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1215225 | O'Moore Creagh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=O'Moore%20Creagh | O'Moore Creagh
Quarter-master General in 1896. He commanded the Indian contingent during the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900, and was in September 1901 appointed General Officer Commanding the British Force in China after the departure of General Alfred Gaselee. He stayed there for several years, was knighted as a Kni... | 15,300 |
1215225 | O'Moore Creagh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=O'Moore%20Creagh | O'Moore Creagh
65 Albert Hall Mansions, London SW9, on 9 August 1923.
Creagh further followed Kitchener in becoming the District Grand Master of Freemasons in the Punjab.
His Victoria Cross is held by the National Army Museum in Chelsea, London, England.
# References.
Listed in order of publication year
- "The Reg... | 15,301 |
1215232 | Robert Grierson Combe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Grierson%20Combe | Robert Grierson Combe
Robert Grierson Combe
Robert Grierson Combe (5 August 1880 – 3 May 1917), was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Combe is also considered Scottish since h... | 15,302 |
1215232 | Robert Grierson Combe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Grierson%20Combe | Robert Grierson Combe
only five men. He proceeded to bomb the enemy, inflicting heavy casualties and then, collecting small groups of men, succeeded in capturing the objective, together with 80 prisoners. He repeatedly charged the enemy, driving them before him, but while personally leading his bombers he was killed by... | 15,303 |
1215232 | Robert Grierson Combe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Grierson%20Combe | Robert Grierson Combe
were never recovered or identified or whose graves were lost. The battlefield on which Lt. Combe fell is just over seven kilometres away from the Vimy Monument, and on a clear day Acheville can be seen from the monument itself.
# The medal.
Combe's medal is held by the Provincial Archives in Reg... | 15,304 |
1215230 | John Augustus Conolly | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Augustus%20Conolly | John Augustus Conolly
John Augustus Conolly
Lieutenant Colonel John Augustus Conolly VC (30 May 1829 – 23 December 1888), born in Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland, was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to Britis... | 15,305 |
1215230 | John Augustus Conolly | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Augustus%20Conolly | John Augustus Conolly
was most conspicuous in this action. He ultimately fell, dangerously wounded, while in personal encounter with several Russians, in defence of his post.
# Further information.
Conolly was a younger son of Edward Michael Conolly (an MP), by his wife Catherine Jane, daughter of Chambré Brabazon Po... | 15,306 |
1215230 | John Augustus Conolly | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Augustus%20Conolly | John Augustus Conolly
in December 1888 and is buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery. By his wife Ida Charlotte, a daughter of Edwyn Burnaby, he had several children. His son, John Richard Arthur Conolly, was a member of parliament in Western Australia.
# The medal.
Conolly's Victoria Cross is displayed at The Grenadier Gua... | 15,307 |
1215236 | David Lowe MacIntyre | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David%20Lowe%20MacIntyre | David Lowe MacIntyre
David Lowe MacIntyre
David Lowe Macintyre VC, CB (18 June 1895 – 31 July 1967) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
# Details.
After graduating from th... | 15,308 |
1215236 | David Lowe MacIntyre | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David%20Lowe%20MacIntyre | David Lowe MacIntyre
Lieutenant Macintyre, when acting as adjutant of his battalion, was constantly in evidence in the firing line and by his coolness under most heavy shell and machine-gun fire inspired the confidence of all ranks. On one occasion when extra strong barbed wire entanglements were encountered, he organi... | 15,309 |
1215236 | David Lowe MacIntyre | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David%20Lowe%20MacIntyre | David Lowe MacIntyre
5 October 1918, and read:
After the war, he entered the Civil Service in the Office of Works and by the time of his appointment as a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1949 New Year Honours, he was Under Secretary for Scotland in its successor, the Ministry of Works. He still held the ... | 15,310 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
Gheorghe Tătărescu
Gheorghe I. Tătărescu (also known as "Guță Tătărescu", with a slightly antiquated pet form of his given name; 2 November 1886 – 28 March 1957) was a Romanian politician who served twice as Prime Minister of Romania (1934–1937; 1939–1940), three times as Minister of Foreign Affairs... | 15,311 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
During his first time in office, he moved closer to King Carol II, leading an ambivalent policy toward the fascist Iron Guard and ultimately becoming instrumental in establishing the authoritarian and corporatist regime around the National Renaissance Front. In 1940, he accepted the cession of Bessar... | 15,312 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
and representing it inside the Communist-endorsed Petru Groza cabinet. In 1946-1947, he was also the President of the Romanian Delegation to the Peace Conference in Paris. After that moment, relations between Tătărescu and the PCR began to sour, and he was replaced from the leadership of both his own... | 15,313 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
1948. One of his brothers, Colonel Ștefan Tătărescu, was at some point the leader of a minor Nazi group, the National Socialist Party.
