The Voluntary Service Detachments were offshoots of the Australian Red Cross Society's South Australian and Western Australian divisions formed shortly...
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The Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) was a voluntary unit of civilians providing nursing care for military personnel in the United Kingdom and various other...
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laserdisc that only was popular in Japan and the rest of Asia Voluntary Service Detachment, an Australian civil organization during World War II State Security...
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Delta Force (redirect from 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment - Delta)
The 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment–Delta (1st SFOD-D), referred to as Delta Force, Combat Applications Group (CAG), or within Joint Special...
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year. Service for the medal was retrospective to the creation of Voluntary Aid Detachments in 1909. The medal is 36 millimetres (1.4 inches) in diameter...
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controller of the Voluntary Aid Detachment and from 1938 country supervisor for the Voluntary Service Detachment (both World War II service organisations)...
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their entire careers in Special Forces, rotating among assignments to detachments, higher staff billets, liaison positions, and instructor duties at the...
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woman solicitor. At the outbreak of World War II, she formed a Voluntary Service Detachment with several other professional women including Mocatta. Hackett...
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live in village near the national border, and can work on a voluntary basis. The detachments aide in border surveillance and conducts night patrols. It...
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Barrier troops (redirect from Blocking Detachment)
suppress panic retreats. Each Red Army division was to have an anti-retreat detachment equipped with transport totaling one company for each regiment. Their...
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Voluntary Aid Detachment Mabel Katie Barr-Stevens, Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurse, B.R.C.S. Grizel Gillespie Bayley, Nurse, Voluntary Aid Detachment Helen...
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Cadets or cadet corps are voluntary youth programs sponsored by a national military service or ministry of defence. These programs are aimed to provide...
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Simple living (redirect from Voluntary simplicity)
living as a central virtue of Buddhism. The Four Noble Truths advocate detachment from desire as the path to ending suffering and attaining Nirvana.[full...
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multiple myeloma Voluntary assisted dying (disambiguation) Voluntary Aid Detachment, a voluntary organisation providing field nursing services in the British...
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Finnish Ladoga Naval Detachment (Finnish: Laatokan laivasto-osasto) was a Finnish naval unit stationed on Lake Ladoga between 1920–1940 and 1941–1944....
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police (redirect from RCMP Air Services Branch)
RCMP for policing services since 1951. The second-largest RCMP detachment is in Burnaby, also in British Columbia. Conversely, detachments in small, isolated...
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Jock Lewes (category Special Air Service officers)
this platoon-sized group was at first officially known as "L" Detachment, Special Air Service Brigade. To destroy Axis vehicles, members of the SAS surreptitiously...
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Conscription (redirect from Mandatory military service)
initial voluntary military service. The military service takes place in Finnish Defence Forces or in the Finnish Border Guard. All services of the Finnish...
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serve as an armed customs enforcement service. As time passed, the service gradually gained missions either voluntarily or by legislation, including those...
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of being a voluntary force and there is absolutely no suggestion of a return to conscription". Reintroduction of mandatory national service was a key plank...
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23 November 1875 25 November 1952 Commandant-in-Chief, Women's Voluntary Aid Detachment 4 December 1917 Frances Charlotte, Baroness Chelmsford (Viscountess...
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as the founder and chairman of the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS), now known as Royal Voluntary Service. As Lady Reading, she was highly active in promoting...
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bomb and rocket attacks of 1944. Emergency Hospital Service (Scotland) Voluntary Aid Detachment Paul Addison, "The Road to 1945", Jonathan Cape, 1975...
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50th Area Support Group 927th Combat Service Support Battalion 32nd Army Air & Missile Defense Command - Detachment 1 211th Infantry Regiment (Regional...
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Katharine Furse (category Women's Royal Naval Service officers)
Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment force during the First World War, and served as the inaugural Director of the Women's Royal Naval Service (1917–19)...
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Celibacy (redirect from Voluntary celibacy)
Celibacy (from Latin caelibatus) is the state of voluntarily being unmarried, sexually abstinent, or both, usually for religious reasons. It is often...
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Worcestershire detachment, which is based at Tudor Grange Academy. In 2010, the Telford Cadets Detachment was awarded The Queen's Award for Voluntary Service. According...
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Conscription in Finland (section Military service)
to serve on a voluntary basis and pursue careers in the military after their initial voluntary military service. The military service takes place in...
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recognize his heroic actions on June 9, 1944, in Amfreville, France. His detachment came under devastating enemy fire from a strong German force, pinning...
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battalion that was formed on the amalgamation in 1965 of two originally voluntary units, the mostly black Bermuda Militia Artillery (BMA) and the almost...
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