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... by Sydney Coulston (horn). Albert Voorsanger (violin), Albert Hardie (pianoforte). 6.3s—The King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (The 51st Foot). A radio history of a famous West Riding Regiment through 183 years. Compiled by H. R. Jukes and acted by West ...

MORE MONEY FOR THE NAVY

... ire Regt.; sth Battalion the Royal Warwickshire Regt.; sth Rattalion the Lincolnshire Regt.; 7th Battalion the Durham Light Infantry. ...

Published: Wednesday 08 July 1936
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 540 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Territorials in Training OUR Territorial gunners and engineers are in camp, as usual at this period of the ..

... in camp, as usual at this period of the year—the 61st North Midland Field Brigade, R.A., at Redesdale, Northumberland ; the 51st Midland Medium Brigade, R.A., on the Gower Peninsula ; and the 214th Field Company, R.E., at • the Halton, near Lancaster, ...

Published: Wednesday 04 August 1937
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 535 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Diary of a Yorkshireman

... King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry on their arrival from Gibraltar. It was a reunion of a cavalry and ea infantry regiment which had a common experience in campaigning at the end of tho 18th century. The Hussars and theold 51st Regiment of Foot, forerunners ...

Published: Wednesday 23 March 1938
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 872 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

T.A. RECRUITING IN THE WEST

... forming a second line. A Troop, 382 nd (Totnes) Battery, is above establishment. Recruiting for a Crediton troop of the 51st (Devon) Light A.A. Regt. has been successful, and formation of a second troop expected shortly. The 153 rd Battery at Tavistock, with ...

Published: Saturday 06 May 1939
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 467 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ROYAL ENGINEERS

... GENERAL LIST—INFANTRY. —Capt. D. J D. Smith his cotnmn.. Lt. N. M. hi, cotnmn.. Lt. F. J. Woodward, from sth Bn. Devon R RK)IMENTAL LIST—ROYAL ARTILLERY— Y. and L.R.. A.A.R. —Lt. R. P. Graham, from active list, to Lt. SPECIAL LIST Light AA. units. —Lt ...

EXPENDITURE ON THE NAVY

... sth Battalion the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. sth Battalion the Lincolnshire Regiment, and the 7th Battalion the Durham Light Infantry. OUTSTANDING IMPORTANCE. The Army Council, the War Office statement continues, desire to acknowledge with gratitude the ...

Published: Friday 10 July 1936
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 564 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BEDALE COUNCILLOR

... Marske, June 18 to July 3. 150 th Infantry Bde, 4th East Yorkshire Regiment. 4th and Green Howards, and 6th Durham Light Infantry. July 8 to 22. 161 st Infantry Brigade. 6th, 7th. Bth and 9th Durham Light ...

M.P.s Less Curious

... were then have their turn. . The Bugle adds: The 61st Light Infantry (now the Yorkshire Light Infantry) undoubtedly fired the first shots of the Battle of Waterloo. After the battle, the 51st spent the night June 18-19 In the wood or ...

NEW ROLES OF N.E. UNITS CONVERSION FOR DEFENCE AGAINST AIR ATTACKS The 2nd Anti-Aircraft Division, which is ..

... (Tyne Electrical Engineers). Royal Engineers; rolean Anti-Aircraft Battalion. Royal Engineers. 7th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry; role an Anti - Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers. 31st (North Midland) Anti-Aircraft Group. Head-quarters provisionally ...

THE TREND OF THINGS

... Yorkshire Regiment by its 2nd Battalion i disbanded in 1817); the Green Howards, 1840-43; Ist Battalion King's Own Light Infantry, 1823-34. The old 51st spent the very long period of thirteen years in those lovely islands, and it is on record that the health of ...

Published: Saturday 15 April 1939
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 688 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE PRIDE OF QURS

... magazine of the yV,rescO ts Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment P and e> piains. An observant man, on seeing the , rU Light Infantry on parade, would llie by the fact that the sergeants of the were their sashes across their instead across their right ...

Published: Friday 10 March 1939
Newspaper: Chelmsford Chronicle
County: Essex, England
Type: Article | Words: 795 | Page: 12 | Tags: none