# Early life and politics.
Born in Târgu Jiu, Tătărescu studied at Carol I High School in Craiova. He later went to France, where he was awarded a doctorate from th... | 15,314 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
1919, representing Gorj County. Among his first notable actions as a politician was an initiative to interpellate Nicolae L. Lupu, the Minister of Interior Affairs Ministry in the Romanian National Party-Peasants' Party cabinet, in answer to concerns that the executive was tolerating socialist agitat... | 15,315 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
in the Interior Affairs Ministry under several PNL cabinets (beginning with that of Ion I. C. Brătianu in 1922–1926), he first became noted as a collaborator of Ion G. Duca. In 1924–1936, in contrast to his post-World War II agenda, Tătărescu was a noted anti-communist, and reacted vehemently against... | 15,316 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
Minister Duca on 30 December 1933 (the five-day premiership of Constantin Anghelescu ensured transition between the two governments). His was the second PNL cabinet formed during Carol's reign, and the latter's failure to draw support from the mainstream group led to a tight connection being establis... | 15,317 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
January.
The brief period constituted a reference point in Romanian economy, as the emergence from the Great Depression, although marked by endemic problems, saw prosperity more widespread than ever before. This was, in part, the contribution of new economic relations which Tătărescu defended and en... | 15,318 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
of ridicule at the time. According to a hostile account of the socialist Petre Pandrea:
"Tătărescu was ceremonious in order to cover his menial nature. When he was leaving audiences [with the King], he pressed forward on the small of his back and returned "facing backwards" from the desk to the door... | 15,319 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
Carol, it had not been recognized by Romanian authorities—or his princely prerogatives. Nicholas chose the latter alternative in 1937.
Inside his party, Tătărescu lost ground to Dinu Brătianu, elected by the traditional Liberal elite as a compromise in order to ensure unity; upon his election in 193... | 15,320 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
Tătărescu balanced two different priorities, attempting to strengthen the traditional military alliance with Poland which was aimed at the Soviet Union, and reacting against the growing regional influence of Nazi Germany by maintaining the relevancy of the Little Entente and establishing further cont... | 15,321 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
Constantin Antoniade, Romania's representative to the League of Nations, Dimitrie Ghyka, the ambassador to Belgium, and Caius Brediceanu, the ambassador to Austria) while Titulescu's adversaries, such as Antoine Bibesco, were returned to office. Bibesco subsequently campaigned in France and the Unite... | 15,322 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
a reconciliation with Hungary (the following year, Romania withdrew its support for the former, indicating, just before the Munich Agreement, that it was not in a position to guarantee Czechoslovakia's frontiers). This was accompanied by Czechoslovak initiatives to establish close contacts between th... | 15,323 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
criticism for having prefaced the book, and, after Tătărescu paid a visit to Czechoslovak Prime Minister Milan Hodža, Šeba was recalled to Prague.
## Facing the Iron Guard.
In combating the Iron Guard, Tătărescu chose to relax virtually all pressures on the latter (while mimicking some of its messa... | 15,324 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
train commissioned by the government, vandalized Ion Duca's memorial plate in Sinaia train station, and, upon their arrival in Târgu Mureș, made public their violent anti-Semitic agenda. It was probably there that death squads were designated and assigned missions, leading to the murder of Mihai Stel... | 15,325 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
country.
Later in that year, the collaboration between monarch and premier, coupled with the fact that Tătărescu had successfully attracted nationalist votes from the Iron Guard, led to the signing of an electoral agreement between the latter, the National Peasants' Party (the main democratic opposi... | 15,326 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
the PNL, as he signed collaboration agreements with the fascist Romanian Front and German Party.
