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ADVANCE OF THE FORCES

... Rifle Brigade, the 4th Goorkbas, and the 20th Punjaub Infantry, moved up the Khyber Pass. At six, the Third and part of the Fourth Brigades, under General Browne, consisting of the 51st Light Infantry and the 45th Sikhs, with an elephant battery and a battery ...

MORNING EXPRESS

... the same plain becoming costume, was received with ern a Royal salute, the guard of honour being furnished fo by the 51st Light Infantry. The interview to was held in Major Cavagnari's double-poled tent. The chairs were arranged in horseshoe fashion, so ...

Published: Monday 12 May 1879
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1575 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS

... favourably towards a recovery). British soliiers ?? Coilall, J. C. r Rorvl Horse Artillery, anti Private Nelson, 51st KOwi's t Light Infantry. Soldiers ?? T.:lhot 5ist a LightIufantry; Trumntter Hill, Gunners ?? Lindsey, i ano Marshall, I. C. battery ltoysl ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1879
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1369 | Page: 3 | Tags: Sports and Games 

LOCAL ROBBKKY . '! Leeds Town Hall on ? _ Tennant, and Mmw. Martha Smith (29) (SI £9lBa. from the

... served with the 51st King's Own Light Infantry the Peninsular Campaign, and was one * who assisted to bury Sir John Moore, died at Pontefract, July 1873, aged '«0 yew, ' monument erected oy the officers, officers, and private soldiers of the 51st Regies: i ...

LOCAL & DISTRICT

... memory of Thomas Blanco, a native of that town, who died in July. 1573, aged ninety years. Blanco belonged to the 51st (King's Own) Light Infantry Regiment, and enlisted at Wakefield in 1805. serving with the regiment until ISI4, when he was discharged without ...

Published: Saturday 12 September 1874
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 7656 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PONTEFRACT AND THE MILITARY CENTRE

... site being obtained. The linked line battalions stationed here, as present arranged, will be the 51st West York (home) and the 105 th Madras Light Infantry (India). Each of these battalions consists of men. The regiment home will comprise about 860 men ...

THE FALL OF ALI MUSJID

... retiring force, and it bivouacked close hand. The Fourth Brigade, acting with the Third, and including in its ranks the 51st Light Infantry—with a mule battery of mountain guns, and the heavy 40-pounders dragged by elephants was engaged meanwhile on the British ...

THE AFGHAN WAR

... Artillery. The Sikh Infantry's fire from the slopes on our jt right front was now heavy, and must have A annoyed the Afghan gunners severely. The long hi hoped for order for the general advance at last mO came, and the 51st and 24th Native Infantry tc af advanced ...

Published: Saturday 23 November 1878
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4732 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE HIGH TIDES

... ftiung to be dreaded yesterdaiy was the ?? of a sot lli -west gale; but, happisily, onle did not exist. The ?? up'e ?? Thurgday light. Thie vindelianiged. nid thl residenats fouind a certain amount oi relief ill this At half-past eleven o'clock tile waves wero ...

Published: Saturday 21 March 1874
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1319 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS

... net Id 26th lPunjaul, Infantry ?? (315 liii A 23rd ?? ?? thi CA 2ind Infantry Tliac-iiade-eea I. D. e B3aker, C.Il., A.D.C. .,r, (32sil Gordon1 Higitlanders . 2 ?? 711 of 3rd Sikh infantry. ?? Cdr li Pnj c-b ?? 7 (329 p 31rd Infantry Diinade.-Colonel F. ...

Published: Saturday 20 December 1879
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3394 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

LOCAL AND GENERAL

... being obtained. The linked flne battalions a] stationed here, as at present arranged, will be the 51st el (West York), home; the 105th (Madras Light. Infantry),! India. Each of these battalions consists of 800 men. The P regiment at home will comprise about ...

Published: Monday 17 March 1873
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 8651 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE ASHANTEE WAR

... 0.8., K.H., Colonel of the King's Own Light Infantry, died on Friday, bis residence, 2C, Cambridge Square, his 82d year. Sir William, who was the son of Captain John Elliott, entered the anny as ensign of the 51st Foot 1809. 1661 was appointed Colonel ...