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... he was fighting with the Imperial Light Infantry. A brother, Mr. Alec J. Forbes, with Plumer's force, was wounded at the relief of Mafeking while the youngest, Mr. Gordon Forbes, is in Thorneycroft's Mounted Infantry, and was one of the two officers who ...
... There were six British infantry regiments in that show -the 12th (Suffolks), the 20th (Lancashire Fusiliers), the 23rd (Royal Welsh Fusiliers), the 25th (the K.O.S.B's.), the 37th (Hamp- shires), and the 51st (Yorkshire Light Infantry).- These two brigades ...
... Afghanistan, the Transvaal, and Egypt. As a regimental officer .he was long associated with the old 51st Light Infantry (now the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry), which lie joined so long ago as 1863. MAJOR RECKXTT, R.A.M.C., COMMANDING ...
... regiment, the corps re ferred to being the 1st Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, formerly known as the 51st (2nd Yorkshire West Riding, The King's Own Light Infantry). Why not go back to the old numbers without dissociating the ...
... man escaping massacre The Durham Light Infantry 68th and 106th Foot. Bugle orna mented with laurel leaves, with crown and letters DLI. The Faithful Durhams. The regt. led the advance at Vaal Kranz Highland Light Infantry 71st and 74th Foot. The star of ...
... Gartside- Tipping, who joined the Army some twenty- seven years ago as it Lieutenant in the then 51st Foot, now the 1st Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Colonel Gartside- Tipping afterwards went to the Indian Staff Corps, and his war-service includes ...
... fierce, hand-to-hand lighting --Drawing by Edward Osmond EDINBURGH ROCK, IN TRI POLITANI A A RUINED TURKISH CASTLE ON A HILL BEHIND HOMS, USED AS A NAZI OBSERVATION POST, IS STORMED BY HII the crack Storm Troops of the enemy's 90th Light Division and routed ...
... the pounds, shillings and pence necessary- for the making of that dress The experience of the war, however, has brought to light an aspect of the question which has previously been neglected. The initial outlay involved in equipping a man of a Highland ...
... Scottish Borderers, the Cameronians, the Black Watch, the Highland Light Infantry, and other Scottish units in their progress along Whitehall. Many of these men had fought in the celebrated 51st Highland Division, at Alamein. in Tnpohtania, in Sicily, and again ...
... the salu ting-base. On August I, at Minden, The Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry celebrated the victory which they gained on the plains of Minden 187 years ago. They were then the 51st of Foot, newly raised, and they fought their way to victory along ...
... the pounds, shillings and pence necessary- for the making of that dress The experience of the war, however, has brought to light an aspect of the question which has previously been neglected. The initial outlay involved in equipping a man of a Highland ...
... hand, but they consisted partly of trocps resting aftei wa action of the Somme such as the famous 51st Division. grc The attack began in the half light of the morning. It was condi the by eight German divisions in the front line, besides others in reserves ...