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An Historic Day for the 51st Highland Division

... An Historic Day for the 51st Highland Division First Ever Re-union of Present and Former Members Saturday, Sth October of this year will be a unique day in the history of the famous Stst (Highland) Infantry Division. On that day, members of the Division ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1963
Newspaper: Strathearn Herald
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 525 | Page: 4 | 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

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

AUCRTERARDER

... the Mitt. Division in North Africa was seriously wounded. Later he found himself attached to the Duke of Wel- lington's Light Infantry and was demobilised with the rank of R.S.M. Before joining his brother. Mr David Philips, on the editorial staff of The ...

Published: Saturday 06 April 1963
Newspaper: Strathearn Herald
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 335 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

I SHALL RETURN! SAYS CHINA-BOUND MAJOR PHILIPS

... Glasgow Evening News. When the war came he served with the Royal Artillery, Royal Fusiliers and the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, before returning to the P.A. He spent a year with the Scottish Daily Express in Aberdeen before coming back to Crieff ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1974
Newspaper: Strathearn Herald
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 349 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Strathearn Herald Friday July 25 1 997 13 Commemorating Strathearn’s grave day WEDNESDAY July 30y is the 81st ..

... Yorkshire who joined the army in early 1915 expecting to be sporting the hunting horn cap badge of the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry only to find that at the whim of the war office they were ‘jocks’ in the dark green tartan of the oldest highland regiment ...

Published: Friday 25 July 1997
Newspaper: Strathearn Herald
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 1619 | Page: 13 | 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

THEMSELVES

... THEMSELVES After service with the Royal Artillery. Royal Fusiliers and Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry during the last war. he Joined A Company of the 6/7th. Rn at Crleff as a Private in June. 1960, Commissioned in 1962, he commanded the company in ...

Published: Saturday 05 October 1963
Newspaper: Strathearn Herald
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 726 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Public Hearing in Crieff on

... Fusiliers and Duke Comma H is Light Infantry. during the last war, Joined A Compaq, Ba. The Black Watch (T.A.) in Jane. 1150. and was misdosed two years later. Is 1053, he was appointed to the Gummy, and a few maths age Joined the 51st Highland Division Headquarters ...

Published: Saturday 23 November 1963
Newspaper: Strathearn Herald
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 728 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

People in the News I OBITUARY Death of Gordon Philips By HERALD REPORTER ONE of Crieff’s best-known residents ..

... and started his military career during the Second World War with the 40th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery' at Inverness 1042 was Battery' Sergeant Major with the 51st Highland Division at Alamein where was badly wounded After year spent recovering ...

Published: Friday 09 July 1993
Newspaper: Strathearn Herald
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 1462 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Blackford men end working days TWO Blackford men each said goodbye to a lifetime in national industries last ..

... Public Relations Officer During World War II he served as a gunner in the 51st Highland Division in the Western Desert later in the Royal Fusiliers and Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry In peacetime he served for 17 years in 67th The Black Watch (RHR) A newspaper ...

Published: Friday 06 March 1992
Newspaper: Strathearn Herald
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 1489 | Page: 8 | Tags: none