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... farm er for many years and before retired was employed the •i I Ordnance Factory. Puriton > was serving with the uerset Light Infantry in the World War Mrs. Barnett • ...

Late Mr. Robert Slade

... managing director of Starkey. Knight & Ford Ltd., brewers, Bridgwater. Served in Malaya Mr. Slade served with the Somerset Light Infantry in Malaya, and took part in the regimental march through Taunton in 1956. He was the great grandson Sir Alfred Slade, ...

l OBITUARIES

... Artillery (TA) at Redruth. On the outbreak of war, he served in the Somerset Light Infantry, but was later transferred to the Corps of Military Police. He went to Europe with the 51st Highland Division. After the war, Mr Tonkin did many jobs to support his ...

TO THE EDITOR Memorial To Mr. F. Aldis Nurse Sir, —May I, through the courtesy of your correspondence mumps, ..

... MEMORIES RECALLED ,TORE than 60 Old Comrades of the lst./4th. Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, met at the Public Rooms, Bodnun on Saturday to mark the 51st. anniversary of the battalion's sailing from kligland for India on October 9, 1914. Mr ...

Published: Thursday 14 October 1965
Newspaper: Cornish Guardian
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 890 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

D-DAY SOUVENIR TUESDAY MAY 24 1994 9 AIRBORNE ASSAULT Capturing the bridge was vital to the D-Day plan Above right:

... midnight on D-Day with other members of the 7th Battalion Parachute Regiment ‘converted’ from a battalion of the Somerset Light Infantry Panzer The drop zone was on the right bank of the Orne and just to the east of Pegasus bridge captured minutes earlier ...

Published: Tuesday 24 May 1994
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1021 | Page: 41 | Tags: none

VANTONA TERRIERS' Novelty Te Towels Lint and absorbent YEOVIL SALE lr 161 41 ea FOUNDED 1736: No 11582 WEEKLY ..

... its surrounding swamps These young officers who have lost many of their comrades and these men of theirs belonging to light infantry battalions were sleeping and resting in their tents behind the fighting lines and cleaning themselves up after days in ...

Published: Friday 18 December 1987
Newspaper: Western Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 1881 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Friday January 17 1997 EVENING POST 13 NEWS Loving homes needed for man’s best friend AN animal sanctuary near ..

... BRISTOL war veterans who served in Asia have been invited to attend a national reunion Members of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry are holding the get-together May The veterans group is looking for members who served in Malaya 1947 to 1951 and in India ...

Published: Friday 17 January 1997
Newspaper: Bristol Evening Post
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 716 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

BUS FARES RISE

... rs of the combined regiment of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry and the Somerset Light Infantry, it was announced by Major General C. L. Flrbank, Deputy Colonel of the Somerset Limit Infantry', Ft. th. 2 annual meeting of the Regimental ...

Published: Friday 30 August 1957
Newspaper: Cheddar Valley Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 2373 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

EVEN1NC 1M4 HARMS MOTORS HAVE COLOUR YOUR LIFE MISTOL WEEK-END colourful articles and Pictures EVENING POST ij ..

... Tuesday night (730) West team seek Army title Light Infantry have very successful Berlin Welch Fusiliers pta pu the the Army Chempionahip The winner B flnsls i Regiment A and Somerset and Cornwall Infantry in March the United Kingdom winners Guard for ...

Published: Saturday 15 February 1964
Newspaper: Bristol Evening Post
County: Bristol, England
Type: | Words: 1321 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

T F POST 29 1976-$ THIS HOLIDAY VISIT LILIANA ' LA CAPANNA RESTAURANT BADMINTON ROAD OLD SODBURY lunc nren FRIDAY

... MILE CONTINUOUS TRACK BOWOOD RHODODENDRON WALKS Caine Wilts Now until Sunday June 20 Sundays Bank 2 p - pm admittance after 5 LIGHT REFRESHMENTS AVAILABLE A342 Devizes to Chippenham road ADULTS 30p fine VAT) CHILDREN & OAPs 15p (me VAT) REDUCED RATES for ...

Published: Saturday 29 May 1976
Newspaper: Bristol Evening Post
County: Bristol, England
Type: | Words: 1416 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THEIR GOLDEN CELEBRATION A YEAR LATE

... their 51st anniversary instead. They are Mr. Arthur James Hanney. 77. and his wife. Brunette, 80, of 2 Ethel Street. Wells. Polishing seashore stones They were married at Idra, India, when Mr. Hanney was serving with the Somerset Light Infantry. A Wells-born ...

Published: Thursday 28 October 1976
Newspaper: Cheddar Valley Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 1604 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Citizen July the makert RADIO: PAGE 11 WEATHER: Vol 77 No Registered Newspaper TUESDAY JULY 17 1951 PENCE KOREA :

... greatest howlers Gloucester have had and it is rather a sad moment for to he has to retire” Goddard born October 1 1900 is in his 51st year and the oldest player in first-class cricket He first Gloucestershire in 1922 as a fast bowler and retained that for six ...

Published: Tuesday 17 July 1951
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1669 | Page: 1 | Tags: none