A Chelsea Pensioner, or In-Pensioner, is a resident at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, an Old Soldiers' retirement home and nursing home for former members...
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in 1952 and proceeded to modernise the club. He removed the club's Chelsea pensioner crest, improved the youth set-up and training regime, rebuilt the...
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provide care and accommodation for veterans. Residents are known as Chelsea Pensioners. The gardens of the Royal Hospital are Grade II listed on the Register...
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throne. A Chelsea Pensioner is a retired British soldier who lives within the Royal Hospital. In the Thoroughbred breeding industry, a pensioner is a stallion...
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The Chelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch, originally entitled Chelsea Pensioners Receiving the London Gazette Extraordinary of Thursday, June...
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A Greenwich Pensioner was the Naval equivalent of a Chelsea Pensioner. Although the initial concept of a Greenwich pensioner was that of someone living...
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Colin Thackery (category Chelsea Pensioners)
the Army he joined a local operatic society. A Chelsea Pensioner, he lives in the Royal Hospital Chelsea, where he moved after the death of his wife Joan...
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William Hiseland (category Chelsea Pensioners)
sergeant. In extreme old age he became a Chelsea pensioner, although he had to give up his place as an in-pensioner when he married at the claimed age of...
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Guy won the twelfth series in 2018. Korean War Veteran and Singing Chelsea Pensioner Colin Thackery won the thirteenth series in 2019. Pianist, singer...
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Netherlands Tricorne worn by U.S. Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps Chelsea Pensioners wearing their tricorne hats The town crier of Seaton in Devon, 2013...
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Mirror. April 2009. "Deal or No Deal pensioner gives £20K away". Daily Mirror. 2 April 2009. "The Chelsea Pensioners". Facebook. "Music producer scores...
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Chelsea is an affluent area in West London, England, due south-west of Charing Cross by approximately 2.5 miles (4 km). It lies on the north bank of the...
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Fold3® by Ancestry. Search on "Hook 1373" within UK, Royal Hospital Chelsea Pensioner Admission and Discharge Records "1881 Wales Census". Retrieved 15...
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horse chestnut population affecting conker yields. On 9 October 2017, Chelsea pensioner John Riley won the men's tournament at the age of 85, quite possibly...
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Christian Davies (category Chelsea Pensioners)
to 1706. The author Daniel Defoe met her in old age when she was a Chelsea Pensioner and turned her story into a book entitled The Life and Adventures...
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funding from October 1704.: 285 The 21st-century uniform of the Chelsea Pensioners maintains the link with the corps, with the buttons showing the initials...
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from royal portraits, his best-known painting today is probably The Chelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch of 1822 in Apsley House. David Wilkie...
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The Last Muster (redirect from Sunday at the Chelsea Hospital)
depicts a congregation of Chelsea Pensioners at a Sunday morning service in the chapel of the Royal Hospital Chelsea. The aged pensioner at the near end of the...
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the age of 65 and served as a regular soldier may apply to become a Chelsea Pensioner (i.e. a resident), on the basis they have found themselves in a time...
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Bill Moylon (category Chelsea Pensioners)
Railway and was forced to eat lizards to survive. He later became a Chelsea Pensioner and was involved in attempts at reconciliation with the Japanese....
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Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms (redirect from Gentlemen Pensioner)
Until 17 March 1834, they were known as The Honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners. The corps was formed as the Troop of Gentlemen in 1509 by King Henry...
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Bill Cross (category Chelsea Pensioners)
December 2003, p. 9(S). Chelsea Pensioners pay respects. BBC News, 8 April 2002. Retrieved 12 May 2020. Chelsea Pensioners: In-Pensioner William Cross, Formerly...
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Bill Speakman (category Chelsea Pensioners)
people and government of South Korea. He became an in-pensioner of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, and died on 20 June 2018. His ashes were buried in the...
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Ted Drake (category Chelsea F.C. managers)
club of its previous image. He discarded the club's Chelsea pensioner crest and with it the Pensioners nickname, and insisted a new one be adopted. From...
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National finals in the last week featured challenges such as "Chelsea buns for the Chelsea Pensioners", and a great wedding cake from someone British. The first...
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response boat. In July 2002 the boat was named Chelsea Pensioner at a ceremony held at the Royal Hospital Chelsea. Demand for the services of the Thames lifeboats...
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subjects of country life and hybrid genre and history scenes such as The Chelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch (1822). John Flaxman was the most thorough-going...
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recipient Paddy Fox (1933–2016), British recruiting sergeant and Chelsea Pensioner Wesley L. Fox (1931–2017), American US Marine, awarded the Medal of...
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in 1952 and proceeded to modernise the club. He removed the club's Chelsea pensioner crest, improved the youth set-up and training regime, rebuilt the...
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the surname include: Bill Moylon (1915-2014), British soldier and Chelsea Pensioner Seán Moylan (1888–1957), Commandant of the Irish Republican Army and...
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