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No one ever denied Mr. Winston Churchill the possession of abundance of the manly virtue of courage. ..

... the possession of abundance of the manly virtue of courage. Campaigning in military garb North Africa, war correspondent in a battered train in South Africa, as fugitive from Boer custodians in the Transvaal, be has always shown himself cool and levelheaded ...

Published: Monday 19 January 1903
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 274 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Songs of the Times Elsie Carlisle Boer War V.C. Victim of This War Colonel William Eagleson Gordon. V.C., late ..

... Times Elsie Carlisle Boer War V.C. Victim of This War Colonel William Eagleson Gordon. V.C., late Gordon Highlanders, has died as a result of enemy action, it is announced to-day. . Aged 75, he won his VC. m the South Africa war after being dangerously ...

Published: Tuesday 18 March 1941
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
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A LEADER FOR THE QUEENSLAND TROOPS

... Transvaal, that subject to the consent of the India authorities, he would gi&d y lead the Queensland contingent South Africa should war break out. The offer is based upon his memory of the admirable conduct and bearing of the Queenslaud mounted infantry ...

Published: Monday 24 July 1899
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 82 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BANKING IN AFRICA

... BANKING IN AFRICA. WAR CREATES NEW TRADE. Sir Spencer Walpole presided at the meeting of the Standard Bank of Africa held London to-dav, and moving the adoption of the report said the effect of the war on the trade of South Africa has ...

Published: Tuesday 15 October 1901
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 360 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

KAFFIR LABOUR IN THE TRANSVAAL

... attributed the scarcity of Kaffir labourers to the fact of their being told a thousand English soldiers wero coming Africa, and wa.r between the English and Dutch was imminent. The Kaffirs were naturally frightened, and deserted the mines. If the English ...

Published: Thursday 10 June 1897
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 122 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A Well•Earnod Holiday

... Indian campaign gave him a taste of war. He also went through the Franco-German war as chief representative of the British Society for Aid to Sick and Wounded. Then came the Ashanti war, Cyprus expedition, Zulu war, the 1834 Nile expedition, and in 1888 ...

Published: Thursday 01 September 1904
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
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JOURNALIST AS ORATOR

... and formerly a journalist at Capetown, has won the contest in oratory held in the university. The subject was South Africa After the War. Mr. Alexander is studying at the university with an inter-colonial scholarship .—Reuter. ...

Published: Friday 05 March 1909
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
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The Nations at War

... AUSTRALIA Declared war on Germany, p.m., September 3. NEW ZEALAND Declared war on Germany on September 3. SOUTH AFRICA Declared war on Germany at 1 30 a.m.. September 7. CANADA Declared ar on Germany at 6 10 p.m.. September 9. Egypt, on September 4, and Iraq, ...

Published: Monday 11 September 1939
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 147 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

COMING OF AGE

... MOORE wish announce the Coming of Age their Only son. GEORGE (Driver Mechanic. H.Q.C., R.E.M.E.. now serving In North Africa). War has thrown us far apart. But still this wish sincere Is sent with hope right from our hearts. Soon peace will bring us ...

Published: Tuesday 09 March 1943
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 396 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Allies “Losing Peace” in Africa

... Allies “Losing Peace” in Africa whirling war words m the United States over North Africa’s political issue continued to-day a typical comment being that broadcast from Algiers by John McVane: Historians will say that in North Africa the Allies began to lose ...

Published: Thursday 14 January 1943
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 171 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Why Britain Will Win the War in Africa

... Why Britain Will Win the War in Africa WAR in Africa is bound to be hot work, though this is due more to the power of the midday sun than to that of Mussolini. With the best of reasons Britain looks for solid military successes in the Duce’s chosen sphere ...

Published: Tuesday 02 July 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 519 | Page: 2 | Tags: none