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The 51st

... The 51st The 44th and 51st British Infantry Divisions are standing on the coast road, said the German News Agency today. To the south of them is stationed the 10th Tank Division, while on the southern flank are the 7th Tank Division and the two New ...

Published: Friday 15 January 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 90 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Why Not Film of 51st?

... 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 ...

Published: Friday 22 August 1941
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 221 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BRIEF GREETINGS TO THE 51st

... 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 ...

Published: Tuesday 28 January 1941
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1116 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HOMS A HARD NUT FOR 51st

... HOMS A HARD NUT FOR 51st How 'Edinburgh Castle' Was Stormed TX 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 ...

Published: Friday 26 February 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 593 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

10 MONTHS' SAGA OF 51st: ALAMEIN TO ETNA

... 10 MONTHS' SAGA OF 51st: ALAMEIN TO ETNA GENERAL WIMBERLEY TELLS GREAT SCOTS GATHERING MORE FIGHTING THAN ANY DIVISION THROUGH the fortunes of war, it has so happened that the 51st Highland Division must have seen more fighting during the ten months ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3480 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HOW GALLANT 51st DIVISION 'WENT INTO ECLIPSE'

... Boche the same day. ' The Hun infantry had moved forward before our barrage opened. with the result that when the Camerons advanced they oam f I under heavy fire from unscathed troops. The attack, supported French light tanks, which were mined or shot ...

Published: Wednesday 19 August 1942
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2221 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HOMS A HARD NUT FOR 51st How ‘Edinburgh Castle’ Was Stormed

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 04 March 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1050 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

NO KILTS TO HANG ON SIEGFRIED LINE

... NO KILTS TO HANG ON SIEGFRIED LINE 51st Took Three Towns, But 'It 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 ...

Published: Monday 26 February 1945
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 434 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MAN WHO LED SKY-TROOPS

... officer in the Army at the time. With 51st Division Gen. Urquhart was commissioned in the Highland Light Infantry and served in India before the outbreak of war. He had distinguished service on the staff of the 51st Division when it was in North Africa ...

Published: Friday 29 September 1944
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 457 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FIRST TANK CLASH WON DECISIVELY BY 8th ARMY

... beginning of the second phase of the offensive—the phase of armoured concentration. The engineers and infantry have paved the way. Gen. Montgomery's infantry have again deepened the area of their penetration into the Axis defensive system in a night advance ...

Published: Thursday 29 October 1942
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 571 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

TAKEN BY SURPRISE AT THE OUTSET

... Australians, the 51st !Highland Division, the New Zealanders and South Africans carried out the main attack The enemy got a complete surprise. Some of his positions were not even mined. Conselquently our casualties were very small. By the first light on Saturday ...

Published: Thursday 05 November 1942
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 221 | Page: 4 | Tags: none