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... Keeper of the Jewel House at the Tower of London and Colonel of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry from 1913 to 1927. Sir Arthur joined the 51st Light Infantry (now the Ist Batt. K.0.Y.L.1.) when 16. ',He served in the Jowaki Expedition ...
... the Tattoo, and this will be the first time that the old 51st Light Infantry has visited Leeds as a battalion since 1782. Tlie first Battalion of tlic K.0.Y.L.1. is the lineal descendant of the 51st Foot, after*' wards “The 2nd Yorkshire, West Riding, Regt ...
... at the age of 63. had bad about forty years’ service, and was well known Yorkshire soldiers Paymaster of th© 51st. Yorkshire Light Infantry India, &c. served in the Afghan war. and also in the Ashantee and Abyssinian expeditions. was badly wounded, and ...
... celebrations commemmorate a Peninsular War incident, when the Hussars (then the 15th Hussars) and the K.0.Y.L.1.S (then the 51st Light Infantry) were ordered by Wellington to cross the River Esla, and the Hussars went to the rescue a number of the infantrymen ...
... Roberts, C.8.. who had had about forty years' service, and was well known Yorkshire soldiers as Paymaster of the 51st Yorkshire Light Infantry India, &c., died a few da ago. Aged 63. Mr. W. Hanson, of the firm of Messrs. Hanson and Sods, auctioneers, Barnsley ...
... DISTINCTION. A Regiment of Proud Memories. The Duchess of York has been appointed Colonel-in-Chief of the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry—her first military distinc* tion. FROM OUR LONDON STAFF. FLEET-STREET, Thursday. A War Office announcement says: His Majesty ...
... 000.000. MEMORIAL TO YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY According to a statement issued this week Lieut.- Colonel Sir H. Johnson, Bart., of the Ist King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, at Limerick. Colonel G. Byn-g, commanding the 51st Regimental ...
... MINDEN Holiday Crowd Watches Frcvn Our Own Correspondent STRENSALL, Monday THE Ist Battalion, the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, cele- brated the anniversary of the Battle of Minden for the first time in England since the War by Trooping the Colour ...
... of which a war menu rial, perpetuating the memory Sir John Moore and the officers and men of 51st Light Infantry-now the King’s Own Yo kshire Light Infantry who lost their lives in the Peninsular campaign, was unveiled by General Sir A. S. ...
... Leeds as oody and the visit next month is a memorable event. Over century ago the blst Regiment received the addition King Light Infantry.” with the word Yorkshire '* to follow at a later date. ...
... King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry from 1868 to 1898. and twice served in India with the second battalion. For five years he held the adjutancy of the Militia at Pontefract, and he was last employed as second in command of the old 51st—a battalion which ...
... Strensall this morning, by the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, reminds one of the passage In the report of Lleut.- Qeneral the Hon. James Murray, when he inspected the regiment—then the old 51st Foot—at Minorca in 1775. The Regiment has not forgot ...