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LOBENGULA'S SON, AS HE APPEARS AT EARL'S COURT

... EARL'S COURT The dusky Son of the. South who cuts such a commanding and picturesque appearance in Savage South Africa, who declares war upon the invading Briton, who throws the assegai with such doleful consequences to Captain Wi'son and his party, ...

Published: Wednesday 12 July 1899
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 164 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK

... him in South Africa. Mrs. Keith-Falconer has been the first bride to be so bereaved. May she be the last- Lieut. -Colonel Audley Dallas Neeld, who has temporarily vacated the command of the 2nd Life Guards in order to go out to South Africa at the head ...

Published: Wednesday 22 November 1899
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 8026 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

SOME VICTIMS OF THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA

... SOME VICTIMS OF THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA. MAJOR COUNT GLEICHEN, WOUNDED AT THE BATTLE OF MODDER RIVER. Photo by Chancellor, Dublin I COMMANDER ETHE1ST0N, KILLED AT THE BATTLE OF GRAS PAN. Photo by West, Southsea. CAPTAIN SENIOR, R.M.A., KILLED AT THE BATTLE ...

Published: Wednesday 06 December 1899
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 65 | Page: 3 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WAR-WEEK BY WEEK

... THE WAR-- WEEK BY WEEK. On Saturday morning Her Majesty bade a sympathetic farewell at Windsor to the composite force of Household Cavalry ordered to proceed to the scene of war. In her address to her troops, the first lady in the land once more dis ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1899
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1404 | Page: 3 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WAR--WEEK BY WEEK

... THE WAR-- WEEK BY WEEK. Since his arrival at Cape Town (where he received a most enthusiastic welcome) Sir Redvers Buller has not kept us waiting for news from the seat of war. On the contrary, the reverse has rather been the case, for information has ...

Published: Wednesday 22 November 1899
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 976 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

THE RÖNTGEN RAYS IN THE WAR

... field-hospitals in South Africa the X-rays are being used extensively, and the benefit that will accrue to our wounded soldiers by their employment will be indeed great. During the Grseco-Turkish War, the Spanish-American War, the recent Frontier Expeditions ...

Published: Wednesday 22 November 1899
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1841 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs 

TRANSVAAL WAR: ON ACTIVE SERVICE.--PART III

... distinguished regiment had since it was first embodied. At one time it was known as the Loyal Americans and in the Peninsular War a g ea majority of the officers and men were of German origin. Again it was the Duke of York's Own Rifle Corps and at the present ...

TRANSVÃL WAR: ON ACTIVE SERVICE, -- PART II

... century, they have always borne a high character, and in the Peninsula as in the Crimea won their laureb- i bore the brunt of the war in New Zealand. The depot of the regiment is at Newcastle, and the men are mostly recruited from the North, and are as line ...

TRANSVÃAL WAR: ON ACTIVE SERVICE.--PART IV

... who commands the First Battalion of the Liverpools, now at Ladysmith, was in the Afghan War of 1878, and saw service in the Kuram V alley and the capture of Pei war Kotal. He joined the Army in 1873, and obtained the command of the Regiment in 1899-- this ...

TRANSVAAL WAR: ON ACTIVE SERVICE.--PART VI

... rough service. He went through the Afghan War, 1S7S-1SS0, Is A.D.C. to tho G.O.C. the First Division of the Peshawar Field Force, an.l was mentioned in despatches. He also took part in the Soutli African War of 1881. CAPTAIN KNAPP, I.L.H., KILLED AT LADYSMITH ...

THE MAN WHO HAS PLANTED SAVAGE SOUTH AFRICA: IN THE HEART OF LONDON

... THE MAN WHO HAS PLANTED SAVAGE SOUTH AFRICA IN THE HEART OF LONDON. Savage South Africa, merely to state a bald fact, is the talk of London. It has drawn thousands of people, twice a day, to the huge Empress Theatre, Earl's Court, ever since May 8 ...

Published: Wednesday 28 June 1899
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1303 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs