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Published: Monday 25 June 1900
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 853 | Page: 3 | 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

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

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

FIELD-MARSHAL SIR D. HAIG'S DISPATCH

... enemy'* batteries. Simultaneously British infantry and tanks advanced to the assault. Tho enemy was completely taken surprise, and our first objectives were rapidly gained. Cavalry and tanks passed through the infantry, and the end the day advance of between ...

Published: Wednesday 08 January 1919
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4111 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ZERO HOUR STRIKES ON THE SOMME

... ZERO HOUR STRIKES ON THE SOMME The 51st in The Battle of France Gordons Moved , to Stem Retreat t Nst alment of the first full narrative of Tf{ E WRDONS' part in the blitzkrieg tells how ORTh ~EAST men were moved from the WOT LINE TO THE ESTUARY OF ...

Published: Wednesday 06 November 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1090 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WITH THE SCOTTISH TROOPS IN FRANCE.—No. XI

... tale it would have made for Archibald Forbes, describing it the white heat of the hour of victory. Not single infantry soklier outside the 51st Division took any part in glorious achievement. There were nane but Highland bonnets there. Only men the tlst ...

Published: Friday 22 February 1918
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2525 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BRITISH ARE HALF WAY TO HANOVER

... s' to clo 51st (Highland) Division is taking part in the great b whole of Northern Holland and to overrun the V-2 e ty^ tile reat German airfield system, and Enschede, inj of Osnabruck, have been occupied. Between these two towns heavy lighting against ...

Published: Tuesday 03 April 1945
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 891 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

R.E.'s Daring Mission Startles Seaforths

... Field Company with the 51st Division worked unceasingly throwing up defences. Bombs fell in their vicinity. Nazi planes once swooped down to rake them with machine-guns. Still they kept working to have the pits ready for the infantry when they had to retire ...

Published: Monday 20 January 1941
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1333 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HIGHLAND DIVISION'S HEROIC PART

... should be made on .Tune 4. This time French tanks and infantry, assisted by British inf -try and artillery on either flank, were to carry out the attack at dawn. During the night French tanks and infantry were heard moving up from to an ssembly area just ...

Published: Wednesday 31 July 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1932 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WITH THE SCOTTISH TROOPS IN FRANCE.—No. XXIII

... its signals out gear. The Signal Company of the 51st Division looks after the communications between divisional headquarters and the units. There is a section with each branch of tho artillery and infantry, and the_ remainder of the company maintain co ...

Published: Monday 18 March 1918
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1492 | Page: 2 | Tags: none