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THE MEN BEHIND THE GUNS

... . The circumstances under which the field-guns were compulsorily abandoned by our Artillery at the recent Battle of Colenso have naturally directed special attention to this branch of the Service. A few words, accordingly, about the duties that, when in action, devolve upon the men behind the guns should prove of interest. As a preliminary, one can, perhaps, scarcely do better than give ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1151 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

ROUND THE PANTOMIMES: THEATRICAL FAIRIES OF YULETIDE

... . MISS ALEXANDRA DAGMAR, PRINCIPAL BOY IN THE FORTY THIEVES, AT THE GRAND THEATRE, ISLINGTON. Photo by Hana, Bedford Street Strand. MISS GODWYNNE EARLE, PRINCIPAL GIRL AT THE ALEXANDRA OPERA HOUSE, SHEFFIELD. Photo by Hana Bedford Street Strand. MISS JULIA MACKAY, PRINCIPAL BOY IN DICK WHITTINGTON, AT TERRISS'S THEATRE, ROTHE RHITHE. Photo by Schloss, New York. MISS JENNIE OWEN IN ROBINSON ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 77 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE GALLANT RESERVE FORCES OF OLD ENGLAND

... . THE LONDON SCOTTISH RIFLE VOLUNTEERS ON PARADE. THE QUEEN'S WESTMINSTERS IN DRILL ORDER. I) From Photographs hxj Elliott and Fry, Baker Street TV. ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 30 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Our Portraits

... ur Dortraits CHARLES AUGUSTUS BENNET, sixth Earl of Tankerville, was the only son of the fifth earl by the daughter of the late Due de Gramont. Born in 1810, he was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1900
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1331 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Photographs 

VICTIMS OF THE WAR

... VICTIMS OF THE IV A R Lieut. Augustus Frederick Dalzel, 1st Battalion Devon- shire Regiment, who was killed by the burstingof a shell at Ladysmith on the 27th ult., was the only son of the late Surgeo ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1900
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 382 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Photographs 

CIRCULAR NOTES

... . THE announcement that Mr. John Ball, jun., of Hoylake, the golf champion, has passed the medical examination for service in the Yeomanry for the front gives further proof, if it were needed, of the happy association of sport with patriotism. Mr. John Ball, jun., won the premier golf honours for the fifth time last year, and the fact is all the more interesting to recall from the circumstance ...

THE MELBOURNE CUP

... MELBOURNE CUP. THE recent importations of such crack Australian race- horses as Newhaven, Maluma, Merman, the Grafter and many others, and their performances in this country have drawn such attention to Antipodean horse-racing, .and have done so much to familiarise the Australian Turf to English followers of racing, that it is by this time pretty well known that the Melbourne cup, besides ...

SPORTSWOMAN'S PAGE

... SPORTSWOMAN'S TR^GF 11 11 ii u cpA, V^-°u-- -g ONE of the best-known of lady golfers, both for her remark ably good play and for the interest which she takes in the development of the game, is Mrs. Ryder Richardson, of Hoylake, Cheshire. Learning her golf from the Badminton Book and from watching the performances of good players, Mrs. Richardson, by constant steady practice, rapidly came Her ...