The 1937 elections led to an unprecedented situation: although the PNL and Tătărescu had gained the largest percentage of the vote (almost 36%), they fell short of being awarded majority bonus (granted a... | 15,327 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
far right but deeply opposed to the Guard) to form a new cabinet in December of that year.
Consequently, Tătărescu renounced his offices inside the party, and, while keeping his office of general secretary, he was surpassed by the readmitted Gheorghe I. Brătianu — who was elected to the new office o... | 15,328 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
after becoming Prime Minister, he established the Ministry of Armaments, chaired by himself. This ministry lasted for over three years before being dissolved on 23 February 1937, during his third cabinet.
Under Tătărăscu's premiership, Romania launched a ten-year rearmament program on 27 April 1935.... | 15,329 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
employed German technicians to build a shipyard at Galați using materials supplied by the Reșița works. There, two submarines would be built between 1938 and 1943, among others ("Marsuinul" and "Rechinul"). The resumed and much improved trade relations with Škoda, following the disastrous "Škoda Affa... | 15,330 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
before the end of his mandate at the end of 1937. Both of these orders were delivered in full during late 1938 and early 1939, respectively. In 1936, Romania also started producing the Polish PZL P.11 fighter aircraft, of which 95 were ultimately built by IAR. In 1937, Romanian production of the impr... | 15,331 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
and contested the legitimacy of the action for the following years. Allegedly, his ousting was recommended by Iuliu Maniu, leader of the National Peasants' Party's and, for the following years, the closest of Dinu Brătianu's political allies.
Soon after his second arrival to power, Tătărescu became ... | 15,332 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
After a bloody crackdown on the Iron Guard, the Front attempted to reunite political forces in a national government that was to back Carol's foreign policies in view of increasing threats on Romania's borders after the outbreak of World War II. In 1945, Tătărescu stressed his belief that authoritari... | 15,333 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
the rest of the Phony War, until the fall of France, and his cabinet signed an economic agreement with Nazi Germany (through which virtually all Romanian exports were directed towards the latter country) and saw the crumbling of Romania's alliance with the United Kingdom and France. The cabinet was b... | 15,334 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
confirming Carol's failure to preserve both the country's neutrality and its territorial integrity, Romania was taken over by an Iron Guard dictatorial government (the National Legionary State). Speaking five years later, Dinu Brătianu placed the blame for the serious developments on Tătărescu's own ... | 15,335 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
figures who had served under Carol (following a late investigation into the 1938 killing of Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, the movement's founder and early leader, by Carol's authorities). Tătărescu and Constantin Argetoianu were among the second wave of captured politicians (on 27 November), and were dest... | 15,336 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
visit to Bessarabia, recovered after the start of Operation Barbarossa, when Tătărescu had accompanied Antonescu, "thus making common cause with his warmongering action". At the time, his daughter Sandra Tătărescu Negropontes worked as an ambulance driver for the Romanian Red Cross.
In the end, Tătă... | 15,337 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
Romania with Richard Franasovici and Grigore Gafencu, and had agreed to support the Romanian cause, informed the Allied governments of Tătărescu's designs.
Tătărescu later contrasted his diplomatic approach with the strategy of Barbu Știrbey (who had only attempted an agreement with the Western Alli... | 15,338 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
the Socialist Peasants' Party, leading to the formation of the short-lived and unstable "National Democratic Bloc" (BND) in June 1944. It overthrew Antonescu in August, by means of the successful King Michael Coup.
# Alliance with the Communists.
Tătărescu returned to the PNL later in 1944—after th... | 15,339 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
regimes.
As the PCR, which was growing more influential (with the backing of Soviet occupation) while generally lacking popular appeal, sought to form alliances with various forces in order to increase its backing, Tătărescu declared his group to be left-wing and Social liberal, while attempting to ... | 15,340 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
Pătrășcanu, who argued in favor of "making a distinction inside the bourgeoisie", and collaborating with the main PNL, while calling Tătărescu's faction "a gang of con artists, blackmailers, and well-known bribers".
