Brigadier Charles Douglas Armstrong CBE DSO MC (11 June 1897 – 11 December 1985) was a British Army officer in World War I and World War II. In the latter...
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Richard Armstrong, KCB (c. 1782 – 3 March 1854) was an officer in the British Army. Armstrong was the only son of Lt.-Col. Richard Armstrong of Lincoln...
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Major-General John Armstrong (31 March 1674 – 15 April 1742) was a British military engineer and soldier, who served as Chief Royal Engineer and Surveyor-General...
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General Charles Lennox Brownlow Maitland CB (27 September 1823 – 5 January 1891) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer. One of...
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Baseball club Charles Armstrong (physician) (1886–1967), American physician in the U.S. Public Health Service Charles Armstrong (British Army officer) (1897–1985)...
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GCB, KBE, DSO, MC (25 June 1896 – 29 July 1982) was a senior officer in the British Army who served in both world wars. In the First World War he was...
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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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Armstrong (c. 1633 – 20 June 1684) was an English Army officer and politician who was executed for treason. His father, Colonel Sir Thomas Armstrong (died...
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Lloyd Armstrong-Jones, MBE QC DL (né Jones; 18 May 1899 – 27 January 1966) was a British barrister and soldier. He was the father of Antony Armstrong-Jones...
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Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, CBE JP DL FRCS FRCP FSA (born Robert Jones; 2 December 1857 – 30 January 1943) was a Welsh physician and psychiatrist. He...
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Martin Donisthorpe Armstrong (2 October 1882 – 24 February 1974) was an English writer and poet, known for his stories. Armstrong was born in Newcastle...
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British Army officer best known for his actions during the French and Indian War. At the age of twenty, he purchased a commission in the British Army...
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Stanley William Bailey OBE was a British Army officer in World War II, who reached the rank of colonel and was most notable for being the head and then...
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Joseph Wall (1737–28 January 1802) was a British Army officer and Lieutenant Governor of Gorée, an island near Dakar, Senegal, who was executed in London...
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Queen Camilla (redirect from Camilla, queen consort of Charles III of Great Britain)
and France. In 1973, she married British Army officer Andrew Parker Bowles; they divorced in 1995. Camilla and Charles were romantically involved periodically...
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The history of the British Army spans over three and a half centuries since its founding in 1660 and involves numerous European wars, colonial wars and...
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of Dragoon Guards, or the Carabineers (1839) p. 96. Dalton, Charles (1904). English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714 Volume V (2015 ed.)...
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Royal Army Chaplains' Department (RAChD) is an all-officer department that provides ordained clergy to minister to the British Army. The Army Chaplains'...
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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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Duncan Alexander Cameron, GCB (20 May 1808 – 8 June 1888) was a British Army officer who fought in the Crimean War and part of the New Zealand Wars. He...
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Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Richardson KCB (c. 10 March 1769 – 10 November 1850) was a British naval officer of the 18th and 19th centuries. His naval career...
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championed at the highest levels, including by British Prime Minister William Pitt. Mordaunt was placed in overall Army command for the assault, supported by Major-General...
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number of Armstrongs are recorded as officers in the royalist armies serving Charles I in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. "Robert Armstrong, Gent, one...
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John Armstrong Jr. (November 25, 1758 – April 1, 1843) was an American soldier, diplomat and statesman who was a delegate to the Continental Congress...
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The University Officers' Training Corps (UOTC), also known as the Officers' Training Corps (OTC), are British Army training units, under the command of...
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Clare Hibbs Armstrong (January 23, 1894 – July 12, 1969) was a highly decorated officer in the United States Army with the rank of brigadier general....
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John Armstrong (October 13, 1717 – March 9, 1795) was an American civil engineer and soldier who served as a brigadier general in the Continental Army and...
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KB (c. 1680 – 11 May 1745) was a Scottish military officer and Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1727 to 1741, representing the...
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The Honourable Robert Bruce (15 March 1813 – 27 June 1862) was a British Army officer who served as Governor to the young Prince of Wales, later King Edward...
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training its British officers at the Addiscombe Military Seminary. Promotion in the Company's army went strictly by seniority for both British and Indian...
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