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D-DAY SOUVENIR TUESDAY MAY 24 1994 9 AIRBORNE ASSAULT Capturing the bridge was vital to the D-Day plan Above right:

... midnight on D-Day with other members of the 7th Battalion Parachute Regiment ‘converted’ from a battalion of the Somerset Light Infantry Panzer The drop zone was on the right bank of the Orne and just to the east of Pegasus bridge captured minutes earlier ...

Published: Tuesday 24 May 1994
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
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EMPLOYEES

... tablet, pr-rpelua'tHg the memory of Sir John Mere, 15 officers, 24 sergeants, and 610 rank and file the 51st Foot, now the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, w ho (ell in the Peninsular campaign, was unveiled yesterday afternoon York Vinster by Genual Wynne ...

Published: Wednesday 02 April 1913
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
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TRIPOLI REPORTED ABOUT TO FALL TO MONTGOMERY

... declared 'The Eighth Army's brilliant drive is about to throw Rommel out of Tripolitania In Central Tunisia, German tank and infantry forces, driving south-west from Pont dv Fahs, on Wednesday reached a point about two miles from Robaa, 27 miles from Pont ...

Published: Friday 22 January 1943
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 742 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AMERICANS 16 MILES FROM COLOGNE

... five miles from Linnich. German resistance to the drive of the First and Ninth American Armies appears to be surprisingly light so far, according to Supreme Headquarters, where it is explained that this is partly due to the smashing attacks of Allied ...

Published: Monday 26 February 1945
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 790 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Friday January 17 1997 EVENING POST 13 NEWS Loving homes needed for man’s best friend AN animal sanctuary near ..

... BRISTOL war veterans who served in Asia have been invited to attend a national reunion Members of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry are holding the get-together May The veterans group is looking for members who served in Malaya 1947 to 1951 and in India ...

Published: Friday 17 January 1997
Newspaper: Bristol Evening Post
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 716 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

RHINE BRIDGEHEAD 30 MILES LONG

... by British' troops at Rees. Bislich. and Wesel; and one by the U.S. Ninth Army south of Wesel. Troops of the Somerset Light Infantry and the Wiltshire Regiment were among those which made the crossing. A shattering aerial and artillery bombardment of ...

Published: Monday 26 March 1945
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 797 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE AFGHAN WAR

... Third and Fourth Brigades. Reformer consisted of the 81st, tho 14th Sikhs, and 21th Native Infantry. Tha Fourth Brigade con«W of the 51st Foot, the 6th Native Infantry, and Sikhs. With them was a mountain battery battery of Horsa Artillery. Tha brigade was ...

Published: Monday 25 November 1878
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 4431 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS

... ed battalion of militia shall be extended from 28 to 41 dayt. via., 4th Battalion the Prince Albert's (Somersetshire) Light Infantry. The People's Palace.— There will be attractive programme at the People’s Palace next week. The following aro appearing: ...

Published: Saturday 04 August 1906
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
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THE CAPTURE OF FORT ALI MUSJID

... six o'clock the Third and part of thse Foiurth Brigades under General Browne, consist- ing of the 51st uight Infantry, the 81st Foot, the 6th Native Light Infaitry, and the 45th Sikhs, with an elephant lattery, and a battery of mountain guns, marched forward ...

Published: Monday 25 November 1878
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2918 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

LONDON LETTER

... ought to bfe winning the war on the Western front. «WHA DARE MEDDLE ME! The corporal an! uve men the Battalion of the d Light Infantry the 52ud Division, who for two days maintained their post in the ruined village Mceuvres under the most trying conditions ...

Published: Monday 23 September 1918
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 972 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE BRITISH CASUALTIES

... Regiment-Pte. J. R. Clarkson, enterlo, July 26th. 2nd Royal Irish Regiment-Srgit. H, Henley, July 29tb. 1st Highland Light Infantry-Pte. T. Jordan, July t9ih. ~Marandellas. Medical Staff Rhodesian Reglment-G. W. Norton, exhaustion, July 29th. Pretoria ...

Published: Friday 03 August 1900
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2079 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE BOER WAR

... Hunter's engagement on was bigger affair than he led mo to suppose from his first telegram. *■ Three mea the Highland Light Infantry were killed, and 33 wounded. Seven men belonging to other corps wero also wounded, and one man missing. Second-Lieutenant ...

Published: Saturday 18 August 1900
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2233 | Page: 8 | Tags: none