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BRITISH INFANTRY’S GREAT ACHIEVEMENT RECALLED

... Fusiliers), Foot. (Royal Welsh Fusiliers), 2bth (King's Own Scottish Borderers), 37th (Hampshirea), and 51st Foot (King Yorkshire Light Infantry). Shortly after the attack opened these British brigades bore down on the enc cavalry, sOme 10,000 strong ...

Published: Monday 31 July 1922
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 448 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

51st Men Re-Live 1940 In A Film

... 51st Men Re-Live 1940 In A Film BY A MILITARY OBSERVER. _ At Westetiinke, near Bremen, officers and other ranks of the 51st Highland Division are helping to make film which features prison life in Germany and the long march of the British prisoners to ...

Published: Thursday 27 September 1945
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 544 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

M. 0.1. SPEAKER ON JAPANESE AIMS Major W. S. Cruickshank, late of the Yorkshire Light Infantry, and an authority on

... M. 0.1. SPEAKER ON JAPANESE AIMS Major W. S. Cruickshank, late of the Yorkshire Light Infantry, and an authority on Far Eastern affairs, delivered a most interesting address, entitled After Germany_— Japan, - at the Ministry of Information War Commentary ...

Published: Saturday 01 May 1943
Newspaper: Coatbridge Leader
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 666 | Page: 3 | 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

With the 51st in the Middle East Dive Bombing a Ghastly Experience An intere-ting picture of life in the Middle

... the Highland Light Infantry, who resides in Eastern Angus. In a letter to a friend in his home town, he states:— I have now been in various parts of this desert land for six months. This period does not, of course, include the voyage, which was mainly ...

GAPS FORCED IN ROMMEL'S MAIN POSITIONS INFANTRY, GUNS PLAYING MAIN ROLE

... Rommel's tough static defences are manned by German and Italian infantry, with Axis panzers waiting behind them. The toughest and heaviest punches will be required to shake this bulwark. Infantry obviously could not do it alone. That is why there has been ...

Published: Monday 26 October 1942
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1608 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

6 BLAIRGOWRIE ADVERTISER FRIDAY 20th NOVEMBER THE 51st DIVISION IN BATTLE OF EGYPT Stories of Highlanders’ ..

... 6 BLAIRGOWRIE ADVERTISER FRIDAY 20th NOVEMBER THE 51st DIVISION IN BATTLE OF EGYPT Stories of Highlanders’ Courage Pipers Play Black Watch Into Action Military Correspondent) Scotland ever and second to ! This was the message from General the men the ...

Published: Friday 20 November 1942
Newspaper: Blairgowrie Advertiser
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1973 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Deeds in Great Battles WITH THE BOYS OF THE SCOTTIS DIVISIOHS. How the 51st Resisted Von Below’s Second Blow. By

... Deeds in Great Battles WITH THE BOYS OF THE SCOTTIS DIVISIOHS. How the 51st Resisted Von Below’s Second Blow. By EDQAR WALLACE, the Famous War Correspondent. broke onrush onlr two or three those were fs* right Uyng’s Third Array the post of danger 'was ...

Published: Sunday 28 April 1918
Newspaper: Sunday Post
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2709 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

The 51st Division in Egypt Scotsmen Now Fighting Within the German Lines Bagpipes Heralded Big Allied Offensive

... The 51st Division in Egypt Scotsmen Now Fighting Within the German Lines Bagpipes Heralded Big Allied Offensive U NITS of the ‘amous 51st Highland Division, some of the men singing “Loch Lomond” as they calmly walked into battle, took a leading part in ...

Published: Saturday 31 October 1942
Newspaper: Campbeltown Courier
County: Argyll, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1974 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HEROES OF 51st DIVISION WREAK VENGEANCE ON SQUEALINC HUNS. GREAT WORK BY KILTED JOCKS. I.ondon, Sstunlay Night. ..

... into the line with cKaracteristio dash, has evoked admiration from the highest quarters. A Glasgow man of the Highland Light Infantry, tells us tins story:—“ had many crow pluck with the Huns, and wo plucked them bare. It wua good for us and bad for the ...

Published: Sunday 01 September 1918
Newspaper: Sunday Post
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 766 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

13th Highland Light RA., (T.A)

... camp at Naipy July with a Battalion of Infantry, employment of Light Artillery for . support of Infantry necessitates Battery of the Brigade each year g its annual training in conjunction i Battalion of Infantry. ! The other officers attending camp , ...

Published: Saturday 09 June 1928
Newspaper: Campbeltown Courier
County: Argyll, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 924 | Page: 4 | Tags: none