• Percy Bentley MC & Three Bars (18 January 1891 – 8 July 1956) was an officer in the British Army in the First World War. He was one of four soldiers to...
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  • William Rawlins Beaumont (1803–1875), British-Canadian surgeon William Spencer Beaumont, British army officer and a member of the London County Council...
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  • Artillery. No. S/1883638 Warrant Officer Class I Kenneth Henry Broadley, Royal Army Service Corps. Captain John Percy Brodie, Fiji Military Forces. Captain...
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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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  • Humphrey Arthur Gilkes (category Royal Army Medical Corps officers)
    September 1918. Two other officers received their third Bar in the same January 1919 edition of the London Gazette, Percy Bentley and Charles Gordon Timms...
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  • Francis Wallington (category British Army personnel of World War I)
    Three Bars (16 October 1891 – 15 February 1971) was a decorated British Army officer. He was the first of four soldiers to be awarded the Military Cross...
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  • 1944 Birthday Honours (MBE) (category Use British English from August 2015)
    Temporary Warrant Engineer. Mr. Percy Frederick Hale, Warrant Mechanician. Mr. Samuel John Taylor, First Radio Officer, RNR, NAP/964525 (Herne Bay). Staff...
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    Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (category British Army personnel of the Mahdist War)
    1st Earl Kitchener (/ˈkɪtʃɪnər/; 24 June 1850 – 5 June 1916) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. Kitchener came to prominence for his...
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    Military Cross (category Use British English from February 2012)
    awards as a second lieutenant). Three other officers were subsequently awarded a third bar, Percy Bentley, Humphrey Arthur Gilkes and Charles Gordon Timms...
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    Charles Gordon Timms (category Royal Army Medical Corps officers)
    Timms OBE, MC & Three Bars (1884–1958) was a doctor, decorated officer in the British Army, and rugby union player who played for the Lions. He was one...
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  • Army Welfare Officer, Northern Command. Charles Victor Wicks, Director, British Sugar Corporation Ltd. William Ellis Wiggins, Chief Engineer Officer,...
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    Mary Shelley (category Use British English from June 2011)
    political followers, Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was already married. Together with her stepsister, Claire Clairmont, she and Percy left for France and travelled...
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    Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy (category British Army personnel of the Mahdist War)
    of Vimy, GCB, GCMG, MVO (11 September 1862 – 6 June 1935), was a British Army officer who served as Governor General of Canada, the 12th since the Canadian...
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    American football player W. O. Bentley (Walter Owen Bentley, 1889–1971), English engineer, founder of Bentley Motors Walter Bentley (1849–1927), Scottish-Australian...
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  • Edward Barrington de Fonblanque (category Royal Army Service Corps officers)
    Inkerman. From the Reminiscences of an Army Surgeon London: Ward and Downey, 1890. Annals of the House of Percy: From the Conquest to the Opening of the...
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    approached and recruited Bentley. The Communists were interested in the information Bentley could provide, so NKVD officer Jacob Golos was assigned as...
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  • Carte Blanche (novel) (category Use British English from January 2013)
    demolish an army base in March. Because Bond is not authorized to act on British soil, he is forced to work with a domestic security agent named Percy Osborne-Smith...
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  • Parsons (561205). Warrant Officer Percival Gloyn Tall (365814). Warrant Officer Frank Ward (511719). Acting Warrant Officer Louis Percy Marfleet (552482). Additional...
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    Arnold Ridley (category British Army General List officers)
    writing the play The Ghost Train and later in life in the British television sitcom Dad's Army (1968–1977) as the elderly bumbling Private Godfrey, as well...
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    Windlesham House School (category Use British English from February 2023)
    Archibald Bentley Beauman (1888–1977), British Army officer Lionel Bostock, OBE, MC (1888–1962), first-class cricketer and British Army officer Sutton Vane...
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    David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir (category Use British English from November 2014)
    homosexuals in the UK, and declined to commute Derek Bentley's death sentence for the murder of a police officer. His political ambitions were ultimately dashed...
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    Kim Philby (category KGB officers)
    British Embassy in Washington and served as chief British liaison with American intelligence agencies. During his career as an intelligence officer,...
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  • Royal Cavalcade (category Films directed by Thomas Bentley)
    as Regal Cavalcade, is a 1935 British, black-and-white, drama film directed by six separate directors: Thomas Bentley (Supervising Director), Herbert...
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    had 71,257 soldiers available, 3,866 officers and 65,919 other ranks. By the end of the day's fighting the army had suffered 16,084 casualties (3,024...
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  • British Army officer, explorer, and spiritualist Sir Hugh Elles KCB KCMG KCVO DSO, general Sir Charles Bonham-Carter, General of the Territorial Army...
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    Omar Bradley (category American five-star officers)
    8, 1981) was a senior officer of the United States Army during and after World War II, rising to the rank of General of the Army. He was the first chairman...
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    form of the company's three presidency armies, totalling about 260,000 soldiers, twice the size of the British army at the time. Originally chartered as...
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  • Standard Bearer of England (category Ceremonial officers in England)
    Stroud 2009, p. 7 Hales, J.W.; Furnivall, F.J., eds. (1868). "Thomas Percy". Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript. Ballads and Romances. Vol. 3. London. p. 258.{{cite...
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  • List of alumni of King's College London (category Use British English from May 2024)
    Herbert Edwardes – army and political officer Michael Elviss – British Army officer Stanley Smyth Flower – army officer Sir Robert Fry – Commandant General...
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  • Work Study Officer, Army Work Study Group, Guildford, Ministry of Defence (Army). John Archibald Naisbitt. For services to Agriculture. Percy George Negus...
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