Tătărescu became Foreign Minister and vice president of the government in the cabine... | 15,341 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
fraud during the general election in 1946 by failing to reply to American proposals for organizing fair elections. At the Paris Conference, where he was accompanied by the PCR leaders Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and Pătrășcanu, he acknowledged the dissolution of "Greater Romania" under the provisions of t... | 15,342 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
am not a communist. Taking in view my attitudes towards mankind, society, property, I am not a communist. Thus, the new orientation in external politics which I demand for my country cannot be accused of being determined by affinities or sympathies of doctrine."
Speaking in retrospect, Gheorghiu-Dej... | 15,343 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
he issued his own critique of the Groza government, becoming the target of violent attacks initiated by Miron Constantinescu in the PCR press. Consequently, he was singled out for negligence in office when, during the kangaroo trial of Iuliu Maniu ("see Tămădău Affair"), it was alleged that several e... | 15,344 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
pressures, and removed from its leadership in January 1948 (being replaced with Petre N. Bejan—the party was subsequently known as "National Liberal Party-Petre N. Bejan"). One of his last actions as cabinet member had been to sign the document officially rejecting the Marshall Plan.
After the procl... | 15,345 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
Tudor, who was living in Paris, suffered from schizophrenia after 1950, and had to be committed to an institution (where he died in 1955). Sandra Tătărescu Negropontes was also imprisoned in 1950, and released three years later, upon the death of Joseph Stalin.
One of Gheorghe Tătărescu's last appea... | 15,346 |
1215122 | Gheorghe Tătărescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe%20Tătărescu | Gheorghe Tătărescu
after 1950, and had to be committed to an institution (where he died in 1955). Sandra Tătărescu Negropontes was also imprisoned in 1950, and released three years later, upon the death of Joseph Stalin.
One of Gheorghe Tătărescu's last appearances in public was his stand as one of the prosecution's w... | 15,347 |
1215238 | Peter Trudgill | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20Trudgill | Peter Trudgill
Peter Trudgill
Peter Trudgill, FBA (; born 7 November 1943) is a sociolinguist, academic and author. He was born in Norwich, England, where he attended the City of Norwich School from 1955. Trudgill studied modern languages at King's College, Cambridge and obtained a PhD from the University of Edinburgh... | 15,348 |
1215238 | Peter Trudgill | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20Trudgill | Peter Trudgill
and where he is now Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics.
He is Honorary Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, England. On June 2, 1995 he received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Humanities at Uppsala University, Sweden.. He also has honorary doctora... | 15,349 |
1215238 | Peter Trudgill | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20Trudgill | Peter Trudgill
society, and contributes a regular column on language and languages in Europe to the New European newspaper.
Trudgill is a well-known authority on dialects, as well as being one of the first to apply Labovian sociolinguistic methodology in the UK, and to provide a framework for studying dialect contact ... | 15,350 |
1215238 | Peter Trudgill | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20Trudgill | Peter Trudgill
newspaper The New European. At the end of 2017, he has signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.
# Bibliography.
His works include:
- 1974 "The Social Differentiation of English in Norwich" (based on his Ph.D. thesis)
- 1976 "Introduction to Sociol... | 15,351 |
1215238 | Peter Trudgill | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20Trudgill | Peter Trudgill
1986 "Dialects in Contact"
- 1990 "The Dialects of England"
- 1990 "Bad Language" (with Lars Andersson)
- 1992 "Introducing Language and Society"
- 1998 "Language Myths" (with Laurie Bauer)
- 2001 "Alternative Histories of English" (with Richard J. Watts)
- 2002 "Sociolinguistic Variation and Chang... | 15,352 |
1215238 | Peter Trudgill | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20Trudgill | Peter Trudgill
ossary of Sociolinguistics"
- 2003 "Norfolk Origins 7: The Norfolk Dialect"
- 2004 "New-Dialect Formation: The Inevitability of Colonial Englishes"
- 2004 "New Zealand English: Its Origins and Evolution" (with et al. Elizabeth Gordon, Lyle Campbell, Margaret Maclagan, Andrea Sudbury, Jennifer Hay)
- ... | 15,353 |
1215235 | Frank Partridge (soldier) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frank%20Partridge%20(soldier) | Frank Partridge (soldier)
Frank Partridge (soldier)
Frank John Partridge, VC (29 November 192423 March 1964) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry "in the face of the enemy" awarded to members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces. He was decorated for his actio... | 15,354 |
1215235 | Frank Partridge (soldier) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frank%20Partridge%20(soldier) | Frank Partridge (soldier)
New South Wales, on 29 November 1924, to farmer Patrick James Partridge and his English-born wife Mary (née Saggs). The youth was educated at Tewinga Public School until he left at 13 to work on the family's dairy and banana farm at Upper Newee Creek, near Macksville.
