... they said would by Christmas ROBERT GALBRAITH, who fought in World War I. in one of the Gordon territorial battalions of the 51st Highland Division, recalls the third Battle of Yjires, fought 50 years ago today. was attached came up from the Arras area ...

... Seaforth* *and was wounded prior to Dunkirk. 1942 he commanded the sth Bn. and in 1943 be took command of 154 Infantry Brigade with the 51st Division the Western Desert. FARMING He subsequently was commandant of the Middle Bast Combined Training Centre ...

... guards. Central Hmhlnnds, Morey Firth mg' 51st Highland Volunteers have always been a wonderful B At the scene senior police Area, <line>t. Arayii, m.w. and a new batulion to 5® recruiting area for the 51st officer believe tb» Scotland, Orkney, Shetland ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... ’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 ...

... property at Ballater, he was restaurant manager at Aber- Highland Light Infantry after leaving school. He joined the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders in the 1930 s and was with the 51st Highland Division during the retreat from St Valery in Northern France ...

... being reduced to companies of 51st Highland Volunteers in the insensitive reorganisation of 1967. In 30 years, the Ist Queen’s Own Highlanders have established themselves one of Britain’s most operatkmally-effective infantry battalions with an active service ...

... Defence in Whitehall. During the last war he served in the Royal Artillery, Royal Fusiliers and the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry. In peace-time he served for 17 years in the Territorial Army the sixth/seventh battalion the Black Watch. ...

... OFFICERS and men of the 51st Highland Division captured j during the retreat from France in 1940 will remember David i Wild as the tall, slightly stooped Church of England padre with ; the 4th Battalion Oxfordshire and Bucks Light Infantry. A chaplain at Eton ...

... flashes for its members to wear. The 51st went on to liberate St Valery and slog through Belgium, Holland and across the Rhine into northern Germany until the war’s end, fighting every inch of the way. After the war the 51st reverted to its TA role. It was ...