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... flashes for its members to wear. The 51st went on to liberate St Valery and slog through Belgium, Holland and across the Rhine into northern Germany until the war’s end, fighting every inch of the way. After the war the 51st reverted to its TA role. It was ...
... Scots Fusiliers, Ayr. 54th Brigade—lst V.B. Highland Lie'ht Infantry. Glasgow; Ist Dumbartonshire Rifles, Ist Lanarkshire Rifles, Glasgow; and st,h V.B. (Glasgow Highlanders) Highland Light Infantry. ...
... these regiments, viz :-7th Fusiliers, 13th 6 Light Infantry, 21st Fusiliers, 23d ditto, 43d Light Infantry, 51st ditto, 521 ditto, 68th ditto, 71st ditto, 725d ditto, 85th 'tFasiliers, 87th ditto, and 90th ...
... beginning of the second phase of the offensive—the phase of armoured concentration. The engineers and infantry have paved the way. Gen. Montgomery's infantry have again deepened the area of their penetration into the Axis defensive system in a night advance ...
... Ruddell, 20 officers, 685 men. 51st Light Infantry—Lieutenant-Colonel C. Acton, 21 officers, 597 men. Native Infantry. —lst Native Infantry—Lieutenant-Colonel L. H. P. De Larpent, 6 officers, 830 men. 2nd Native ...
... are:—The 51st 15th and 16th Battalions Highland Light Infentry, 1/Sth and 9th Battalions Scottish Rifles, and 11th Battalions Royal Scots, l/4th Battalion lloyal Scots Fusiliers, l/sth and Battalion K. 0.5.8. , . . . The eight other infantry divisions ...
... battle, will live in history. Many others like it will be related by Gordons, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Highland Light infantry, Scots Fusiliers, Borderers, and the rest who, with their English, Canadian and American comrades, accomplished what the ...
... recruited many the 51st Division, than which no division in France was more famous—whether they looked to the battle of the in 1916, the battle of Arras, of Ypres, of Cambrai in 1917, or to the jireat battles of 1918. all, the 51st Division took part ...
... ’s slogging war as it really was dons were in the 51st, the 2nd Bn. fought in the 15th. The 51st had earlier been brought home by Montgomery from his successful Mediterranean campaigns specially to strengthen, with other similar, battle-hardened formations ...
... Prisoners On land, too, so far as can be gathered, our casualties are astonishingly light in view of the difficulty of the task. Men of the 50th (Northumberland) Division, the 51st (Highland) Division, as well as the Fighting French, Greeks, Indians, South Africans ...
... 64 Claremont Street, has been reqjmtured in Italy, and is now in a German prison camp. Pte. William B. Esson, Durham Light Infantry, eldest son of Mr and Mrs Wm. Esson. P,l Ruthries+on Crescent, is reported missing, believed prisoner of war. ...
... skilful co-operation between aircraft and infantry, and to the uniiniiated was revelation of the intricacy modern warfare, and of the extent which science has become the handmaiden of war. Altogether, including infantry, Signals, and others, 1500 troops were ...