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THE WAR

... stormed. Upwards prisoners were taken. The loss on cur side was comparatively small. The Ist Bavarian Corps, the 22nd Regiment Infantry, and a division of cavalry were engaged. Versailles, Wednesday. The King has sent the following telegram to Queen Augusta ...

Published: Saturday 15 October 1870
Newspaper: Burnley Gazette
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 8842 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Tea Party at Westgate School. The annual tea party connection with the estgate Congregational Chapel was held ..

... The toast of arm y» aavy, militia, and volunteers was well responded to by Bro. W. Ellis, late Serjeant of the 51st King's own Light Infantry; after which came the business of the evening,—namely, the presentation of an emblem of merit to P.G. Richard ...

Published: Saturday 31 December 1870
Newspaper: Burnley Advertiser
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2836 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LOCAL NEWS

... toast of The Army, Navy, Militia, and Volunteers was well responded to by Bro. W. Ellis, late sergeant of the 51st King's Own Light Infantry. Next came the business of the evening, namely, the presentation of an emblem of merit P.G. Richard Wells. The ...

Published: Saturday 31 December 1870
Newspaper: Burnley Gazette
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1025 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LITERARY EXTRACTS

... minutes. Again the ; >n skirmishers, supported this time by a infantry, advanced, and were charged -econd regiment of cavalry. It was not until nt had leached within a couple of hundred infantry—on the flanks of which most h.' skirmishers had rallied somewhat ...

Published: Saturday 11 April 1874
Newspaper: Burnley Advertiser
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1858 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Extraordinary Career ok a Woulx-be- Soldier.—A man who gave the name of William Taylor applied at the Ashton ..

... been a most extraordinary one, and probably unprecedented in the anuals of fradulent enlistments. He enlisted in the 51st Light Infantry (No. 1,204) in the name of John Harvey, aad was discharged Ootober, 1868. He then enlisted in the 107 th Regiment (No ...

Published: Saturday 24 February 1877
Newspaper: Burnley Advertiser
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 364 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE AFGHAN WAR

... Sufedsang will comprise H Battery, A Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery, two companies of the 51st Ligtit Infantry drawn from Jellalabad, and the Punjab Native Infantry. Candahar, Saturday. It is now certain that about fortnight ago Ayoob Khan moved out of ...

Published: Saturday 20 December 1879
Newspaper: Burnley Advertiser
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1899 | Page: 8 | Tags: none