Soldiers Hill is a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia located directly north of the Central Business District. At the 2021 census, Soldiers Hill...
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Soldiers Hill may refer to one of: Suburbs Soldiers Hill, Victoria, a suburb of Ballarat including the hill after which it was named Soldiers Hill, Queensland...
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The Grange (home) (redirect from "The Grange", Soldiers Hill, Ballarat)
located at 804 or 808 Lydiard Street North, Soldiers Hill, Victoria in the gold rush City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. The house no longer exists, and...
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of recipients of the Victoria Cross by nationality. It does not include the Victoria Cross awarded to the American Unknown Soldier of World War I buried...
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NCOs and private soldiers or seamen on the Victoria Cross Register were entitled to a £10 per annum annuity. In 1898, Queen Victoria raised the pension...
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home. In 1830, the Duchess and Conroy took Victoria across the centre of England to visit the Malvern Hills, stopping at towns and great country houses...
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Joshua Leakey (category British Parachute Regiment soldiers)
VC (born 1988) is a British soldier currently serving in the Parachute Regiment. In 2015, Leakey was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military...
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Gazette regarding soldiers who would have been awarded the VC had they survived. In a partial reversal of policy in 1902, six of the soldiers mentioned were...
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part in the Battle of Mount Tambu where he rescued twelve United States soldiers who had been wounded in the fighting. For this action he was awarded the...
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Gazette regarding soldiers who would have been awarded the VC had they survived. In a partial reversal of policy in 1902, six of the soldiers mentioned were...
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house located at 804 Havelock Street, Black Hill, a suburb of the Victorian gold rush city of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia (although the property is sometimes...
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outpost in the afternoon. 36 Israeli soldiers and 71 Jordanians were killed in the fighting. Ten of the soldiers who fought in this battle were given...
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Samuel Hill VC (c. 1826 in Glenavy, County Antrim – 21 February 1863) was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest and most prestigious...
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Gazette regarding soldiers who would have been awarded the VC had they survived. In a partial reversal of policy in 1902, six of the soldiers mentioned were...
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Mary of Teck (redirect from Victoria Mary of Teck)
Mary of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes; 26 May 1867 – 24 March 1953) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions...
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Mount Victoria, also known as Matairangi and colloquially as Mt Vic, is a prominent 196-metre (643 ft) hill immediately to the east of central Wellington...
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Black Hill is a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia in the northeast of the city. It is named after the major landmark, Black Hill, on which there...
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Victoria, commonly abbreviated as Vic, is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state (after Tasmania), with a land area of 227...
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Highway from the twin towns of Robinvale in Victoria and Euston in New South Wales, about 90 km north of Swan Hill. At the 2016 census, Boundary Bend and the...
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Marsh) • Sebastopol • Soldiers Hill • Tourello (1868–1950) • Warrenheip (1859–1988) • Weatherboard (1868–1969 Weatherboard Hill) • Wendouree (Wendouree...
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was a separate dominion and 2 soldiers from Newfoundland were awarded the Victoria Cross. The 628 awards of the Victoria Cross given for action during...
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youth. In Ottawa, the unknown soldier lay in state for three days in the Hall of Honour in the Centre Block on Parliament Hill. On the afternoon of May 28...
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The following is a partial list of English recipients of the Victoria Cross. ** Holders of VC and bar (twice awarded the VC)....
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Charles Pye (category King's Shropshire Light Infantry soldiers)
(chr: 24 September 1820 – 12 July 1876) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face...
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Victorian era (redirect from Victoria era)
Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the reign of Queen Victoria, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. Slightly different...
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commander. Hill became Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in 1828. Well-liked by the soldiers under his command, he was nicknamed "Daddy Hill". Hill was born...
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William Jones (VC) (redirect from William Jones (British Victoria Cross recipient))
William Jones VC (1839 – 15 April 1913) was a British recipient of the Victoria Cross for his action at the Battle of Rorke's Drift in January 1879, the...
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Victoria is the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city...
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Soldier settlement was the settlement of land throughout parts of Australia by returning discharged soldiers under soldier settlement schemes administered...
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of approximately 300. During the Texas Revolution, Guadalupe Victoria contributed soldiers and supplies to pro-revolutionary forces. However, after James...
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