The Returning Soldiers
EARLY on Thursday morning last the Mayor sent a telephone message to Molong inquiring if either of the local boys who had returned from South Africa by the “Aberdeen” were on board the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1900
588 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 24 of 30
Care of the Soldiers’ Graves in South Africa
A NOBLE band of women in South Africa have undertaken the self imposed task of looking after and caring for the graves of the loyal soldiers who have fallen during the war in that unhappy country…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Transvaal War. SYDNEY
Details of Lieut-General Sir F Carrington's attempt to relieve the Elands River garrison state that the force consisted of 600 N.S.W…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Transvaal War. LONDON
The surrender of the Standerton commando has crushed the Boer opposition in the south-eastern Transvaal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Transvaal War. LONDON
Mr. Bennett Burleigh, the famous war correspondent, has visited Belfast and met General Botha, Commander-in-Chief of the Boer forces. He found…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Trasvaal War. Conspiracy to Entrap Lord Roberts Foiled. Kitchener Pressing De Wet
Further particulars of an alleged conspiracy to entrap Lord Roberts and his officers show that the conspirators intended to fire the western…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →What the Enlisted Men Got
One or one returned [?] from Manila— a gunner's mate and much [?] at [?] a ge[?] and a whe[?] ashore—was sipping amber refreshment in a roadbouse,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In Time of War
The London "Times" states that the following hymn has been set to music by Sir John Stainor, Mus. Doe.:- "EXSURGAT DEUS."…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Transvaal War. London
Colonel [?] commanding the garrison at [?] River was resisting the enemy on August [?] though the shelling of the Boers [?] General [?] has been [?] to return…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The China War. London
After stern [?] the allied forces have reached the gates of Pekin. General [?] the British Commander, hopes that they will run the enemy right into the city…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Boer War. LONDON, August 14
Commandant de Wet has 3500 men, including a number of “newly perjured surrenderers,” 10 guns, including two five-pounders, six weeks’ supplies of meat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telegraphic Intelligence. [Per Reuter.] Latest War News. LONDON, Thursday
The Allies are at the gates, of Pekia. General Gaslee hopes to run the Chinese into the city. The Dowager Empress is endeavouring,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →What the Enlisted Men Got
One of the returned sailors from Manila a gunner's mate and much sworn at afloat, a gentleman and a wheel[?]man ashore-was sipping amber refreshment in a roadhouse…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Transvaal War. [By Electric Telegraph.] Sydney
There are indications that Commandant De Wet's force has junctioned with that of De la Rey. Major-General Paget engaged De Wet's…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The China War. London
The Powers have twenty-seven warships at Wasung with crews, numbering seven thousand…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Transvaal War. London
De Wet has only, it is believed, three hundred followers. Steyn is trying to reach Machedodorp. He has a small bodyguard with him…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Our Boys at the War
TROOPER J. W.BINSTEAD sends us the following rather interesting account of the capture of the Derbyshire Infantry, Gordon Highlanders and Imperial Yeomanry Scouts at Roodeval in June…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Transvaal War. Lieutenant Cardua Shot
Lieutenant Hans Cardua, of the Transvaal Staats Artilleries, found guilty at Pretoria of having broken his parole, and of having plotted to…
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