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INFANTRY IN ATOMIC WAR

... Services. ¥ General Wimberley served in both World Wars with the Scottish infantry. He comganded the 51st Highland Division from 1941-43, and from 1944-46 was Director of Infantry at the War Office. He can, therefore, speak with the fullest authority on ...

Published: Tuesday 29 January 1957
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1008 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

wall 'collapsed Obituary COL. HERBERT SMAIL | | Dundee architect I Col. Herbert M. Smail, TD., a| Dundee ..

... former Terri-| torial Army officer, died yesterday. He was 69. o He was a second lieutenant in the | Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry in | the First World War, and was a prisoner for nearly two years. ', He then began a long associatjoni with the firm ...

Published: Monday 08 February 1960
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 192 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

CYPRUS BOMB EXPLOSION Glasgow Soldier Killed

... Correspondent NICOSIA, Wednesday.—lt was officially announced here to-night thal Brigadier J. Robertson, Commander of the 51st Infantry Brigade, has convened a court of inquiry to investigate yesterday’'s Eoka outrage at Lefkoniko, in which Private Matthew ...

Published: Thursday 25 October 1956
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 202 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Lions get a glimpse of the opposition Will see Rhodesian XV in action

... Cup for all units taking part and the T.A. Challenge Bowl for the best Territorial unit. The Highland Light Infantry Bowl goes to the best infantry unit. All these trophies are presentlv held by the 11th Battalion Seaforth Hichlanders (T.A.). *“ The Scotsman” ...

Published: Wednesday 16 May 1962
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 475 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

SCOTS DIVISIONS’ MEMORIAL Details of Glasgow Ceremony

... and the 'battle honours of the four divisions' the 9th, 15th 51st, and 52nd. . The treatment of the window—which 'was designed and made by Mr Gordon | Webster, Glasgow—aims at secunn, lightness combined with brilliance o colour in the subject panels. It ...

Published: Wednesday 28 July 1954
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 534 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

To the. EDITOR of “ THE SCOTSMAN

... become just plain bores. Banner headlines mourning the 51st (Highland) Division may just become a red rag to a bull for a man of the 15th (Lowland). and the velps of an outraged infantryman tbe he light or heavy) are tedious and :{ying to others who have ...

Published: Thursday 01 August 1957
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 422 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Speedy T.A. units upset timetable

... the castle’s walls at midnight on Saturday was the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry (Scottish Horse). Maj.-Gen. Derek B. Lang, G.O.C. 51st Highland Division, who was at the starting point at Cultybraggan, Comrie, throughout the exercise, planned to fly by helicopter ...

Published: Monday 25 March 1963
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 430 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Royal review of Scottish units in Queen’s Park

... to Berlin two years later. The Division’s infantry contingents in the Review will include representatives of the 11th Seaforth Highlanders, the 4/6th and 6/7th Black Watch, the 5/6th Highland Light Infantry, the 7th and Bth Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders ...

Published: Saturday 05 July 1958
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2181 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Veolunteers of the 70s have vital role

... only a few isolated places where a man could pot be in reasonable range of a drill hall. As an examble lxhthe case of infantry, the 51st Highland Volunteers have detachments at Perth, Kirkcaldy, Dundee, Wick, Inverness. Elgin. Aberdeen, Keith, Stirling ...

Published: Friday 25 September 1970
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1253 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Books FOrR CHRISTMAS Peaks of the Himalaya and Tartary

... Edited by Captain B. H. Liddell Hart. (18s. Michael Joseph.) Private William Wheeler joined the 51st | Regiment of Foot (npw the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry) in April 1809. He saw much active service in the last few years of the Napoleonic wars, being ...

Published: Thursday 22 November 1951
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2347 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

World Trade Organisation regarded as solution

... increasing The trouble with the Soviet Union nical aid. joint capital investments, the | Seabank Road, Nairn, maries on the Li.ght pfi,ég?:;;::; numbers each year, and will continue and, indeed, the whole Eastern bloc is rational division of labour, all ...

Published: Wednesday 20 June 1962
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2873 | Page: 8 | Tags: none