Somersets and Wiltshires In A Tough Spot

... flank of the British Second Army sector at Rees, where the 51st Highland Division had forced a crossing and where resistance was toughest. A battalion of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry fought an all-night battle with fanatical Germans before capturing ...

WEST REGIMENTS IN RHINE BATTLE

... immediately shot from at least six quarters his own troops. The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry had been forced to advance on foot against the enemy. The Somerset Light Infantry and the Worcestershires cleared the defence line formed by an unfinished autobahn ...

Published: Monday 02 April 1945
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 225 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

OVER THE RHINE

... Yorkshire Yeomanry, the Westminster Dragoons, the Duke Cornwall's Light Infantry, the Worcester-, shire Regiment, the Hampshire Regiment, the Dorset Regiment, the Somerset Light Infantry, and the Wiltshire Regiment. The airborne divisions included the ...

Published: Friday 30 March 1945
Newspaper: Western Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 475 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NOTTS. TERRITORIALS

... Territorial Army is to have six infantry divisions, two armoured and one airborne, in addition to independent armoured and infantry brigades, artillery and engineer formations, and the necessary Corps and Army troops. The infantry divisions will be the 42nd ...

Published: Friday 06 December 1946
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 273 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Scotland's Day On The Rhine

... touched down four minutes past midnight on Friday. They were followed by more men of the Black Watch, the Argylls, Highland Light Infantry, and the Gordons until the east bank of the river was swarming with Scotsmen and they were driving inland. Assault troops ...

Published: Sunday 25 March 1945
Newspaper: Sunday Post
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 98 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

We Reach Rhine Near Emmerich

... hed part. The battle has been an all- British effort, for the East Lancashires, the nuke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, the Somerset Light Infantry, and the Hampshires have also been employed. ...

Published: Friday 16 February 1945
Newspaper: Daily Dispatch (Manchester)
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 293 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

It in 1940

... Warwickshire Regt . and 2nd Battn.. The King's Shropshire Light Infantry. The gunners who normally supported 185th Infantry Brigade were 7th Field Regiment. Royal Artillery, which, like the infantry battalions, was a pre-war Regular Army unit. The 185th ...

Published: Friday 07 September 1945
Newspaper: Lynn Advertiser
County: Norfolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 224 | Page: 8 | 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

THE DAILY MIRROR THE MEN WHO DID IT!

... RIDING OF YORKSHIRE YEOMANRY. WESTMINSTER DRAGOONS. DUKE OF CORNWALL'S LIGHT INFANTRY. WORCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT. HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT. DORSETSHIRE REGIMENT. SOMERSET LIGHT INFANTRY. WILTSHIRE REGIMENT. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE YEOMANRY. A mighty list ! To it has ...

Published: Tuesday 27 March 1945
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
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A VETERAN'S COLLAPSE

... Pontefract, who claims in to be the oldest ex-ranker the *s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, collapsed while walking in Pontefract was taken to the Mr, Withers is 93. He enlisted in the 51st K.0.Y.L.I. in 1870 and fought in one of the Af wars. He has ences twice ...

Published: Saturday 14 September 1946
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 94 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

PIPING IN GERMANY

... Success at Highland Sports Pipe-Major Donald Shaw Ramsay, Highland Light Infantry, who belongs to Avonbridge, and has his home in Westquarter Village, took a very prominent part in the 51st Highland Divisional sports held recently in Germany. In the spring ...

Published: Saturday 13 October 1945
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 269 | Page: 7 | Tags: none