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Autumn Army Manoeuvres to be Most Extensive Ever Held

... troops, supplementary reserve units, 70th and 4th Field Regiments, Territorial Army, and their signal sections, and the 51st and 52nd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiments, Territorial Army, and their signal sections. The Royal Air Force will also cooperate. Special ...

Published: Thursday 20 April 1939
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 405 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

OUR TROOPS FIGHTING WITH GREATEST GALLANTRY

... between the River and the River Our hold thfe 'their battle positions. ' During the enemy's attacks ycfeterday hismasfeed infantry offered remarkable tartit) oar machine gnno, and artillery, which full advantage was taken by 'our troops. All rcp>6rte testify ...

Published: Saturday 23 March 1918
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 501 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NORTH NAMES IN THE

... E. Smith, Merryton Crescent, Nairn. Platoon Sgt.-Major J. Ballantyne, Whinhill Terrace. Banff. LIST R.A.S.C. HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY L/Cpl. J. Breen, 36 King Street Nairn. Driver Buxton. 1 Benview, Auch- leven, Insch. Pte. Lewis S. Christie, 69 Kingsmills ...

Published: Thursday 28 October 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 231 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FRASERBURGH'S GALA DRESS

... FRASERBURGH'S GALA DRESS STREETS FULL OF COLOUR ELECTRIC LIGHTING EFFECTS Fraserburgh is in gala dress for the Coronation. This is the first time that there has been an opportunity to utilise electric lighting effects, and these are being taken full advantage ...

Published: Monday 10 May 1937
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 769 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

OBITUARY. LAIRD OF JOHNSTONE. SUDDEN DEATH OF MR ALEX. PEARSON. A gloom was cast over Laurencekirk and district ..

... Regular soldier, deceased, who was a nativs of Fareham, Hampshire, was signalling sergeant with the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry prior to the war, but in 1914 he transferred to the R.E. Signals, and served in France for over two years with the 2nd ...

Published: Wednesday 27 August 1924
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 635 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

LASHED TO THE MAST

... Class (T. 3rd Okss), A.C.D.. attached 51st (Highland) i> is a former minister of ilannofield Parish, Aberdeen, ooeupiod the pulpit that church last Sunday. Rev. ANDREW GRANT, temporary Cbitp- to tile _rcrc ...

Published: Friday 03 January 1919
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 478 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

WITH 5th SEAFORTHS

... The author, moreover, Captain D. Sutherland, was Signal Officer the 152 nd Infantry Brigade, to which the sth Seaforths belonged, and afterwards second in com- 1 mand of the 51st Divisional Signal Company. He had thus his hand more or less continuously ...

Published: Tuesday 13 July 1920
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1111 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NAVAL AND MILITARY ANNOUNCEMENTS

... aide-de-camp his Majesty the King in place of Captain Arthur Cavenagh Leveson, C.8., promoted to flag rank. ROYAL MARINE LIGHT INFANTRY. The undermentioned majors to be lieutenantcolonels brevets: — Harry Douglas John Brecknock Noble. Fleet Surgeon Edmund ...

Published: Wednesday 07 January 1914
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 700 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Bridgehead

... Boche on the same day The Hun infantry had moved forward before our barrage opened, with the result that when the Camerons advanced they came under heavv fire from unscathed troops. , , , _ The attack, supported bv French light tanks, which were mined or ...

Published: Thursday 20 August 1942
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 423 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Nortfiern Men Honoured,

... Stuart, 79 Fonthill Road. Aberdeen. He joined at the beginning of the war, and been serving eiice. Pte. G. A. Stott, Durham Light Infantry, awarded the Military for gallantry the field. i« the youngest eon the late Stott, joiner, and Mrs Stott, 2b Road, Aberdeen ...

Published: Friday 24 January 1919
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 537 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE Bth ARMY'S STORY

... Alamein were so effective that our advancing infantry saw whole gun crews lying dead around their pieces, We found ,one signal officer dead with the telephone still at his ear', and man. who had been about to light a cigarette, dead with a cigarette in one ...

Published: Wednesday 22 March 1944
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 498 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WITH THE SCOTTISH TROOPS IN FRANCE.—No. XIV

... the Signal Company of the 51st Division Royal Engineers, not easy finding any of the officers and men, for there were few of them at home. They are busy people the Engineers, oftener out'' than ''in. Moving among the infantry units of the Division I heard ...

Published: Wednesday 27 February 1918
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1434 | Page: 2 | Tags: none