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Northern Rivers · The wars & local soldiers
347 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 15 of 18
Trooper Fred. Seccombe, invalided home from the Transvaal after enteric fever, was welcomed home on Tuesday evening. Notwithstanding the fact that tile evening was dark and wet,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lord Roberts reports that the Boers have murdered Colonel Helyar, a Yeomanry officer. Two men have been arrested on suspicion and court-martialled…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lieutenant Hans Cardn[?] who is charged with breaking his p[?] and conspiring to kidnap Lord Roberts mid other officers, is an officer of the Stunts Artillery. He is a young man, of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GENERAL MAHON engaged Commandant De Wet near Rustenberg on Saturday and captured a number of waggons and prisoners. De Wet had to lash his burghers into line…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There are indications that Commandant De Wet's force has junctioned with that of De La Ray. General Paget engaged De Wet's rear guard on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →General fighting is proceeding in the Transvaal. General Baden-Powell prevented De Wet from junctioniug with Botha, and also engaged De Wet's forces to the north of Pretoria,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THERE was only a small attendance at the meeting convened for last evening at the Council Chambers to consider the question of a reception to returned district soldiers. His Worship the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The battle near Belfast still continues. General Buller has captured Bergandel Venj, a strong position on the north-west of Dalmanutha, with comparatively small…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Generals French and Pole-carew are at Waterlouder. The Tasmanians at Douglas have returned to Ottoshorp…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →General Sir Redvers Baller and Lieutenant General French after a rearguard action expelled the enemy from the high hills over-look Jug Helvetia, Most of the Boers aro retrenting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GENERAL BULLER is marching on Lydenberg. A body of colonial troops marched from Zeerust to Krugersdorp, a distance of 130. miles, and were stubbornly opposed all the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Lydenburg natives threaten to prevent General Buller crossing Shelpoort river, and are already looting the Boers' cattle. The Huddersfield Congress, by a small…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AN old soldier of the Queen, Staff-Sergeant J. Chalkley, late of the Bengal Commissariat, [?] and the 8th King's Liverpool Regi[?], residing at Bunara Road, Horton…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A CERTAIN Major-General of the Royal Prussian Army has been thinking over the Boers, or rather, the South African war, and the following gratuitous hints are the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THF following interesting extract taken from letter written by Mr.R. Meeham, of the 1st Australian Horse, to a friend in Sydney. Mr. Mecham was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commandant Heron, who is commanding a body of Boer scouts in the Transvaal, has gathered 700 in the neighborhoodo of Johannesbury where the garrison lias been strengthened…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SEEING that the present war in the Transvaal, which was generally thought would be at an end within a few months from the landing of British forces in South Africa,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"A GOOD thing," remarked Major Holmes, who has just returned from active service in South Africa, " which the Bending of Australian troops to South Africa has effected…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Boer leaders admit that at last their army is broken, and they have decided to declare guerilla warfare. Lord Roberts has returned to Pretoria, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE following extracts from a letter from Lienienant C. A Lee, of Tenterfield, who went to England invalided from the war will be of interest, as showing the kindness showered upon…
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