Soldiers Love of Animals
The British' soldier always has a soft corner in his heart for animals of all sorts, and a regiment without its complement of these would be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1910
37 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 2
Electricity in War
For two years past, in a secluded part of Dagenham Dock (on the London and Tilbury line), secret experiments have been carried on in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Vineyard War. Bloodshed in France. Barricade Fighting. Cavalry Charges
The special correspondent of the "Daily Mail" wrote from Montpellier on 20th June:—Last night's local riot was not…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A War Secretary. a Busy Man
The Secretary for War is the subject of a character-sketch in the May "Pall Mall Magazine." He will generally, we are told, be found absorbed in work at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War Against Hail
Notwithstanding scientific demonstrations of its inutility, the practice of bombarding thunder-clouds with "hail cannon" continues in many of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Mimic War
To-Day (Saturday) military manoeuvres have been arranged to be commenced, which are outlined as follows:—An invading force, who are investing Sydney, have despatched a small raiding force, via…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Jealousy and a Pea-Rifle. Serious Shooting Affray. Man and Woman Wounded. Assailant Arrested
BLAYNEY, Friday.—A serious shooting aftray, supposed to be due to jealousy, occured this afternoon on the Blayney-Mill-thorpe road…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Vans for War
The German government it granting subsidies to owners of industrial motor Vans, provided the vans and motors are constructed according to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Submarine Wonder. the Latest Naval War-machine
When Jules Verne wrote his remarkable and strangely prophetic novel, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," nobody supposed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Time-expired Soldier. a Pathetic Incident
He was the only other occupant of the humble third-class smoker, in the northward-bound train. He was in plain clothes, but "soldier" was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hints for War Correspondents
Archibald Forbes is one of the celebrities of whom some traits are recalled in the interesting article which Mr. W. H. Rideing writes for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →End of the Abyssinian War
On April 13, 1868, the British war against Abyssinia terminated by the fall of Magdala, its capital, and the suicide of Theodore, its Negus, or…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Archibald Forbes. How He Became a War Correspondent
Folly and extravagance, Archibald Forbes admitted, had ingloriously ended his university career at Aberdeen, and after he had taken the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"A 'Disgrace to the Empire." Member for Mudgee on the Boer War
There was a, lively episode in the Now South Wales Legislative Assembly on Wednesday night, when Mr. Dunn, the new member for Mudgee was speaking…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Volunteers and War
The alteration of modes of combat by mechanical and scientific inventions does not alter the fact that it is the soldier and not the machine…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Tale of the Boer War
During the operations which resulted in the surrender of Prinsloo, with all his commando, our corps of Colonial Irregulars occupied a range…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →John and the Dutchman. a Passage in the South African War
John and another member of the Intelligence Department, "Seaman," had been out one day when the column was resting ; but towards…
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