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Brigadier accepts post as OTC’s honorary colonel

... for a period in the 70s. Married with two daughters and a son, Brig. Anderson was commissioned into the Ist Bn. Highland Light Infantry at Fort George In 1948. two years after he was recruited to the Black Watch at Elgin. Since then, he has seen service ...

Published: Tuesday 19 January 1982
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 200 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

’s slogging war as it really was

... ’s slogging war as it really was dons were in the 51st, the 2nd Bn. fought in the 15th. The 51st had earlier been brought home by Montgomery from his successful Mediterranean campaigns specially to strengthen, with other similar, battle-hardened formations ...

Published: Thursday 07 June 1984
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 612 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Steaming in from Sweden (~

... Involved were members of the 51st Highland Division, Mr Patient said. “Sixteen were Gordon Highlanders, 22 were Camerons, 23 were Seaforths and 23 were Argyll and Suther land Highlanders The remain der were mostly Durham Light Infantry, Most of them had been ...

Published: Thursday 01 October 1981
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4097 | Page: 8 | Tags: none