Tommy's Pay in Time of War
Many people are under the impression that when Tommy Atkins is ordered off to war his pay is stopped until all the fighting is over, when it is presented to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mid North Coast · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1901
313 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 3 of 16
British-boer War
Commandant Sarel Eloff and four other Boer prisoners confined on the Island of St. Helena, have failed in an attempt, to regain their liberty…
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FOLLOWING we give a summary of the principal cables received at the beginning of the week :-- General Buller says that in his…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →British-boer War. Sydney
The Assistant Under-Secretary for War proceeds to South Africa to act temporarily as Kitchener's financial adviser…
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De Wet has been defeated at Hurt Kraal by a force consisting of 8000 men who crossed the railway before daylight. Colonel Crabbe soon overtook them and…
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Zanddrift, where Commandant de Wet and Mr. Steyn crossed the Orange River, was the only drift in the river which the British bad not mined…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Horses for the War
According to official answers given by Major-General French to a series of questions from Mr. R. A. Price, M.L.A., th[?] war in South Africa has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South African War News. De Wet Badly Defeated. London
Full particulars are now to hand dealing with Friday's engagement between the Boers, under General Christian De Wet, and the British…
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Brigadier-General Plumer has compelled Commandant de Wet to turn northwards, and is now, close on the heels of the Boer leader, who is fleeing…
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The British losses during the month of January were 1000 killed and wounded, 800 captured. For Fobrusry the casualty list already totals 200 killed ami wounded…
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Mr. Bennot Burleigh of the London Daily. Telegraph reports that the Orange River is still flooded, and that the retreating Boers are trekking east…
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FOLLOWING will be found a summary of the principal cables received at the beginning of the week:--It is denied that the German…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A Female Soldier
The following epitaph, in Brighton churchyard, detail" a singular story:— In memory of Phoshe Hessel, who was born at Stepney in the year 1713. She…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →British Boer-war
Early on Thursday it was reported chat commandant-General Louis Botha lad surrendered to General Lord Kitchener. No official confirmation of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Welcome Home. Return of Mr. M. SPENCE
THE [?]tiv [?].s. Rossdale was anxiously awaited on Wednesday morning last, owing to the fact that Mounted Trooper M. [?] ce, son of Ald. Spence, was a passenger…
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The Brussels correspondent of the New York Tribune reports that the Boer Council sitting at Pietersburg, in the Northern Transvaal, authorised…
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The following are the principal cables received at the beginning of the week:--It is reported that General Louis…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Souvenir of the War
There is on view in the window of Mr. Gould's music shop in Belgrave grave-street a very interesting souvenir of the South African war in the shape…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Boer Women on the Battle Field. Guilty of Killing the Wounded
A letter from a nurse at one of the hospitals at Cape Town throws new light upon a very unpleasant feature of the war in South Africa…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Boer War. Death of Sergeant Henderson
WE regret to report that Captain Henderson, local agent of the North Coast Co., has received letters confirming the cabled news of the death…
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