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FORMER KEEPER OF TOWER JEWEL HOUSE Death of General Sir Arthur Wynne The death of General Sir Arthur Singleton ..

... House, Tower of London, is announced to day. He was 89. Sir Arthur, who was born in Co. Louth. Ireland, joined the 51st Light Infantry 73 years ago. He served in the Jowaki expedition in 1887, in the Afghan War, the South African War of 1881, and the ...

Published: Friday 07 February 1936
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 127 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

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

NOTES-MAINLY PERSONAL

... a window which is unfastened; but one the sashes is already open even an inch may open it wider aud clamber in. The 51st Light Infantry Peninsular Memorial, which is to placed in York Minster, now completed, and the unveiling ceremony will be performed ...

Published: Tuesday 25 March 1913
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 814 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Waterloo

... fob a stone foandationl.alonut sie feet high. The Neville road, blocked by ow of trees and held by a company of our 51st Light Infantry, ran past the east side of the enclosure. Barns and (rut-buildings clustered round the chateau. and • wood of beech ...

CANADA DONALDSON LINE

... for a number of years, and was well known in Orange circle') was a Crimean veteran. He enlisted in 1851 in the 51st (King's Own Light Infantry), and fought in the Burmese War, taking part in several engagements and winning the medal and clasp for the eziedition ...

Published: Friday 16 June 1916
Newspaper: Wishaw Press
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 1753 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

GHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY

... GHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY. Prizate DUNCAN KiCOLSON, Staffin, Skye. Mr John Nicolson, 25 Bell Street, Glasgow, has received officia! intimation that his voungest brother, Private Duncan Nicolson, Highland Light Infantry, son of the late Mr John Nicolson, ...

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

THE GALLANT 51st

... famous 51st (Highland) Division, Scotland'! wonderful Territorial fighting force. No more appropriate site could have keen chosen for the Divisional shrine than Beaumont Hamel, or the powdered debria ot the original village, the scene of the 51st s dazzlingly ...

Published: Friday 26 September 1924
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1296 | Page: 4 | 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

WITH THE BOYS OF THE 51st

... WITH THE BOYS OF THE 51st EDGAR WALLACE, the Famous War Correspondent A flr»t blow must r* h Bapaume—any I«wm was akin failure. I That there should be no failure ha *** British lines were lightly held. miirht withhold assault in moderate •trengta—indeed ...

Published: Sunday 21 April 1918
Newspaper: Sunday Post
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5069 | Page: 4 | Tags: none