... a 24-year-old Sergeant serving with the 4Gth Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment. On October 22, 1942, his regiment formed part of 153 Brigade, providing protection for the heavy guns and the infantry of the 51st Highland Division. Dug in with his 12-man team ...

... honours stands the pride of Perthshire The Black Watch. As part of the reformed 51st Highland Division which was decimated at St Valery-en-Caux the previous year three infantry battalions of The Black Watch went into action at El Alamein. The Ist, sth and ...

... world warthe crossing of the Rhine, on March 23, 1945. Mr Matthew Timmons, of Broughty Ferryformerly of the 10th Highland Light Infantry—tells me that many hearing the tune The 10th HLI Crossing the Rhine are unaware of what it represents. Of the battle, ...

... and started his military career during the Second World War with the 40th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery' at Inverness 1042 was Battery' Sergeant Major with the 51st Highland Division at Alamein where was badly wounded After year spent recovering ...

... Lambeth-born 6018794 Sergeant Bert Harding served right through the Second World War. His original unit the Ox and Bucks Light Infantry was one of the first sent to France in 1940 as part of the British Expeditionary Force. That was in February and by June ...

... Tankers. remembers • • CORPORAL Jim Kerr, Crieff. remembers AFTER serving in Burma from 1942 with the Cameronians I came 51st Highland Division Signals, 'ON VE Day I was serving as third olTi- home i f remembers cer. aged 19. on the oil tanker •British ...

... Yorkshire who joined the army in early 1915 expecting to be sporting the hunting horn cap badge of the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry only to find that at the whim of the war office they were ‘jocks’ in the dark green tartan of the oldest highland regiment ...