Sir George Walton (1664/65 – 21 November 1739) was an officer in the Royal Navy during the late 17th and early 18th centuries, eventually rising to the...
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George Walton (Royal Navy officer) (1664/5–1739), British Royal Navy admiral George Henry Walton (1867–1933), Scottish architect and designer George L...
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Geoffrey Walton (1934–2020), British archdeacon George Walton (Royal Navy), British admiral George Walton (1749/50–1804), American politician George Walton (Manitoba...
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George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and philanthropist. He created the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises and founded...
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Clotworthy Upton (1768–1822) was an officer in the Royal Navy who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He was the illegitimate...
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Light Dragoons, of Walton Hall, Liverpool and of Street Court, Herefordshire. His father was a serving officer in the court of King George III, and for many...
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Eric William Kevin Walton GC, DSC (15 May 1918 – 13 April 2009) was an officer in the Royal Navy during World War II and, in 1946, was a winner of the...
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Andrews, Royal Navy, D257452S. Lieutenant Commander Ross Donald Balfour, Royal Navy, C040712E. Warrant Officer 1 James Adrian Cuthbert, Royal Marines,...
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The Royal Naval Academy was a facility established in 1733 in Portsmouth Dockyard to train officers for the Royal Navy. The founders' intentions were to...
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Lieutenant Lloyd Peddicord as commanding officer, and Navy Ensign John Bell as executive officer. Navy Chief Petty Officers and sailors came from the boat pool...
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Walton-on-Thames, known locally as Walton, is a market town on the south bank of the Thames in northwest Surrey, England. It is in the Borough of Elmbridge...
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1944 Birthday Honours (BEM) (section Royal Navy)
Inspector of Telephones, HM Dockyard, Rosyth. Alexander Walton, Boatswain, Merchant Navy. George Albert Ward, Foreman, H. W. Ward & Co. Ltd. Frederick William...
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and naval flight officers, who return to their operating units as surrogate instructors. The program began as the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School...
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The rank of admiral is currently the highest rank to which an officer in the Royal Navy can be promoted, admiral of the fleet being used nowadays only...
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resident medical officer at Princess Mary Maternity Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne. When the Second World War started he joined the Royal Navy, spending most...
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Harry Rawson (category Royal Navy admirals)
GCMG (5 November 1843 – 3 November 1910) was a British naval officer in the Royal Navy. He is chiefly remembered for overseeing the Benin Expedition...
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Blue Angels (redirect from U.S. Navy Blue Angels)
Apalachicola", Playground Daily News, Fort Walton Beach, Florida, Monday Morning, 16 March 1964, Vol. 18, No. 27, pp. 1, 2. "Navy Blue Angel Aviators Die in Crash"...
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2003 Squadron Leader John Turner, Royal Air Force, October 2003 Squadron Leader Ian Warwick Richard Walton, Royal Air Force, October 2003 Captain Scott...
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within the British Armed Forces, where the Royal Navy takes precedence, followed by the British Army and then Royal Air Force. It is customary for Indian and...
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Gerard Broadmead Roope (category Royal Navy officers)
the enemy awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. A 35-year-old Royal Navy officer, his action was the earliest awarded a Victoria Cross in the Second...
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Hugh Marrack (category Royal Navy officers)
Gibraltar, 1943–45. Marrack later became an ADC to King George VI. Hugh Marrack was born in Walton in Gordano, Somerset, the fourth child of John Reed Marrack...
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Buck (nickname) (section Military officers)
general Jonathan Rogers (GC) (1920–1964), Welsh-born Royal Australian Navy sailor awarded the George Cross Donald Schmuck (1915–2004), US Marine Corps brigadier...
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Walton and Frinton Lifeboat Station is an RNLI station located in the town of Walton-on-the-Naze in the English county of Essex. As of April 2024, the...
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Tradition Volume Two – Choirs Royal – Choral Music from the 1937 Coronation". Amphion Recordings. Petrocelli, William Walton and the Violin Concerto in England...
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Commander-in-Chief, The Nore (category Commanders-in-chief of the Royal Navy)
The Commander-in-Chief, The Nore, was an operational commander of the Royal Navy. His subordinate units, establishments, and staff were sometimes informally...
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Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (category Ladies of the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert)
his morganatic first cousin Prince Louis of Battenberg, an officer in the British Royal Navy. Victoria lived most of her married life in various parts...
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Admiral George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, KB (bap. 13 February 1718 – 24 May 1792), was a British naval officer. He is best known for his commands...
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The Cruel Sea (1953 film) (category Royal Navy in World War II films)
escorts. A voice-over by Lieutenant-Commander George Ericson, a British Merchant Navy officer in the Royal Naval Reserve, declares: This is a story of the...
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Hugh Evan-Thomas (category Royal Navy admirals)
GCB, KCMG, MVO (27 October 1862 – 30 August 1928) was a British Royal Navy officer. During World War I he commanded the 5th Battle Squadron of the Grand...
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Maurice George Wall. For services to local-body and community affairs. Military division Warrant Officer Kenneth Alan Bancroft – Royal New Zealand Navy. Squadron...
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