... 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 ...

... should be made on .Tune 4. This time French tanks and infantry, assisted by British inf -try and artillery on either flank, were to carry out the attack at dawn. During the night French tanks and infantry were heard moving up from to an ssembly area just ...

... 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 ...

... Engineers, 51st Division, Farrington Street, Dundee, who was reported missing in June is a prisoner of war. Lieut.-Col. Smail, Who is an architect, was a prisoner in the last w ar or almost two years when serving with the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Pte ...

... THE GORDONS’ BAPTISM OF FIRE of The 51st in Battle of France Bv C. E. Lev Smith crowded deck of the ship taking them home ° B ntain, a handful of Gordon Highlanders who cliff esca Ped f rom veules looked back anxiously at the T|w S Valery-en-Caux. ero ...

... ZERO HOUR STRIKES ON THE SOMME The 51st in The Battle of France Gordons Moved , to Stem Retreat t Nst alment of the first full narrative of Tf{ E WRDONS' part in the blitzkrieg tells how ORTh ~EAST men were moved from the WOT LINE TO THE ESTUARY OF ...

... Gordons Clear the Bois de Cambron The 51st in Battle of France GERMANS ROUTED AT r- BA YONET POINT—, In this stirring instalment of the Gordons' adventures in the Battle of France details of the fearless hand-to-hand fighting that characterised the ...

... 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 ...

... Field Company with the 51st Division worked unceasingly throwing up defences. Bombs fell in their vicinity. Nazi planes once swooped down to rake them with machine-guns. Still they kept working to have the pits ready for the infantry when they had to retire ...

... BRIEF GREETINGS TO THE 51st JJlNorth-east Gunners in Belgium °f Tension on Eve °* Enemy Attack Ley Smith tivelv % of enj °y able passed in the neigh- W' r Then the regiment moved to Meninel, and Cherisy, near Arras, the Every inch of that countryside ...

... around Villy-le-Bas and deployed to go up and meet the German attack on the left. Infantry reinforcements also joined the Division. With this strengthening the 51st, prospects of firm stand on the Bresle became brighter. The gunners' spirits rose ...

... Why Not Film of 51st? From Our Film Critic Australia has put its magnificent cavalry troops, the famous Australian Light Horse, on the world's screen. In the film, Forty Thousand Horsemen, the exploits in the Palestine campaign in the last war of this ...