Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas D’Oyly Snow, KCB, KCMG (5 May 1858 – 30 August 1940) was a British Army officer who fought on the Western Front during the...
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Thomas Snow may refer to: Thomas Snow (British Army officer) (1858–1940) Thomas Snow (pianist), American jazz musician and academic Thomas Maitland Snow...
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Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Rogers (7 November 1731 – 18 May 1795) was a British Army officer and frontiersman. Born in Methuen, Massachusetts, he fought in King...
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Church of St. Nicholas in Compton, Surrey. Lindsay was a major in the British army when he was appointed an equerry to The Queen in October 1983. He was...
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Smith (1723–1791) was a British Army officer. Although Smith had a lengthy and varied career, he is best known as the British commander during most of...
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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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Thomas Plunket (1785–1839) was an Irish soldier in the British Army's 95th Rifles regiment. He served throughout the Peninsular War and later in the Waterloo...
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Peter John Snow CBE (born 20 April 1938) is a British radio and television presenter and historian. Between 1969 and 2005, he was an analyst of general...
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Major Sir Thomas John Carey Evans MC FRCS (6 June 1884 – 25 August 1947) was a Welsh surgeon who served as a doctor in the British army in India and as...
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involved in the negotiations with Ethan Allen and Thomas Chittenden to have Vermont come back under the British Crown. Rogers and Allen were both large land...
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embarked in Sir Thomas Graham's expedition to the Low Countries. Shaw saw action at the capture of the village of Merxem in deep snow on 31 January 1814...
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Commandos (United Kingdom) (redirect from British Army Commando)
raids against German-occupied Europe. Initially drawn from within the British Army from soldiers who volunteered for the Special Service Brigade, the Commandos'...
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Thomas Jerome Hudner Jr. (August 31, 1924 – November 13, 2017) was a United States Navy officer and naval aviator. He rose to the rank of captain, and...
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1842 retreat from Kabul (redirect from Massacre of Elphinstone's army)
slow progress through the winter snows along the route that is now the Kabul–Jalalabad Road. In total the British army lost 4,500 troops, along with about...
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John Hunt, Baron Hunt (redirect from John Hunt (British officer))
a British Army officer who is best known as the leader of the successful 1953 British expedition to Mount Everest. Hunt was born in Simla, British India...
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The Ghost Army was a United States Army tactical deception unit during World War II officially known as the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops. The 1,100-man...
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1946 New Year Honours (MBE) (section Army)
Coombs & Sons Ltd. Gordon Snook, Senior Staff Officer, Board of Inland Revenue. T/Major Frank Thomas Snow, Civil Assistant, War Office. Flora Solomon....
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General Sir Thomas Lethbridge Napier Morland, KCB, KCMG, DSO (9 August 1865 – 21 May 1925) was a senior British Army officer during the First World War...
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Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson (category British Army personnel of the Mahdist War)
between 1895 and 1919, was a senior British Army officer in the First World War who commanded the Fourth Army of the British Expeditionary Force at the battles...
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MI5 (redirect from MI5 officer)
did undertake the training of British Army case-officers from the Department of Military Intelligence (DMI), for the Army's so-called "Silent Section",...
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Bicameral Mind was one of the main influences on Snow Crash. Snow Crash was nominated for both the British Science Fiction Award in 1993 and the Arthur C...
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Western Command was a command of the British Army. Western Command was established in 1905 and was originally called the Welsh & Midland Command before...
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war's outbreak. The Continental Army was created to coordinate military efforts of the colonies in the war against the British, who sought to maintain control...
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expatriate British officers"; the "British Army in India" referred to British Army units posted to India for a tour of duty. The "Army of India" meant the...
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nights. 6 February 1971: the British Army shot dead IRA staff officer James Saunders (22) in North Belfast. The British Army claimed soldiers removing barricades...
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The Snow Campaign was one of the first major military operations of the American Revolutionary War in the southern colonies. An army of up to 3,000 Patriot...
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commentator Richard Church (general) (1784–1873), a British military officer and general in the Greek army Richard William Church (1825–1890), an English divine...
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Lions led by donkeys (category British military leaders of World War I)
World War I to contrast senior commanders who had led armies, most prominently those of the British Armed Forces, with the men they commanded. The historiography...
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Thomas Edgar Pegg, MBE, Manager, Naval Canteen Service, Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes. William George Penney, DSc, Principal Scientific Officer...
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American Revolutionary War (redirect from British-American War (1776))
1998 (paperback reprint) British Army (1916) [7 August 1781]. Proceedings of a Board of general officers of the British army at New York, 1781. New-York...
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