# World War II.
In Dece... | 15,355 |
1215235 | Frank Partridge (soldier) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frank%20Partridge%20(soldier) | Frank Partridge (soldier)
deed for which he received the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest award for gallantry that could be awarded to British Commonwealth forces.
On 24 July, in one of the last actions of the campaign on Bougainville, two platoons of the 8th Battalion attacked a Japanese post, Base 5, near Ratsua. Pa... | 15,356 |
1215235 | Frank Partridge (soldier) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frank%20Partridge%20(soldier) | Frank Partridge (soldier)
of the bunker with his knife. Partridge attacked the second until loss of blood compelled him to halt. Later he re-joined the fight and remained in action while the platoon withdrew.
Partridge was the last and the youngest Australian to be awarded the Victoria Cross in World War II. He was al... | 15,357 |
1215235 | Frank Partridge (soldier) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frank%20Partridge%20(soldier) | Frank Partridge (soldier)
contestant on the television quiz show, "Pick a Box", compered by Bob Dyer, alongside contestants such as Barry Jones. His laconic manner appealed strongly to viewers. Partridge was one of only three contestants to win all forty boxes and his prizes were valued at more than £12,000 (in excess ... | 15,358 |
1215235 | Frank Partridge (soldier) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frank%20Partridge%20(soldier) | Frank Partridge (soldier)
ned in Sydney while Partridge built a new house at the farm. He drove to Sydney every weekend to see her. Later in 1963, Partridge sought Country Party pre-selection for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Cowper. His political views were widely regarded as extreme, and he was not ... | 15,359 |
1215240 | James Duffy (VC) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Duffy%20(VC) | James Duffy (VC)
James Duffy (VC)
James Duffy (17 November 1889 – 8 April 1969) () was a British Army soldier during the First World War, and an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
... | 15,360 |
1215240 | James Duffy (VC) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Duffy%20(VC) | James Duffy (VC)
Duffy, a stretcher-bearer, and another stretcher-bearer went out to bring in a seriously wounded comrade. When the other stretcher-bearer was wounded, Private Duffy returned to get another man, who was killed almost immediately. The private then went forward alone and, under very heavy fire, succeeded ... | 15,361 |
1215240 | James Duffy (VC) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Duffy%20(VC) | James Duffy (VC)
ery. His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Inniskilling Museum in Enniskillen Castle, Northern Ireland.
A stone bench was unveiled in Letterkenny Town Park on 10 July 2007 to honour the war veteran. His daughter Nelly was present when former Letterkenny Mayor Ciaran Brogan unveiled the bench in one o... | 15,362 |
1215239 | Nantou City | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nantou%20City | Nantou City
Nantou City
Nantou City (Mandarin Pīnyīn: "Nántóu Shì"; Hokkien POJ: "Lâm-tâu-chhī") is a county-administered city located in the northwest of Nantou County, Taiwan. It lies between the Bagua Mountains and the Maoluo River and is the county seat of Nantou County. Freeway No. 3 serves Nantou City. Its name ... | 15,363 |
1215239 | Nantou City | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nantou%20City | Nantou City
as well as the Jian (), Lin and Xiao clans from Nanjing County in Zhangzhou were among the early settlers. A yamen was established in 1759 near the present Nantou Elementary School. In 1898, Nantou Commandery was organized.
## Empire of Japan.
In 1901, during Japanese rule, was one of twenty local adminis... | 15,364 |
1215239 | Nantou City | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nantou%20City | Nantou City
the Taiwan provincial government moved to Zhongxing New Village, making Nantou the location of the provincial government. On 25 December 1981, Nantou became a county-controlled city from the previous urban township. Due to its location along the Chelungpu Fault, Nantou was strongly affected by the 1999 921 ... | 15,365 |
1215239 | Nantou City | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nantou%20City | Nantou City
gshan, Yingnan, Yingbei, Neixing, Neixin, Guanghui, Guangrong, Guangming, Guanghua, Zhangxing, Zhanghe, Pingshan, Xinxing, Yongfeng, Fuxing, Fengshan, Yongxing, Fengming and Fushan Village.
