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MALAYA COMMAND FOR MAJ.-GEN. URQUHART

... Highland Light Infantry in December 1920. After service. as a regimental officer and graduating from the Staff College, Camberley, he held x{g%g :?gppointments in India during During the desert campaign in North Africa he was G. 5.0.1 with the 51st (Highland) ...

Published: Thursday 09 February 1950
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 185 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BIRTHPLACES OF BRITISH REGIMENTS. ’

... Winchester. The Ist King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (51st) has been “ Yorkshire” from its birth, and the 2nd (1o05th) is an old Madras regiment brought into the Queen’s service in 1861. The Ist Shropshire Light Infantry (53rd) was formed ...

Published: Saturday 02 May 1896
Newspaper: The Regiment
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 549 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

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... Ist Cornwall Light Infantry ; 33rd lgoot, Ist West Riding; 4oth Foot, Ist South Lancashire ; 42nd Foot, Ist Royal Highlanders (Black Watch); 44th Foot, Ist Essex ; 51st Foot, Ist Yorkshire Light Infantry ; 52nd Foot, 2nd Oxford ...

Published: Saturday 21 July 1900
Newspaper: The Regiment
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 652 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... Gallacluar.-- Killed in action on 25th August, • Pte. A. Gallacher, 10th Durham , • Ith October. 1917. County Clerk's Office. Light Infantry third and youngest son of Rant!. sth Septeinh. r. 1917. Robert and Rachel Windier, Wintarton. Co. Durham, and grandson ...

Published: Saturday 08 September 1917
Newspaper: Banffshire Herald
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 331 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

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... Third Division in the Peninsular War, began his career as a 13-year-old infantry officer, and Moo re, the hero of Corunna, started his soldiering as a 14-year-old ensign in the 51st Foot. In the 18th century boy soldiers were given the grisly of administering ...

Published: Thursday 03 May 1984
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1635 | Page: 147 | Tags: none

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... OwN (YORKSHIRE = Licur - INFANTRY).—IST BaTTALION. litles.—s3rd Foot, 1755 57; 51st Foot, 1757 1782 ; %zmt Second Yorkshire West Riding) Light Infanry, 1809—1821 ; slst Second Yorkshire (West Riding - (The King's Own)) Light Mipe, TYs 1821—1888 ; The ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1900
Newspaper: The Regiment
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 604 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

BECOMIVIENDED FOR GALLANTRY IN THE FIELD

... Thomas Dovey, of Vine Cottage, Catshill, has been notified that his son, Sei grant T. V. Dovey, sth Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, has been killed in France. Before enlisting at the outin eak of war the deceased sergeant, who was 30 years of age, and ...

Published: Saturday 05 February 1916
Newspaper: Bromsgrove & Droitwich Messenger
County: Worcestershire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1069 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

y OF THE WOUNDED AT THE BAsEe HospiTaL, PIETERMARITZBURG

... Regiment. 69th Welsh Regiment.—Old Agamemnons, Ups-and-Downs. 42nd Black Watch.—Sauvages &' Ecosse. 43rd Oxfordshire.—Light Bobs, Light Brigade 44th Essex.—Two Fours, Little Fighting Fours 56th Essex. — The Pompadours, ~ Saucy Pompe%s. 45th Derbyshire.—Old ...

Published: Saturday 24 March 1900
Newspaper: The Regiment
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1212 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A RECENT VISIT TO PITCAIRN'S ISLAND

... and Major Griffiths, Madras Infantry, who both died of coup de soleil ; Colonel Bogle wounded by a musket shot through the thigh ; Licutenant Uonaldson, Bengal Eogineers, mortally wounded ; Captain Blundell, Ber Majesty's 51st, dangerously wounded; Lieutenant ...

Published: Saturday 05 June 1852
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3328 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LOCAL CHAT, With_the amount given to the Hospital for il the period from Easter to the 30th June, viz.: The

... Union Missionary, signed a pctitiox)x against the Urban Council’s ;lll' e a 8 ’.‘dd'l'e‘”io h:r ‘l‘i‘:rk in South Electric Lighting Scheme. ndia at 6.30 in the Assem ly Room, Leighton lßuzznrd, on Friday, January 30th, The Vale of Aylesbury Hunt Steeplechases ...

Tyneside Railmen NATION OWES IMMENSE DEBT TO THE RNVR” Says the Duke at Jubilee Dinner Duke Edinburgh proposing ..

... cream roses lilies of valley Mr D Nash was best man A Lyttelton Arms Hotel Hagley by 85 guests v V SOME OF THE MEMBERS old of 51st Birmingham Company Girls’ Life Brigade who Stratford Baptist Church Sparkbrook celebrate company’s 21st association church ...

Published: Monday 14 June 1954
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4050 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

1st EDITION TV Tonight: War in the Air 7) ‘The Rising Sun 9 6 The Birmingham Mail 20 1954 ST

... the general standard of spoken English at all events not rising” is the cautious comment of Mr J A Petch secretary in Board’s 51st annual report The Board was requested by one school in 1952 to conduct an experiment in testing some of its pupils spoken English: ...

Published: Monday 20 December 1954
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4065 | Page: 6 | Tags: none