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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA: 1889 - 1931) Thursday 18 January 1900

EUDUNDA, January 13.

Eudunda has again supplied its quota to the contingent for South Africa. Mr. T. B. Marsden, who has been employed here for some 12 months, offered, and has been accepted as a member of the second contingent.

On Wednesday the local magistrates' court (Messrs. F. W. Paech and F. G. E. Appelt) spent some hours hearing a case in which the defendant, T. B. Marsden, a member of the South Australian contingent, was charged with being the father of an unborn illegitimate child. Mr. A. J. Foster appeared for the informant; Mr. J. C. Hamp, of Adelaide, for the defendant. The case was dismissed, each party paying their own costs.

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South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA: 1839 - 1900) Saturday 7 April 1900

CONCERNING PEOPLE.

His Excellency the Governor received a cable message on Friday notifying the death from pneumonia of Private T. B. Marsden, a member of the Second South Australian Contingent, at Vorchow, in South Africa. The Chief Secretary has telegraphed the sad intelligence to Mr. W. H. Marsden, father of the deceased soldier, at Hoyleton, and conveyed the sympathy of Government in his bereavement. The late Trooper Marsden was unmarried.

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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA: 1889 - 1931) Tuesday 17 April 1900

THE LATE TROOPER T. B. MARSDEN.

The following are extracts from letters from Trooper T. B. Marsden, received by Miss May Lomas, of Islington, the day before   she received the news of his death. The first letter was written in the tram on the way to De Aar:—"March 5—We arrived in Cape Town last Sunday week. We got up yesterday morning at half-past 4 and started to strike camp and then we got in the train about 12 o'clock at Cape Town, and we have been travelling ever since. After we left Cape Town three of the horses in the next truck to our carriage fell down. We were in the first compartment, so I went out while the train was going and got on the truck and got them up. I go out and sit on top of the carriage and watch the horses. There are seven of us in our compartment, and we had to sleep in it all night. I crawled under the seat, and two more slept on the floor, and four on the seat. We have passed three trains of Boer prisoners on the way. I don't think much of Cape Town or of the Cape Town people; they are nearly all blacks."

"March 10—We had two days and two nights' travelling in the train from Cape Town to De Aar, and then from De Aar to Britstown. We went out for a ride yesterday, and had a good look at the country. This is a very barren place, but we saw any amount of game."

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Adelaide Observer (SA: 1843 - 1904) Saturday 21 April 1900

CONCERNING PEOPLE

Our Eudunda correspondent wrote on April 7: — "The unexpected news of the death of Trooper Thomas Bradshaw Marsden, on the South African field of battle, came as a shock to those who knew him most intimately during his residence in Eudunda, and the expressions of sympathetic regret were many when 'The Evening Journal' announced that he had passed away. A letter had been received here from 'Tommy,' as he is familiarly known, only last week, and at the time of writing he was in the best of health, had just arrived by the Surrey, and expected to start off for the front on the following day. Marsden had served two years in A Company, 1st Battalion, prior to coming to Eudunda as engine-cleaner on the railways. He was born on January 21, 1878, and spent his twenty-second birthday just before embarking for the war. His home was at Hoyleton, where his people still live, but he is probably better known in Salisbury, a former dwelling. He was a single man, a popular and experienced footballer, and had a large circle of friends when he left Eudunda to join the Second Contingent. To-day the Union Jack flies, half-mast here out of respect to the memory of one of the Eudunda soldiers."

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