# Government institutions.
- Taiwan Provincial Government
- Nantou County Government
- Nantou County Council
# To... | 15,366 |
1215246 | Namdeo Jadav | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Namdeo%20Jadav | Namdeo Jadav
Namdeo Jadav
Namdeo Jadav VC (18 November 1921 – 2 August 1984) was an Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
# Details.
Jadav was 23 years old, and a Sepoy in the 1st B... | 15,367 |
1215246 | Namdeo Jadav | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Namdeo%20Jadav | Namdeo Jadav
water, up a steep bank and through a mine belt to safety. Then, determined to avenge his dead comrades, he eliminated three enemy machine-gun posts. Finally, climbing on top of the bank he shouted the Maratha war cry and waved the remaining companies across. He not only saved many lives but enabled the bat... | 15,368 |
1215246 | Namdeo Jadav | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Namdeo%20Jadav | Namdeo Jadav
avenge his dead comrades, he eliminated three enemy machine-gun posts. Finally, climbing on top of the bank he shouted the Maratha war cry and waved the remaining companies across. He not only saved many lives but enabled the battalion to secure the bridgehead and ultimately to crush all enemy resistance i... | 15,369 |
1215243 | Jack Mackey | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jack%20Mackey | Jack Mackey
Jack Mackey
John Bernard "Jack" Mackey, VC (16 May 1922 – 12 May 1945) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British Commonwealth forces. Mackey was one of twenty Australians to receive the award for actions during... | 15,370 |
1215243 | Jack Mackey | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jack%20Mackey | Jack Mackey
a baker, and his wife Bridget Catherine Smyth Mackey. After attending St. Columba's School in Leichhardt and the Christian Brothers' High School in Lewisham, New South Wales, the Mackey family moved to Portland, New South Wales, in 1936, where his father operated a bakery. Mackey finished his schooling at t... | 15,371 |
1215243 | Jack Mackey | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jack%20Mackey | Jack Mackey
in the Syrian Campaign against the Vichy French and in the Second Battle of El Alamein.
The Japanese threat to Australia grew as they advanced through the Pacific in 1942. In response, the Australian government requested the withdrawal of Australian units back to their home country, and Mackey's battalion ... | 15,372 |
1215243 | Jack Mackey | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jack%20Mackey | Jack Mackey
1 May 1945, Mackey's battalion, as part of 26th Brigade Group, landed at Lingkas Beach on Tarakan Island, off North Borneo. The island's airfield was to be captured to allow its use in operations against Borneo. Advancing inland along the Aman River, the battalion were held up by Japanese defending a strong... | 15,373 |
1215243 | Jack Mackey | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jack%20Mackey | Jack Mackey
g a stronghold known as Helen. On 12 May 1945, Mackey's company was to continue an attack that had begun three days previously and it was during this action that he earned the Victoria Cross (VC). The citation for his VC read:
The Japanese continued to hold off the attacking pioneers for a further two days... | 15,374 |
1215229 | James Joseph Magennis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Joseph%20Magennis | James Joseph Magennis
James Joseph Magennis
James Joseph Magennis VC (spelling originally McGinnes) (27 October 1919 – 12 February 1986) was a Belfast-born recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forc... | 15,375 |
1215229 | James Joseph Magennis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Joseph%20Magennis | James Joseph Magennis
the submarine for a second time in order to free some explosive charges that had got caught. His commanding officer Lieutenant Ian Fraser was also awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions on 31 July 1945 during the operation.
# Early career.
James McGinnes was born on 27 October 1919 at Majorc... | 15,376 |
1215229 | James Joseph Magennis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Joseph%20Magennis | James Joseph Magennis
on the destroyer "Kandahar" which was mined off Tripoli, Libya, in December 1941 whilst Magennis was on board. The ship was irreparably damaged and was scuttled the following day. In December 1942, Magennis was drafted into the Submarine service and in March 1943 he volunteered for "special and Ha... | 15,377 |
1215229 | James Joseph Magennis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Joseph%20Magennis | James Joseph Magennis
Operation Struggle.
