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Why Not Film of 51st?

... Why Not Film of 51st? From Our Film Critic Australia has put its magnificent cavalry troops, the famous Australian Light Horse, on the world's screen. In the film, Forty Thousand Horsemen, the exploits in the Palestine campaign in the last war of this ...

Published: Friday 22 August 1941
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 221 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

51st DIVISION R.A

... 51st DIVISION R.A. Last night's London Gazette gives notice of the following Army appointments: TERRITORIAL ARMY. Commands and Staff. Colonel C. P. James, D.5.0., relinquishes the appointment of Commander, 155 th (E. Scot.) Infantry Brigade, July 31 ...

Published: Wednesday 03 August 1932
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 81 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BRIEF GREETINGS TO THE 51st

... BRIEF GREETINGS TO THE 51st JJlNorth-east Gunners in Belgium °f Tension on Eve °* Enemy Attack Ley Smith tivelv % of enj °y able passed in the neigh- W' r Then the regiment moved to Meninel, and Cherisy, near Arras, the Every inch of that countryside ...

Published: Tuesday 28 January 1941
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1116 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HOMS A HARD NUT FOR 51st

... HOMS A HARD NUT FOR 51st How 'Edinburgh Castle' Was Stormed TX a fight for Edinburgh Castle in the Battle of the Hills near Homs, in Tripoli, Seaforths and Black Watch drove crack German parachute troops and Italians from strongly-fortified positions ...

Published: Friday 26 February 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 593 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

10 MONTHS' SAGA OF 51st: ALAMEIN TO ETNA

... 10 MONTHS' SAGA OF 51st: ALAMEIN TO ETNA GENERAL WIMBERLEY TELLS GREAT SCOTS GATHERING MORE FIGHTING THAN ANY DIVISION THROUGH the fortunes of war, it has so happened that the 51st Highland Division must have seen more fighting during the ten months ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3480 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HOW GALLANT 51st DIVISION 'WENT INTO ECLIPSE'

... Boche the same day. ' The Hun infantry had moved forward before our barrage opened. with the result that when the Camerons advanced they oam f I under heavy fire from unscathed troops. The attack, supported French light tanks, which were mined or shot ...

Published: Wednesday 19 August 1942
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2221 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HOMS A HARD NUT FOR 51st How ‘Edinburgh Castle’ Was Stormed

... HOMS A HARD NUT FOR 51st How ‘Edinburgh Castle’ Was Stormed TN a fight for Edinburgh Castle in the Battle * of the Hills near Homs, in Tripoli, Seaforths and Black Watch drove crack German parachute troops and Italians from strongly-fortified positions ...

Published: Thursday 04 March 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1050 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

SCOTS GENERAL DEAD

... Brigadier-General Robert Black Fell, who commanded the 51st Infantry Brigade in 1915-16, died in London yesterday at the age of seventy-five. Brig.-General Fell joined the 90th Perthshire Light Infantry in 1859. He s'erved the Zulu War, and was second in ...

Published: Friday 23 March 1934
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 54 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

T.A. AND FONTHILL BARRACKS

... scheme to include electric lighting and central heating. The new establishment; for infantry battalions was reported, showing that under the new scheme a battalion of infantry reduced 52. An application was received from the 51st (Highland) Divisional Engineers ...

Published: Tuesday 15 January 1929
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 113 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MILITARY ANNOUNCEMENTS

... Innes, M.C., relinquishes his commission, and is granted the rank of Major. 51st (Highland) Divisional Signals.—Major 0.8. E., Lieut,-Col. Battalion Highland Light Infantry.— -ad Lieut. R. Gibiou be Lieutenant.. ...

Published: Saturday 24 November 1928
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 54 | Page: 4 | Tags: none