NI Lord Chief

... NI Lord Chief Justice recalls days in infantry 71ESPITE the National Health 1 . Service, welfare work continued to be the main purpose of the Belfast branch of the Maj or rtie Association. said H. J. Porter, branch chairman. at the annual dinner in ...

Published: Monday 15 October 1951
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
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LONDON NOTES MJ\s who will get up early

... to be published next month. Private Wheeler served In Wellington's campaign In the 51st Regiment of Foot—now the Ist Battalion The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. The letters have been edited famous former officer of the regiment. Captain B. H. Liddcll ...

October 31 1951 PERTHSHIRE ADVERTISER highland division Lord Tedder’s Message to Old Guard VTEVER prepared for ..

... theme the 51st (Highland) Division It was one of the finest themes in the history of Scotland and the British Army To do it justice they ought to have had a Walter Scott or someone of that calibre Lord Tedder who was proposing the toast of the 51st (Highland) ...

Published: Wednesday 31 October 1951
Newspaper: Perthshire Advertiser
County: Perthshire, Scotland
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DIVISION

... Reunion MISTAKES OF THE PAST Half light—of neither peace nor war,” was the description given of the world by Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Lord Tedder, when he proposed the main toast at the 36th reunion dinner of the 51st (Highland) Division Dinner Club ...

Published: Wednesday 31 October 1951
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 612 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BLACKLERS

... by Captain R. He Liddell Hart. the well-known military historian. William Wheeler joined the 51st Regiment of Foot. now the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, in 1809. and the letters contained in this book were written by him. during his 19 years of ...

Published: Monday 12 November 1951
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
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lAn eye-witness of Water 10

... second throws much fresh light upon one of the most distinguished English eccentrics, Lady Hester Stanhope. II -+ PRIVATE WILLIAM WHEELER was a soldier in the 51st Regiment of Foot, later the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. He was a man of little ...

Published: Thursday 15 November 1951
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
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Books FOrR CHRISTMAS Peaks of the Himalaya and Tartary

... Edited by Captain B. H. Liddell Hart. (18s. Michael Joseph.) Private William Wheeler joined the 51st | Regiment of Foot (npw the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry) in April 1809. He saw much active service in the last few years of the Napoleonic wars, being ...

Published: Thursday 22 November 1951
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
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Colonel Guthrie of Guthrie Cale si, chairman, made sympathetic reference at a meeting of Forfar District ..

... Long Service Volunteer Medal. In the First World War lie served from 1914 to 1919 with The Black Watch and the Highland Light Infantry. Mr McLean is survived by hii wife and a family of five sons and four daughters. RADIO EXHIBMON. Television transmissions ...

Published: Saturday 01 December 1951
Newspaper: Arbroath Guide
County: Angus, Scotland
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More Gift Books for Christmas The lively letters of a private

... telling all my friends to get acquainted with Private William Wheeler of the 51st Foot, which later given the name of the lit Battalion. the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. The only way to make his acquaintance is to read the letters that he wrote ...

Published: Friday 07 December 1951
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 434 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

MR. J. LAMB

... adopt units of the Territorial Army with associations with the city. The units would include the 51st (.Ulster) AA. Brigade, 107 (Ulster) Independent Infantry Group T.A, the North Irish Horse, Royal Armoured Corps, T.A., and 429 (Antrim) Coast Regiment, ...

Published: Tuesday 18 December 1951
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 534 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE BUCKS EXAMINER FRIDAY JANUARY 18th 19 5 2 Clearance SALE of WINTER BOOTEES Five Styles Leather and Suede 776

... E Golding held the Head- went to Oxfordshire— taking up Thl teacher’s post was the first monthly meeting of with Hawe® Light Infantry during the First the the unavoidable ab- j War After the war he of Mrs Houseman j to Spain and took edu- T eI- cation ...

Published: Friday 18 January 1952
Newspaper: Buckinghamshire Examiner
County: Buckinghamshire, England
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