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...west flank of the Seoul front, in the sector split by the road from Kaesong, units of the U.S. 25th Division and the British Commonwealth 29th Brigade had come under attack almost simultaneously. The Chinese were attacking all along the British line, against the Royal Ulster Rifles, the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers and the Gloucestershires. The British regulars had been spoiling for a fight ever since they landed in Korea some two months before, and now they were getting one. Said an officer at the brigade C.P.: "My best company commander's got bullet holes all up the side...
Like the rest of the U.N. forces north of Seoul, the British were getting ready to withdraw, but they had a few small chores to attend to first. Lieut. Colonel Kingsley Foster, C.O. of the Northumberland Fusiliers, pointed down a small valley toward two smoldering villages. "Some of my troops, including a few wounded, are pinned down there," he said. "I've lost my senior major, a classmate of mine whom I've known for 25 years. I've also lost my assault platoon commander. We're just about...
During her years (1931-45) as Conservative M.P. for Wallsend, Northumberland, Miss Irene Ward found it necessary to make many trips to London. She used to leave the sleeper at King's Cross Station and go straight to the railways-owned Great Northern Hotel for a morning bath and breakfast. Then, like a wet towel flung in her Tory face, came the Socialist government and its nationalization of railways and railway hotels...
Hold the Apples. Young Boswell wasted no time in pushing himself forward. He chatted easily, had a knack for making friends, had his hair "dressed" every day and took care to be seen in the most fashionable places. He was soon intimate with Lord and Lady Northumberland, Actor David Garrick, Writer Oliver Goldsmith and a fast set of tony young rakes. He dined well, co-authored (with Andrew Erskine) a book of poems and letters which he calmly reviewed himself in the London Chronicle as "a book of true genius." London's more objective Critical Review called the poems...
...Nearly 3,000 British troops drawn from the Royal Ulster Rifles, the Gloucestershire Regiment, the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, the Royal Armored Corps. ¶ The advance party of a 10,000-man Canadian force...