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Riverina · The wars & local soldiers
2,127 stories in Riverina's papers · page 2 of 107
Details are now being received regarding the recent engagement at Sunnyside, twenty miles to the north-west of Belmont, in which the colonial troops took…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The volunteers who have gone forward from Narandera are in camp at Randwick. They are Lance-Corporal Fred Learmonth, Private Frank Rudd, Private Alfred…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE British have captured six waggons of stores consignee to the Boers by the Dutch. The Germans prevented the Boer efforts…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No man who boasts of British citizenship can be other than deeply disappointed at the progress of the war. Yet when we come to examine all the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Boers have been reinforced and are disputing Genoa French's entry into Colesburg General French holds all the captured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Owing to the failure of the Chinese Government to comply with French demands in regard to the execution of French officers at Montas, the French Marines landed in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →There has been of late considerable anxiety manifested as to the position of affairs at Mafeking. No direct information from Colonel Baden-Powell has come to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Intelligence has been recoiled from South Africa to the effect that Major-General French has surprised, outmanœvred, and completely routed the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The daring sortie from Mafeking is another of those, incidents that will for over associate the name of Colonol Baden-Powell and his handful of men with the defence of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Among those who have left England for the front is Major W. C. Beevor, Royal Army Medical Corps, who is taking with him a Rontgen-Ray outfit,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Snakes, scare and sensation! One Dawson, a South Australian, puts about a yarn of an Australian contingent being secretly formed to fight for the Boers. He says,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →charge at the enemy's front. Demoralised as the Boers already were by the heavy artillery fire, this final charge completed the victory, and the Boers retired in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WOOLWICH Arsenal is a busy place always (although it is said that a few months ago a fire-eating official of this gigantic armfactory was yearning for a "few big wars"…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The guns captured by the Boers at the battle on the 15th instant were thrown into the Tugela River. Lords Roberts and Kitchener have met at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following interesting account of the mounting of the naval guns at Ladysmith is extracted a from a letter, of a correspondent of the London "Times," written from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →General French, after a sharp engagement on Monday, defeated the Boers and occupied Colesburg. It appears that by a rapid advance on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A desperate engagement took place ab Mafeking on Sunday, eventually the Boers were driven from the forts nearest the town. Colonel Baden-Powell's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Further particulars of the Sunnyside engagement show that the Boer laager was mostly occupied by colonial Dutch…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →December and January are the hottest and warmest months in the year in South Africa, and it is in favour of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Later particulars of the battle of Sunnyside show that the Boer [?] was mostly occupied by colonial Dutch, The Queenslanders behaved magnificently,…
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