The History of the 51st Highland Division, 1939-1945 |
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154 Brigade 1st Black Watch 1st Gordons 2nd Seaforth 30th Corps 33rd Armoured Brigade 5/7th Gordons 51st Highland Division 5th Camerons 5th Seaforth 7th Argylls 7th Armoured Division 7th Black Watch 8th Army advance Africa Alamein anti-tank ditch Armoured Brigade attack Battalion battle Black Watch Lt.-Col bridge bridgehead Buerat Canadian Canal Captain captured casualties Colonel Company counter-attack crossing defences east enemy Field Regiment fighting fire flank fought Francofonte French front Geertruidenberg German ground gunners guns Headquarters heavy held Isselburg killed land later Le Havre Lieutenant Maas machine-gun Major March Mareth Mareth Line miles minefield Montgomery morning night objective officers ordered Panzer patrol platoon position prisoners Reichswald Rennie Rhine ridge river road Royal Artillery Royal Engineers sent Sfax Sferro shelling Sicily soldier St Valéry strong-point tanks took town Tripoli troops units vehicles village Wadi Wimberley wounded yards Yeomanry Zealand