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MILITARY ANNOUNCEMENTS

... Major F. W. Squair, M.8., T.D. (21st Mav, *1920). ARMY CASUALTIES. DIED. No. 24274 Cpl. W. Pearson, Aberdeen— Highland Light Infantry. No. S/14360 Pte. C. Aberdeen Gordon Highlanders. ...

Published: Monday 05 July 1920
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 127 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WITH 5th SEAFORTHS

... The author, moreover, Captain D. Sutherland, was Signal Officer the 152 nd Infantry Brigade, to which the sth Seaforths belonged, and afterwards second in com- 1 mand of the 51st Divisional Signal Company. He had thus his hand more or less continuously ...

Published: Tuesday 13 July 1920
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1111 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WIFE'S PROPERTY

... the camp and inspect the battalion. • «■ THE 51st. All Army Council Instruction, published yes terday, states it has been decided to incorporate in the designations of tho new Territorial Foroe infantry divisions the numerical prefix by which they re ...

Published: Wednesday 21 July 1920
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 841 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CITY POLICE HOUSING ALLOWANCE

... arranged bemveea Bievetr, Lieut.-Col. R. F. H. Wallace, C.M.G., Black Watch, elder son the late Col. C. T. Wallace, Highland Light Infantry, and Mr 3 Wallace, Willow vale, Nairn, and E'ffie, eldest: daughter tho late Col. Sir Chand-os Ho=kyns, R.E., and Lady ...

Published: Wednesday 18 August 1920
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1152 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE 51st DIVISION

... THE 51st DIVISION. A SOLDIER'S HISTORY, WITH SOME PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS. £ HISTORY OF THE 51st (HIGHLAND) DIVISION, 1914-1918. By -Major F. W. Bewsher, D.5.0., M.C., ...

Published: Friday 23 September 1921
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2256 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BOOKS: WAR, SPORT, FICTION, AND TRAVEL

... proper value the splendid work performed by the Territorials. As Stirling remarks— Under the Territorial A ct °f fourteen infantry Divisions were formed. Some of these sailed for the E-ast September and October, 1914, and all the fourteen had embarked ...

Published: Thursday 06 April 1922
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4610 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

OBITUARY. LAIRD OF JOHNSTONE. SUDDEN DEATH OF MR ALEX. PEARSON. A gloom was cast over Laurencekirk and district ..

... Regular soldier, deceased, who was a nativs of Fareham, Hampshire, was signalling sergeant with the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry prior to the war, but in 1914 he transferred to the R.E. Signals, and served in France for over two years with the 2nd ...

Published: Wednesday 27 August 1924
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 635 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

STROLLING PLAYERS PERFORM AT BALMORAL CASTLE

... religion. The praise was the -3rd Psalm, sung tc the tune Covenanters, and the Hymns Lead us, heavenly Father, Sometimes light surprises, and Jesus, the verj thought of Thee; and the voluntaries plaved by Mr S. S. Page, organist, were th ...

Published: Monday 21 September 1925
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2434 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

ABERDEEN'S TRIBUTE TO ITS HONOURED DEAD

... man of 92, wito belongs to Bonnyton, neat Montrose, and fought ‘in the Indian Mutiny the Crimea with the 7ist Highland Light Infantry. One of the last survivors of those stirring events of seventy years ago, he is wonderfully Vigorous conside ring his ...

Published: Wednesday 30 September 1925
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3376 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SOCIETY AND PERSONAL

... John Stevenson, Canterbury, architect and surveyor, left £60,705. Col. Malcolm Charles Farriugton, C.8., late 51st Yorkshire Light Infantry, loft £56,371. Tho Hon. Clara Elizabeth (Lady George) Cholmondeley, of Washington, U.S.A., actress, the divorced ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1926
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 250 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Books of the Day: History of 15th Division

... but surcly the in the divi- sional. histories of the war are being bridged, Scotland’s four divisions, the Mth, the 15th, the 51st, and the 52nd, have d now had their glorious records in book form, the last of the quartette being the 15th, which comprised ...

Published: Thursday 22 April 1926
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2707 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

OBITUARY. SIR WALTER ROSS. Distinguished Highland Soldier. News of the death of Brigadier-General Sir Walter ..

... tAs a soldier, Sir Walter had most distinguished career. He entered the 2nd Foos and soon thereafter the 68th Durham Light Infantry. In 1879 he served in the Afghan war and was A.D.C. to Major-General Sir Hector MaeDonald in the South African war. In ...

Published: Saturday 11 February 1928
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1170 | Page: 8 | Tags: none