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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

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

AWARD OF V.C PRESS BUREAU COMMUNIQUE

... pleased to approve of the award of the Victoria Cross to No. 731, Lanec-Sergeant (now 2nd Lieut.) Fredk. William Palmer, Royal Fusiliers, for most conspicuous bravery, control and determination, During the progress of certain operations all the officers of ...

Published: Saturday 14 April 1917
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 228 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

IN MEMORY

... and Pte. G. Spence —all of the Shetland Gordons; and Pte. I{”W | Tnkster, Royal Scots, and Pte. J. E. A. '| Anderson, Royal Fusiliers. ...

Published: Saturday 27 November 1926
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 261 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PORTUGUESE REACH ENEMY SECOND LINE TRENCH. GREAT AIR ACTIVITY

... remained in the enemy’s hands. The recapture of this was effected by a successful counter-attack delivered by a battalion of Royal Fusiliers. The enemy in turn offered a strong resistance, but was overcome by the determination of our counter-attack. A few prisoners ...

Published: Saturday 16 March 1918
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 266 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

NEWS IN BRIEF

... In St. Edmund’s Church, Lombard-street, London, the Hon. W. F. North unveiled a «tained-glass window to the memcry of Royal Fusiliers who fell in the war. The Prime Minister and Mrs. Stanley Baldwin have accepted an invitation to attend a reception at ...

Published: Saturday 29 September 1923
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 363 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

KILLED IN ACTION. LIEUT. DAVID A. HOGG

... Lerwick, along with his most close friend, the late Private Joe. E. A. Anderson, and joined the Sportsman’s Baitalion, Royal Fusiliers. While undergoing his {raining in Britain, Lieut. Hogg contracted a serious illness, which laid himn aside for some time ...

Published: Saturday 24 February 1917
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 414 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DEATHS

... sadly missed. GROUBE.—On 28th June, 1962, peacefully, Lieutenant-Colonel Lionel Francis Boulderson Groube, M.C., late Royal Fusiliers, of Carrick House, Eday, Orkney, and The Mill House, Mortimers Cross, Leominster, Herefordshire, deeply loved husband ...

Published: Friday 20 July 1962
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 391 | Page: 4 | Tags: none