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Hampshire Regiment HASLAR TRANSFER

... teain contests were As usual, various arranged with the mdividual events. The Hampshire Regiment won the Roval Marines Light Infantry Cup, beating the Rifle Brigade by one point, the Royal Marines being third, one point behind. H.M.S. Excellent. holders ...

Published: Thursday 10 May 1934
Newspaper: Portsmouth Evening News
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 682 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

HISTORY MADE BY NEW BATTLESHIP

... C. MOLESWORTH-ST is as now described, and not as notified the Gazette of Feb. 17. INFANTRY. sth Battn. Devon Regt.—Lce-Bdr. HENRY J. CRAWLEY, from 51st (Devon) Light A.A.R.. dat.e cadet lce.-corpl.. Blundell's Sen. Contest.. Jun. Div., 0.T.0.) to be ...

Published: Wednesday 08 March 1939
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 938 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

T.A. UNITS FOR AIR DEFENCE TRAINING

... Leicestershire Regiment; sth Batt.. Royal Warwickshire Regiment; sth Batt., Lincolnshire Regiment; 7th Batt., Durham Light Infantry. TRAINING AND STRENGTH. The Army Council, the War Office statement continues, desire to acknowledge with gratitude the ...

Published: Wednesday 08 July 1936
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 870 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE CHRONICLE SATURDAY OCTOBER is -Certified Circulation Weekly - - TRIPLEX GRATES Bake Boil Roast Grill and ..

... River Clwyd Col Green s 125th Infantry Brigade were ready to advance against the left the Denbighshire 160th Infantry Brigade and Col Watson's 126th Infantry Brigade to the south were opposite Col Tomlinson’s 159th Infantry Brigade Neither Com-mander-in-Chief ...

Published: Saturday 12 October 1935
Newspaper: Chester Chronicle
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 5896 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

TRUTH

... The present pattern of shortmagazine Lee-Enfield with which the Infantry is armed has the highest rifle fire-intensity in the world—sixty semi-aimed rounds a minute—but the very light barrel is soon affected by the heat, and shooting becomes inaccurate ...

Published: Wednesday 13 May 1931
Newspaper: Truth
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1013 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

IVER HEATH

... Forrester Clayton, High Sheriff of Middlesex, and Mrs. Drummond Clayton. The Fifth (Service) 13n., the Oxford , and Bucks Light Infantry, who formed one of the Units of the first raised during the Great War, and saw considerable service at Ypres, the Somme ...

Rail Taken Up

... was not without extra Incident. As the train steamed was noticed that the front part of the engine was fire. Sparks had set light the Portuguese arms made up of wood mounted the front of the locomotive. The fire was soon extinguished- President Carmona ...

RiNGMER

... Army in the last batch of sub-lieutenants and was gazetted to the 46th Foot (now the 2nd Battalion the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry) in August, 1877, but was transferred less than a year later the Ist Battalion of the 25th Foot (King's Own Borderers) ...

Published: Friday 11 May 1934
Newspaper: Sussex Express
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 712 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Town and County News

... Mesopotamia and Kurdistan he was six times mentioned in dispatches and five times decorated. From Brigade Major of the 51st Infantry Brigade in Iraq duty followed at the War Office, with the Shanghai Defence Force, and at the Staff College. He is an expert ...

Published: Tuesday 11 September 1934
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 798 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TERRITORIALS TO BE AT WAR STRENGTH

... scheme are:— Light Anti-aircraft Regiment. 51st (Devon) Light Anti-Aircraft Regt. (formerly the 56th (Devon) Field Brigade R.a.) Field Regiment. R.A. —96th (Royal Devon Yeomanry) Field Regt.. R.A. bigna.s.—43rd (Wessex) Divisional Signals. Infantry Battalions ...

Published: Thursday 30 March 1939
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1551 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

CHURCH NOTES

... Rushby, M.C., superintendent minister of Queen's Hall Methodist Mission. Mr. Rushby was chaplain to the 17th Division, the 51st Infantry Brigade I (which included the 10th Battalion The I Sherwood Foresters) from the start of the Great War to the finish. * ...

Published: Saturday 11 November 1933
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 925 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SmV. sainouß fiIEADI

... played by Sydney Coulston (horn); Albert Voorsanger (violin) ; Albert Hardie (piano). 6 35—The King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry QJie 51st Foot); radio history of famous West Riding Regiment through 183 years. Defence announcements 7 25 Bulletin for Farmers ...

Published: Thursday 24 August 1939
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1191 | Page: 2 | Tags: none