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ALDERSHOTT CAMP ARRANGEMENTS

... Westminster, and sth ditto Fit . MlddJesex 2nd ditto King's Own Light Infantry and P en ,' Tower Hamlets Light Infantryfand Ist, 7n'd and 3rd Queen ' B Militia. These will give m 2.500 Guards and infantry of the Une, and about which, added to artillery and 150 ...

Published: Saturday 19 May 1855
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 240 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE MUTINIES IN INDIA

... September, it is said that assault will be made on the city. The 10th Light Cavalry mutinied at Ferozepore on August 19th and murdered Nelson, the Veterinary-Surgeon. The 51st Native Infantry mutinied Peshawur on the 28th of August, but most of them were seized ...

Published: Saturday 17 October 1857
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 313 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NAVAL AND MILITARY

... terrible havoc in the ranks of the army India. The regiments which suffered most were the 51st Foot (King's Own Light Infantry), the 94th, and the 27th (Inniskilleh). The 51st, stationed at Meear Mer, lost during the month Lieutenant-Colonel Irby and 262 men ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1861
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 678 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NAVAL AND MILITARY

... orders, recruits are to be received for the cavalry and infantry of the line the following standard and age, viz.: Heavy Cavalry—From feet to 5 feet 9 inches, between the age of 18 and 25. Light Cavalry—From 5 feet 5 to feet 8 inches, between the age ...

Published: Saturday 10 October 1857
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 422 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NAVAL AND MILITARY

... were formed into two brigades. The first, under command of Major-General Sir A. Horsford, X.C.8., consisted of the 51st Light Infantry,under Major Madden; the 54th Regt., under Major Deacon j and the 98th Regt., under Colonel Peyton. The second brigade ...

Published: Saturday 29 February 1868
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 660 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NAVAL AND MILITARY

... reinforcements for the 12th Regt. and the 43rd Light Infantry, at Chatham garrison, together with the detachments for the Regt., 18th Royal Irish, 40th, 50th, 57th, and 65th Regts., and 68th Light Infantry, have received orders to be readiness to embark ...

Published: Saturday 03 September 1864
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 927 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NAVAL AND MILITARY

... instructors. This will only be fair to ill-paid, and, for a long time, a very neglected set of officers. Tbe 40th Regiment of Light Infantry (2d Somersetshire) will remove from Portsmouth garrison to Plymouth on the 10th inst. The depot of the 98th Regiment, ...

Published: Saturday 06 April 1867
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 430 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MILITARY AND NAVAL

... inst., for a course of drill:—Captain W. Black, and Lieutenant G. H. Gordon, Royal Wilts Militia. Captain Cherry, 32nd Light Infantry, has been appointed Adjutant of the School of Instruction for the Auxiliary Forces at Aldershot, in place of Captain Middleton ...

Published: Saturday 05 October 1872
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 645 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

keeps out Swedes From PETER WENT lo STOCKHOLM

... alongside the Robson and Manchester than Terry Butcher did last night. It was like the Durham United suffered another Light Infantry; their motto blow when £1.5 million is 'They Not Pass'. Neil Webb was carried off But as Butcher headed with an achilles ...

Published: Thursday 07 September 1989
Newspaper: Reading Evening Post
County: Berkshire, England
Type: | Words: 510 | Page: 32 | Tags: none

NAVAL AND MILITARY

... that port. Her Majesty's troop ship Himalaya, Capt. Piers, arrived at Queenstown on Monday, with the 2nd battalion 13th Light Infantry, Lieut.-Colonel Macdonald, Commander Menzies, officers, and crew of the late Osprey, and a few naval and military invalids ...

Published: Saturday 27 July 1867
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 765 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SUNK THREE GERMAN SHIPS

... , Lance-Corporal Percy W. Eatenton with the ftoyal Marine Light Infantry, with nhich he has been associated for upwards of six years. In the course of his narrative, he saidi^— •• On May 51st, at five minutes past four. was standing the upper deck, smoking ...

Published: Saturday 10 June 1916
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 492 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FOREIGN NEWS

... Ist Battalion Royal Fusiliers (7th), will proceed from Cairo to Assouan on Tuesday, to relieve the 2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry (106 th), who are ordered to India. FRANCE. Ten persons were killed on Tuesday by the fall of a house in course of erection ...

Published: Saturday 20 November 1886
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1165 | Page: 4 | Tags: none