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Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown) · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1911

21 stories in Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown)'s papers · page 1 of 2

War in the Air.. Aeroplane V. Dirigible. Difficulty of Destroyin a Balloon

The Wollondilly Press · Wednesday 25 January 1911 · page 3

Mr W. F. Reid, lecturing on Tuesday at a meeting of the Aeronautical Society (said "Lloyd's News" on October 30) expressed the opinion that the…

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Soldier's Heart.1v Food and Clothes Reform

The Wollondilly Press · Wednesday 25 January 1911 · page 3

Mr Haldune, Secretary for War, speaking at the Royal Army Medical School, Millbank, yesterday afternoon, in connection with the prize…

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Mutiny in Brazil. Two Hundred Killed and Wounded. Capital Shelled

The Wollondilly Press · Wednesday 15 March 1911 · page 2

Another mutiny has been suppressed at Rio de Janeiro by the Arm action of the Brazilian Government, but while it lasted there was desperate fighting…

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Soldier Sabbatarian. Prison in Preference to Work

The Wollondilly Press · Wednesday 29 March 1911 · page 3

The Supreme Military Court has (says the Berlin correspondent of the "Dail News") sentenced a Seventh pay Adventist named Naumann to five years'…

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The Fate of a War Balloon

The Picton Post · Wednesday 19 April 1911 · page 7

Curing the siege of Paris in the Franco German war no less than sixty-four balloons made their [?]scent from the capital. Out of this number only two came to…

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A British Soldier in India

The Picton Post · Wednesday 10 May 1911 · page 7

A soldier, who has spent several years on foreign, colonial, and Indian [?]vice, narrates the following :— "When I was in India, in the year 1876…

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War Items

The Picton Post · Wednesday 24 May 1911 · page 2

A front seat—The seal of war. An English general is, so to say, giving the Boers "some lessens in French." It appears that the Boere are paying the…

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A War Correspondent's Adventure

The Picton Post · Wednesday 24 May 1911 · page 2

In his book, "War Correspondence as [?] Fine Art." the late Mr. Archibald For[?] tells the following story of his adventures [?] Paris when the Germans took possession"…

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The Cost of a War Crisis. The Boer Ultimatum Cost £325 to Telegraph

The Wollondilly Press · Wednesday 19 July 1911 · page 3

It is not only war which Is expensive: even a war crisis, when no fighting follows It, is a costly experience such as nations cannot afford to indulge in every day…

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Mutinous British Soldiers Plucky Officer Enters Their Camp

The Wollondilly Press · Wednesday 19 July 1911 · page 3

The battalion which mutinied at Howick, fifteen miles from Pletermaritzburg, consisted of strong drafts of men intended for India, taken from the South…

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Soldier's Adventure in India

The Wollondilly Press · Saturday 12 August 1911 · page 3

Once during my service in India, I had the advantage of being stationed close to the sea. One evening, after a roasting hot day, a party of us strolled to the seashore…

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When War Comes

The Wollondilly Press · Saturday 26 August 1911 · page 3

"When war comes at sea it will be sudden," said Lord Charles Beresford, recentwith everything organised by the enemy to attack, our lines of food. That is…

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War Office Methods

The Picton Post · Wednesday 6 September 1911 · page 2

Several stories of War Office methods, probably inventions, are going the rounds of the papers. The following, it is alleged, is furnished by a correspondent on one…

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Spray. a Rose of War

The Picton Post · Wednesday 13 September 1911 · page 2

It a not always policy to acknowledge a defeat. A little coo[?] at the critical moment sometimes saves the day, as in the case described in Mr. Ripley's "Story…

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Soldier's Heart

The Picton Post · Wednesday 13 September 1911 · page 3

The condition known as "Soldier's heart" has been a subject of military medical interest for many years. It was at one time thought…

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The Blind Man and the Tug-of-war

The Picton Post · Wednesday 25 October 1911 · page 7

Blind Emmott, the newspaper men had lust dropped into a quiet little be house in Bradford to have his usual penny gill of beer and hear all about the news he had…

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A War Scare and Its Seaset

The Picton Post · Wednesday 1 November 1911 · page 2

During one of the many war scares in which we have indulged any time, these twenty yearn a couple of her Majesty's gunboats were watching the…

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Worse Than War

The Picton Post · Wednesday 8 November 1911 · page 2

The numbers of those slain in the present Scuts African war are insignificant was a compared with the numbers of those who, since the war began, have died in Great…

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Endurance of Japanese Soldiers

The Picton Post · Wednesday 8 November 1911 · page 3

Soldiers of Japan are not only among the most pugnacious, but they are likewise the hardiest fighters in the world. Foreign army…

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A Quaker Soldier Who Would Not Fight

The Wollondilly Press · Wednesday 6 December 1911 · page 3

When the question of courage is on[?] settled, it hardly makes a difference what kind it is, whether it is on the battlefield or in the tent. In 1861 (says…

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