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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
1,109 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 56
LONDON, Thursday.—General Buller wires that the Boers claim that their losses in the recent attack on Ladismith only amounted to four killed and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Private L. Thompson, a reservist of B Company, 1st Battalion King's Royal Rifles (60th Foot), who was in the battle in which General Symons was wounded, proves…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"When Wounded by the Enemy," is the title of an interesting article in "Cassell's Journal." According to the writer: "The personnel of the war establishment if a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →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.C.A. building…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The war fever in London, says the London correspondent of an English contemporary, appears to rage more fiercely every day. I can recall nothing like it. Those people…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Among those who have left England for the front is Major W. C. Beevor, Poval Army Medical Corps, who is taking with him a Rontgen Ray outfit, which is likely…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →LONDON, Friday.—The Queen has contributed to the artists' war fund sale two works, one by her own hand, and the other by the Prince Consort…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—The Free Staters stuck to their positions until bayonetted in the ditch. The Transvaalers, in face of a counter attack during one of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—The "Daily Mail's" correspondent in Ladismith states that the British losses in the day's fighting are estimated at 14…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Among the questions that have been freely discussed by the man in the street in the South African towns are which is the true base? and what are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Durban, 8th December.—Your "special" (Mr. W. A. Squire, formerly of West Maitland) to-day succeeded in obtaining a daily record of the doings in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mesdames Beeston and Morris, assisted by a large number of other Newcastle ladies have during the past few days been planning, collecting, band deftly plying needle…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A prominent fruit grower and merchant in Sydney has donated 300 cases of fruit for the use of the troops going to South Africa. Fruit growers around…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Indian inhabitants of Durban contributed £62 to the Durban Women's Patriotic League. At Lloyd's transactions have been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South Australia has a larger German population than any other Australian colony, and the Germans are almost to a man pro-Boer. The German papers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Saturday.—The list of British casualties in the fighting at Ladismith on Saturday, cabled yesterday, put the total rank and file losses at 800…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →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.C.A. building…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Salisbury administration has not only to bear the responsibility of conducting the war in South Africa, but is the target for a, thousand shafts…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Monday Morning—General Babington and Colonel Pilcher, with the 9th and 12th Lancers, M'Leish's Victorians, Ricardo's Queenslanders,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday.—The British soldiers admire the Australians quickness in mastering the lay of the country and capacity for individual fighting…
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