died on 10 January 2009. Stone was born in Ledstone, Devon, as the tenth of fourteen children, and enlisted into the Royal Navy on his 18th birthday. Two...
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football fullback Bill Stone (Royal Navy sailor) (1900–2009), one of the last surviving British veterans of the First World War William S. Stone (1910–1968)...
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Senate Bill Stone (Royal Navy sailor) (1900–2009) British veteran of WWI and WWII Billy Stone (American football) (1925–2004), running back Billy Stone (arena...
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dismissal of 476 sailors from the Royal Indian Navy. None of those dismissed were reinstated into either the Indian or Pakistani navies after independence...
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The history of the Royal Canadian Navy goes back to 1910, when the naval force was created as the Naval Service of Canada and renamed a year later by...
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McHale's Navy. Changes: The opening theme song has been altered slightly, and Joe Flynn and Tim Conway are now billed in the opening credits. McHale's Navy at...
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Patrol Boat, River (category Patrol vessels of the United States Navy)
Williams is considered the most heavily decorated enlisted sailor in U.S. Navy history. The U.S. Navy posthumously named a guided missile destroyer, USS James...
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round) Royal Academy – RA Royal Artillery – RA Royal Engineers – RE Royal Marines – RM Royal Navy – RN Rugby (Union) – RU Run – R Rural Dean – RD Sailor –...
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William Henry Harrison Seeley (category Royal Navy sailors)
by 3,000 sailors and a further 2,000 mainly British soldiers, all under the command of Admiral Sir Augustus Leopold Kuper of the Royal Navy, steamed out...
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Tower Hill Memorial (redirect from Merchant Navy Memorial)
representing the seven seas. Wheeler also sculpted two sentries, a Merchant Navy sailor and officer, which stand at the top of the steps. The new memorial was...
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suggest that the place name Selsey Bill is particularly old. A 1698 survey of the area included in a report for the Royal Navy, by Dummer and Wiltshaw mentioned...
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Peddicord as commanding officer, and Navy Ensign John Bell as executive officer. Navy Chief Petty Officers and sailors came from the boat pool at U. S. Naval...
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The Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard was a Royal Navy Dockyard from 1788 to 1853 in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, at the site of the current Royal Military College...
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the Royal Canadian Navy via the Naval Service Act of 1910. It is intended as a marker of the nation's gratitude to the tens of thousands of sailors who...
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Victor Maddern (category British Merchant Navy personnel)
O. Time Bomb (1953) – Saboteur Street of Shadows (1953) – Danny Thomas Sailor of the King (1953) – Signalman Willy 'Misery' Earnshaw Malta Story (1953)...
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Corvette K-225 (category Films about the Royal Navy)
K -225. In 1943 at the height of the Battle of the Atlantic, the Royal Canadian Navy Lieutenant Commander MacClain has just lost his ship and most of...
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SSAFA (redirect from Soldiers' and Sailors' Families Association)
Forces, including: Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Army and Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Forces, including Royal Navy Reserves, Royal Marine Reserves, Army...
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Wager Mutiny (category 18th-century history of the Royal Navy)
others to the present day. HMS Wager was a square-rigged, sixth-rate Royal Navy warship of 28 guns. She was built as an East Indiaman in approximately...
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National Service of Remembrance (category The Royal British Legion)
and Nepal (since 2019); representatives from the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force; the Merchant Navy and fishing fleets; and finally, the civilian emergency...
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relating to the Navy in general". Royal Museums Greenwich. Retrieved 10 May 2017. Probert, Henry (1991). High Commanders of the Royal Air Force. HMSO...
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(1917–2016) had been identified as the last Royal Navy veteran of the operation. Conter, an enlisted U.S. Navy sailor, was the last survivor of the sinking...
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HMS Royal Oak was one of five Revenge-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Completed in 1916, the ship first saw combat...
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List of Pirates of the Caribbean characters (redirect from Bootstrap Bill Turner)
superstitious sailor, a crew member on the Black Pearl, and the closest friend of Jack Sparrow. In the first film Gibbs appears as a petty officer in the Royal Navy...
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John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent (category Royal Navy personnel of the American Revolutionary War)
of St Vincent GCB, PC (9 January 1735 – 13 March 1823) was a British Royal Navy officer, politician and peer. Jervis served throughout the latter half...
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traditions are important and integral elements of school life, and Royal Navy uniforms (sailor suits) are issued to all pupils and used for ceremonial and formal...
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land-based naval establishment for part-time sailors as well as a local recruitment centre for the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN). She is the furthest inland unit...
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Peter Dyneley (category Royal Canadian Navy personnel of World War II)
educated at Radley College in Oxfordshire, UK. He served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. After the war, he attended the Guildhall...
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LR5 (category Submarines of the Royal Navy)
used by the British Royal Navy until 2009 when it was leased to support the Royal Australian Navy. It is designed for retrieving sailors from stranded submarines...
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Clearance diver (redirect from Royal navy clearance divers)
shipwrecks and booby traps laid by the Germans. The first units were Royal Navy Mine and Bomb Disposal Units. They were succeeded by the "Port Clearance...
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list of list of Royal Doulton figurines in ascending order by HN number. HN is named after Harry Nixon (1886–1955), head of the Royal Doulton painting...
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