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DEATH OF SIR A. WYNNE

... House in the Tower of is announced to-day. He ‘died in London aged 89. Sir Arthur, who was born in Co. Louth, ined the 51st Light Infantry 73 years ago. e served in the Jowaki expedition in 1 7 in the Afghan War, the South African Wag of 1881 and in the Sudan ...

Published: Friday 07 February 1936
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 122 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

REINFORCEMENTS FOR INDIA

... Regiment expect to embark at Kingstown for India about ...

Published: Saturday 25 July 1857
Newspaper: Leeds Intelligencer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 408 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

GENERAL SIR A. WYNNE

... Keeper of the Jewel House at the Tower of London and Colonel of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry from 1913 to 1927. Sir Arthur joined the 51st Light Infantry (now the Ist Batt. K.0.Y.L.1.) when 16. ',He served in the Jowaki Expedition ...

Published: Saturday 08 February 1936
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 328 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

REINFORCEMENTS FOR INDIA

... Fusilier?, 52nd Light Infantry, 70th, 81st, 94th, I 98th Regiments, to embark on board the Eastern Mon: arch, at Gravesend, for Kurrachee; 383 men and oue officer of tbe 3rd Dragoon Guards, Bth Hussars, 17th Lan| cers, 51st Light Infantry, ...

Published: Saturday 26 June 1858
Newspaper: Leeds Intelligencer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 402 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

HOME-COMING OF

... the Tattoo, and this will be the first time that the old 51st Light Infantry has visited Leeds as a battalion since 1782. Tlie first Battalion of tlic K.0.Y.L.1. is the lineal descendant of the 51st Foot, after*' wards “The 2nd Yorkshire, West Riding, Regt ...

Published: Wednesday 15 June 1938
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 399 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

ANOTHER CARLISLE MAN MISSING

... both offences wilfully, and sent him prison for one month's hard labour on each charge, one term follow the other. The 51st Light Infantry Peninsular Memorial, which is to be pi a'ad York Minster, has now been completed. The unveiling ceremony will performed ...

MR. G. W. CHAMBERS, ROTHERHAM,

... at the age of 63. had bad about forty years’ service, and was well known Yorkshire soldiers Paymaster of th© 51st. Yorkshire Light Infantry India, &c. served in the Afghan war. and also in the Ashantee and Abyssinian expeditions. was badly wounded, and ...

Published: Saturday 03 September 1904
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 158 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ENTERTAINMENT TO SOLDIERS AT BOMBAY

... ENTERTAINMENT TO SOLDIERS AT BOMBAY. The 51st Light Infantry, and the remain** companies of the 72nd, have arrived at Bombay- latter noble-looking regiment leaves for Guzerat t^ [S marched up for service in Rajpootana. The Bth follow them in about a ...

Published: Saturday 06 February 1858
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 580 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

AT THE POINT OF THE BAYONET

... the following inscription :— This memorial was erected 1913, the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, to the following officers and officers of the 51st Light Infantry, who lost their lives for their country in the ware of 1808-14. (Then ...

Published: Monday 31 March 1913
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 500 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HUSSARS BEAT “KOYLIS” Point Victory on Historic Day From Our Own Correspondent YORK, Tuesday Heavy rain ..

... celebrations commemmorate a Peninsular War incident, when the Hussars (then the 15th Hussars) and the K.0.Y.L.1.S (then the 51st Light Infantry) were ordered by Wellington to cross the River Esla, and the Hussars went to the rescue a number of the infantrymen ...

Published: Wednesday 01 June 1938
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 520 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PERSONALIA

... and Lieutenant-Colonel in 1896. He aw his first active service in 1877, when he served with the 51st Light Infantry (Ist. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry) in the Jowaki Campaign, when he received a medal with cla-sp. With the same ...

Published: Saturday 08 December 1900
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 692 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Queen Victoria and Santa Anna.—According Mexican correspondent of the New York Herald Her Maiesty Queen ..

... Gosport, on Sunday last, aged 51*. The deceased had seen some active service, having served in the Peninsula with the 51st Light Infantry, and had received the war medal, with five clasps, for the battles of Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, and Orthes ...

Published: Saturday 30 December 1854
Newspaper: Leeds Intelligencer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 746 | Page: 7 | Tags: none