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... regiments. Major-General Robert Elliott Urquhart (,)) was commissioned into the Highland Light Infantry from Sandhurst in 1920. He was senior staff officer with the 51st (Highland) Division in North Africa. 1942-43, and commanded the Ist Airborne Division ...

Published: Wednesday 04 December 1957
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 320 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

CHAIRMAN'S ADDRESS

... regiment that would be second to none in the British army. It was sad to feel, he said, that the fusion of the Highland Light Infantry and the Royal Scots Fusiliers was not being easily accomplished. A lot had been spoken and written, but he hoped that ...

AMALGAMATION OF REGIMENTS

... regi{mental tartan was the Cameron of !Erracht; and the MacKenzie tartan as |worn by both the Seaforths and High(land Light Infantry be the tartan of the |amalgamated HL.I. and Royal Scots !Fusiliers regiment. ! May I suggest that all Royal Stewart tartan ...

Royal review of Scottish units in Queen’s Park

... to Berlin two years later. The Division’s infantry contingents in the Review will include representatives of the 11th Seaforth Highlanders, the 4/6th and 6/7th Black Watch, the 5/6th Highland Light Infantry, the 7th and Bth Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders ...

Published: Saturday 05 July 1958
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2181 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HIGHLAND SHOW

... 23rd, 25th, 37th and 51st Regiments of Foot, now the Suffolk Regiment, The Lancashire Fusiliers, The Royal Welch Fusiliers, The King's Own Scottish Borderers, The Royal Hampshire Regiment and the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. The battalions were ...

Published: Thursday 02 July 1959
Newspaper: Dalkeith Advertiser
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 427 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

wall 'collapsed Obituary COL. HERBERT SMAIL | | Dundee architect I Col. Herbert M. Smail, TD., a| Dundee ..

... former Terri-| torial Army officer, died yesterday. He was 69. o He was a second lieutenant in the | Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry in | the First World War, and was a prisoner for nearly two years. ', He then began a long associatjoni with the firm ...

Published: Monday 08 February 1960
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 192 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

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... residents in the village for dead et a light opposite their horses and had Council in Cry been turned down. If the Houß:ng Tuesday, • over .Soolety avoided to erect their houses Wooly printed where there were no lights then It wan up to the Society to bear ...

Published: Saturday 26 November 1960
Newspaper: Strathearn Herald
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 3336 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

EVENT

... Pathology at Aberdeen University, and. holding the Rank of Colonel in the Territorial (R.A.M.C.). is A.D.M.S. in the 51st (Highland) Infantry A well-attended funeral service was held in the South Church, Crieff, on Monday when the Presbytery of Auchterarder ...

Published: Saturday 14 January 1961
Newspaper: Strathearn Herald
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 1648 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

P.C. FOR 22 YEARS ON DRUNK DRIVING CHARGE

... probation report under the First Otfenders Act. * * * * The W.R.A.C. Territorial units will wear the famous H.D. sign of the 51st Infantry Division for the first time today when units in Grangemouth, Dunfermline, and Perth get their flashes from their commanding ...

Published: Sunday 05 March 1961
Newspaper: Sunday Post
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 300 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Twenty four qualify for King George Cup

... King's Cup. which has a possible of 100 points the first stage have had to score 76. Col. W. D H Duke, secretary, said: “The light quite good though a slight wind from the south Is blowing across the land and making firing on the longer range difficult. ...

Published: Saturday 05 August 1961
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 539 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LOOKING B

... Scotland is to be re-organised on a war basis. The headquarters of the famous 51st (Highland) Infantry Division will remain at Perth, but those of the 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division are to he transferred from Glasgow to Edinburgh. Herald, August, 1939 ...

Published: Saturday 12 August 1961
Newspaper: Strathearn Herald
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 740 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

From Gur Turret W indow

... his connection with it, for he promptly *“joined up” again—as a civilian clerk in the Territorials with 153 Infantry Brigade and later the 51st (Highland) Division. From the outbreak of the Second World War until ten days ago he was a civilian clerk with ...

Published: Thursday 19 April 1962
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 706 | Page: 6 | Tags: none