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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1900

1,192 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 20 of 60

The Transvaal War. Gallant Mafeking

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 21 April 1900 · page 2

Further news of a reasuring character has been received regarding the position at Mafeking. Lieutenant Smitheman of Colonel Plumer's…

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Latest War Cables. Sickness and Delay

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 21 April 1900 · page 2

London, Thursday.—A lack of railway trucks is delaying the arrival of Lord Robert's supplies at Bloemfontein. There are 2,000 patients in the…

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Latest War Cables. Sickness and Delay

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 21 April 1900 · page 2

London, Thursday.—A lack of railway trucks is delaying the arrival of Lord Robert's supplies at Bloemfontein. There are 2,000 patients in the Bloem…

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The Transvaal War. London

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 24 April 1900 · page 2

News from the front is scanty and contradictory. It is believed, however, that important operations are proceeding. There has been a deluge of rain all over…

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Latest War News. SYDNEY

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 24 April 1900 · page 2

LORD ROBERT'S advance is being delayed by the necessity of clearing his flanks and rear and accumulating stores at the front…

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War News. LONDON, April 20

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 24 April 1900 · page 3

The news from the front is scanty and contradictory. Messages relative to Field-Marshal Roberts' advance are awaited with acute…

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Another Evidence of War Office Antiquity

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 24 April 1900 · page 4

In referring to Government rubber contracts for waterproofs, night wraps and the like, “Engineering” says there is one point which seems to call for attention, and this…

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Letters From Local Men at the Seat of War

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 24 April 1900 · page 2

THE following are additional letters and extracts from letters to their friends from Queanbeyan residents at the seat of war, and have been courteously handed to us…

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The Latest War News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 25 April 1900 · page 3

Steyn has implored the bughers to resist pending the result of Fischer's peace mission to Europe. He threatens to confiscate the property of those refusing to continue the…

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Latest War Cables. Steyn Threatens

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 25 April 1900 · page 2

President Steyn has implored the Free State Burghers to resist, pending the result of Fischer's peace mission to Europe. He threatens to confiscate the property of those…

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War News. London, April 20

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 25 April 1900 · page 2

News from the front is scanty and contradictory. It is believed, however, that important operations are proceeding. There has been a deluge of rain all over the Free State. All the jams are full, and…

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The Transvaal War. Sensational Statements

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 25 April 1900 · page 2

Herr Munnick, State Mining Engineer for the Transvaal, whose authority over the Johannesburg mines was recently cancelled, has admitted under cross-examination, that…

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Latest War Cables. Steyn Threatens

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 25 April 1900 · page 2

President Steyn has implored the Free State Burghers to resist, pending the result of Fischer's peace mission to Europe. He threatens to confiscate the property of those…

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The Transvaal War. Sensational Statements

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 25 April 1900 · page 2

Herr Munnick, State Mining Engineer for the Transvaal, whose authority over the Johannesburg mines was recently cancelled, has admitted under cross-examination, that…

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Hero's Life of Adventure. Chat with an Old Soldier

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 25 April 1900 · page 4

At Hoxton Park, within easy reach of e Liverpool, N.S.W., lives one of the Bengal Army Commissariat Department and the 8th King's Liverpool Regiment…

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Hero's Life of Adventure. Chat with an Old Soldier

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 25 April 1900 · page 4

At Hoxton Park, within easy reach of Liverpool, N.S.W., lives one of the Bengal Army Commissariat Department and the 8th King's Liverpool Regiment…

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War News. LONDON, April 24

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 3

Major - General Brabant and Major- General Hart in their engagement on Sunday, during their march to the relief of Wepener, out-flanked the Boers and…

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Mora Local Men Gone to War

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 2

AMONGST the contingent of Imperial Bushmen who left Sydney last Monday for South Africa is Mr. P. E. Smith, eldest son of the Rev. P. G. Smith, M.A., minister of…

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Latest War News. SYDNEY. Friday morning

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 2

COLONEL BRABANT'S force, en route to the relief of Wepner, has advanced since Sunday unopposed. Four thousand five hundred Boers…

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A Soldier’s Sensations in Battle

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 1

People often wonder how one feels in battle. This depends to a considerable extent on the nature of the conflict, the kind of troops engaged, the weapons…

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