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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1902

178 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 9 of 9

Poetry Dirge for a Soldier

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 5 September 1902 · page 2

Close his eyes; his work is done! What to him is friend or foeman, Rise of moon or set of sun, Hand of man or kiss of woman ?…

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Paying for the War

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 26 September 1902 · page 2

The Morning Post urges the Government the to make an authoritative statement, declaring its proposals for the taxation of the new colonies…

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A Story of the Crimean War

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 27 September 1902 · page 2

" Lord Wilmington. One of the best names in England, if you please Did you ever see his house in Warwickshire ? Every inch of the…

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One of the City's Own How a Young Han Cams to Go to the South African War

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 27 September 1902 · page 1

"Mr. Redbott is to go to the governor at once." Mr. Redbolt strode briskly across the room. A moment later he was in the…

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Stranded Soldiers

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 30 September 1902 · page 2

THREE returned South Africans applied to the Mayor of Goulburn on Friday morning for work. The story they tell, which is supported so far as it can be by their…

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Soldiers' Memorial Fund. Meeting of Committee

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 3 October 1902 · page 2

LAST night, at the Council Chambers, at 7.30 o'clock, a meeting of the above committee was held, Dr. Blackall in the chair. There were only seven or eight others…

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Fallen Soldiers' Memorial

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 4 October 1902 · page 2

A MEETING of the committee of the Fallen Soldiers' Memorial Fund was held in the Council Chambers last Thursday night. Dr. Blackall presided…

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A Soldier's Requiem

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 1 November 1902 · page 1

Soldier, sleep in martial cloak, As in shroud by love conceited? Cannon roar nor saber stroke Follows where thou hast retreated…

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End of the War

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 8 November 1902 · page 1

The war was over. The victorious Japanese troops marched proudly through the Streets of Pekin. Li Hung Chang, "the Bismarck of the East," sat…

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A Soldier's Soliloque

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 8 November 1902 · page 2

He held his old shirt up by the neck before discarding it for ever; but he wasn't mourning for the garment. He only said " I only wish I…

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Smoky Add Smokeless Powder in War

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 21 November 1902 · page 2

Modern inventions are offer need to counteract other modern in modern inventions. smokeless powered has been expected to give battle…

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The Barton Airship. War Office Order for the Latest Invention

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 22 November 1902 · page 2

Dr. Barton, of Beckenham, who for the past 20 years has been experimenting with airships, gave a lecture recently before the…

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On a Chinese Man of War

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 6 December 1902 · page 1

Lieutenant—Your most noble Green jacketness, the Japanese ships are approaching. His Greenjacketness—Then fire a…

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The Lass That Loved a Soldier

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 9 December 1902 · page 1

There was war in India, and the 2nd Battalion of the Lancashire [?] had been ordered to the scene of action. [?] Fairfax squeezed a few tears to the…

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The Late Boer War

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 12 December 1902 · page 2

In this issue there appears a notice intimating that on Tuesday next at 8 o’clock, the Rev. H. R. A. Wilsen will deliver a lecture illustrated by lantern views, on the…

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From South Africa. British Soldiers Under Fire

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 December 1902 · page 2

Already the Pom-pom is trotting out of the farmhouse enclosure and the squadron of Dragoons extending on the plain beyond. The face of…

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Romance of the Boer War

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 16 December 1902 · page 4

BUGLER A. H. CHANTLER, formerly of Gowlett-road, East Dulwich, und who was officially reported as "killed" at the battle of Graspan in the early stages of the Boer…

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Local and General News. the War Cry

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 23 December 1902 · page 2

We are in receipt of a highly illustrated copy of the “War Cry,” the Salvation Army organ. The illustrations are appropriate and reflect credit on the artists as well as on…

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