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Brigadier Anderson retires

... in 1982 after commanding the 51st Highland Brigade at Perth. Born in Wooler, Northumberland, and educated in Newcastle, Brigadier Anderson joined The Black Watch at Elgin and was commissioned into The Highland Light Infantry, now the Royal Highland Fusiliers ...

Published: Friday 04 November 1988
Newspaper: St. Andrews Citizen
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 151 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

Brigadier Anderson retires

... 1982 after commanding the 51st Highland Brigade at Perth. = Born in Wooler, Northumberland, and educated in Newcastle, Brigadier Anderson joined The Black Watch at Elgin and was commissioned into The Highland Light Infantry, now the Royal Highland Fusiliers ...

Published: Friday 04 November 1988
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 191 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

SATURDAY SERIES BREAD AND J'ipg SOUVENIRS (f FIRST WORLD

... years at his home, Belmont, 30 Walton. Mr. Wesley served with the 14th Highland Light Infantry in the offensive at Armentiers on Aggfil 19, 1918, when almost the whole of the 51st Scottish Division were taken prisoner. He worked at a P.O.W. camg) until December ...

Published: Saturday 07 December 1963
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 156 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

C l ] ‘WE MISS MRS DALE AND WOMAN’S HOUR’ BONNYRIGG old folk are angry because they cannot hear their

... Field Ambulance, 51st|surer who will endeavour to Highland Division, in the Sec-! make arrangements for a visit ond World War, exchanged greetings and a handshake with Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein at a reunion of the 51st at Perth. The oecasion ...

Published: Thursday 19 October 1967
Newspaper: Dalkeith Advertiser
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 530 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Jeep trip of memories

... and grandson Ben. Mr Snow, a member of st And it was the 73-year-old ~ Oxfordshire and Bucks Light ex-soldier’s sixth return to Nor- Infantry and later 51st Highland mandy in 50 years. Division, landed on Sword “I just feel I have to go,” says Beach on ...

Brigadier to be council’s top official

... Anderson’s distinguished career began in 1946. He enlisted in The Black Watch at Elgin and was commissioned into The Highland Light Infantry, now The Royal Highland Fusiliers, completing his training at the Royal Military Acedemy and Staff College. Brigadier Anderson ...

Published: Friday 05 February 1982
Newspaper: St. Andrews Citizen
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 355 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

1 ir IIIIMHII! r® DAILY RECORD REPORTER of ALL regt- RED AND Continued on Back Page POST COUPON of the

... were: The merging of the Highland Light Infantry and the Royal scots usiliers oldest fusilier regiment In the Army The amalgamation-of th Seaforth High landers and the Queen’s Own High landers” The scrapping famous 51st Division and The abolition mental ...

Published: Thursday 25 July 1957
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 824 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

= Mike's Morecambe Lasting salute to the Dukes of Heysham

... pounder at the stern, all portholes blacked out. While on the Heysham-Belfast run all lights were extinguished except for a masthead light and green/red navigation lights. This was to make the crossing She collided with the coaster Fireking off the Isle ...

Published: Wednesday 17 May 1995
Newspaper: Morecambe Visitor
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1230 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

DAILY Mor lay April 8 1974 View from the stalls on Life of luxury pvtolieotion on condition discretion Sender ..

... Gentian 15 Sets out AS an old age pensioner am disgusted with the moans Old comrades T davbreak A Easter Monday 1917 the 15th and 51st Divisions began an attack on the German lines near Arras would like to greet all survivors and ask Scots this Easter Monday ...

Published: Monday 08 April 1974
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1216 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

DAILY RECORD Tuesday September 1969 Page CENE The Battle of Britain was fought all over again last night on the

... families— about the size of a small town Some features of the barracks — famed as the headquarters of the old Highland Light Infantry — have been Incorporated The guardroom where Rudolph Hess — Hitler's No 2— was imprisoned after his flight to Scotland ...

Published: Tuesday 16 September 1969
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1707 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

- EX-NAVAL GUNNER ONLY R.A. VETERAN Next week at the North Star “‘ RIAD IR' V' l‘ Only World War

... Lerwick. And al- On Monday and Tuesday the|Philip Carey and Nancy Kovack od though Mr Arthur was a gunner emphasis switches from light-|star in “The Great Sioux Mas T in DML wars, in the first wer N hearted fun to nerve-shattering sacre”—the story of Custer’s ...

Published: Friday 03 June 1966
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1535 | Page: 4 | Tags: none