James Anthony Hibbert MBE MC (6 December 1917 – 12 October 2014), was a British Army officer who fought in the Second World War. During a military career...
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Hibbert (1710–1780), slave owner and merchant in Jamaica Tony Hibbert (British Army officer) (1917-2014), British soldier and gardener Tony Hibbert (musician)...
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Stanisław Sosabowski (category Use British English from November 2011)
Market Garden 1944—Major Tony Hibbert’s call to honour Polish General Sosabowski Ten-minute video interview, June 2012. Major Hibbert, veteran of the Battle...
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Davies CB, army officer Sydney Dowse MC, POW escapee H. Dormer Legge, RAF and Army officer and philatelist Simon Pack CB CBE, Royal Marines officer Alex Taylor...
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Military career of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (category British Army personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars)
his first four commissions, as was common practice in the British Army for wealthy officers. His continued rise in status and fame thereafter came about...
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Journey's End (category Tony Award-winning plays)
plays out in the officers' dugout of a British Army infantry company from 18 to 21 March 1918, providing a glimpse of the officers' lives in the last...
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Francis Marion (category British America army officers)
supported the Patriot cause and enlisted in the Continental Army, fighting against British forces in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary...
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Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (category British Life Guards officers)
1797) was a British Army officer and Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in the British Army. Amherst is credited as the architect of Britain's successful...
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FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (category British Army personnel of the Napoleonic Wars)
1855), known before 1852 as Lord FitzRoy Somerset, was a British Army officer. When a junior officer, he served in the Peninsular War and the Waterloo campaign...
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T-Force (category Military units and formations of the British Army in World War II)
by Major Tony Hibbert, was given permission to advance to Kiel and seize the targets there. At odds with the stand-fast order given British troops, the...
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Battle of Arnhem (category Use British English from April 2024)
Second Army with US, British and Polish airborne troops dropped in the Netherlands along the line of the ground advance, being relieved by the British XXX...
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Operation Market Garden (section British landings)
Major Tony Hibbert, MBE MC Archived 19 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine ParaData, Airborne Assault (Registered Charity) Major James Anthony Hibbert, The...
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John Le Mesurier (category British Army personnel of World War II)
figures of authority such as army officers, policemen and judges. As well as Hancock's Half Hour, Le Mesurier appeared in Tony Hancock's two principal films...
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The Patriot (2000 film) (category Anti-British sentiment)
Patriot, the British newspaper The Guardian denounced Marion as "a serial rapist who hunted Red Indians for fun." Historian Christopher Hibbert told the Daily...
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Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (category British Army personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars)
1812 and known as the Earl of Uxbridge between 1812 and 1815, was a British Army officer and politician. After serving as a member of parliament for Carnarvon...
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Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley (category British Army personnel of the Anglo-Egyptian War)
March 1913), was an Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army. He became one of the most influential and admired British generals after a series of successes...
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Clapham (category Use British English from August 2015)
George Hibbert – slave trader Damon Hill – racing driver Paul Kaye John Keegan Marie Kendall – music-hall star Doon Mackichan – comedian Tony Mansfield...
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Anthony Deane-Drummond, 2IC Divisional Signals (Operation Pegasus). Major Tony Hibbert, Brigade Major 1st Parachute Brigade (Operation Pegasus). Captain Alexander...
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Americans. The British commanders disapproved of retaliations against civilians, and British troops carried out few reprisals. The First Canadian Army served...
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American Revolution (redirect from British American Revolution)
as presiding officer. According to British historian Jeremy Black, the British had significant advantages, including a highly trained army, the world's...
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Ian Carmichael (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
players. The first was the 1956 film Private's Progress, a satire on the British Army; he received critical and popular praise for the role, including from...
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John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll (category British Life Guards officers)
from 1680 to 1703, was a Scottish nobleman and senior commander in the British Army. He served on the continent in the Nine Years' War and fought at the...
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Clifford John Boulton, CB, Clerk of the House, House of Commons. Jack Hibbert, Director, Central Statistical Office. Military Division Navy Rear Admiral...
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Vincent's Club (category Use British English from June 2015)
Arnold Strode-Jackson, Olympic Gold 1912 and British Army general officer Wilfred Thesiger, military officer, explorer and writer Richard Wakeford VC, winner...
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Manchester Regiment (Jacobite) (category 1745 in Great Britain)
244–245. Sankey 2005, p. 63. Hibbert 1848, p. 103. Riding 2016, p. 299. Szechi 1994, pp. 96–98. "Full Regimental Listing; Officers & Men of the Manchester...
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RAF Intelligence (category Use British English from October 2017)
for Senior RAF Intelligence Officers from operational commands, and certain Royal Naval and British Army intelligence officers. The first of these courses...
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3rd Chief Minister of Maharashtra (d. 1979) 1914 – Thomas Pearson, British Army officer (d. 2019) 1914 – Christl Cranz, German alpine skier (d. 2004) 1914...
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List of alumni of King's College London (category Use British English from May 2024)
Herbert Edwardes – army and political officer Michael Elviss – British Army officer Stanley Smyth Flower – army officer Sir Robert Fry – Commandant General...
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Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom (redirect from British Crown Jewels)
King Charles III" (PDF). Church of England. 29 April 2023. Rose, p. 26. Hibbert, p. 35. Rose, p. 107. "The Queen Consort's Ring". Royal Collection Trust...
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Saint Helena (redirect from Army of Saint Helena)
earth, begun in the yere 1586, and finished 1588, 1598–1600, Volume XI. Hibbert, Edward, St Helena Postal History and Stamps, Robson Lowe Limited, London...
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