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The wars & local soldiers, 1900

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The War. London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 January 1900 · page 2

UNDER instructions from General Sir Redvers Buller, Dundonald's brigade made a dashing movement on the 10th instant, and occupied the hills above…

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The War. London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 January 1900 · page 4

PRIVATE CONNKLL, of the New Zealand Mounted Infantry, was killed daring the engagement at Eensberg on Monday, and Sergeant Gourley, also a New Zealander,…

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The War and its Lessons

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 January 1900 · page 2

THE war in South Africa has been pregnant with surprises and with revelations that cannot be at all pleasant to the ruling powers of the War Office. It has shown that the…

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The War. The Road to Ladysmith. LONDON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 January 1900 · page 5

HEAVY rains have fallen, and all the roads in the district have become like quagmires. The transport difficulties are described as terrible…

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The War. By Cable. The Reasberg Ambush. London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 January 1900 · page 5

IT transpires that only one trooper of the patrol of N.S.W. Lancers and South Australian Mounted Infantry was killed when the party were…

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Our Wires. (Per Grevillk's Telegram Company) the War London

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 January 1900 · page 2

The particulars of General Buller's movements on the 10th instant show that the British troops under Earl D[?]ndonald, of the second Life Guards, occupied the bills…

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Transvaal War N. S. Wales Lancers Fall into Ambush. LONDON, January 18

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1900 · page 2

The, "Standard" has received a cable message from its war correspondent at Ladysmith, giving details of the desperate attack made by the Boers on that place…

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War Notes

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 24 January 1900 · page 3

Willis, M.P. (N.S.W.) says that some of his constituents can shoot off a kangaroo's ear at 1,000 yards, and a lark's beak at 2,000, whioh is vaporing of the silliest kind…

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The War. Sydney, Friday 5.30 p.m

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 24 January 1900 · page 5

A private cable has been receive 1 from Eensberg stating that Lieutenant Dowling, of the Mudgee Squadron, with seven Lancers, were captured during a reconnaisance…

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The War. By Cable. Generous War Subscriptions. LONDON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 26 January 1900 · page 5

THE subscriptions towards the war relief fund in the United Kingdom have been announced to be so liberal that every soldier's widow will be enabled…

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The War. London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 26 January 1900 · page 4

MAJOR-GENERAL the Earl of Dandonald, continuing his advance from Action Holmes, now holds the approach to Oliver's Hoek pass…

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The War. London, Monday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 26 January 1900 · page 3

Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Warren, by occupying the positions vacated by the Boers at Spion Kop, has secured complete command over a…

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Transvaal War London, January 22

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 26 January 1900 · page 2

The British have successfully commenced the turning of the main Boer position. The combined batteries periodically silenced the enemy's intermittent…

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Our Wires. (Per Greville's Telegram Company) the War London

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 26 January 1900 · page 2

THE turning of the main Boer position has successfully begun on the enemy's extreme right eastward of Acton Holmes. Generals Warren and Clery operated on…

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Personalities. the Premier's Soldier Son

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 26 January 1900 · page 2

Lord Edward Cecil, the soldier son of Premier Salisbury, with Baden-Powell in Mafeking, is a Guardsman. He was Lord Wolseley's aide-de-camp when he was in…

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War Notes

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 27 January 1900 · page 5

John Norton suggests that instead of being called bush men the members of the bush contingent should be dabbed "bushrangers." If Norton is not careful…

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War Notes

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 27 January 1900 · page 3
Also in The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record

Four stowaways were put ashore from the transport "Moravian" at Melbourne on Tuesday. A Chinese resident of Adelaide has…

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The Transvaal War

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 27 January 1900 · page 2

General Buller made a spirited appeal to the troops' under his command, declaring that die intended to relieve Ladysmith, and would not turn…

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