General Sir Robert Napier Hubert Campbell (Bobbie) Bray GBE KCB DSO* (14 June 1908 – 14 August 1983) was a British soldier, deputy Supreme Commander Europe...
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first-class cricketer and an officer in both the British Army and Royal Air Force Libba Bray (born 1964), American novelist Lourinda Bray, American restoration...
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general officer rank or the rank of brigadier (together now recognized as starred officers) in the British Army, Royal Marines, British Indian Army or other...
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is an infantry division of the British Army and was first formed in 1809. The division is commanded by a general officer commanding (GOC), who receives...
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Stewartstown, County Tyrone. He was the son of William Holmes (d.1789) of Bray Island, Donaghmore, County Tyrone; formerly a Captain in the 4th (The King's...
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generals in the British Army since the Acts of Union 1707. The rank of general (or full general to distinguish it from the lower general officer ranks) is the...
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Military Police Corps (United States) (redirect from U.S. Army military police)
Bray, First Woman To Lead Platoon in Combat, Thrilled With Lifting of Ban". Huffington Post. Retrieved 25 January 2013. "Akaka Staffer Graduates Army...
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Bray, Robert James Bray, Walter Edward Breakwell, Tony Hunter (Kiwi) Brennan, William George Brewer, Allan Bricknell, Raymond Leo Broadhurst, Robert Thomas...
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the 1946 New Year Honours The British Empire Medal (formally British Empire Medal for Meritorious Service) is a British medal awarded for meritorious...
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('Peter') Deakin CB, CBE (December 1910 – 8 September 1992) was a British Army officer. Deakin was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards on 29 January...
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Bonner Fellers (category United States Army Coast Artillery Corps personnel)
Frank Fellers (February 7, 1896 – October 7, 1973) was a United States Army officer who served during World War II as a military attaché and director of...
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Boulting brothers (category British Army officers)
served with the British Film Unit as an officer in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. Roy served as a captain in the British Army, first with...
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Ernest Simpson (category British Army personnel of World War I)
American-born British shipbroker, who was the second husband of Wallis Simpson, later the wife of the former King Edward VIII. Simpson served as an officer in the...
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Southern Command (United Kingdom) (redirect from Southern District (British Army))
Southern Command was a Command of the British Army. Great Britain was divided into military districts on the outbreak of war with France in 1793. By the...
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was a response to increased British Army activity in the city, including checkpoints and searches. 7 July: two RUC officers were held up and disarmed in...
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Sam Manekshaw (category British Indian Army officers)
was the chief of the army staff of the Indian Army during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, and the first Indian Army officer to be promoted to the...
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Major Daniel Robert Austin, Royal Army Medical Corps, 25041196. Sergeant Liam James Bamford, Royal Corps of Signals, 30144379. Warrant Officer Class 1 Robbie...
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Percy Cox (category British Indian Army generals)
GCIE KCSI KBE DL (20 November 1864 – 20 February 1937) was a British Indian Army officer and Colonial Office administrator in the Middle East. He was...
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Protection, Association of British Insurers. For services to the Pensions Industry and to Socio-Economic Diversity Dr Joanne Bray — Deputy Director, Automotive...
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Cadet Force, Territorial Army. Major Robert Frederick Harmes (512099), Royal Regiment of Artillery. 24218742 Warrant Officer Class 2 Andrew Hill, Corps...
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James Oglethorpe (category British Army generals)
1785) was a British Army officer, Tory politician and colonial administrator best known for founding the Province of Georgia in British North America...
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1944 Birthday Honours (MBE) (category Use British English from August 2015)
Kingdom and British Empire, New Zealand, and South Africa. It included a large number of people who were appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire...
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Sniper (redirect from Army snipers)
American "Marksmen" intentionally targeted British officers, an act considered uncivilized by the British Army at the time (this reputation was cemented...
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Assessment centre (category British Army in World War II)
the pioneering work of Robert K Greenleaf and Douglas W. Bray of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T). Douglas W. Bray as a director of human...
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Dunkirk evacuation (category Use British English from July 2016)
in September 1939, France and the British Empire declared war on Germany and imposed an economic blockade. The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was sent...
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David Dawnay (category British Army major generals)
9 October 1971) was a British Army officer who became Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He was also a British polo player who competed...
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2023 Demise Honours (category British honours system)
Funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Warrant Officer Class 2 Gareth William Chambers, Irish Guards, Army Drum Major, the State Funeral of Her Majesty...
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one British and one German. From July 1993 this reverted to a single DSACEUR. With a small number of exceptions who were German military officers, DSACEUR...
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IRA and British Intelligence. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 190. ISBN 0-8018-6456-9. "Three years for former boss of Bray Travel", Bray People, 2...
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Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh (category People from Bray, County Wicklow)
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, one of four children, was born on 12 February 1911, in Bray, County Wicklow. His father, Richard O'Daly, was a fishmonger with little...
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