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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
187 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 10
London, January 24.—Vicount Cranbrook has been appointed to succeed Mr. W. H. Smith, the new Chief Secretary for Ireland, as Secretary of State for War…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Sunday.--Viscount Cranbrook has been appointed to succeed the Hon. W. H. Smith, the new Secretary for Ireland, as Secretary of State for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WHEN replying to the toast of the Ministry, at the banquet given to the Postmaster-General, Sir JOHN ROBERTSON spoke with considerable confidence with respect to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →[?] had pretty nearly got over the wounds I retired in the Afghan war, and for which the Queen gave me the cross, when I reported my self [?]it for duty. The colonel, however, bless his…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Yer honour, I pleads guilty: I'm a bummer; I don't deny the cop here frund me drunk; I don't deny that through the whole long summer The sun-warmed earth has been my only bunk,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General Meckleham decided upon writing a series of war articles. "Why shouldn't I, Mary?" he asked his wife, who belongs to a literary society and who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It was the fall of the summer of 1864, and we were quartered at a lonely outpost on the Waipa River, we being two companies of her Majesty's Corps du Rois. The tide of war had swept from us, leaving us stranded as it were in…
Continued on Trove, page 270 →An officer who served with Sir Evelyn Wood has just communicated an anecdote which is singularly illustrative of Sir Evelyn's quickness, viligance, and resource…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We have been requested by authorised members of the late Australian Contingent to the Soudan to say that a meeting of the unemployed members of that body Trill be held to-morrow (Thursday) evening at 7…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE learn from a Dublin paper that a very handsome memorial tablet has just been unveiled in Westland-row Catholic Chapel to the memory of the late Mr. Frank Power, Dublin, who lost his…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On Saturday last the long expected presentation of the Imperial Soudan War Medals to the members of the New South Wales Contingent took place on the Agricultural…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Three German men-of-war passed Cape Otway eastward at 11.45 a.m., to-day; two ships and one barque. They did much signalling…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The cable liar is hark at it again. The war cloud in the East in assuming terrific proportions, according to the electric prevaricator. Listen! The combined European squadron has arrived at Port Neda,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →For the nonce the methodical energy, which has always been the distinctive characteristic of the EVENING NEWS, has been made subservient to the spirit of rejoicing; and the reading public had, on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To welcbme Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Bennett, there was a great muster, Saturday last, at the beautiful grounds at Chowder Bay. The congratulations were concentrated in the form of a complimentary picnic,…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →"Yer honor, I pleads guilty; I'm a bummer; I don't deny the cop here found me drunk; I don't deny that through the whole long summer The sun-warmed earth has been my only bunk…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Sir.—On my paying a visit one Sabbath afternoon lately to our sick soldiers at the hospital, Victoria Barracks, Paddington, I was much surprised to find that I was the only visitor present. I have reason to think that they…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →We have a bird very common here smaller than a pigeon, called " old soldier," one nearly as large as a pigeon with a bald black head called the " leatherhead," and one same size with a yello wish neck and…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →War-horses, when hit in battle, tremble in every muscle and groan deeply, while their eyes show deep astonishment. During the battle of Waterloo, some of the horses, as they lay upon the ground, having recovered from the first agony…
Continued on Trove, page 588 →London, Friday. -- Last night in the House of Commons, in moving the Navy Estimates, Mr. Hibbert, Secretary to the Admiralty, announced that…
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