In July 1945 Acting Leading Seaman Magennis was serving as the diver on the midget submarine HMS "XE3" under the command of Lieutenant Ian Fraser. They were tasked with sinking the 10,000 ton Japanese cruiser "Takao", the first of the "Takao" Class. She was berthed in the Stra... | 15,378 |
1215229 | James Joseph Magennis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Joseph%20Magennis | James Joseph Magennis
out of the wet-and-dry chamber and he attached limpet mines to the Japanese cruiser "Takao" under particularly difficult circumstances. He had to chip away at barnacles on the bottom of the cruiser for 30 minutes before being able to attach the limpets. During this time his breathing apparatus was... | 15,379 |
1215229 | James Joseph Magennis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Joseph%20Magennis | James Joseph Magennis
On completion Magennis returned to "XE3" for the second time, allowing the four man midget submarine to make its escape out to open sea to meet the waiting "Stygian".
## Award of the Victoria Cross.
The citation was published in a supplement to the "London Gazette" of 9 November 1945 (dated 13 N... | 15,380 |
1215229 | James Joseph Magennis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Joseph%20Magennis | James Joseph Magennis
be attacking another Japanese vessel as part of the same operation, but actually ended up also placing its explosives under the same target. "XE1"'s C/O, Lieutenant John Elliott Smart RNVR, and Sub-Lieutenant Harold Edwin Harper, RNVR received the DSC; and ERA Fourth Class Henry James Fishleigh an... | 15,381 |
1215229 | James Joseph Magennis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Joseph%20Magennis | James Joseph Magennis
Cross winner of the Second World War to hail from Northern Ireland. As a result, Magennis obtained something of a "celebrity status" in his home city. The citizens of Belfast raised more than £3,000 as part of a "Shilling Fund." The City Fathers of Belfast refused to give Magennis the freedom of t... | 15,382 |
1215229 | James Joseph Magennis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Joseph%20Magennis | James Joseph Magennis
his wife; she remarked: "We are simple people... forced into the limelight. We lived beyond our means because it seemed the right thing to do." In 1949 he left the Navy and returned to Belfast, where, at some point, he sold his Victoria Cross . In 1955 he moved to Yorkshire, where he worked as an ... | 15,383 |
1215229 | James Joseph Magennis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Joseph%20Magennis | James Joseph Magennis
Council because he was from a working class Roman Catholic family. Although the public collected £3,600 in appreciation of his heroism, the council refused to give him the freedom of the city. The only official recognition was a small photograph tucked away in the robing room of the council chambe... | 15,384 |
1215229 | James Joseph Magennis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Joseph%20Magennis | James Joseph Magennis
officer, Ian Fraser, was reported as saying: "Jim gave me bother from time to time. He liked his tot of rum, but he was a lovely man and a fine diver. I have never met a braver man. It was a privilege to know him and it's wonderful to see Belfast honour him at last." A wall mural commemorating Jam... | 15,385 |
1215229 | James Joseph Magennis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Joseph%20Magennis | James Joseph Magennis
plaque made of Welsh slate was supplied by ex-submariner Tommy Topham MBE. Rear Admiral Place VC, CB, CVO, DSC unveiled the plaque. In attendance was Petty Officer Tommy "Nat" Gould, another submariner Victoria Cross recipient of the Second World War.
In 1998 a memorial plaque was installed by Ca... | 15,386 |
1215229 | James Joseph Magennis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Joseph%20Magennis | James Joseph Magennis
be up at auction. This attracted the interest of Michael Ashcroft, Baron Ashcroft who bought the VC for £29,000 (plus fees) amidst strong competition from dealers and private collectors. This was the first Victoria Cross bought by Lord Ashcroft, who, as of 2006, owned 142 medals. In July 2008 Lord... | 15,387 |
1215229 | James Joseph Magennis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Joseph%20Magennis | James Joseph Magennis
of his actions and an interview with Lord Ashcroft about his VC.
