BATTALIONS

... BATTALIONS The book goes on to say in the days of the volunteers, “the rusty black was often exchanged for the glowing scarlet,” and Presbyterian ministers, arrayed in military custume, were to be seen mingling in the Sham fight, or superintending the ...

Published: Thursday 10 March 1988
Newspaper: Banbridge Chronicle
County: Down, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 109 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

Battalion

... Battalion BELLSHILL and District Battalion of the Boys’ Brigade finally filled the position of treasurer when Mr Samuel Clark accepted the invitation last week. Mr Clark, who is at present treasurer of 3rd Bellshill Company, has had some 30 years experience ...

Published: Thursday 30 November 1989
Newspaper: Motherwell Times
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 178 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

BATTALIONS

... BATTALIONS Certainly the cadets don’t have it easy. Reveille is at 6.30 a.m., and two hours later, with a full breakfast inside them, they have to be fully kitted up in khaki to start their day’s training. At camp the Lincolnshire force is split into ...

Published: Friday 18 August 1967
Newspaper: Sleaford Standard
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 486 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BATTALIONS

... BATTALIONS Until 1946, Motherwell Wishaw and Bellshill constituted one Battalion, which had its first meeting in 1905, After 1946, Motherwell-Bellshill and Wishaw split into separate battalions. Round about 1968, the Bellshill Battalion seceded, leaving ...

Published: Thursday 23 June 1983
Newspaper: Motherwell Times
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 76 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

BATTALION

... BATTALION An urficm inquiry got under way today to find the missing intelligence file, which contains photographs and addresses of nine republicans in County Down. ~ The document was lost from the Ballykinlar Army cam'p in (‘oum{ Down, whsecr; a battalion ...

BATTALION

... BATTALION MA | JATURDAY, May ANT, 8§ and (the. wonder dog) HANHUNT ne Morris in DW FIN THE NEWS by g HE BRI S D LUCAS SERVICE [ERS FOR PRAYING , TYPES, The Elms Priors Ma:ston —Daventry and Branch MEETING . MAY 11 G, 68 High St 15 P.M_ ...

THE BATTALION

... Presented to the Officers of the 2nd Battalion by the Officers of the 4th Battalion to commemorate their first meeting since the formaion of the Volunteer Force in 1859.” The Battalions met last year at Catterick. The presentation was not only given for ...

Published: Saturday 17 November 1934
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 247 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

____ Battalion meeting

... ____ Battalion meeting COMMANDANT Colonel John Woodall has congratulated the Derbyshire Cadet Battalion shooting teams on their outstanding performance at a recent target rifle meeting. Eight counties competed in the competition, which resulted in a clean ...

Published: Thursday 30 June 1994
Newspaper: Belper News
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 156 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

Brownie battalion

... Brownie battalion s FINAL FEW DAYS Brownie, mascot of a 'paratroop battalion at Merzig Saarland, and the only bear in the West German Army, shows affection for its handler, Sergeant Freund. Brownie is nearly six feet tall and weichs 400 pounds. 2 ;?II'A ...

Published: Friday 25 October 1974
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 47 | Page: 54 | Tags: none

Volunteers for the battalion

... the battalion FIT young men with a sense of humour and the ability to take the rough with the smooth are wanted by the army. Recruitment officers in Oxon and Bucks have launched a major search for suitable soldiers for a new Territorial battalion. This ...

Battalion remembered

... company commander in the Battalion in 1939 and who is the Lord Lieutenant of Angus; Brigadier J. A. Oliver, CB, CBE, DSO, TD, DL, one of the senior members of the 51st Highland Division, who was second in command of the Battalion from 1939 to 1941; Brigadier ...

Published: Friday 08 April 1988
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 304 | Page: 23 | Tags: none