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Southern Highlands · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1884

4 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Football—the Killed and Wounded

The Bowral Free Press · Saturday 17 May 1884 · page 4

THE result, on one day recently, of our football fights—it is a grass misuse of language to call them games—was that two young men lost their lives, and two sustained…

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Original Poetry. WAR

The Bowral Free Press · Saturday 30 August 1884 · page 4

Now, the last hour of eve is drawing nigh, Faithful to his heart, deep from the well of love He sighs the last "good-bye" To her—whose promise is his only joy—…

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Franco-chinese War. London, August 24

The Bowral Free Press · Saturday 30 August 1884 · page 3

LATER advices which have come to hand concerning the bombardment of the arsenal at Foochow by the French fleet, states that nine French warships attacked eleven…

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Select Po[?]g. WAR

The Bowral Free Press · Saturday 18 October 1884 · page 4

GLORIOUS war! Hark to its thundering, Rattle of musketry, roaring of guns [?] Proud are the nations watching and wondering, Brave are the men that they own an their sons…

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