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MAYFAIR IN SOUTH AFRICA: The Social Side of the War

... Commands 10th Batn Imperial Yeomanry E'llott and Fry VISCOUNT VALENTIA Assist ant- A djl-Getieral, Imperial Yeom inry I' Bassano THE EARL OF WARWICK Captain Warwick Yeomanry Bassano THE MARQUIS OF LONSDALE Bought horses for the Imperial Yeomanry PEERS OF ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1726 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NEWSLETTER: London Week by Week

... TRINGHAM THE MARRIAGE OF THE QUEEN AT THE CHAPEL ROYAL, ST. JAMES'S, SIXTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY a 2 Painted by Sir George Hayter From the Royal Collection (by permission of Messrs. Graves* Duke of Cambridge Queen Adelaide The Queen's Mother Once more the birthday ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2218 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

SOLDIERS' SONS AT THE FRONT

... risked for Queen and country. Another remarkable feature in our army at the front is the number of officers engaged who come of a military stock. It is a tradition with many families to send their sons, generation after generation, into the Services, and an ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1514 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

WHAT THE CHURCHILLS ARE DOING FOR QUEEN AND COUNTRY

... What the Churchills are doing for Queen and Country. No fewer than thirteen members of the historic House of Churchill are involved in the war, twelve of them (including one woman, and the head of the family) being at the front. The fact seems ironical ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 746 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WAR AND THE WOUNDED: Civilians to the Rescue

... . The system of red-tapeism which exists in every branch of the service is rampant in the Army and Navy Medical Services. An inferior type of medical graduate nowadays enters the Service to begin with. A large percentage of those who enter the home army ...

Published: Saturday 10 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1760 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs 

FOR THE DEFENCE OF THE EMPIRE: The Volunteers and Colonials at the Front

... Mounted Infantry 500 Imperial Light Infantry i.oco Imperial Light Horse 500 Colonial Scouts 500 Ambulance Bearers 1,600 Cape Colony South African Light Horse 600 Lord Roberts's Imperial Mounted Corps 600 Lord Kitchener's Imperial Light Horse 600 Brabant's ...

Published: Saturday 17 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2157 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NEWSLETTER: London Week by Week

... London cabdriver regarding Queen Square is proverbial; If you tell him to drive there without adding the word Bloomsbury, he will invariably ask you if you want Queen Square, Westminster, which happens to be included nowadays in Queen .Anne's Gate. I fancy ...

Published: Saturday 24 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2878 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NEWSLETTER: London Week by Week

... hilarity was of a very mild form, and at the announcement of Time, gents, time, the would-be gay sparks murmured God save the Queen and filed out into Piccadilly as quietly as though they were taking part in a Sunday- school procession. Thus All Fools' Day ...

Published: Saturday 07 April 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2563 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR FROM WEEK TO WEEK

... seconded for that service for five years. He is also Signalling Instructor to the Cape Forces i.e., Cape Mounted Rifles and Volunteers and was Field Adjutant in the Langeberg campaign. He represented the Cape Forces at the opening of the Imperial Institute by ...

Published: Saturday 12 May 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1543 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR FROM WEEK TO WEEK

... son of Major Gene ral J. Prevost Battersby, he was born in 1862. He received his military edu- cation at the Royal Military Academy, Wo o 1 w i c h, and the Royal Military Col lege, Sand- hurst, and obtained a commission in the 1st Battalion Royal Irish ...

Published: Saturday 02 June 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2662 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR FROM WEEK TO WEEK

... Baden-Powell's Queen's birthday speech at Dixon's Hotel in Mafeking was very characteristic. In the three blunt words, 1 Gentleman, the Queen Englishmen, he said, con veyed a very great depth of feeling. In proposing the health of the Queen, he continued ...

Published: Saturday 09 June 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2788 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

THE CRISIS IN CHINA: Possibilities of the Boxer Rising

... Worked up to a state of fanatical frenzy an Imperial Righteous Harmony Boxer believes himself invulnerable against bullets. His belief is probably strengthened whenever he comes in contact with the Imperial soldiery, whose methods of offence and defence ...

Published: Saturday 16 June 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1710 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs