... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... :—The 51st Division, with three infantry and one tank brigade ,and the 7th Tank Division. Behind them, to serve as a second wave, were assembled the 50th British Division and the 2nd New Zealand Division, which comprise together four infantry brigades ...

... original size. U.S. infantry are now two miles from Ludenscheid, in the south-east corner of the pocket. 1' all of the town is imminent. The First and Ninth Armies have taken 84,500 prisoners in the Ruhr pocket in the 12 days. Infantry yesterday captured ...

... south-east of Berlin. Erfurt was entered against light opposition after a heavy bombardment. On Montgomery's front, it was Scottish troops' day. The 15th Division took Celle, 53 miles from Hamburg, and the 51st Division cracked on six miles to capture the ...

... s Eighth Army are to be reckoned with in the next few days, said the German News Agency last night. The 44th and 51st (Highland) Infantry Divisions are standing on the coastal road, the agency said. To the south of them is stationed the 10th Tank Division ...

... they fought their battles over again on the tablecloth. INVERNESSTTELEGRAM TO 51st Inverness Town Council yesterday decided to send a telegram to the commanding officer of the 51st Highland Division, conveying the admiration of the Highlands on the part played ...