Brigadier Anderson retires

... 1982 after commanding the 51st Highland Brigade at Perth. = Born in Wooler, Northumberland, and educated in Newcastle, Brigadier Anderson joined The Black Watch at Elgin and was commissioned into The Highland Light Infantry, now the Royal Highland Fusiliers ...

Published: Friday 04 November 1988
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 191 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

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

MALAYA COMMAND FOR MAJ.-GEN. URQUHART

... Highland Light Infantry in December 1920. After service. as a regimental officer and graduating from the Staff College, Camberley, he held x{g%g :?gppointments in India during During the desert campaign in North Africa he was G. 5.0.1 with the 51st (Highland) ...

Published: Thursday 09 February 1950
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 185 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

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 ...

DISCHARGE

... would be a sorry thing for comrades and relatives of such men in the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, the 51st Highland Division and the 120th Infantry, 30th Infantry Division, one of the oldest and proudest regiments in the Army of the U.S ...

Published: Friday 08 January 1960
Newspaper: Buckinghamshire Examiner
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 350 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

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
Type: | Words: 252 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

VOLI7NTEERS

... deapite, the fact tht we had ft large rational Service potential —we not got a large voluntary potential. Referring to their .light for, more financial'poivers, Colonel Hunter said 'that -their powers in ent construction had now M ri t l l 4l ; n aised from ...

Published: Saturday 04 February 1950
Newspaper: Staffordshire Newsletter
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 173 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SATURDAY SERIES BREAD AND J'ipg SOUVENIRS (f FIRST WORLD

... years at his home, Belmont, 30 Walton. Mr. Wesley served with the 14th Highland Light Infantry in the offensive at Armentiers on Aggfil 19, 1918, when almost the whole of the 51st Scottish Division were taken prisoner. He worked at a P.O.W. camg) until December ...

Published: Saturday 07 December 1963
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 156 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Concert, Cabert & Summer Shows: ROUND ABOUT

... for the Millions' at Bournemouth Winter Gardens under the Harold Fielding banner. Pipes and drums of Headquarters 51st Highland Infantry Division Signals (TA) from Aberdeen pre sentcd the first of two musical programmes at Whitby in aid of the football ...

Published: Thursday 10 July 1958
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 333 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

STRATHEARN HERALD and TO THE BOOKIE'S GAMES DAY OVERHEARD in Comrie SHAKE the mothballs out Street the other day

... What will the Chieftain wear? We are prepared to bet on a 51st RE-UNION Tweed Suit. With all their advertising on television the MEN and women who served Directors hope for a record in the 51st Highland crowd —if the weather is Division between mobilisation ...

Published: Saturday 21 August 1965
Newspaper: Strathearn Herald
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 344 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SCOTS DIVISIONS’ MEMORIAL Details of Glasgow Ceremony

... and the 'battle honours of the four divisions' the 9th, 15th 51st, and 52nd. . The treatment of the window—which 'was designed and made by Mr Gordon | Webster, Glasgow—aims at secunn, lightness combined with brilliance o colour in the subject panels. It ...

Published: Wednesday 28 July 1954
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 534 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Lions get a glimpse of the opposition Will see Rhodesian XV in action

... Cup for all units taking part and the T.A. Challenge Bowl for the best Territorial unit. The Highland Light Infantry Bowl goes to the best infantry unit. All these trophies are presentlv held by the 11th Battalion Seaforth Hichlanders (T.A.). *“ The Scotsman” ...

Published: Wednesday 16 May 1962
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 475 | Page: 15 | Tags: none