Returned Soldiers. Sydney
In the Assembly the Premie[?] Stated that there were 6 000 ret[?] [?], and it was impossible to [?] employment for them [?] and that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dubbo & the Western Plains · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1902
242 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 12 of 13
Returned Soldiers
The transport Orient has arrived from New Zealand. Owing to a recent case of small-pox on board, the vessel was quarantined…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Work for Soldiers
Lord Kitchener, who is a guest of the Marquis of Londonderry, at Stockton-on-Toes, and who formerly advocated the addition of elementary military schools to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War in Venezuela
The Government gunboats bombarded the town of Cuidad Bolivar, firing into it 600 shells. An attempt by Government troops to effect a landing failed, and many were killed. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An English Clergyman's Views on the War
BY Last mail's paper we road that the Rev G. H. Tremenheere, Vicar of St Agatha's, Landport, declined to join in the observances of the day of thanksgiving, at the close of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Cost of the Boer War. London
Official records show the British losses in the Boer War to have been about 22,000 in all. 5770 men were killed, and 22,800 were wounded ; 16,000 died from wounds or disease…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fight Amongst Colonial and English Soldiers. Auckland
A sensational story is current since the arrival of the transport Montrose, which has the tenth contingent aboard. It is stated that prior to the departure of troops, 300 New…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Welcome Home. A Fire Brigade Reunion
ON Friday evening an official welcome home was tendered to Mr. N. Gavan, of the Dubbo Fire Brigade, who having last year gone away to the war in South Africa, returned some two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War Commission. London
The Boer War Commission is adjourned till the 14th instant. Reports will be furnished to the press…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War Commission. Sydney
The Premier has received a cable stating that Sir. F. Darley, Chief Justice of this State, has been offered a seat on the Rojal Commission to inqnire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Told of the War Office
A CERTAIN officer of the Royal Horse Artillery, having his battery divided into half-batteries, which were garrisoned over forty miles apart, by road, applied…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Brothers' Love Tragedy. A Story of Two Irish Soldiers
A TRAGIC affair occurred on Saturday, Aug. 33, at Glincar, a wild spot near Macgillifcuddy's reeks, Killarney, Ireland. A young man named John McGillicuddy shot his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Presentation of War Honors
THE final South African war honors were presented on Nov. 1. Lord Methuen has been made Knight of the Grand Cross of the Bath…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Smoky and Smokeless Powder in War
Modern inventions are often needed to counteract other modern inventions. While smokeless powder has been expected to give battle…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest Cablegrams, the War Commission. London
The Boer War commission has examined Sir George French, who made suggestions regarding the utilisation of a colonial contingent for Imperial service…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Lass That Loved a Soldier
There was war in India, and the 2nd Battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers had been ordered to the scene of action. Eugenie Fairfax squeezed a few tears to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Paving Off a Man-o-war
FOR several months prior to the reception of the welcome message from the Admiralty, which orders the ship home to pay off, many things occur on board which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War in Venezuela. (By Cable.) London, December 10
The British ultimatum has been sent to Caracus allowing the Venezuela authorities forty-eight hourse to pay six thousand eight hundred pounds to England. Germany will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One Result of the South African War. Uprising of the Blacks Feared
FROM the Transvaal, Mr. R. Harrison, a South African trader of ninny years' experience, writes thus to his brother in Essex, (England), says an English paper:--"My…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War in Venezuela. (By Cable.) London, December 14
The Venezuelan women at La Guayra are filling and bags for the defence of the port. The Italian and United States gunboats…
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