General Sir Richard Harrison GCB CMG KStJ DL (26 May 1837 – 25 September 1931) was a British Army officer and engineer. Born in Essex, he was the second...
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Lieutenant General Andrew Sean David Harrison, DSO, MBE (born January 1967) is a retired senior officer in the British Army who served as the Deputy Commander...
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Harrison (British Army officer) (1837–1931), British Quartermaster-General to the Forces and Inspector-General of Fortifications Richard Harrison (New Zealand...
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Thomas Harrison (1681 - before 1755) was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1728 to 1734. Harrison was baptized...
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Major-General Henry Patrick Procter (c. 1763 – 31 October 1822) was a British Army officer who served in the Canadas during the War of 1812. He is best known...
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Major-General Eric George William Warde Harrison, CB, CBE, MC, (23 March 1893 – 20 December 1987) was a British Army officer who served in both world wars, a...
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The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed...
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general officer rank or the rank of brigadier (together now recognized as starred officers) in the British Army, Royal Marines, British Indian Army or other...
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John Harrison (engraver) (1872–1954), British stamp engraver M. John Harrison (born 1945), English novelist and short story writer John Kent Harrison (born...
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Red coat (military uniform) (redirect from Redcoat (British army))
Regiments & Uniforms of the British Army, Sphere Books Ltd, London (1972), pages 295-302 Holmes, Richard (2002). Redcoat. The British Soldier in the Age of...
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The U.S. Army is headed by a civilian senior appointed civil servant, the secretary of the Army (SECARMY), and by a chief military officer, the chief...
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Major General Desmond Harrison, CB, DSO, FICE (11 November 1896 – 23 June 1984), was a British Army officer who served in the Royal Engineers during the...
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George Cooke KCB (bapt. 26 August 1766 – 3 February 1837) was a British Army officer who commanded the 1st Division, under overall command of the Prince...
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1838 – 2 December 1919) was a British Army officer. After an early career in the Royal Navy, Wood joined the British Army in 1855. He served in several...
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William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was an American military officer and politician who served as the ninth president of the United...
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At the start of 1939, the British Army was, as it traditionally always had been, a small volunteer professional army. At the beginning of the Second World...
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William Kelly Harrison Jr. (September 7, 1895 – May 25, 1987) was a highly decorated officer in the United States Army with the rank of Lieutenant General...
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The history of the British Army spans over three and a half centuries since its founding in 1660 and involves numerous European wars, colonial wars and...
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Development in Vietnam. Jennifer Larby. Executive Officer, British Legion Kenya. For services to the British and Commonwealth ex-services community in Kenya...
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General Sir Thomas Hawker KCH (1777 – 13 June 1858) was a British Army cavalry officer. Hawker began his career in the 11th Light Dragoons in 1795 and...
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Robert Hanson Harrison (1745 – April 2, 1790) was an American Army officer, attorney, and judge. He was a Continental Army veteran of the American Revolution...
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Major-General John Barrington (c. 1722 – 2 April 1764) was a British Army officer who was the third son of John Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington. He...
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GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GCVO (6 July 1835 – 24 June 1912) was an officer of the British Army. He was stationed at Peshawar during the Indian Mutiny and then...
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ninth president, William Henry Harrison, and a great-grandson of Benjamin Harrison V, a Founding Father. A Union Army veteran and a Republican, he defeated...
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honorary colonel in the British Army in 1904. Colonel Gascoigne was a Justice of the Peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire, an officer of the Order of St...
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Edward Harrison (3 December 1674 – 28 November 1732) was a naval officer and official of the East India Company and British politician who sat in the House...
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Richard Conyngham Corfield (27 April 1882 – 9 August 1913) was a British colonial police officer who saw service in South Africa, Nigeria, India, Kenya...
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Robert Nairac (category Grenadier Guards officers)
Captain Robert Laurence Nairac GC (31 August 1948 – 15 May 1977) was a British Army officer in the Grenadier Guards who was abducted from a pub in Dromintee...
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Lieutenant-General Randle Joseph Feilden CMG (1824 – 19 May 1895) was a British Army officer, businessman and Conservative politician who represented several...
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Thomas Twisleton, 13th Baron Saye and Sele (category British Army major generals)
Twisleton, 13th Baron Saye and Sele (c. 1735 – 1 July 1788) was a British Army officer and peer. Twisleton was the son of John Twistleton (died 1763) of...
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