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... Cornwall's Light Infantry He spent two years s a prisoner of war in Germany then. He was instrumental in forming the 237 th Field Company Royal Engineers, and was in command of .that unit from 1923 until appointed to the command of the 51st (Highland) ...
... important town before the retreat pivot of Oldenburg, after advances of between five and six miles. The 51st Highland Division, advancing through light resistance, have gained another 15 miles in 12 hours. They have captured Vechta, a road junction 32 miles ...
... 51st Men Re-Live 1940 In A Film BY A MILITARY OBSERVER. _ At Westetiinke, near Bremen, officers and other ranks of the 51st Highland Division are helping to make film which features prison life in Germany and the long march of the British prisoners to ...
... the Highland Light Infantry, who resides in Eastern Angus. In a letter to a friend in his home town, he states:— I have now been in various parts of this desert land for six months. This period does not, of course, include the voyage, which was mainly ...
... Rommel's tough static defences are manned by German and Italian infantry, with Axis panzers waiting behind them. The toughest and heaviest punches will be required to shake this bulwark. Infantry obviously could not do it alone. That is why there has been ...
... the Divisional Provost Company and the Independent Infantry Brigade Signals Squadron. The city will also have headquarters and one battery of the 531 Light A.-A. Regiment R.A. (formerly 31st (Perth) Light A.-A. Regiment), well as Headquarters, 78th A.-A ...
... British regiments which took part in the push yesterday are the Seaforths and Gordons, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, Somerset Light Infantry, Hampshires, and East Lancashires. The Scots took Kessel 2 a.m. at a cost of seven casualties. Everyone had ...
... NEW RESIDENT PRINCIPAL 51st DIVISION GENERAL FOR U.C.D. The Council of University College, Dundee, a special meeting yesterday, appointed Major-General D. N. Wimberley, (18., D.5.0., M.C., Director of Infantry at the War Office, resident principal of ...
... Engineers (51st Division), who was reported missing on June 20, prisoner of war. Lieut-Col. Smail is a member of the ft'tri of Mills & Shepherd, architects, 9 South Street, Dundee. In the last war he was a second lieutenant in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry ...
... taken prisoner while serving with the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. He was apain actively identified with the Territorial Army from its reformation in 1922. He was Commander, Royal Engineers. 51st Division, and was taken prisoner in France in 1940. He ...
... s i ona l Provost tompany and the Independent Infantry Brigade Signals ISquadron. The city will also have headquarters and one battery of the 's3lst Light A.A. Regimment P.A. (formerly 31st (Perth) Light A.A. Regiment), as well as Headouarters, 78th A ...
... commander of the Royal Engineers of the 51st Division. It was his second tiijie in German hands, for he was prisoner for two years during the last war when serving with the Ist Battalion Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. The two camps were moved east on 28th ...