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OFFICERS WHO HAVE FA

... commission in the Somerset Light Infantry in Ftb:uary 1895, and was appointed to the Indian Army In October 1898, teaching the substantive rank of na jar in February 1913. He had held the rank of Double Company Commander in the 51st Sikh; since November 1906 ...

Published: Thursday 02 December 1915
Newspaper: Clifton Society
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 547 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

CAVAt-aY,

... ltd Light Dragoons - 600 Light Dragoons, 3 Squadrons -• - ...

Published: Saturday 08 July 1809
Newspaper: Bristol Mirror
County: Bristol, England
Type: | Words: 691 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

EXTENSIVE PLANS FOR ARMY MANŒUVRES

... 70th and 74th Field Regiments, Territorial Army, and Whole Corps Will Move 200 Miles their signal sections, and the 51st and 52nd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiments, Territorial Army, and their signal sections. The Royal Air Force will also co-operate. Special ...

Published: Thursday 20 April 1939
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 405 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

NAZIS RESIST STRONGLY

... MAIN DEFENCE LINE British and Canadian infantry and armour are up against one ol the main German lines now. It runs roughly from May sur Orne eastward to the Caen-Falaise road. At this moment German infantry and tanks, supported by artillery fire from ...

Published: Wednesday 26 July 1944
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 702 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Royal Army Service Corps Make Record Hustle South To Join Army Of The Saar

... officers who accompanied General Brind. They included his , staff officer, Colonel ,T. G. des R. Swavne, of the Somerset Light Infantry, and his aide-de-camp, Lieut. C. D, Packard, of the Royal Artillery. Last night it was reported by Reuter that they had ...

Published: Friday 14 December 1934
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 438 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

THE BRITISH CASUALTIES

... typhoid. Highland Light Infantry-Pte. P. A. Graham, l typhoid, I, Victorian Mounted Infantry-PLe. F. G. Ramsay, typhoid. From General Buller. STANDERTON, JULY 29. The following casualties at Joubert's Kop, July 27: SOUTH AFRICAN LIGHT HORSE, Wounded-Trooper ...

Published: Tuesday 31 July 1900
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1104 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

DRIVE ON NEW NAZI LINE

... the German retreat. Peaceful villagers have been shot, cattle destroyed, and railway tracks torn up. Waves of Fifth Army infantry, pouring with their tanks and guns over the Volturno on many new bridges, can see the smoke from the German destruction. ...

Published: Thursday 21 October 1943
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 750 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BIRTHS. On the 15th inst., the wile Mr Richd. M. Hatch, chemist, Redland, a son. On the 16th July, at

... Thomas Henry Morgan, Esq., of Tidenham House, Gloucestershire, to Thomas Brett Cowtjurn, Esq., late Capt. of H.M.s 52nd Light Infantry. On the 11th inst., at the parish church, Cheltenham, by the father of the bnde, assisted the Rev. Anthony Hammond, the ...

Published: Tuesday 17 August 1869
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 473 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BARKER'S OPERATIONS

... were killed, and one man each of tin Oxford Light Infantry and Hussars sever el] wounded. Total:—Three officers killed, five wounded, 29 men killed, and 35 wounded. Casualtiea in the 14th Moanted Infantry Column at Holland, on the 19th inst., are retnrned ...

Published: Thursday 26 December 1901
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1108 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

MISTAKEN IDENTITY

... MISTAKEN IDENTITY. ARMY LIEUTENANT WRONGFULLY CHARGED. When the case of Lieut. Gerald Atkinson, 29, Of the Somersetshire Light Infantry, who was arrested outside a Strand Theatre on warrant, and charged at Westminster Police Court on Monday with unlawfully ...

Published: Friday 06 February 1914
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1086 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

GAPS IN AXIS DEFENCES WIDENED

... GAPS IN AXIS DEFENCES WIDENED HEAVY FIGHTING ON DESERT FRONT Rommel's Stunning Air Losses m INFANTRY WIDEN TANK-LANES A L L THE FOURTH DAY OF ™ SIVE IN THE WESTERN IS™ S A LY WIDENED THE TANK-LANES ovsS?£ IN R°MMEL'S MINEFIELD DEFENCE SYSTEM. Information ...

Published: Wednesday 28 October 1942
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1081 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

London Gazette Extraordinarij

... probably the whole of the cavalry, and considerable body of infantry, but they did not attempt to press upon our rear. They took advantage of th% ground to cannonade our rear-guard, consisting of the light divisions, under Major-General Charles Allen, on the ...

Published: Saturday 05 December 1812
Newspaper: Bristol Mirror
County: Bristol, England
Type: | Words: 2662 | Page: 3 | Tags: none