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DEATH OF A V.C. HERO

... only Victoria Cross postman im his Majesty's service, died on Friday at the age of fifty-four. He had served in the Tth Royal Fusiliers (City of London) Regimeni for six years and six years in the Reserve. He afterwards joined the Post Office service. Ashford ...

Published: Saturday 01 March 1913
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 152 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

AVIATORS .AAWARDED D.S.O PRESS BUREAU COMMUNIQUE

... distinguished service in connection with a successful attack on enemy airships :—Second-Lieutenant Frederick Sowrey, Royal Fusiliers, attached Royal Flying Corps; Second Lieutenant Alfred de Bath Branadon, M.C., Royal Flying Corps, special reserve. ...

Published: Saturday 14 October 1916
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 63 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MP in new battle

... MP in new battle MP DAVID STEEL will present The King's Colours to soldiers of the 7th Foot Royal Fusiliers before a Napoleonic battle in the grounds of Thirlestane Castle on Sunday. The Napoleonic Association are presenting a display of reenacted battles ...

Published: Thursday 26 May 1988
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 77 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

COUPLE MET ON HOLIDAY IN 1914 MR AND MRS J. STRACHAN’S GOLDEN WEDDING

... in the town. Mr and Mrs Strachan met while on holiday in 1914, and were married while Mr Strachan, who served with the Royal Fusiliers in France was on leave in 1918. The following year the couple emigrated to Canada, but returned in 1933. ...

Published: Thursday 22 February 1968
Newspaper: Montrose Review
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 82 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HOSPITAL POST DR K. M. G. KEDDIE COMES TO SUNNYSIDE

... (England) in 1962. He was a House Officer in Dumfries, Bridge of Earn and Edinburgh before serving for two years with the Royal Fusiliers. In 1960 he became Senior House Officer in Psychiatry at the Edinburgh University Professorial Unit of Psychological Medicine ...

Published: Thursday 28 April 1966
Newspaper: Montrose Review
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 104 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

HUNTLY

... HUNTLY. Pte. A. King. Royal Fusiliers, wounded. is tlw husband of Mrs King, 7n Upperkirkgate, Runtly. . Before the war he was employed with Messrs Melly & Son, Ltd.. at the Himtly Creamer. Pte. Geo. Robertson, Canadians, kille.l.uus a son of the late ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1918
Newspaper: Banffshire Herald
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 111 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DEATH OF LORD BIRKENHEAD'S BROTHER

... 1914, in the 23rd Battalion Royal l‘!lls“iefl. and was promoted from the ranks to a commission in the 24th Battalion Royal Fusiliers in December. In 1915 he was transférred on promotion to the 18th Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps, and in 1916 was in ...

Published: Saturday 29 March 1924
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 133 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

A REARGUARD'S SACRIFICE

... 17th Battalion Royal Fusiliers was fully organised, and they died to a man with their faces to the enemy. THE IMPORTANCE OF STRAIGHT SHOOTING The Ist Bautalion King's Royal Rifle Corps, on the defe of the 17th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, were in sction ...

Published: Saturday 02 March 1918
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 668 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SIR JOHN WATSON DIES IN TRAIN

... % Sir John, who was 60 vears of age, was formerly Solicitor-General for Scotland, and served in the Great War in the Royal Fusiliers, the RF.C. and the RAF. He was educated at ‘he John Neilson Institute, Paisley; Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities, where ...

Published: Friday 11 February 1944
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 143 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

... respectively the commanding officers of the Ist Sportsmen’s and the Public Schools Battalions, which-are both attached to the Royal Fusiliers, and are to be brigaded together. The third new Brizadier, Mr. C. B. Balfour, tormerly sat for the Horusey Division. ...

Published: Saturday 10 July 1915
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 161 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Following in his son’s footsteps

... outbreak of war he served with the AFS at East Greenwich and with the AAS at Brook Hospital. In 1940 he enlisted with the Royal Fusiliers and transferred to the RASC for services abroad in Irag, Egypt and Palestine. On being demobbed he became Architect Assistant ...

Published: Saturday 15 April 1978
Newspaper: St. Andrews Citizen
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 175 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

The army that aims to please

... Napoleonic French who had taken the castle on Sunday — despite Mr David Steel’s presenting the King’s Colour to the 7th Royal Fusiliers before the battle — were driven out on Monday by the European allies, aided by some spectacular gun fire. fter A Monday’s ...

Published: Thursday 02 June 1988
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 269 | Page: 10 | Tags: none