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Riverina · The wars & local soldiers
546 stories in Riverina's papers · page 12 of 28
NINE thousand Boers attacked Glencoe at daybreak, shelling the British positions from the surrounding hills. Four thousand British are defending the town. The Boers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENERAL Symons ordered the 13th 67th, and 69th batteries into action. Splendid practice was made, and the majority of the Beer guns were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A report has reached Capetown to the effect that Colonel Baden-Powell, who is in command at Mafeking, has carried out a strategic movement,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tho British forces, after a hard fought battle, have gained a most brilliant victory over the Boers in the first important engagement of the war…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday afternoon, Mr "W. T. Griffin, lieutenant of the Gandagai troop of the. First Australian Horse, received a wire from the military…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At Glencoe [?] the British, artillery fired excellently and silenced the Boer guns, The infantry after desperate fighting captured an almost…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A cablegram last night states that the British losses in a battle at Glencoe (a little north of Ladysmith) numbered 300; the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is reported that Colonel Powell feigning a retreat at Mafeking, drew the Boers over the country laid with mines, when the latter exploded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Owing to the strict censorship of all telegraphic messages, detailed accounts of the war are much reduced…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The wounded British soldiers in the hospitals at Dundee are considered to be quite safe, and are reported to be doing well. The positions are still covered in an effectual way…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for War, has made an announcement confirming a summary of the operations received by the Commander-in-Chief, Lord…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During the engagement at Eland's a trumpeter of the 5th Lancers, 14 years old, shot three Boers with his revolver. Later reports states that General Kock,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →After come of the Boers had shown a white flag at the recent engagement at Elandslaagte as a token of their surrender, others more bloodthirsty fired on the British Ambulance…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the House of Commons last night Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer, said that the surplus of £3,000,000 from last year was available…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During the engagement at Elands [?] a trumpeter of the 5th Lancers 14 years old shot three Boers with his revolver…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It was surprise to us to hear that a troop of the Australian Horse was accepted for service in the Transvaal. Knowing Lieutenant-Colonel Mackay's influence in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One hundred and thirty-six infantry men have been provisionally selected for service in S. Africa, but this number has been reduced to 125. It is definitely decided that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is officially reported that Colonel BadenPowell of the 15th instant, left Mafeking in an armoured train, and repulsed a Boer attack. The equalities on the part of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →When it became known that a troop of Australian Horse was to be despatched to the Transvaal, there was some activity and speculation amongst the Gundagai…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENERAL Symons ordered the 13 [?], 67th, and 69th batteries into action. Splendid practice was made, and the majority of the Boer guns were…
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