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= 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

Profile An arch politician JEFFREY ARCHER

... energetic in clearing up others’ misapprehensions. Some journalists got the idea his father had been a colonel in the Somerset Light Infantry. In fact, he was the editor of What's On in Weston (a slim publication), before his death, when Jeffrey was 15. Archer ...

Published: Sunday 05 January 1992
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 992 | Page: 11 | 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

Colonel Guthrie of Guthrie Cale si, chairman, made sympathetic reference at a meeting of Forfar District ..

... Long Service Volunteer Medal. In the First World War lie served from 1914 to 1919 with The Black Watch and the Highland Light Infantry. Mr McLean is survived by hii wife and a family of five sons and four daughters. RADIO EXHIBMON. Television transmissions ...

Published: Saturday 01 December 1951
Newspaper: Arbroath Guide
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 917 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Viore beds Y3'* Cumbernauld planned for °© post for elderly Brigadier patients Anderson

... appointment of 4 o =SS S Rgaer Chief Executive of watch at Elgin and was Cumbernauld :'on':missioned inltof The . Highland Light Infantry, Dervz'?‘pment Cor now the Royal Highland pO? O'. , Fusiliers, completing his Brigadier ~ Anderson's training at the Royal ...

Published: Friday 29 March 1985
Newspaper: St. Andrews Citizen
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 939 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

troopers

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 24 July 1991
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 949 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NI Lord Chief

... NI Lord Chief Justice recalls days in infantry 71ESPITE the National Health 1 . Service, welfare work continued to be the main purpose of the Belfast branch of the Maj or rtie Association. said H. J. Porter, branch chairman. at the annual dinner in ...

Published: Monday 15 October 1951
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 954 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

PERTHSHIRE ADVERTISER June 16 1951— 11 1 0 PERTHSHIRE ADVERTISER 16 1951 Youth Takes to Stage and Field WEEK ..

... Barry Ranges near Dundee The RASC —or to give them their full title the 51st (Highland) Infantry Divisional Column won the Challenge Shield for the best TA unit (other than infantry) the district They were also third in the Highland District Challenge Bowl ...

Published: Saturday 16 June 1951
Newspaper: Perthshire Advertiser
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3422 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

20 Daily Post Saturday January 30 1993 Antiques Christopher Proudlove & MR John Crane auctioneers Cato Crane ..

... such The 1803 Volunteers styled themselves slightly differently again and so they are ruled out Members of a regiment’s light infantry company had belt plates decorated with a bugle in the centre The grenadiers a flaming grenade So it’s not theirs either ...

City Shop

... heiress, whose name was L'pool Stocks Singapore and Brunei by once linked with that of The Minister of Labour told the 51st Infantry Brigade, the Aga Khan. married Mr. Norman Pannell Lab. TO•DAY'S CI.OSE Kirkdalet that 27.384 employand hwether he is satin- ...

Published: Monday 28 January 1963
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1292 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

£2om. aid will '''..spin out jobs in Ulster

... daughters, and whose hobbies include flying light aircraft, takes up the appointment a week before his 53rd birthday. Educated at Regent's Park School in London, General House has been Director of Infantry since 1973. He was commissioned from the ranks ...

Published: Thursday 24 July 1975
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1306 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

I. A. OLIVER. C. 8., C.8.E., D. 5.0.. T.D.. D.L., A.D.C. Parente specially tames for the lillitALD ►y has Wight

... put it on record, It can be said, without fear of contradiction, that the debt which not only 154 Brigade, but the whole 51st owed to Brigadier Oliver for the great reputation they acquired, was no small one. At the battle of El Alamein he won the ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1957
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1530 | Page: 6 | Tags: none