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... HOMS A HARD NUT FOR 51st How ‘Edinburgh Castle’ Was Stormed TN a fight for Edinburgh Castle in the Battle * of the Hills near Homs, in Tripoli, Seaforths and Black Watch drove crack German parachute troops and Italians from strongly-fortified positions ...
... E. Smith, Merryton Crescent, Nairn. Platoon Sgt.-Major J. Ballantyne, Whinhill Terrace. Banff. LIST R.A.S.C. HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY L/Cpl. J. Breen, 36 King Street Nairn. Driver Buxton. 1 Benview, Auch- leven, Insch. Pte. Lewis S. Christie, 69 Kingsmills ...
... Boche on the same day The Hun infantry had moved forward before our barrage opened, with the result that when the Camerons advanced they came under heavv fire from unscathed troops. , , , _ The attack, supported bv French light tanks, which were mined or ...
... SIEGFRIED LINE 51st Took Three Towns, But ‘lt Was No Glamour Story’ 51st (Highland) Division led the attack of the Ist Canadian Army between the Maas and the Rhine from the opening of the offensive on February 8, but,” said a senior officer, it was no ...
... acting as locum at St Ninian’s Church. Brechin. of 51st? From Our Film Critic ABERDEEN WEEKLY JOURNAL. August 28, Why Not Film AUSTRALIA has put its magnificent cavalry troops, the famous Australian Light Horse, on the world’s screen. In the film, “Forty ...
... Mrs Grant. Portsoy. He went to Canada at an early age and served through the Great War in Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry from 1914 to 1918. After the war he was from 1919 to 1931 private secretary to three successive Prime Ministers of Canada ...
... German tanks and notorised infantry were advancing north from Rouen, and threatening to cut off the retreat of the Division and Corps on Le Havre. ,local enemy anti-tank guns accounted for almost all H'vintr tanks, and the infantry them, instead of being ...
... at 64 Claremont Street, has been recaptured in Italy, and is now in a German prison camp. Pte. William B. Esson, Durham Light Infantry, eldest son of Mr and Mrs Wm. Esson. 21 Ruthrieston Crescent, is reported missing, believed prisoner war. FLYING Officer ...
... of three V.C. s —Lt.-Cdr. Malcolm Wanklyn, K.N., of H.M. submarine Upholder (Coupar Angus); Pte. Adam Wakenshaw, Durham Light Infantry (Newcastle); and Flying Officer Leslie Manser, R.A.F.V.R. (Radlett, Herts). Proudly clutching his dead father’s medal ...