... flashes for its members to wear. The 51st went on to liberate St Valery and slog through Belgium, Holland and across the Rhine into northern Germany until the war’s end, fighting every inch of the way. After the war the 51st reverted to its TA role. It was ...

... Defence in Whitehall. During the last war he served in the Royal Artillery, Royal Fusiliers and the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry. In peace-time he served for 17 years in the Territorial Army the sixth/seventh battalion the Black Watch. ...

... OFFICERS and men of the 51st Highland Division captured j during the retreat from France in 1940 will remember David i Wild as the tall, slightly stooped Church of England padre with ; the 4th Battalion Oxfordshire and Bucks Light Infantry. A chaplain at Eton ...

... property at Ballater, he was restaurant manager at Aber- Highland Light Infantry after leaving school. He joined the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders in the 1930 s and was with the 51st Highland Division during the retreat from St Valery in Northern France ...

... 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 ...