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Murray · The wars & local soldiers
967 stories in Murray's papers · page 3 of 49
The "In Memoriam" service conducted on Sunday night by the Rev. Canon Spencer in St. Matthew's Church in memory of the brave soldiers of the British army fallen while…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →There is a good old story extant-it is a good old chesnut now-that once upon a time their reigned in the Education Department of this colony a minister who happened The brilliant success achieved by the Ladysmith garrison last Saturday in repulsing the severe attacks delivered by the Boers has elicited high praise from. Her Majesty the…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Never since the beginning of the war has excitement been more intense throughout the country than it was yesterday. The news from Sir George White had broken off…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The widespread suspense in England has been relieved by General White's message announcing the Boer defeat. The Boers pushed the attack for seventeen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The war correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph, in a message from Estcourt, says:-" Major Jennings, of the Royal Army Medical Corps, who brought back the…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Lord Lovat is taking to the Cape 150 Scottish gillies and deerstalkers from the Highlands to be sent at once to the front. They are being picked as splendid shots…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →The latest news from South Africa states that at 3 o'clock on Saturday morning General Joubert made a general attack on the British position at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Imperial Parliament meets on the 30th inst. There is a growing outcry against the army's unpreparedness, and the present…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The latest news from northern Cape Colony is to the effect that the Boers made an ineffectual attempt to retrieve the severe defeat they received at the hands of the…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →THE brilliant repulse of the Boers at Ladysmith is a subject upon which our heroic troops in the Transvaal generally, and those particularly who were immediately engaged, may be warmly commended…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General Butter wires that the Boers claim their loses at Ladysmith to be only four killed and fifteen wounded, but admit they were beaten. The natives assert that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The war correspondent must be an able writer, or artist, and also a man of courage and resource. His paper depends upon him not only for graphic…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NOT a great deal of public attention has been bestowed on the wholesale rejections of horses offered for use in the Transvaal, by the military authorities of the colonies and a person outside…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An armoured train sortie at Mafeking on Boxing Day, with a view of pushing back the Boer cordon northward, took place. The enemy being forward, doubled their forces during the night. The attack of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This is a descriptive list of names of persons, places, and things that will be in constant use during the course of the war in the Transvaal. It might the convenient for the reader who w[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The signs and memories of this terrible war meet one everywhere. There is scarcely a family in the land that is not lunched in its heart's core; there isn't a circle in which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Ladysmith battle field is thick with the slain. The British loss was fourteen officers killed, and thirty-four wounded; eight hundred men killed and wounded. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Imperial Parliament meets on the 30th inst. There is a growing outcry against the Army's unpreparedness, and the present deadlock in South Africa…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Boers are laagered strongly five miles east of Colenso. Lord Methuen has injured his spine. Canada wishes to pay the whole cost of her…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War Office states that the British casualties at the battle of Ladysmith were fifteen officers killed and twenty-six wounded; 135 men killed and 244…
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