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The wars & local soldiers, 1891

5 stories in South Coast's papers

Terrible Calamity at Middle Head. Explosion of a Mine Four Men Killed and Eight Wounded

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 April 1891 · page 2

A TERRIBLE [?] has to be recorded [?] on the eve of the break up of the bilitary camp at [?] (says Saturday’s [?] The [?]…

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When the War Is Over

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 27 June 1891 · page 2

"IT was a shame to thrash me, so it was, boo-hoo !" was the burden of Mr. Maclean's speech at the declaration of the poll last Saturday. Right through…

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Garfield : Scholar, Soldier, and Statesman. Lecture in Nowra

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 15 August 1891 · page 2

The above formed the subject of a very interesting and instructive lecture given in the Presbyterian Church, Nowra, on Tuesday evening last by the well-known…

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The War In Chill. LONDON, August 31

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 4 September 1891 · page 2

THE Loyalists at Placilla lost 700 in killed and [?] who were taken prisoners, including the whole of their artillery. The insurgents lost 200 men, who were killed…

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A True Story. Strange Experience of a Soldier. at Midnight on the Ramparts of the Tower

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 23 September 1891 · page 4

MR. DUNCAN DUNN (lately colour-sergeant in the Scot's Guards) send the following "thriller" to a Glasgow paper:—During the course of a prolonged service of 22 years…

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