How Wounded Officers Are Compensated
An officer who loses a limb or an eye at once receives a sum equivalent to a year's pay, and the price of an, artificial limb. A year later he may be granted a…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1899
451 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 23 of 23
War Items
Mr. Henry Frowde has issued an On ford Bible Weighing under four ounces, printed On Oxford India-paper, with red edges, and bound in khaki. It is…
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May the Australians have no great success in south Africa as the Montpelier Tailoring Company's Branch (No. 2) at 73 Hunter-street, opposite the Y.M.C.A. building…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →District News. Stockton. Our War Contingent
News has reached Stockton that young Blackett, who has volunteered for the South African war (we will call it the Transvaal war when our troops get into that country)…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland District Letters From the War
Mr. C. E. Wilks of West Maitland, has received three letters from his brother, Trooper James Wilks, who is serving with the New South Wales Lancers at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War The Enemy at Magersfontein. Cronje Reinforced
LONDON, Thursday.—News from South Africa states that General Cronje commander of the Boer forces at Magersfontein, has been reinforced…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Enlistment of Rough Riders
LONDON, Thursday.—Increasing numbers of rough riders are being enlisted in Cape Colony and Natal, and they will be employed as scouts…
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The following items were extracted from the "Natal Mercury" of 24th November:— A visitor to the Boer prisoners on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Science and War
Certainly not for many years (says "Nature" has there been so much anxiety, either expressed or silently borne, as since the wire joining Ladismith and civilisation…
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May the Australians have as great success in South Africa as the Montpelier Tailoring Company's Branch (No.2) at 73 Hunter-street, opposite the Y.M.U.A. building [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Transport and the War
Up to the date of the departure of the English mail, that is, to 21th November, the total number of steamers engaged by the British Admiralty in consequence of the war…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War Buller's Command. NEARLY 30,000 STRONG
LONDON, Friday.—Most of the troops belonging to Sir Charles Warren's division have arrived in Natal. The strength of General Buller's force…
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