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Rod Will Need a Kilt for Crieff Games

... bands parade. Bands taking part will be from the 4/5 Rn. The Black Watch, 6/7 lin. The Black Watch. 5/6 Rn. The Highland Light Infantry and 7th Rn. The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. ...

Published: Saturday 06 August 1955
Newspaper: Strathearn Herald
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 334 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Pipes and Drums

... D. 5.0., !WC., T.D., Crieff, U.C. 6/7 lin. The Black Watch; 1.1.-C01..1. I). Fraser, T.D.. U.C. 6/6 tin. The Highland Light Infantry•; 1.t.-Col. F. A. Hendry, T.D., O.C. 7th the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. The Pipes and drums gave two performances ...

Published: Saturday 27 August 1955
Newspaper: Strathearn Herald
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 297 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

UIST ROCKET ' RANGE

... Major-Generaly E. C. Colville, Chiefof-Staff, Headquarters, Far Eas: Land Forces, to be General Officer Commanding 51st (Highland) Infantry Division (T.A)) and Highland District, from March 1956, has been anproved by the Queen, it was announced recently ...

CYPRUS BOMB EXPLOSION Glasgow Soldier Killed

... Correspondent NICOSIA, Wednesday.—lt was officially announced here to-night thal Brigadier J. Robertson, Commander of the 51st Infantry Brigade, has convened a court of inquiry to investigate yesterday’'s Eoka outrage at Lefkoniko, in which Private Matthew ...

Published: Thursday 25 October 1956
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 202 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

INFANTRY IN ATOMIC WAR

... Services. ¥ General Wimberley served in both World Wars with the Scottish infantry. He comganded the 51st Highland Division from 1941-43, and from 1944-46 was Director of Infantry at the War Office. He can, therefore, speak with the fullest authority on ...

Published: Tuesday 29 January 1957
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1008 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

I. A. OLIVER. C. 8., C.8.E., D. 5.0.. T.D.. D.L., A.D.C. Parente specially tames for the lillitALD ►y has Wight

... put it on record, It can be said, without fear of contradiction, that the debt which not only 154 Brigade, but the whole 51st owed to Brigadier Oliver for the great reputation they acquired, was no small one. At the battle of El Alamein he won the ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1957
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1530 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

1 ir IIIIMHII! r® DAILY RECORD REPORTER of ALL regt- RED AND Continued on Back Page POST COUPON of the

... were: The merging of the Highland Light Infantry and the Royal scots usiliers oldest fusilier regiment In the Army The amalgamation-of th Seaforth High landers and the Queen’s Own High landers” The scrapping famous 51st Division and The abolition mental ...

Published: Thursday 25 July 1957
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 824 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

To the. EDITOR of “ THE SCOTSMAN

... become just plain bores. Banner headlines mourning the 51st (Highland) Division may just become a red rag to a bull for a man of the 15th (Lowland). and the velps of an outraged infantryman tbe he light or heavy) are tedious and :{ying to others who have ...

Published: Thursday 01 August 1957
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 422 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

IMPRACTICABLE

... 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