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The wars & local soldiers, 1900

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Welcome Home to the Rev. F. B. Boyce

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 10

Last evening a tea and public meeting was held in St. Paul's Schoolroom, Redfern, the occasion being a welcome home to the Rev. F. B. Boyce (rector) and Mrs. Boyce by the parishioners on the occasion…

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Tending the Wounded

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 9

"Battlefield Surgery" is the subject of an article by a physician in the "Church Family Newspaper." Never, we are told, have the arrangements for dealing with the wounded been in so…

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The Care of the Wounded

Evening News · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 6

LONDON, January 16,3.45 p.m.—Twenty-four of the largest hotels in the French and Italian Riviera have offered to provide accommodation for tile British wounded…

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Comforts for Wounded in South Africa

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 7

Miss L. Woolcott, hon. secretary of the North Sydney branch of the St. John Ambulance Association, on behalf of the practice club, is forwarding to South Africa by the steamer Moravian a large case…

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War Notes

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 7

On the issue of the "important operations" General Buller is said to have in view on the Natal side, much will depend. The Commander-in-Chief in the "garden colony" is probably…

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The Care of the Wounded. London, Jan. 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 7

Four of the largest hotels in the French and Italian Riviera offer to provide accommodation for the British wounded…

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War and Pestilence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 7

The year 1900 will for a long timo be borne in mind by the people of Australasia as an era of volunteering for the war in South Africa and the arrival of the bubonic plague in South Australia. Still, Africa,…

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Clergymen and the War

The Australian Star · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 2

The "Sussex Daily News" by the last mail contained extracts from a letter written at Pietermaritzburg on November 2 by the Dean of Maritzburg (the Very Rev. James…

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Comforts for the Wounded. a Woman's Work. a Third Shipment Going

Evening News · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 3

As a result of the movement started by Mrs. F. J. Waller, of Parkside, Parramatta, to supply proper clothing for the wounded soldiers in the Transvaal war, almost the whole of the continent…

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British Politics and the War

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 6

Should the result of the present agitation in England over the Transvaal war prove fatal to the Government, it will only he another instance of history repeating…

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Colonel Bell on the War

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 8

Speaking last night at the Elite-hall, Queen Victoria Markets, on the occasion of a farewell tea given by Mr. and Mrs. Quong Tart to the nurses who leave to-day with the contingent for…

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Naval Brigade in War. a Warning

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 9

A very important question is incidentally raised by the letter from Sir John Colomb, which we printed on Wednesday on "Naval Brigades in Land Warfare." We have already stated that,…

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Nurses for the War. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 8

The Chief Secretary was informed this morning that it was understood that the British Government did not require any additional nursing staff in South Africa, and to make certain of this statement before…

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Officers Leaving for the War. Captain Anderson

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 8

Captain Charles Godfrey Anderson, who goes as lieutenant with the Mounted Infantry unit, holds his commission in "B" battery of the New South Wales Field Artillery. He is a native of…

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The British Wounded. Generous Offers From the Riviera. LONDON, January 16, 3.45 p.m

The Australian Star · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 4

The proprietors of twenty-four of the largest hotels in the French and Italian Riviera have offered accommodation to the British wounded. The offer applies particularly to…

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Nurses for the War. Miss Marion Phillipa Martin

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 8

Miss Martin, of "Clarmont" Private Hospital, Darlinghurst, was a Sister of the principal Female Surgical A Yard at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and of the Operation Theatre. She also…

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Death of a Victorian. Correction by the War Office

Evening News · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 6

LONDON, January 16, 3.45 p.m.—In a corrected official list of the killed, the War Office states that "Private Victor Jones, Queensland Contingent," should be "Arthur" Jones, one of the…

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War Feeling on the Stock Exchange. Mobbing a German

Evening News · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 6

LONDON, January 16, 3.45 p.m.—Thirty-one members and 81 clerks of the London Stock Exchange are going to the front A German member was mobbed on the Exchange…

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War Feeling on the Stock Exchange. London, Jan. 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 7

Thirty-one members of the London Stock Exchange and 81 clerks are going to the front. A German member of the Stock…

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Our Illustrations. Figures of the War. British and Boor Leaders

The Australian Star · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 2

With this issue we give a series of portraits of men who have, and still arc, with one or two exceptions, playing a prominent part in the great war in the Transvaal. For it is a…

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