Jack Edwards, OBE (Chinese: 艾華士; 24 May 1918 – 13 August 2006) was a British World War II army sergeant and a POW, most well known for his dedicated efforts...
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Aberavon Jack Edwards (British Army soldier) (1918–2006), former British WWII serviceman and a Japanese POW survivor who lived in Hong Kong Jack Edwards (American...
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Medal of Honor recipient. William F.S. Edwards (1872-1941), decorated British brig. gen. 1st appointed soldier commissioned by the Crown to become Commissioner...
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English cricketer Frank Edwards (British Army soldier) (1893–1964), British Army soldier Tenny Edwards (Frank Nutinous Edwards, 1904–1977), American baseball...
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troops to the bridges. Howard initially joined the British Army before the war, serving as a private soldier and then a non-commissioned officer for six years...
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Duncan Edwards (1 October 1936 – 21 February 1958) was an English footballer who played as a left-half for Manchester United and the England national...
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Jacintha Abisheganaden Jack Chamberlain (sportsman) Jack Edwards (British Army soldier) Jack Neo Jack Sim Jack Snowden Jack's Place (restaurant) Jackie...
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his soldiers to "kill all they send, and they will stop coming". Eleven years later in 1965, the United States is fighting the Vietnam War. US Army Lieutenant...
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the foundation for the creation of the United States Army. The Continental Army consisted of soldiers from all the Thirteen Colonies and, after 1776, from...
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Zulu (1964 film) (category Films about the British Army)
Zulu is a 1964 British epic adventure action war film depicting the Battle of Rorke's Drift between a detachment of the British Army and the Zulu in January...
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(from 23 March) 6 February – Gunner Robert Curtis becomes the first British Army soldier to be killed in The Troubles. 15 February – Decimal Day: The United...
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member of the British security forces occurred on the 9 August 1975 when Belfast INLA units injured two soldiers from the British Army: the first attack...
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workers' demonstrations from the police. Jack White, a former captain in the British Army, volunteered to train this army and offered £50 towards the cost of...
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Remembrance poppy (redirect from Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal)
protesting against the British military presence in Afghanistan and Iraq. They burnt large poppies and chanted "British soldiers burn in hell" during the...
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Jack Walker (19 May 1929 – 17 August 2000) was a British industrialist and businessman. Walker built his fortune in the steel industry, amassing a personal...
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Jock Wilson (British Army soldier) (1903–2008), British serviceman and oldest D-Day veteran John Jock Bruce-Gardyne (1930–1990), British politician John...
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Sir Leslie Morshead – soldier (MGS staff member) Sir Frank Kingsley Norris – military officer and soldier Philip Rhoden – Army officer and lawyer Sir...
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(1814–1880), soldier, lawyer and sheriff Sir John Kennedy (British Army officer, born 1878) (1878–1948), British general Sir John Kennedy (British Army officer...
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in the British Army, Royal Marines, British Indian Army or other British military force since the Acts of Union 1707. See also Category:British generals...
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"Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, "Campaign Address at Soldier Field, Chicago" October 28, 1944". Associated Press. Edwards, Willard (October 29, 1944). "F.D.R. Promises...
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of events in 2024 relating to television in the United Kingdom. 2024 in British radio Death announced on this date. Body found on this date. Paterson,...
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infantrymen in 1889 by Cecil Rhodes' British South Africa Company, from which it took its original name, the British South Africa Company's Police. Initially...
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(1926–2015), British author George Kemp, 1st Baron Rochdale (1866–1945), British politician, soldier and businessman George Hubert Kemp (1897–1918), British soldier...
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Hogan, 56, Irish hurler (Birr, Offaly). Sir Maurice Robert Johnston, 95, British army officer. Galliano Juso [it], 87, Italian film producer (Shoot First,...
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Lebanon's sovereignty. One Lebanese soldier was killed and three others were injured by an Israeli attack on a Lebanese Army base in Odaisseh. The IDF later...
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Battlefield 1 (category War video games set in the British Empire)
shoots a nearby Ottoman soldier. British officer Whitehall dispatches Bishop to a rear command post to inform them that the British intend to advance further...
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James Connolly (category Irish soldiers in the British Army)
as a British soldier, some new evidence". The Treason Felony Blog. 31 July 2017. Retrieved 22 April 2024. "James Connolly, the British soldier". The...
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French). 19 December 2017. "Last surviving former Imperial Japanese Army soldier who returned from Peleliu dies at 98". Mainichi Japan. 7 November 2019...
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Night; End, Day (1956) A Burnt Offering (unpublished) Keri Edwards (2001). "Jones, Jack (1884-1970), author and playwright". Dictionary of Welsh Biography...
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preeminent authority on the Red Army during World War II Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz – 19th-century general and theorist Jack Granatstein Lester W. Grau...
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