Result of the War
A correspondent writing to a New Zealand paper says:— Labor must be scarce in the back part of the Nelson, province. While taking a tour through there lately I was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1901
341 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 8 of 18
The Transvaal War. The Australians
Australians largely compose the detective force in Johannesburg employed to detect trading in illicit liquor and other offences. There have already been 1000 prosecutions…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War News. London, March 29
The column under Major General Bruce Hamilton, in a running fight, expelled the Boer snipers from ridge after ridge in the Dewetsdorp district of the Orange River Colony…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers with a Past
The most remarkable army division in the world is, probably, the Foreign Legion of France, fully 50 per cent of which are foreigners, adventures and refugees. A…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Our Soldiers’ Clothes
It costs the British Government £1,250,000 annually for the clothing furnished to our army all over the world . Each of the foreign processions, however, has to pay…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In a Boer’s Home. an Australian’s Victory. Love and Hatred. Incident of the Transvaal War. in Two Parts. Part I.
‘I CANNOT do this thing, uncle. I have [?]ried to please you, and I am grateful for the home you have given me so long. But I cannot…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Soldier Cries for a Lady
When Marshal Saze was besieging Maestricht, in 1748, he divided his time between siege operations and Mdlle. Chantilly, the prima of an opera company that he kept in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Soldier's Funeral
THE funeral of Trooper James Swan, whose death was recorded in our last issue, took place on Wednesday, the remains being interred in the Church of England portion…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War
Lord Kitchener is erecting along the rail way lines high Martello towers, so as to enable a minimum number of troops to protect the railways and the bridges. The towers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War News. London, April 5
Boer advices received at Brussels state that General Botha has ordered Commandants de Wet, De la Bey, Beyers and Hertzog to harass Lord Kitchener and to destroy the railway towards…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Soldier's Funeral
The remains of the late Trooper Swan were interred in the Church of England cemetery on Wednesday afternoon. There was an enormous string of vehicles and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Boer War
THE Boers evacuated Pietersburg the night before Colonel Plummer's arrival, exploding two trucks of ammunition. Two engines and thirty-nine trucks were captured…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers and Heart Disease
It is not generally known that a very large proportion of infantry soldiers when discharged on pension suffer from heart disease, or as the faculty term it,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldiers and Peerages
Soldiers, unfortunately, are seldom rich, and it had been wisely decided by our late Queen that it is against the interests of the State to confer peerages…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In H Boer’s Home. an Australian’s Victory. Love and Hatred. Incident of the Transvaal War. in Two Parts. Part Ii
But it was not to be to-morrow after all that she was to see him. It was with a sinking heart Vivien heard her uncle arranging with Ivan to be busy near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War News. London, April 9
Brigadier-General Plumer in rapidly nearing Pietereburg. The Boera evacuated Pietersburg the night before Brigadier-General Plumer arrived and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War, Warning to Rebel Colonists. A Victorian V. C.
The Cape Government has warned the colonists the acts of rebellion will be punishable after April 12 by the old common law penalties of death, imprisonment and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Boer War. LONDON, April 12
AN engagement has been fought between Jacobsdal and Kaffyfontein by the Kimberley column and the Boers. The enemy lost heavily…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War News. London, April 12
The proposal of the British Government for the administration of justice in the Transvaal colony has been published in full. Resident magistrates, selected chiefly from local…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War. Relief of a Gallant Garrison
It transpires that the town of Rustenburg, in the l western Transvaal, 55 miles from Pretoria, has been loosely invested by the Boers since January last. The garrison has…
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