Employment of British Yeomanry. Five Thousand Enlisted
LONDON, Wednesday.—The War Office is enlisting 5000 Yeomanry for a year or the duration of the war…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1901
550 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 28
How War Has Affected Tea
The action of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in March in increasing the duty from 4d to 6d per lb was extensively commented upon, for it had the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dead Boer's Diary. Thoughts on the War. Kroonstad, November 20
I have just seen a diary found on a dead Boer killed in one of Pilcher's patrols near Thaba'nehu. The diary begins on August 9 and ends on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War in South Africa. Boer Operations. a Repulse and a Retirement
LONDON, Friday.—Lord Kitchener reports that 3000 Boers at Carolina, with General Colville's column, were engaged at Vantondershoek. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers' Reception Committee
A meeting of the Soldiers' Reception Committee was held at the council chamber, Town Hall, last evening. Present:—Mr. John Gillies, M.P.,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →War in South Africa. Colville's Fight. Later Details
LONDON, Friday.—Details of the engagement between Colonel Colville's column and the Boers at Vanlonder-stock state that during the march…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland District Grand Demonstration at Hinton. Welcoming Troopers Home From the War
The residents of Hinton and district in the welcome accorded by them to Troopers James Weston and F. W. Stuart on Saturday evening displayed…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →War in South Africa. Horses Commandeered. the Scottish Horse. Free Passage for Australian Recruits
LONDON, Monday.—Three hundred horses and mules have been commandeered and paid for by the Scottish Horse. The authorities at Durban…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An Undemonstrative Soldier
I saw a young man arrive at his home railway station the other day who has just escaped the perils of the war, writes a Scottish correspondent. Before the train came in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Soldiers' Send-off Committee
A meeting of the West Maitland Soldiers' send-off committee was held at the Town Hall last evening. Present:—Mr. and John Gillies (in the chair),…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Returned Soldiers
A meeting of the ratepayers, convened by the Mayor was held in the Wickham School of Arts last evening, for the purpose of arranging a suitable welcome to the returned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Large War Order
The "Frankfurter Zeitung" learns that the firm of Ehrhardt, of Eisenach and Dusseldorf, is supplying Britain with 18 butteries of quick-firing guns,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →International News. the War in South Africa. De Wet's Whereabouts. Destroying Kitchener's Proclamation
LONDON, Tuesday.—Reuter says that Christian de Wet is still in the Orange River Colony, and is with Botha's namesake…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →International News. the War in South Africa. the Cape Colony Invasion
LONDON, Tuesday.—Brigadier-General Babington has expelled the Boers from Makorskraal. Picquetberg, 70 miles north of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →International News. the War in South Africa. the Cape Raiders
LONDON, Tuesday.—British scouts are in touch with the vanguard of 1200 Boers marching from Calvinia to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lord Dundonald on Lessons of the War
Major-General the Earl of Dundonald was the guest of the New Vagabond Club at the Hotel Cecil, London. The first lesson, he said, that all of them learned was…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Home From the War. Trooper J. Hunter. Five Months in Hosptal
Trooper John Hunter, a Newcastle native, returned the other day from South Africa where he has been assisting his fellow-colonists to maintain the rights of the Empire:…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Jacko at the War
Every regiment nowadays goes in for a pet. That of the Imperial Volunteers was a monkey. He went out with them to the war, and was present at every engagement,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lord Dundonald on the War
Major-General the Earl of Dundonald was the principal guest at the Christmas banquet of the New Vagabond Club, held at the Hotel Cecil. Lord Dundonald, in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War in South Africa. the Raiders in Cape Colony. Colonists Tired of Them. Small Engagements with Boers
LONDON, Saturday.—Lord Kitchener states that the raiders in the Cape Colony are doing little harm, and are becoming daily more unpopular. They…
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