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INFANTRY IN ATOMIC WAR

... Services. ¥ General Wimberley served in both World Wars with the Scottish infantry. He comganded the 51st Highland Division from 1941-43, and from 1944-46 was Director of Infantry at the War Office. He can, therefore, speak with the fullest authority on ...

Published: Tuesday 29 January 1957
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1008 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CANNINGTON

... farm er for many years and before retired was employed the •i I Ordnance Factory. Puriton > was serving with the uerset Light Infantry in the World War Mrs. Barnett • ...

To the. EDITOR of “ THE SCOTSMAN

... become just plain bores. Banner headlines mourning the 51st (Highland) Division may just become a red rag to a bull for a man of the 15th (Lowland). and the velps of an outraged infantryman tbe he light or heavy) are tedious and :{ying to others who have ...

Published: Thursday 01 August 1957
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 422 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

IMPRACTICABLE

... regiments. Major-General Robert Elliott Urquhart (,)) was commissioned into the Highland Light Infantry from Sandhurst in 1920. He was senior staff officer with the 51st (Highland) Division in North Africa. 1942-43, and commanded the Ist Airborne Division ...

Published: Wednesday 04 December 1957
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 320 | Page: 9 | 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

LITTERS TO THE EDITOR --1 Other people' s opinions

... Hopkins. of the 51st las workers in the boat-builder's tree in the wood, and the scene and considerable anxiety that I King's Own Yorkshire Light ! yard make the preparations, was most unusual. Such rapid 'read that the Hebden Royd Urban Infantry, in which ...

Published: Wednesday 30 October 1957
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1779 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BUS FARES RISE

... rs of the combined regiment of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry and the Somerset Light Infantry, it was announced by Major General C. L. Flrbank, Deputy Colonel of the Somerset Limit Infantry', Ft. th. 2 annual meeting of the Regimental ...

Published: Friday 30 August 1957
Newspaper: Cheddar Valley Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 2373 | Page: 3 | 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

6 HUDDERSFIELD DAILY EXAMINER FRIDAY JUNE 28 1957 Telephone 2720 (seven TV SETS by all the LEADING MAKERS ..

... him to the Presidency There a cast of thirty speaking parts and almost forty “extras Provocative “ Who That is the title of light-hearted inquiry on Tuesday evening info origin and merits of some provocative quotations in which Alan Melville trill be q ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1957
Newspaper: Huddersfield Daily Examiner
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2927 | Page: 6 | Tags: none