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OFFICERS WHO HAVE FA

... commission in the Somerset Light Infantry in Ftb:uary 1895, and was appointed to the Indian Army In October 1898, teaching the substantive rank of na jar in February 1913. He had held the rank of Double Company Commander in the 51st Sikh; since November 1906 ...

Published: Thursday 02 December 1915
Newspaper: Clifton Society
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 547 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

EXTENSIVE PLANS FOR ARMY MANŒUVRES

... 70th and 74th Field Regiments, Territorial Army, and Whole Corps Will Move 200 Miles their signal sections, and the 51st and 52nd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiments, Territorial Army, and their signal sections. The Royal Air Force will also co-operate. Special ...

Published: Thursday 20 April 1939
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 405 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

NAZIS RESIST STRONGLY

... MAIN DEFENCE LINE British and Canadian infantry and armour are up against one ol the main German lines now. It runs roughly from May sur Orne eastward to the Caen-Falaise road. At this moment German infantry and tanks, supported by artillery fire from ...

Published: Wednesday 26 July 1944
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 702 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Royal Army Service Corps Make Record Hustle South To Join Army Of The Saar

... officers who accompanied General Brind. They included his , staff officer, Colonel ,T. G. des R. Swavne, of the Somerset Light Infantry, and his aide-de-camp, Lieut. C. D, Packard, of the Royal Artillery. Last night it was reported by Reuter that they had ...

Published: Friday 14 December 1934
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 438 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

DRIVE ON NEW NAZI LINE

... the German retreat. Peaceful villagers have been shot, cattle destroyed, and railway tracks torn up. Waves of Fifth Army infantry, pouring with their tanks and guns over the Volturno on many new bridges, can see the smoke from the German destruction. ...

Published: Thursday 21 October 1943
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 750 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE BRITISH CASUALTIES

... typhoid. Highland Light Infantry-Pte. P. A. Graham, l typhoid, I, Victorian Mounted Infantry-PLe. F. G. Ramsay, typhoid. From General Buller. STANDERTON, JULY 29. The following casualties at Joubert's Kop, July 27: SOUTH AFRICAN LIGHT HORSE, Wounded-Trooper ...

Published: Tuesday 31 July 1900
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1104 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

MISTAKEN IDENTITY

... MISTAKEN IDENTITY. ARMY LIEUTENANT WRONGFULLY CHARGED. When the case of Lieut. Gerald Atkinson, 29, Of the Somersetshire Light Infantry, who was arrested outside a Strand Theatre on warrant, and charged at Westminster Police Court on Monday with unlawfully ...

Published: Friday 06 February 1914
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1086 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

GAPS IN AXIS DEFENCES WIDENED

... GAPS IN AXIS DEFENCES WIDENED HEAVY FIGHTING ON DESERT FRONT Rommel's Stunning Air Losses m INFANTRY WIDEN TANK-LANES A L L THE FOURTH DAY OF ™ SIVE IN THE WESTERN IS™ S A LY WIDENED THE TANK-LANES ovsS?£ IN R°MMEL'S MINEFIELD DEFENCE SYSTEM. Information ...

Published: Wednesday 28 October 1942
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1081 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AMERICANS 16 MILES FROM COLOGNE

... five miles from Linnich. German resistance to the drive of the First and Ninth American Armies appears to be surprisingly light so far, according to Supreme Headquarters, where it is explained that this is partly due to the smashing attacks of Allied ...

Published: Monday 26 February 1945
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 790 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

TRIPOLI REPORTED ABOUT TO FALL TO MONTGOMERY

... declared 'The Eighth Army's brilliant drive is about to throw Rommel out of Tripolitania In Central Tunisia, German tank and infantry forces, driving south-west from Pont dv Fahs, on Wednesday reached a point about two miles from Robaa, 27 miles from Pont ...

Published: Friday 22 January 1943
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 742 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

RHINE BRIDGEHEAD 30 MILES LONG

... by British' troops at Rees. Bislich. and Wesel; and one by the U.S. Ninth Army south of Wesel. Troops of the Somerset Light Infantry and the Wiltshire Regiment were among those which made the crossing. A shattering aerial and artillery bombardment of ...

Published: Monday 26 March 1945
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 797 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

LONDON LETTER

... ought to bfe winning the war on the Western front. «WHA DARE MEDDLE ME! The corporal an! uve men the Battalion of the d Light Infantry the 52ud Division, who for two days maintained their post in the ruined village Mceuvres under the most trying conditions ...

Published: Monday 23 September 1918
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 972 | Page: 3 | Tags: none