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ENGLAND & AFGHANISTAN. AJIHAIfGBMKNTS POE AN EARLY ADVANCE. The Calcutta correspondent, under date N#v. I7th, ..

... Brigade, under the command of Colonel Bronze (?), consists of the 51st Light Infantry, the 6th Native Infantry, and the 45th Sikhs. The Cavalry Brigade, commanded by Oolonel 0. Gough, V.C., comprises two troops of the 10th Hussars, the Guides Cavalry, the ...

Published: Friday 22 November 1878
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
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KHYBBR EXPEDITIOXART FORCE

... A. 3rd Infantry Brigade: Colonel Appleyard, 85th Light Infantry ; 81st Foot, Colonel Chichester; 14th Sikhs, Lieutenant-Colonel Williams; 27th Punjab Infantry, Major Birch; one company Sappers and Miners ; one Battery Field Battery. 4th ...

Published: Friday 29 November 1878
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 264 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LOCAL MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

... North Staffordshire Regiment, the same piace, for duty on the permament staff. Col. H. Steuarat Tompson (late captain 51st Light Infantry), formerly adjutant of the 3rd. North Staffordshire Regiment, who recently succeeded the command of the 2nd V.B. South ...

Published: Friday 10 July 1885
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1150 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LOCAL MILITARY NOTES

... Regimen, in 1861, and it was not until 1878 that he became Captain, when he was specially promoted to that rank in the 51st Light Infantry. He was promoted a half-pay majority 4 years Lter. and in 1884 became major in the Welsh Regiment. He has a good record ...

Published: Friday 14 August 1896
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1289 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

VOLUNTEER ENCAMPMENT AT WALSALL

... Colonel Tompson, late major of the 3rd Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment, and formerly of the Durham Militia and 51st Light Infantry.— Colonel (now Hon. Colonel) Bedford, in announcing the transfer, said he had been connected with the regiment for upwards ...

Published: Friday 11 July 1884
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1427 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Local News

... appointment. Memorandum: Lieut.. Col. Edward Musgrave Beadon, the King's (Shropshire Light Infantry), to be Colonel The weather forecast for the Midland Counties : Light airs, chiefly southerly; fine and warm at first, then unsettled and thundery. At ten ...

Published: Friday 04 July 1884
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3214 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

... _ \ Of that number, 6,000 are required for infantry the line and the remainder for various branches of arm services. The Household Brigade and Cavalry of the Line are up to establishment. A number of infantry overseas are being asked to extend their service ...

Published: Friday 13 January 1933
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 550 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

FREEDOM OF LICHFIELD

... Guards. On the night of 23rd March the regiment supported the 51st Highland Division-in the crossing of the Rhine. The regiment subsequently supported the 3rd British Infantry Division and the 51st Highland Division at the crossing of the Dortmund-Ems Canal ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1946
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5112 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LETTERS THE EDITOR, i ail letters intended for publication the Sheffleld Daily Telscraph be addressed to the ..

... furlough the same manner the j allowance of 6d. lieu of rations. An infantry soldier, not in receipt of good conduct pay, would thus draw Is. 9d. a day, while on furlough. Recruits for the Infantry the Line who enlist for throe years' colour service only, will ...

Published: Thursday 07 April 1898
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2725 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LOCAL & COUNTY NEWS

... A. Campbell retires on retired pay serve in the Militia.—Staff: Captain C. P. Higginson, D.S.O., the King's Shropshire Light Infantry, to be brigade major, Brigade. 1st Army Corps ; Quartermaster and Hon. Lieutenant J. Penketh, South Staffordshire Regiment ...

Published: Friday 27 February 1903
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2625 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE EASTERN QUESTION

... RUSSIAN TROOPS BULGARIA. The Timet correspondent at Eustchuk has the following under date March 24th: The Volkhof Regiment of Infantry, belonging to tha 35th Division, has been ordered to Widin, and two battalions have already been taken up the river in couple ...

Published: Friday 05 April 1878
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 7523 | Page: 6 | Tags: none