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SERVED IN 5 CAMPAIGNS

... Lancashire, Sir Henry Earle was veteran with five campaigns to his credit. He served with the 51st Light Infantry, now the Ist Batt. the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in the 1877 expedition against the Jowaki-Afridis. and also in the ...

Published: Thursday 20 July 1939
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 222 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SOCIETY AND PERSONAL

... John Stevenson, Canterbury, architect and surveyor, left £60,705. Col. Malcolm Charles Farriugton, C.8., late 51st Yorkshire Light Infantry, loft £56,371. Tho Hon. Clara Elizabeth (Lady George) Cholmondeley, of Washington, U.S.A., actress, the divorced ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1926
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 250 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

The 51st

... The 51st The 44th and 51st British Infantry Divisions are standing on the coast road, said the German News Agency today. To the south of them is stationed the 10th Tank Division, while on the southern flank are the 7th Tank Division and the two New ...

Published: Friday 15 January 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 90 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE 51st DIVISION

... THE 51st DIVISION. A SOLDIER'S HISTORY, WITH SOME PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS. £ HISTORY OF THE 51st (HIGHLAND) DIVISION, 1914-1918. By -Major F. W. Bewsher, D.5.0., M.C., ...

Published: Friday 23 September 1921
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2256 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Why Not Film of 51st?

... Why Not Film of 51st? From Our Film Critic Australia has put its magnificent cavalry troops, the famous Australian Light Horse, on the world's screen. In the film, Forty Thousand Horsemen, the exploits in the Palestine campaign in the last war of this ...

Published: Friday 22 August 1941
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 221 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

51st DIVISION R.A

... 51st DIVISION R.A. Last night's London Gazette gives notice of the following Army appointments: TERRITORIAL ARMY. Commands and Staff. Colonel C. P. James, D.5.0., relinquishes the appointment of Commander, 155 th (E. Scot.) Infantry Brigade, July 31 ...

Published: Wednesday 03 August 1932
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 81 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BRIEF GREETINGS TO THE 51st

... BRIEF GREETINGS TO THE 51st JJlNorth-east Gunners in Belgium °f Tension on Eve °* Enemy Attack Ley Smith tivelv % of enj °y able passed in the neigh- W' r Then the regiment moved to Meninel, and Cherisy, near Arras, the Every inch of that countryside ...

Published: Tuesday 28 January 1941
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1116 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HOMS A HARD NUT FOR 51st

... HOMS A HARD NUT FOR 51st How 'Edinburgh Castle' Was Stormed TX a fight for Edinburgh Castle in the Battle of the Hills near Homs, in Tripoli, Seaforths and Black Watch drove crack German parachute troops and Italians from strongly-fortified positions ...

Published: Friday 26 February 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 593 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HOW GALLANT 51st DIVISION 'WENT INTO ECLIPSE'

... Boche the same day. ' The Hun infantry had moved forward before our barrage opened. with the result that when the Camerons advanced they oam f I under heavy fire from unscathed troops. The attack, supported French light tanks, which were mined or shot ...

Published: Wednesday 19 August 1942
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2221 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

10 MONTHS' SAGA OF 51st: ALAMEIN TO ETNA

... 10 MONTHS' SAGA OF 51st: ALAMEIN TO ETNA GENERAL WIMBERLEY TELLS GREAT SCOTS GATHERING MORE FIGHTING THAN ANY DIVISION THROUGH the fortunes of war, it has so happened that the 51st Highland Division must have seen more fighting during the ten months ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3480 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HOMS A HARD NUT FOR 51st How ‘Edinburgh Castle’ Was Stormed

... HOMS A HARD NUT FOR 51st How ‘Edinburgh Castle’ Was Stormed TN a fight for Edinburgh Castle in the Battle * of the Hills near Homs, in Tripoli, Seaforths and Black Watch drove crack German parachute troops and Italians from strongly-fortified positions ...

Published: Thursday 04 March 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1050 | Page: 1 | Tags: none