The Returned Soldier
"I couldn't interest that girl at all." "Why not?" "Every time I began to describe a battle or a naval engagement she told…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1901
100 stories in North West (Tamworth to Moree)'s papers · page 5 of 5
The War
A cavalry brigade is to leave Aldershot, for South Africa in the middle of November. Lord Methuen reports, that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →His War Dates
"Can you mention the most famous dates of the war?" "Guess I call. There's Feb. 7." "Feb, 7? What happened then?"…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Boer War. Disaster to a British Column
A special cable to the "Sunday Times" dated London, November 2, says: One of the gravest disasters to British arms during this war is just…
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Thousands of recent arrivals at Capetown are, apparently Boer mercenaries. General Ian Hamilton proceeds to…
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POSSIBLY one of the hardest struggles that has been fought during the long and…
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Major-General Archibald Hunter commands the Fourth "Army Corps. Large reinforcements are being sent to South Africa…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Cables. Doer War. Mr. Chamberlain's Manifesto. London
Mr. Chamberlain's manifesto declaring that the British places the Boer women and old men in front of their rank to shield themselves from bullets, is being criticised…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Russian Peasant Soldier
To a particularly bright number of "Pearson's Magazine" Mr. W. Barnes Steveni contributes "A Character Sketch of Ivan Ivanovitch, the Russian…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →London Thursday. the War
Many anti-British meetings have been held in Germany and Holland. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain says that the agitation is artificial and is based on…
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It is stated that there are 70 Boer commandos operating is the field. Lord Kitchoner is utilising 45,000 mounted troops…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Cables. LONDON, Monday. the War
Some of the men of Kemp's commando are reaping and burying grain. The 7th Queen's Own Hussats have sailed for South Africa…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War
The war, so far has cost England 18,800 lives…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Years of the War. What Might Have Been
Mr. Heary W. Lucy, writhing to the "S.M. Herald" says:—"Tuesday was the second anniversary of the outbreak of war in South Africa, and on…
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Botha, with a large commando, is in the North-west of Vryheid. De Wet and Steyn gone south to Senekal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Cables. LONDON, Friday. the War
General Hamilton has arrived at Pretoria. Recruits offering at the Cape in the new Canadian Continent are largely in excess of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest Cables.' LONDON, Monday. the War
The Commandant of Baden Horse has been captured. Commandant Thereon has been driven northwards…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Spending Xmas. Christmas on a Man-o'-war
NOWHERE is Yuletide observed more punctiliously than on board ship. Early in the morning decks are swabbed, ropes…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Tactics
Military instructor: What is strategy in war? Irish cadet: Strategy is when ye don't let the enemy discover that the…
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