Late War News. Sydney, Friday, 10.10 a.m
Kimberly completely invested by Boers. The streets are barricaded and blocked with barbed wire. It is estimated that thirty thousand…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1899
195 stories in South Coast's papers · page 4 of 10
The Boer War
Up to Tuesday, 20,000 troops had left England for Africa. The Natal Imperial light horse, raised by Majors Davies and Wools…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Off to the War. Milton to Be Represented
Milton will be represented in the New South Wales contingent to the Transvaal. When a call was made for volunteers for service in South Africa, ten members of F…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War. (By Telegraph.) London
Non-resident civilian of Ladysmith have been ordered to leave the town. This has been done in anticipation of a B[?]er attack…
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General Sir Revers H. Buller, with power to vary the plan of campaign, has started for the front, via Duban. Captain Lindsay, A.D.C. to the Gover…
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WEDNESDAY'S cable reported that the Royal Dublin Fusiliers and the First Battalion of Gloncesters, 1,500 men, bad "capitalated" to the Boers in a…
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LATEST particulars regarding the battle at Ladysmith show that Lieutenant-Colonel Carleton’s column was sent out with the object of seizing Nickolson’s. Nek, and then turning the…
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The latest official reports confirm the statement that the British position at Ladysmith has not been affected by the capitulation of the regiments…
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The Boers are surrounding Kimberley and have occupied Berkeley West and Warranton. The batteries of field artillery have landed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War. Troops for the Transvaal. Departure of the Aberdeen. an Unparalleled Demonstration. Sydney
The N.S.W. Infantry and Mounted Rifles units left for South Africa to-day by the 8 s. Aberdeen. Great crowds of people commenced to pour into the city at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War. (By Telegraph.) London
General Sir Redvers Buller has started for the front, via Durban Lord Rosebery, in a resolute speech at Edinburgh, stated that Great Britain…
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A terribly fierce artillery fight has raged at Ladysmith, where the Boers attacked the British position with great vigour…
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Burghers were declaring that all soldiers captured would be well treated, but all officers and all Jameson's men would be shot…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Reasons for Sending the Contingent. the Minister for Works on the War
The Hon. the Minister for Works (Mr E. W. O'Sullivan) is, perhaps, the best-read and most broad-minded man in the present Ministry. An old journalist, there are few better-informed…
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The first portion of the Army Corps which left England on October [?]0, numbering nearly 5000 men, will probably land at Durban, in Natal, instead of Capetown, as originally…
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IN modern melodrama the hero, who is generally a soldier, almost invariably marries the girl of his choice, just on the eve of his departure for the seat of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Transvaal War. (By Telegraph.) London
The steamer Nineveh, with the New South Wales Lancers on board, arrived at Capetown on Thursday. The Lancers were immediately marched to the railway…
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The "Herald," "D.T," "Evening News," and "Star" are severally assuring the public that they print the very latest and fullest details…
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Nearly 100 of the men of Lieutenant Colonel Garleton's command, who were captured at Nicholson's Nek on the 30th ult., escaped from the Boers, and…
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