An Australian Family of Soldiers
AMONG the recently returned soldiers from South Africa is Sergeant Walter Gwenneppe Legge, of the Australian Horse. The Legge family has the Empire's record in the respect…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1901
91 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 5
The South African War. London
FIFTY Boers under commandant Trichardt, hoping to capture provisions undermined a railway at Hiedelberg, and shot the Kaffirs in their kraal to prevent the plan being…
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IT is officially announced that Botha has rejected Lord Kitchener's terms. The Boers have wrecked 21 trains since the British occupied Koomatipoort…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →What Soldiers Carry
THE Continental soldier carries a heavier kit on his back than the British soldier, because he relies less upon his transport, and no matter where the baggage train…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The South African War. London
SEVERE fighting has taken place in Western Transvaal. The British captured a large convey and nine guns at Vaalbank. Many Beers were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Returned Soldiers' Pay. Legal Action Against the Government
A FAIRLY large meeting of returned soldiers was held on Wednesday evening at Sinnott's hotel, Paddington, to further consider the matter of obtaining from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The South African War. London
THE Boers are hard pressed eastward of Vryheid. Two pom-poms and one 15 pounder have been captured. Commandants Botha and De Wet, with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Office Management
MUCH has been said against the War Office, but sometimes, it must bo confessed, the department does take great pains to prevent the ratepayers' money…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The South African War. London
GENERAL PLUMER is rapidly advancing on Pieteraburg. 800 Boers, under Commandant Grobelaar, attempted to proceed north between…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Soldier's Confession
A LONDON correspondent writes:—Some of the confessions whispered into doctors' ears by dying soldiers in South Africa have, I believe, disclosed romances quite as strange…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The South African War. London
THE Netherlands Government is willing to grunt land to Boer prisoners of war if Groat Britain will bear the cost of their transport to Dutch possessions in the 'East…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Effects of War. a Remarkable Scene
THE effects of General French's eastward movement are seen along the lines of communication. The scene at Standerton is almost unique, three convoys arriving…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The South African War. London
THE cost of the South African campaign is now about £1,5000,000 per week. Lord Kitchener again warns residents in districts under martial law against being…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Reported Boer Plot in Portuguese Territory. Prisoners Sick of the War
THE Lourenzo Marques correspondent of the NATAL MERCURY says:—With many exceptional opportunities of observation and of gleaning information with regard…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Evils of War
The disastrous results of war, from a financial standpoint alone, have been fully exemplified in the figures contained in the late Imperial Budget, which shows an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The South African War. London
GENERAL DARTMILL, with a strong column, is moving against Commandant Botha in the Transvaal. Twenty Boers surrendered at Lydenburg…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Returned Soldier's Story. Homeless, Sick, and Starving. While the Government Owes Him £40
AT a meeting of the unemployed at the Qucon's Hall, Pitt-street, Sydney, on Tuesday morning, Mr. J. Ellis, in moving one of the resolutions, said that he was a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The South African War. London
THE British casualties in South Africa during April were as follows:—Killed in action 86, died from wounds 44, died from disease 388, killed accidentally 36, wounded 270, invalided…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Dogs Barking
Mr. St. JOHN BRODERICK, Secretary for War, his constituents at a banquet at Guildford recently, said that if Britain was to maintain her…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The South African War. London
Eight Cape disloyalists have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from six months to two years. Further large Boer surrenders have…
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