CRACK RUSSIAN TROOPS DIE IN HUNDREDS

... up-to-date gas masks of German model. Four-inch guns in skilfully camouflaged bomb-proof shelters had backed up the Finnish infantry in the deadly fire which levied this grim toll on the Russian troops on the Karelia front. The heavy batteries of the Finnish ...

Published: Tuesday 02 January 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 676 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE CALLANDER ADVERTISER JANUARY 13 1940 ADVERTISER OFFICE MUUN STREET CALLANDER For the Long Dark Make them ..

... condition I Bundy being called up at the outbreak -is fulfilled by lighting of intensity of war not exceeding 00025 foot candles on I the ground Mould be secured re££?d by requirement in the Lighting (Restrictions) Order that only nttings complying with the ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1940
Newspaper: Callander Advertiser
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5290 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

YOUR OLD FURNITURE TAKEN IN PART PAYMENT FOR NEW-BEST PRICES GIVEN b THE EDITOR’S POST BAG COMFORTS APPEAL FOR ..

... Highlanders, the Gordon Highlanders, the Cameron nghlanders; the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, ' the Highland Light Infantry, the 51st (H) Anti-Tank Regiment, the 61st (H) Anti-Tank Regiment, the Scottish Horse, the Lovat Scouts, the Royal Air Force ...

Published: Friday 26 January 1940
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 429 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

71ft died. i disd of wounds

... LEICESTERSHIRE REGT.: Barrow. L--Cpl. ; Walker. Cpl. B. W. T.; Woodward. Pte. E. W. KING’S SHROPSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY; Pr.day. Act. Qpl. W. C. HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY: Brook*. Pte. J. killed at Sea. ex. is. Yerhshir«b ROYAL TANK itEOT ; Allawaj. L-Opl. W. C. royal ...

Published: Wednesday 31 January 1940
Newspaper: Express and Echo
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 504 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Letter to the Editor. TO THE EDITOR OF * THE CAMPBELTOWN COURIER.”

... Highlanders, The Gordon Highlanders, The Cameron Highlanders, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, The Highland Light Infantry, The 51st (H) Anti- Tank Regiment, The 61st (H) Anti-Tank Regiment, The Scottish Horse, The Lovat Scouts, The Royal Air Force ...

Published: Saturday 03 February 1940
Newspaper: Campbeltown Courier
County: Argyll, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 392 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

' , SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1940. To inert fears that earlier summer time will mean too early rising for Perthshire

... the Seaforth Highlanders. the Gordon Highlanders, the Cameron Highlanders, the Argyll and Highlanders, the Highland Light Infantry, the 51st (H) Anti-Tank Regimen:, the 61st (H) .An4i-Tank Regiment, the SeotAish Horse, the Lovat Scouts, the Royal Air Force ...

Published: Saturday 03 February 1940
Newspaper: Strathearn Herald
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 3237 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Sir 'Courtenay Latimer's New Post '

... are to be married shortly it is announced to-day. They are Captain Richard Percival Hawkesley Burbury, of the Cornwall Light Infantry, younger son of the late Lieut.- Con. and Mrs F. W. Burbury, of Kcresforth, Yorkshire, and Daphne, only daughter of Lieut ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 742 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

;NV, MARCH 22, 1940

... in May, 1915, with the famous 51st Highland Division. After six months with the Expeditionary Force he was commissioned to the Highland Light Infantry, and returned to France with the 11th Battalion Highland Light Infantry, which, after the ...

Published: Friday 22 March 1940
Newspaper: Montrose Review
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1093 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

INDIAN LEADER ARRESTED

... Perth, has been posted missing. Before the war he commanded the 51st (Highland) Divisional R.A.S.C. Portobello Men Private Simpson F. Watson (21), K. 0.8.8, transferred to Durham Light Infantry, is reg)orted missing. The youngest son of Mr and Mrs David Watson ...

Published: Tuesday 02 July 1940
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1685 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HEROISM

... unable to see in the gathering dark and yet not daring to use his lights, he ran into a concertina wire. German tanks were lying up for the night behind a network of wire. At once light automatic weapons opened fire from the woods. A heavier gun sent several ...

Published: Friday 12 July 1940
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 433 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Heroism of Oddments Force in Retreat from The Somme

... unable to see in the gathering dark and yet not daring to use his lights, he ran into a concertina wire. German tanks were lying up for the night behind a network of wire At once light automatic weapons opened fire from the woods. A heavier gun sent several ...

Published: Friday 12 July 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1520 | Page: 1 | Tags: none