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    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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    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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    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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