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    General Sir Sidney Chevalier Kirkman, GCB, KBE, MC (29 July 1895 – 29 October 1982) was a British Army officer, who served in both the First World War...
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  • player Sidney Kirkman (1895–1982), British Army general Terry Kirkman (1939–2023), musician Thomas Kirkman (1806–1895), mathematician Tim Kirkman, film...
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    Junior Division, attending from 1931 to 1932, included Brian Horrocks, Sidney Kirkman, Frank Simpson, Joseph Baillon, Arthur Dowler, Thomas Rees, Keith Arbuthnott...
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    Army, with British XIII Corps under command, led by Lieutenant-General Sidney Kirkman (whose relationship with Clark was apparently very stormy) was straddling...
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    Infantry Divisions, commanded by Major-Generals Horatio Berney-Ficklin and Sidney Kirkman, sailed from Suez in Egypt. The formations of XXX Corps sailed from...
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    General George Price Hays) British XIII Corps - (Lieutenant-General Sidney Kirkman) British 1st Infantry Division - (Major-General Charles Loewen) British...
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    United Kingdom to take over Southern Command from Lieutenant-General Sidney Kirkman, who took over I Corps from Crocker. For his services in Northwest Europe...
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    by the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division, under Major-General Sidney C. Kirkman, which was short of transport, were still 1 mile (1.6 km) away when...
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    was reinforced by the British XIII Corps, under Lieutenant General Sidney Kirkman. The initial stages went well until the autumn weather began and, as...
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    General Officer Commanding, 1st Armoured Division, 1942–1943 General Sir Sidney Kirkman GCB KBE MC (1895–1982), General Officer Commanding, 50th (Northumbrian)...
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    Sir Ronald Weeks 15 June 1942 – 29 May 1945 Lieutenant-General Sir Sidney Kirkman 1945–1947 Lieutenant-General Sir Kenneth Crawford 1947–1949 Lieutenant-General...
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    the Moro River Campaign. In May 1944, 13th Corps, now commanded by Sidney Kirkman, was shifted to the left-centre of the Allied front. During the Fourth...
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    command); and on the right British XIII Corps, under Lieutenant-General Sidney Kirkman, (composed of the British 1st Infantry and 6th Armoured Divisions, the...
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  • Engineers 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division Commanded by Major-General Sidney Kirkman. 69th Infantry Brigade 5th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment 6th Battalion...
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    record marks), his fellow students there including Brian Horrocks, Sidney Kirkman, Frank Simpson, Cameron Nicholson, Arthur Dowler, Nevil Brownjohn, and...
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  • (born 1898) Phyllis Covell, tennis player (born 1895) 29 October Sir Sidney Kirkman, Army general (born 1895) William Lloyd Webber, composer and father...
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    towards Viterbo. To their right the XIII Corps, under Lieutenant General Sidney Kirkman, part of the British Eighth Army under Lieutenant General Sir Oliver...
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    Greacen p. 264 Mead 2007, p. 128. quotation from diary of General Sir Sidney Kirkman Greacen pp. 287–93 "No. 36837". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12...
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  • Infantry Division 1942–1945 Succeeded by George Erskine Preceded by Sidney Kirkman GOC I Corps 1945–1947 Post disbanded Preceded by Sir Otto Lund GOC-in-C...
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  • II Corps April 1945) * Order of entry into battle Lieutenant-General Sidney Kirkman (until 25 January 1945) Lieutenant-General John Harding (from 25 January...
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    General Sir Walter Kirke Major-General Lamont Kirkland General Sir Sidney Kirkman General Sir George Macaulay Kirkpatrick Major-General William Kirkpatrick...
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  • as GOC 50th Division by one of Montgomery's protegees, Major General Sidney Kirkman, an artilleryman who, like Horrocks, had been at the Staff College alongside...
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    Riddell-Webster 1946–1947 General Sir Daril Watson 1947–1950 General Sir Sidney Kirkman 1950–1952 General Sir Ivor Thomas 1952–1955 General Sir Ouvry Roberts...
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  • Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff 1942–1945 Succeeded by Sir Sidney Kirkman Peerage of the United Kingdom New creation Baron Weeks 1956–1960 Extinct...
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    GOC VIII Corps 1943–1944 Succeeded by Richard O'Connor Preceded by Sidney Kirkman GOC XIII Corps March – May 1945 Post disbanded Preceded by Sir John...
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    Lieutenant General Sir William Morgan March–June 1945 Lieutenant General Sir Sidney Kirkman 1945–1947 Lieutenant General Sir John Crocker 1947–1948 Lieutenant General...
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    the Staff College, Camberley from 1931 to 1932, where Brian Horrocks, Sidney Kirkman, Cameron Nicholson and Nevil Brownjohn were among his classmates. After...
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    the year. On 19 April, the division, now commanded by Major-General Sidney Kirkman (formerly the Commander, Royal Artillery (CRA) of the Eighth Army) after...
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    Poland Canada  Germany  Italian Social Republic Commanders and leaders Sidney Kirkman Geoffrey Keyes Władysław Anders Alphonse Juin F. v. Senger und Etterlin...
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  • Benjamin Kirkman Gray (11 August 1862, Blandford, Dorset, UK – 23 June 1907, Letchworth, Hertfordshire, UK) was an economist and author. His book A History...
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