldier
A public meeting convened by the Mayor for the purpose of taking stops to suitably commemorate the death of Private Frank Andrews, who fell in one of the battles in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Notes from the Front. Mafeking, 30th July, 1990
This letter is being written under difficulties. If you saw as now, you would wonder where the delights of a soldier's life came in. We have not pitched our…
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The returning soldiers from South Africa are not to be allowed to bring their horses back to the colonies. Western Australia being the first to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Jimmy Governor. Capture of the Outlaw at Last. Severely Wounded
On Saturday the welcome news was telegraphed all over the colony that the black who had been the means of terrorising the country for several months had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The South African War and Ryder Haggard's "Jess." Skeerpoort (Troansvaal), Sept. 6
Once more we are on the move, having left Pretoria a couple of days ago, and as I write the boom of big guns in the distance tells that Clements' column, which we are…
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Many old soldiers now feel the effects of the hard service they endured during the war. Mr. Geo. S. Anderson, of Roseville, York county, Penn., who saw the hardest kind of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Notes from the Front
Mr. John Richardson, of Smith's Hill has received another letter from his son, Mr W. J. Richardson, from the front, and the following is a copy :—…
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