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Respects paid to soldiers of 1811

... Spain. Major Jones said: “I was with a party from my regiment, The Royal Welch Fusiliers who, with two battalions of the Royal Fusiliers, formed the Fusilier «n 1811 two battalions of the 48th formed part of the 2nd Division at Albuera. They held their ground ...

Published: Monday 26 June 2000
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 371 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

Virtue Holiday Centre

... retreat from Dunkirk and the victory over Rommel's Afrika Korps, Major Thomas, who served in the Ist and 2nd Battalions, Royal Fusiliers, now devotes his life to Capernwray Hall Christian Holiday Centre for Youth, situated in Lancashire. ~ The major. who ...

Published: Friday 01 May 1953
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 100 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Evening Telegraph, EARL FOUND SHOT

... material were found. Lord Shannon, ?ged 63, who was known in the village as Mr. Robert Boyle, was a former captain in the Royal Fusiliers and A.D.C. to the Governor of Madras. He was married with a son, Viscount Richard Boyle. Lord Shannon had been working ...

Published: Monday 30 December 1963
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 103 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Now It’s Insp. Watkin

... Watkin was born at Crick and joined the force almost exactly twenty-four years agoon September 7th, 1938. He came from the Royal Fusiliers into the force and after i at Rushden and Oundle mg as a flying officer in the RA.F. in 1943. He rejoined the force in ...

Quest for a cousin

... cousin AT Brixworth Register Office on February 28, 1918, Lance Corporal William Holdaway, aged 29 years, 2nd London Regt Royal Fusiliers, H/A Kensington, married Lilian Maud Caws, aged 26, a spinster from Lamport. Her father, Charles Albert Caws, was described ...

Published: Friday 24 June 1994
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 104 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Appeal for help

... family hailed from Peterborough. And she believes Anne —— who she worked with in the 1960 s — married an officer in the Royal Fusiliers. Anybody with any infor mation on Anne's wherea bouts should write tc Patricia at 70 Bedeburn Road, Jarrow, Tyne and Wear ...

Published: Tuesday 24 November 1987
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 113 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

Tributes paid to a charity official

... in the fund’s activities.” [ i wfia‘],o;vf).lg-t;;;vas a former regular soldier and during the war saw service with the Royal Fusiliers in the Middle East. He was fluent in Arabic. ...

Published: Friday 24 January 1997
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 124 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

D 1 [ Duchess i ‘defines ! colours

... reverence due to them is everlasting.” The Duchess was speaking at the presentation of new colours to the Ist Battalion, the Royal Fusiliers, at the Artillery Ground, = London, E.C. | = It is over 100 years since the regiment had been presented with new colours ...

Published: Saturday 28 July 1956
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 157 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

First world war V.C

... in a Dorking (Surrey) nursing home., He was 74, He served in the Middlesex Yeomanry in the South African War. In the Royal Fusiliers in the First World War, and as & sergeant in the Home Guard in the last war, He was a lance-corporal when he was awarded ...

Published: Tuesday 11 May 1954
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 125 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

New police sworn in

... August. . - PC lan Holmes used to work for Fairline Boats in Oundle, and PC David Melling is a former infantryman in the Royal Fusiliers. ...

Nl/ 3 R ' Britons killed in Mozambique

... thought to have died four days ago. { The couple had lived in Malawi l since 1993. Mr McGowan, a former | captain in the Royal Fusiliers, was i a financial and business consultant. Mrs McGowan was a teacher in Lilongwe. Mr McGowan's parents, lan and i Phyllis ...

Published: Saturday 19 April 1997
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 142 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... has one of t and prett nds in the co . of the 11 wa time, a head gro . Several were he war, duriiig- Gerald Wi d in the Royal Fusiliers r £ 0 of the brothen repare Test wic y was at Old Tra wenly years and at one time in cl e Edgbaston groy r Mr. Willlams ...

Published: Friday 17 August 1962
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 150 | Page: 11 | Tags: none