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An Historic Day for the 51st Highland Division

... An Historic Day for the 51st Highland Division First Ever Re-union of Present and Former Members Saturday, Sth October of this year will be a unique day in the history of the famous Stst (Highland) Infantry Division. On that day, members of the Division ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1963
Newspaper: Strathearn Herald
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 525 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

51st Highland Division Games Det.ils of the 1962 51st Highland Division and District Games, which are being ..

... Cup for all units taking part, and the TA Challenge Bowl for the best Territorial unit. The Highland Light Infantry Bowl goes to the best infantry unit. The present holder of all these trophies is 11th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders (TA). The Scotsman ...

Published: Friday 18 May 1962
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 699 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

wall 'collapsed Obituary COL. HERBERT SMAIL | | Dundee architect I Col. Herbert M. Smail, TD., a| Dundee ..

... former Terri-| torial Army officer, died yesterday. He was 69. o He was a second lieutenant in the | Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry in | the First World War, and was a prisoner for nearly two years. ', He then began a long associatjoni with the firm ...

Published: Monday 08 February 1960
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 192 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

STRATHEARN HERALD and TO THE BOOKIE'S GAMES DAY OVERHEARD in Comrie SHAKE the mothballs out Street the other day

... What will the Chieftain wear? We are prepared to bet on a 51st RE-UNION Tweed Suit. With all their advertising on television the MEN and women who served Directors hope for a record in the 51st Highland crowd —if the weather is Division between mobilisation ...

Published: Saturday 21 August 1965
Newspaper: Strathearn Herald
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 344 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Lions get a glimpse of the opposition Will see Rhodesian XV in action

... Cup for all units taking part and the T.A. Challenge Bowl for the best Territorial unit. The Highland Light Infantry Bowl goes to the best infantry unit. All these trophies are presentlv held by the 11th Battalion Seaforth Hichlanders (T.A.). *“ The Scotsman” ...

Published: Wednesday 16 May 1962
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 475 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

AUCRTERARDER

... the Mitt. Division in North Africa was seriously wounded. Later he found himself attached to the Duke of Wel- lington's Light Infantry and was demobilised with the rank of R.S.M. Before joining his brother. Mr David Philips, on the editorial staff of The ...

Published: Saturday 06 April 1963
Newspaper: Strathearn Herald
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 335 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

P.C. FOR 22 YEARS ON DRUNK DRIVING CHARGE

... probation report under the First Otfenders Act. * * * * The W.R.A.C. Territorial units will wear the famous H.D. sign of the 51st Infantry Division for the first time today when units in Grangemouth, Dunfermline, and Perth get their flashes from their commanding ...

Published: Sunday 05 March 1961
Newspaper: Sunday Post
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 300 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LOOKING B

... Scotland is to be re-organised on a war basis. The headquarters of the famous 51st (Highland) Infantry Division will remain at Perth, but those of the 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division are to he transferred from Glasgow to Edinburgh. Herald, August, 1939 ...

Published: Saturday 12 August 1961
Newspaper: Strathearn Herald
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 740 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Speedy T.A. units upset timetable

... the castle’s walls at midnight on Saturday was the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry (Scottish Horse). Maj.-Gen. Derek B. Lang, G.O.C. 51st Highland Division, who was at the starting point at Cultybraggan, Comrie, throughout the exercise, planned to fly by helicopter ...

Published: Monday 25 March 1963
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 430 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Black Watch Back From

... Guerre with Palms in Chambrecy, France, in July, 1918, were in camp at Devizes alongside the 4th BM. The King's Shropshire Light Infantry, which received the same award for its role in the Battle of Bligny in June, 1918. It is understood that of the 10 units ...

Published: Friday 02 August 1963
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 634 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

GAMES AT DUNDEE

... Cup for all units taking part, and the T.A. Challenge Bowl for the best Territorial unit. The Highland Light Infantry Bowl goes to the best infantry unit. The present holder of all these trophies is 11th Bn. Seaforth Highlanders (T.A.). The Scotsman Challenge ...

Published: Thursday 24 May 1962
Newspaper: Forfar Dispatch
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 840 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THEMSELVES

... THEMSELVES After service with the Royal Artillery. Royal Fusiliers and Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry during the last war. he Joined A Company of the 6/7th. Rn at Crleff as a Private in June. 1960, Commissioned in 1962, he commanded the company in ...

Published: Saturday 05 October 1963
Newspaper: Strathearn Herald
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 726 | Page: 3 | Tags: none