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... unsettled English property of £3,701, with net personalty £1,388. v Gross. Colonel M. C. Farrington, C.B. (late 51st Yorkshire Light Infantry), Bournemouth, Hants, (net personalty £56,215) £56,371 Mr. O. A. H. White, solicitor, ot Chippenham, Wilts., the ...

Published: Friday 01 January 1926
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1308 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

K.O.Y.U's NEW COLOUR. King’s Praise For Regiment’s Great Record. The King received at Buckingham Palace ..

... and country. The King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry has a record extending over 170 years. Minden Day is celebrated annually to commemorate the first engagement of the 51st, one the six regiments British infantry who charged the enemy cavaTry tanked irt ...

Published: Tuesday 06 July 1926
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 364 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DUCHESS OF YORK

... 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 ...

Published: Friday 12 August 1927
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 185 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ATTENDANCES AT CAMP

... Batt. the Durham Light Infantry, who won the cup last, year with a total attendance of —a. percentage 97.56 to establishment. Other units which reached a - percentage of over 90 included .the. following:—7th Batt. Durham Light Infantry, attendance 627 ...

Published: Wednesday 07 November 1928
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 168 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

... sth Battalion King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (Territorial Army), whose headouarters arc at Doncaster, and will thus have been connected with every branch of the famous ** Koylis *’ and Military Lino Mounted Infantry, depot and New Army, which first ...

“An Awful Night.’’

... inquiry. The King has approved of the nth Infantry (Rand Light Infantry) active citizen force, union defence forces, being allied to the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, and of the 51st Battalion Australian ...

Published: Wednesday 17 July 1929
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 378 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE COLOURS OF THE D.L.I

... THE COLOURS OF THE D.L.I. Sir, —Kindly me to draw the attention of ex-oCßccrs and soldiers fcho Durham Light Infantry to the consecration and laving of thirteen colours of Territorial and New Army Battalions the regiment in Durham Cathedral, on Thursday ...

A Weekly Toast

... most distinguished campaigners of the day. .It still honoured weekly by the Ist Battalion of the. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. The regiment was formed in 1755, and of the first sixty years existence nearly forty were spent abroad on foreign service ...

Published: Friday 02 July 1926
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 240 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE LEEDS MERCURY, WEDNESDAY, 'AUGUST 2, 1922. THE “KOYLFS” MEMORIAL. Unveiling in York Minster. MINDEN DAY. ..

... DAY. General Sir Arthur Wynne, Colonelin-Chief, yesterday unveiled the memorial to the officers and men of the Yorkshire Light Infantry who fell in the war, which has been erected in York Minster. There was a very large company present, including many past ...

Published: Wednesday 02 August 1922
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 819 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

SOCIAL RECORD

... Wynne, on Monday, unveiied, in York Minster, memorial tablet for the officers and men of the 6th King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry who lost their lives in war. The final draft of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps arrived London on Monday night from France ...

Published: Tuesday 27 September 1921
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 649 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

“Man Baltle = Pos

... rendezvous convenient to the squadron billets. grey lino of motor-lorries on a desolate roadside. eerie picture in tho half light foggy dawn. By tho roadside tho squadrohs are allotted the sections they man. The start is made. Tho lorries sway and rock ...

Published: Saturday 07 April 1928
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 408 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

COMMANDS AND STAFF

... admission . Motor accidents . Other street accidents CYCLES AND REAR LIGHTS. I think perhaps the Press might enlighten the public little the question of the rear lights on bicycles,” said the Chairman (Mr. George Wilkinson) at Bradford Police Court ...