TERRITORIALS

... the 130 th Infantry and 51st Artillery Brigades will go under canvas at East Budleigli tomorrow for their 14 days' annual training. Six special trains will convey the men to Exmouth, whence they will march to the camp. Composing the infantry brigade are ...

Published: Saturday 01 August 1931
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 175 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

FRONTIER HEROES. Two Durham Men Mentioned In Despatches

... HEROES. Two Durham Men Mentioned In Despatches. Sergt. T. Burkes, M.M.. and Corporal W. Brooks, M.M., 2nd Battn, Durham Light Infantry, have been nientioned in despatchas for distinguished serviceg on the North-West Frortier of India, Last night’s ¢ Loudon ...

Published: Saturday 27 June 1931
Newspaper: Newcastle Daily Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 133 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

he Terrors of the East

... King's Royal Hussars. and to this day an annual sports meeting commemorates the occasion on which the 51st Regiment (now the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry) was saved by the 15th Hussars in the Peninsula. The two corps were crossing the swollen River Esla ...

Published: Sunday 17 January 1937
Newspaper: Sunday Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 523 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

LOSS TO THE D.L.I

... LOSS TO THE D.L.I. The death occurred to-day in his 51st year of Lleut.-Col. Ernest George Crouch, D.5.0., D.C.M., one of the best known officers in the Durham Light Infantry. Colonel Crouch started his career in 1891 in the ranks of the County Regiment ...

SCOTTISH MILITARY CHANGES

... November 9. 1932. 13th (Highland) Light Brigade—2nd Lieut. Mackinnon to be Lieut.. January 11. 1933. Corns of Royal Engineers. ,51st (Highland) Divisional Engineers—2nd L'ent. R. J. Maitland to be Lieut., January 18, 1933. Infantry. 9th Battalion Argyll and ...

Published: Wednesday 01 February 1933
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 128 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

COMMANDED PERTH VOLUNTEERS

... BRIG.-GEN. R. B. FELL. Brig.-Gen. R- B. Fell, who has died in London, aged 74, joined the 90t,h (Perthshire Volunteers) Light Infantry, commanded Colonel Evelyn Wood, f rom Sandhurst in 1878. He served in the Zulu War of 1879, and as second in command of ...

Published: Saturday 24 March 1934
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 139 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

DUCHESS OF YORK

... famous Five Sisters York Minster will be unveiled to-day by the Duchess of York as a memorial the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, of which she is colonel-in-chief. Like the West Yorkshire Regiment and the Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) ...

Published: Wednesday 19 April 1933
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 197 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ARMY ANNOUNCEMENTS

... the appointment of commander 155 th E. Scottish Infantry Brigade; Colonel J. Marshall-Cornwall, C.8.E., D.SO., M.C.. H.P., to be commander R.A. 51st Highland Division. Royal Artillery, 13th Highland Light Brigade—Officer Cadet George Blakemore Lewis, from ...

Published: Wednesday 03 August 1932
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 74 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

►l.l. CUBS PLEASE NOTE

... at• Military Ceremony on North Inch. COMMEMORATING BIRTH OF PERTHSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY. A t ine.honourei I ceremony in commemoration of the raising of the 90th Perthshire Light Infantry was held at the obelisk on the North Inch on Wednesday when a detachment ...

Published: Saturday 16 May 1931
Newspaper: Perthshire Advertiser
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 476 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

TERRITORIALS CAMPS APPROACHING

... Army camps are approaching —in fact, the 13th Highland Light Brigade Royal Artillery is already in camp at Dreghorn. and will return from camp on Saturday. This Brigade includes the 51st (Ross) Light Battery, R.A., from Stornoway. They are now partly mechanised ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1935
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 316 | Page: 13 | Tags: none