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Dubbo & the Western Plains · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1906

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Queer Russian Regiment. Every Soldier with a Turned-up Nose

The Western Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 4

When the baby Czarevitch was a few hours old he was gazetted to the Pavlovski Regiment of the Guard, one of the finest looking bodies of…

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Ex-arch Duke As Recruit. Completes His Course As an Ordinary Soldier

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 13 January 1906 · page 7

After holding the rank of General in the Austrian Army and being known an a good strategist, the ex-Archduke Leopold, who gave up his position in…

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The Returned Soldiers' Pay

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 5

The Royal Commission's report with regard to the question of the pay due to the returned soldiers who served in the Boer war is in favor of the claimants. The Commissioner (Judge…

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Returned Soldiers

The Wellington Times · Monday 29 January 1906 · page 2

Sir William Lyne is astonished at Judge Murray's report in connection with the returned soldiers' claims, which he regards as a try-on and…

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The Late War. London. Monday night

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 31 January 1906 · page 2

The late war cost Japan £117,000,000 for army and navy. Another £60,000,000 will be required for repatriation of army and other expense…

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Returned Soldiers' Pay. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 7 February 1906 · page 2

Sir W. Lyne thinks that the public should see the evidence on which Judge Murray's report regarding soldiers pay was based. He has been informed that the…

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Boar war Memorial Abandoned

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 10 February 1906 · page 8

Mr. Thendora A. Cook, hon. secretary of the Imperial Peace Memorial, a building which it was proposed to cruet in London to commemorate the names of all those…

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Russian Losses in the War

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 8

The Novoe Vremya gives from authentic sources the losses suffered by the Russian army during the war with Japan an follows : Killed, 646 officers and 18,530 men; wounded, 3,680…

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Around the World Race Across the Atlantic between War Ships

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 8

DURING their recent journey from Sandy Hook to Gibraltar the vessels of the second cruiser squadron were engaged in an exulting race. Prince Louie of Battenberg, gave the…

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Wounded Buried Alive

The Castlereagh · Friday 23 March 1906 · page 3

With the return to European Russia of sections of the Manchurian army, the awful fact has been brought to light (says the "Anglo-Russian") that…

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War Stores Scandals. Court-martial at Chelsea. Accused's Statement. the Meyer Rebate of £20,323

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 24 March 1906 · page 7

Staff-Sergeant-Major Arthur Mansfield Hilton, of the 11th Company, Army Service Corps, who was arrested at Queenstown. during Christmas week, just as he…

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Snubbing a Soldier

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 14 April 1906 · page 2

Lieut, Taylor, of the American Coast Artillery, has been tried by court-martial at New York for snubbing a soldier and found 'Guilty.' He was severely rebuked by the…

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Our Valiant Soldiery

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 18 April 1906 · page 3

Last night a number of volunteers from the Liverpool camp started to take possession of some of the main streets, holding one for some time with the fire hose…

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Possible War in the East. England and Turkey

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 2 May 1906 · page 3

H.M.S. cruiser Minerva has been ordered to proceed to the vicinity of El Arish to inquire as to the removal of the boundary posts in the peninsula of Sinai…

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Twice Wounded

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 12 May 1906 · page 2

Twice has your name been shouted through the dark That broads above the river's sullen flow; Twins the [?]tern Ferryman, with litted cars,…

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The Aftermath of War. Workless Soldiers

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 12 May 1906 · page 7

Many soldiers who were invalided out of the Army after the Boer war are now on the tramp, the casual wards of the country's workhouses being their…

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The oldest soldier in the Army

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 19 May 1906 · page 8

James Smith, probably one of the oldest soldiers in the British Army, died recently in Glasgow, aged 80. Enlisting in 1839, he landed in India in the following year. He…

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Fire at Molong. Syrian Clothier Gagged and Wounded

The Wellington Times · Monday 25 June 1906 · page 2

A fire broke out in the premises of Domeny, and Sons, Syrian drapers, Molong, early yesterday morning, which were completely destroyed,…

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The War in Natal

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 7 July 1906 · page 5

Further heavy fighting has taken place in Natal. The robots have suffered severe losses. The body of a European, recently butehored in a horrible manner, has been discovered…

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Relics of the War

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 7 July 1906 · page 6

Captain R. J. Orkney, of the steamer Golf of Venice, which has just arrived at Brisbane from Vladivostock, in the course of an interview, stated that when at…

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