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THE CAPTURE OF ALI MUHJID. LETTER FROM A SOLDIER OF THE 51st LIGHT INFANTRY

... LiGHl 1 hk ‘We have been favoured with the perusal of a letter written in Ali Musjid by Private Frank Wilson, of the 51st Light Infantry, to a friend in Dundee. The letter is a curiosity in its way, being penned on a sheet of the Ameer’s order book, blazoned ...

Published: Thursday 23 January 1879
Newspaper: Dundee Advertiser
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 411 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FORMER KEEPER OF TOWER JEWEL HOUSE Death of General Sir Arthur Wynne The death of General Sir Arthur Singleton ..

... House, Tower of London, is announced to day. He was 89. Sir Arthur, who was born in Co. Louth. Ireland, joined the 51st Light Infantry 73 years ago. He served in the Jowaki expedition in 1887, in the Afghan War, the South African War of 1881, and the ...

Published: Friday 07 February 1936
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 127 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

INDIA

... having been attacked and plundered by a large body of dacoits, a company of her Majesty's 51st Light Infantry, and two companies of the 35th Madras Native Infantry, were despatched by the Damoodali from Prome for its protection. 4 On the troops landing ...

Published: Friday 23 December 1853
Newspaper: Montrose Review
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 150 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE ARMY AND NAVY

... be sent out will proceed overland. The reinforcements for the Bth hussars, 17th lancers, Royal Irish, T»d regiment, 51st light infantry, 56th, 57th, 71st Highlanders, 72d Highlanders, 86th, 80th, 92d Highlanders, and regiment, to the number of 430 men ...

Published: Friday 10 September 1858
Newspaper: Montrose Review
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 170 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE CAPTURE OF All MUSJID

... C TRE OF ALI MUSJID. LETTER FROM A SOLDIER OF THE 51s: LIGHT INFANTRY. We have been favoured with the perusal of a letter written in Ali Musjid by Private Frank Wilson, of the 51st Light Infantry, to a friend in Dundee. The letter is a ...

Published: Friday 24 January 1879
Newspaper: Dundee Advertiser
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 381 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

THE ARMY AND NAVY

... time, volunteers coming in « sly on account of the extra bounty paid attestari* n. reinforcements for the Royal Irish, 51st Light Infantry, 72d Highl; i.leis, 83d, 86th. and 98th regiments, upwards of 200 men all ranks, have left Chatham Garrison, and embarked ...

Published: Friday 01 January 1858
Newspaper: Montrose Review
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 428 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BIRTHS

... ter, of a daughter. At Cravenswyke, Kemptown, Brighton, on the 30th November, the wife of Major CoLtins, late 51st King’s Own Light Infantry, of a dangiiter. At 9 Chesham Place, London, on the 30:h ult., daughter. the wife of Major E. BaxgincToy Crakk ...

Published: Thursday 03 December 1896
Newspaper: Dundee Advertiser
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 109 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

ANNUAL SALE OF CATTLE

... Rev. Mr Dickson, Liff; William Macdonald Macdonald, Esq. of St Martins. Captain William Henry Herrick, late of her 51st Light Infantry, has been aj•pointed Adjutant the Firnt Administrative Battalion of the First Forfarshire (Montrose, Arbroath, Brechin ...

Published: Friday 30 May 1862
Newspaper: Montrose Review
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 541 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE NAVY AND ARMY

... will proceed soon as the transports now in England have been inspected, viz.:—lsth Foot, to embark from Queenstown; 51st Light Infantry, from Liverpool; Pompadours and 96th Foot, from Kingstown (Dublin); and 94th Foot, from Portsmouth. 300 remount horses ...

Published: Friday 10 August 1855
Newspaper: Montrose Review
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 665 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NOTES—MAINLY PERSONAL

... been appointed a member of the Royal Bodyguard of Gentlemen-at-Arms, retired from the army in 1883. He served with the 51st Light Infantry in the Jowaki campaign of 1887, and went through the Afghan war 1878-80. Lieutenant-Colonel Hornsby-Drake, who has also ...

Published: Thursday 16 May 1895
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 817 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE LATE AFGHAN WAR

... return march it ha-to mourn officer and non-commissioned officers and gunners. The Fusiliers, King’s Own Borderers, and 51st Light Infantry liave suffered in a less degree ; but still their deaths from disease are out all proportion those “killed in action ...

Published: Saturday 02 August 1879
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 861 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE NAVY AND ARMY

... authorities at the Horse Guards have also forwarded instructions to Madras and the Mauritius for the embarkation of the 51st Light Infantry, and the reserve batt. 12th Regiment for the colony. A company of the 60th Royal Rifles arrived at Cork on Thursday ...

Published: Friday 04 July 1851
Newspaper: Montrose Review
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 685 | Page: 3 | Tags: none