Klerksdorp, Printed and Published by H.M. Guest, 'Mining Record' Office, 31 July 1901 (second edition)/ June 1901 (the date 31 May appears at the end of the section on the 'Second British Occupation' in the second edition). 'Second Edition' appears on the front wrapper, page [5] is 'Some Press Notices'..... More
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Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer and Publisher, Bookseller, Stationer, etc. 1902. The position of prime minister in New Zealand was known as premier until 1907. Robert Seddon (1845-1906) was premier from 1893; he died in office. He 'attracted much publicity for his outspokenness about the South African war: he visited South..... More
![Klipdrift. Capture of Lord Methuen [drop title]. Boer War, Lieutenant General Lord METHUEN](/pictures/thumb/121029_01.jpg?v=1606530670)
[Klerksdorp, Printed and Published by H.M. Guest, 1902]. 'In the Battle of Tweebosch or De Klipdrift on 7 March 1902, a Boer commando led by Koos de la Rey defeated a British column under the command of Lieutenant General Lord Methuen during the final months of the Second Boer War........ More
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Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer and Publisher, Bookseller, Stationer, etc. 1902. 'Towards the end of the war, British drives and offensives became more successful. This was due to the lines of blockhouses and wire fences which parcelled up the wide veldt into smaller areas. Also, the British were themselves using raiding..... More
Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer and Publisher, Bookseller, Stationer, etc. 1902. The 1st Scottish Horse was one of two volunteer Scottish regiments raised in South Africa during the war; it saw considerable action in the Western Transvaal, especially in the battles at Moedwil, Vlakfontein, and Braakenlaagte. Preambles to these self-titled poems..... More
Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer, Publisher, Stationer, Bookseller, etc. 1902. 'The operations against the Boers in the neighbourhood of Klerksdorp, which were begun on Sunday night, March 23rd, 1902, were very cleverly conceived and executed.... The object of the operations was to form a long line of mounted men with the..... More
Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer and Publisher, Bookseller, Stationer, etc. 1902. Guest accurately describes the two and a half hour fight as 'one of the most sustained and determined attacks of the war'. 'The Boers lost eleven killed, 35 wounded, and 10 taken prisoner. The British lost 61 killed or mortally..... More
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Klerksdorp, Printed and Published by H.M. Guest, [1901]. 'Being a brief account of the operations of the three Columns under the command of Col. Sir Henry Rawlinson, Col. Hickie, and Col. Williams ... in the south-western portion of the Transvaal, May to October, 1901, inclusive' (drop sub-title). In 1939, Herman..... More
Cape Town, Central News Agency ('By Arrangement with the Editor of, September 1917. First World War humour, not a patch on Bairnsfather, but decidedly less common. More
Sydney, Printed and Published by H.T. Dunn & Co., 1902. Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant (born Edwin Henry Murrant, 1864-1902) was executed by firing squad in Pretoria for murder on 27 February 1902. The first notice we have found relating to this short work appeared less than three months later. A...... More
The Victoria Cross recipients who have signed this menu are: William Jackson VC; George J. 'Snowy' Howell VC MM; Rupert Theo Vance 'Mick' Moon VC; Robert Gee VC MC; Clifford William King Sadlier VC; John Carroll VC; Thomas Leslie 'Jack' Axford VC MM; William Donovan Joynt VC; Edward 'Ted' Kenna..... More
London, Jarrold & Sons, [1916]. The front free endpaper is signed by W.R. Birdwood, R.A. Carruthers, C.B.B. White, S.S. Butler, R.G. Chirnside, J.S. Churchill, C.H. Brand, Alec McGrigor and Walter A. [surname not deciphered]. In November 1914 Sir William Birdwood (1865-1951) was appointed commander of the Australian and New Zealand..... More
London, Arthur H. Stockwell, Ltd., [1932]. One of several war novels featuring Australians in the Middle Eastern theatre of the First World War by newsman, author and sometime Adelaidean Arnold Charles Cooper Lock (1897-1965). Lock enlisted at 18 with the AIF, heading to the front in May 1915 with the..... More
