... In the Venlo sector of Holland, the , Kensingtons first supported the 53rd Division and 51st (Highland) Division, and then carried on to support their own infantry. Mud and mines were the feature of this phase. The end of November, 1414, found them on ...

... May 1939 have been the machine-gun and heavy mortar-men of the 49th Infantry Divi sion since 1941 The role of the 2nd Bn in the NW Europe campaign was to igve support to the infantry For the machine-gun companies it was a story of fighting in support ...

... Division Plans were suddenly changed however on reaching France the battalion went into the fine in the Moselle sector with the 51st (Highland) Division In the heavy that followed the battalion lost “A” and companies almost to a man and many of company in ...

... Scottish Borderers, the Cameronians, the Black Watch, the Highland Light Infantry, and other Scottish units in their progress along Whitehall. Many of these men had fought in the celebrated 51st Highland Division, at Alamein. in Tnpohtania, in Sicily, and again ...

... the salu ting-base. On August I, at Minden, The Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry celebrated the victory which they gained on the plains of Minden 187 years ago. They were then the 51st of Foot, newly raised, and they fought their way to victory along ...

... should be brief, but it was once again distinguished. This time it came into being between September and November 1939, the infantry basis being battalions recently formed on the doubling of the Territorial Army. It was raised by Major-General R. Le Farm ...