How the German Soldier Camps Out
It is, of course, impossible to get beds for all, and each regiment is obliged to be under canvas several times in the course of the manoeuvres. When we say under…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1903
77 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 4
The Sacred Armchair. Story of a Soldier's Return
Captain Cams Bentley of the Eleventh artillery regulars limped down the gangway from the transport and stepped on pier 10 with the vague…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fallen Soldier's Memorial
A COMMITTEE meeting in connection with the Fallen Soldiers' Memorial movement was held at the School of Arts last night, Alderman Dixie presiding…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Ghoorka Soldier’s Obedience
The following remarkable anecdote of a Ghoorka is told in the “Scotsman by a correspondent, to whom it was related by the surgeon of the regiment, who was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Soldier in Battle
Mr, Milne has written a very touching analysis of the soldier's temperament in his "Epistles of Atkins." ( Fisher Unwin ). This is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fallen Soldiers' Memorial Fund
A COMMITTEE meeting of the above was held in the School of Arts on Thursday night. In the absence of the Mayor, Mr Dixie was voted to the chair. It was stated that fifty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Morning—in the LIFE of a—Soldier’s Sweetheart. (Copyright.)
A glorious April morning. The sun shone brightly on the ram drops that glittered like diamonds on the tiny blades or grass, which were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Wires. London, Wednesday. The South African War Commission
Sir Redvers Buller, in giving evidence before the War Commission on Tuesday, stated that when be was sent to South Africa he was not supplied with a plan of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Real Soldiers
A provincial theatrical manager, during the [?] of a military drama, entered the theatre one day and saw his stage-manager directing the “supers”…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Tobacco War
By united action the Great Britain tobacco manufacturers were able not only to hold their own against the "invasion" by the American trust, but actually to beat Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Cape War Contribution
The Afrikander Bond suggests that Cape Colony should contribute £5,000,000 towards the expenses of the late on condition of an amnesty being granted to rebels…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Food Supply in War Time
The department appointed at the recent meeting at the Mansion House, asking for the appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the supply of food for Great…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Some Great Men’s Defects. [?] Soldiers, and [?]
[?] tradition tells us, was blind, though it is [?] that he was [?] so since his fine appreciation of colour as shown in such expressions as [?] dawn,” “the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The fallen Soldiers' Memorial
WE have had submitted for our inspection several designs prepared by Mr. R. W. Horton, monumental mason of this, town, sketched by that gentleman with the view…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"A Welcome Home." (In "The New Idea" for March.)
When you come home the wattle flowers shall bloom, The summer song-birds sing their sunny lay; And gone be all the cloudy, wintry gloom…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest Cables. in Time for War. London, March 17
Admiral Sir John Ommanney Hopkins advocates that the Government on the outbreak of war should gratuitously insure all vessels and their cargoes against war risks…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Gratuity
INFORMATION has been received that the Imperial Paymaster in this State has been furnished with authority to pay the special gratuity of £5 to all members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stirring War Cries. From Historic Battlefields
Various battle-cries, says the "Regiment," have been employed by nations in their various conflicts, a fact brought to our mind by America's battle cry in the recent struggle…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Fortune of War
“I’m not in the habit of interfering, as you are well aware,” said Mrs. Ferrars, senior, to Mrs. Ferrars, junior. It is always a thankless tank, especially in any difference…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wounded in Battle
VERY few people, when talking to a soldier says the Brussels La Revue Rose, who has been wounded in battle, fail to ask him what his feelings were when hit: every…
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