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The wars & local soldiers, 1901

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The Transvaal War

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 3 April 1901 · page 5

An overwhelming force of Boers surrounded a patrol of Marshall's Horse, on the Zureburg mountains, killing an officer and five men. The…

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The Transvaal War. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 3 April 1901 · page 8

The column under Major-General Bruce Hamilton, in a running fight, expelled the Boer snipers from ridge after ridgo in the Dewetsdorp district…

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The Transvaal War. London, Sunday

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 3 April 1901 · page 6

Major-General Bruce Hamilton, who is operating in the D[?]dorp district of the Orange River Colony, had a running fight for 20 miles on…

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The War in China. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 3 April 1901 · page 8

Japan is gratified at the British assurance that, contrary to Count von Bulow's statement, Manchuria is included in the Anglo-German…

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Ina Boer's Home an Australian's Victory. Love and Hatred. Incident of the Transvaal War. in Two Parts. Part Ii

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 3 April 1901 · page 7

But it was not to be to-morrow after all that she was to see him. It was with a sinking heart Vivien heard her uncle arranging with Ivan to be busy near…

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Returned Soldiers' Pay. Legal Action against the Government

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 3 April 1901 · page 2

A fairly large meeting of returned soldiers was held last week in Sydney, to further consider the matter of obtaining from the Government certain pay…

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Soldiers and Peerages

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 3 April 1901 · page 7

Soldiers, unfortunately, are eeldom rich, and it had been wisely decided by our late Queen that it is against the interests of the State to confer peerages…

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Latest War News London

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 5 April 1901 · page 3

General Botha and Commandant Do Wet have arranged to combine their forces to make a stand against General French. They have now junctioned their…

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Transvaal War LONDON, April 1

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 5 April 1901 · page 3

Latest news from South Africa states that 7 Boars have been killed, 9 wounded and 70 others captured by the British in the Dewetsdorp district. The British…

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

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 5 April 1901 · page 3

An overwhelming force of Boers surrounded a patrol of Marshall's Horse, on the Zureburg mountains killing an officer and five men. The rest surrendered. They were disarmed and then…

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Soldiers and Heart Disease

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 5 April 1901 · page 1

It is not generally known that a very large proportion of infantry soldier a when discharged on pension suffer from heart disease, or as the faculty term it…

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The Transvaal War

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 6 April 1901 · page 2

The British columns at Utrecht destroyed all the agricultural implements and everything that would be useful to the Boers…

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The Boer War

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 6 April 1901 · page 3

AN overwhelming force of Boers surrounded a patrol of Marshall's Horse, on the Zureburg mountains, killing an officer and five men. The…

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The Transavaal War

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 6 April 1901 · page 4

In the recent attack by the enemy on Lichtenburg 70 Boers were caught in a wire entanglement. Most of them were shot…

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The War in China

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 6 April 1901 · page 2

SEVEN Frenchmen at Tientsin sabred Captain Carnett, of the 31st Madras Light Infantry. The wounds, however, were not dangerous. An Indian sentry was twice shot in the…

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The Transvaal War. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 6 April 1901 · page 6

Commandant De Wet and President Steyn are going to meet General Louis Botha in the Ermelo district of the Transvaal…

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The War in China. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 6 April 1901 · page 6

Seven Frenchmen at Tientsin [?]abred Captain Caraw Barnett, of the Slat Madras Light Infantry. The wounds, however, were not…

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Cablegrams London. Wednesday, the Transvaal War

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 6 April 1901 · page 5

The Boers admit that during the Cape raid, they had 700 men killed, wounded, or captured. Trooper L. Ridge, of the New South…

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The Transvaal War

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 10 April 1901 · page 5

The Boers under Spheepers, captured 75-of the 5th Lancers and Brabants horse near Aberdeen, Several commandos are harrassing…

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Carrier Pigeons in War

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 10 April 1901 · page 8

It was the Franco-German War of 1870-71 which brought the full value of the pigeon home to the minds of Continental military authorities…

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