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... by Captain R. He Liddell Hart. the well-known military historian. William Wheeler joined the 51st Regiment of Foot. now the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, in 1809. and the letters contained in this book were written by him. during his 19 years of ...
... Shawbrook Road, Manchester 19. How Bremen fell My vivid memory is the great entry into Bremen with the 6th Battalion Highland Light Infantry, serving with the 52nd (Lowland) Division. The morning of the great assault we neard the burgomaster wanted to surrender ...
... continue throughout the Units assembled at Hurn advance parties of the 1st Royal Berkshire’s Somerset Light Infantry Duke of Wellington’s Regiment 3rd Infantry Brigade Headquarters staff and field ambulance unit They were the first passengers to flv BOAC's ...
... 1949. Sir Henry Vaughan Berry. a fulltime member of the Iron and Steel Corporation, who is 60. served in the Somerset Light Infantry and the Intelligence Corps in the first world war, and was on tne staff of the Inter-Allied Rhineland High Commission ...
... Parachute Regiment and the Lancashire Volunteers the 51st Highland Volunteers Up strode the Corps of Transport men And this they won: and third place the open rifle match and the pistol event first prize the light machine match first prize in the sub-machine ...
... the creeping would this time fall the enemy infantry At 2209 hours it opened up 1500 with hundreds alongside The night sky was alive flickering flashes and the noise bombardment Two bright pencils of white light stood vertical far to our rear searchlights ...
... resistance of few defiant pockets Sixth Army went for two nights they struggled to regroup precious Panzers and pull their infantry from smoking maze of Stalingrad econd Issue ill Wool Dress From 3a-1 NOW! Kruachev (right) walking troops Stalingrad He military ...
... so little stand between you and gun post. In England by the fosse / greatness? The Gurkhas earned ten • mender of the 51st Infantry V.C.'s out of World War If. B their average in slouch ci.enralgreeasse-he4ti heigh t .5 . . -!'7 ' ..d le. :. r r. `••1 ...
... already eonvirted fur same offence nine months earlier The appalling of a 37-vear-old coloured man a maximum fine the first or 51st who recently a iz for immoral earning The man's said worked as nrosti- SAY good-bye to that hour of bliss between and pm when ...
... main buttresses mislead enemy thinking that the major would along the back mountains In terms enemy troops the opposition was light It was minefields and booby traps limited speed of advance When a route was opened it was single line traffic In the odd where ...
... invited everywhere In England they had welcomed news of Napoleon’s escape with shouts of glee Lt Frederick Mainwaring of the 51st Foot was in Portsmouth when the news broke A newspaper had been casually laid on the mess table by noncommissioned officer ...