# References.
- Further reading
- George Fleming - "Magennis VC: The story of Northern Ireland's only WW2 winner of the Victoria Cross" ( Paperback; Hardback)
- "Belfast Telegraph" 9 October 1999
- "The Irish Sword" (Brian Clark... | 15,388 |
1215248 | Donald John Dean | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donald%20John%20Dean | Donald John Dean
Donald John Dean
Colonel Donald John Dean VC OBE (19 April 1897 – 9 December 1985) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
# Military career.
Dean served as a... | 15,389 |
1215248 | Donald John Dean | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donald%20John%20Dean | Donald John Dean
deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
During the period 24 September–26 September 1918, north-west of Lens, France, Lieutenant Dean with his platoon held an advance post established in a newly captured enemy trench. The post was ill-prepared for defence and the lieutenant worked unceasingly... | 15,390 |
1215248 | Donald John Dean | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donald%20John%20Dean | Donald John Dean
on each occasion the attack was repulsed. Throughout the whole of this time Lieutenant Dean inspired his command with his own contempt of danger and set the highest example of valour, leadership and devotion to duty.
He later achieved the rank of colonel and served in the Second World War. Dean was am... | 15,391 |
1215224 | Robert Hampton Gray | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Hampton%20Gray | Robert Hampton Gray
Robert Hampton Gray
Robert Hampton "Hammy" Gray, (November 2, 1917 – August 9, 1945) was a Canadian naval officer, pilot, and recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC) during World War II, one of only two members of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm to have been thus decorated in that war. (The other was E... | 15,392 |
1215224 | Robert Hampton Gray | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Hampton%20Gray | Robert Hampton Gray
he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve (RCNVR) at in Calgary, Alberta. Originally sent to England for training, Gray was sent back to Canada to train at RCAF Station Kingston.
# War service.
## Africa and Norway.
Gray initially joined 757 Squadron at Winchester, England. He was... | 15,393 |
1215224 | Robert Hampton Gray | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Hampton%20Gray | Robert Hampton Gray
his participation in an attack on three German destroyers, during which his plane's rudder was shot off. On January 16, 1945, he received a further Mention, "For undaunted courage, skill and determination in carrying out daring attacks on the German battleship Tirpitz."
## Japan.
In April 1945, HM... | 15,394 |
1215224 | Robert Hampton Gray | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Hampton%20Gray | Robert Hampton Gray
Service Cross for aiding in sinking a Japanese destroyer in the area of Tokyo on July 28. The award was not announced until August 21, 1945, when the notice appeared in the "London Gazette" with the citation, "For determination and address in air attacks on targets in Japan".
### VC action.
On Aug... | 15,395 |
1215224 | Robert Hampton Gray | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Hampton%20Gray | Robert Hampton Gray
Cross. His VC is owned by the Gray family.
# Legacy.
As Gray's remains were never found, he was listed as missing in action and presumed dead. He is commemorated, with other Canadians who died or were buried at sea during the First and Second World Wars, at the Halifax Memorial in Point Pleasant P... | 15,396 |
1215224 | Robert Hampton Gray | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Hampton%20Gray | Robert Hampton Gray
the devastation of the March 11, 2011 earthquake, the monument (with new plaque) was moved from its original location in Sakiyama Park to one beside the hospital (Onagawacho Community Medicine Center) in Onagawa Town. A rededication ceremony was held 24 August 2012. Gray is one of fourteen figures c... | 15,397 |
1215224 | Robert Hampton Gray | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Hampton%20Gray | Robert Hampton Gray
Neptune.
## Grays Peak, British Columbia.
On March 12, 1946, the Geographic Board of Canada named a mountain in Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park, British Columbia, after Gray and his brother, John Balfour Gray, who was also killed in World War II. Rising to a height of 2,753m, Grays Peak is well kn... | 15,398 |
1215224 | Robert Hampton Gray | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Hampton%20Gray | Robert Hampton Gray
known in Canada as the mountain pictured on the label of Kokanee beer.
## Hampton Gray Memorial Elementary.
The elementary school at CFB Shearwater is named after Gray.
## Royal Canadian Sea Cadets.
The Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps in Nelson, BC is named 81 Hampton Gray, VC Royal Canadian Sea ... | 15,399 |
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