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55513705 | Scottish Russians | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scottish%20Russians | Scottish Russians
military forces. It was raised in Scotland, and a company was raised in Ireland. The regiment participated in several Russo-Crimean Wars against the Crimean–Nogai raids. Beginning in 1626, foreign mercenaries were identified by their Russian names and (after converting to Orthodox Christianity) typica... | 6,133,500 |
55513705 | Scottish Russians | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scottish%20Russians | Scottish Russians
forces during the Siege of Smolensk (1654), one of the first major events of the Russo-Polish War (1654–67), and was descended from Clan Leslie of Auchintoul. The owner of Gorchakov Manor, he was the voivode of Smolensk.
Tam Dalyell of the Binns (1615–1685), a Scottish Royalist general in the Wars of... | 6,133,501 |
55513705 | Scottish Russians | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scottish%20Russians | Scottish Russians
remained in Russian service after the Battle of Klushino and had several granddaughters. The first (Eudoxia) was an aunt of Natalya Kirillovna Naryshkina, the Tsaritsa of Russia from 1671–1676 and the second wife of Tsar Alexei I and regent of Russia as the mother of Peter the Great in 1682. The secon... | 6,133,502 |
55513705 | Scottish Russians | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scottish%20Russians | Scottish Russians
with his son Petr (David). Michail G. Khomutov () was a cavalry general, adjutant general and an earl () of the Don Cossacks in from 1848 to 1862. (1787, Moscow — 1858, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian writer, sister of Michail Khomutov]] and cousin of Ivan Kozlov. The von Fersen family are descendants... | 6,133,503 |
55513705 | Scottish Russians | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scottish%20Russians | Scottish Russians
Regiment in 1695 and participated in Peter's 1695–6 Azov campaigns.
James Daniel Bruce (, 1669–1735) was a statesman, military leader and scientist descended from the Clan Bruce. According to Bruce, his ancestors had lived in Russia since 1649. He was the brother of Robert Bruce, the first military g... | 6,133,504 |
55513705 | Scottish Russians | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scottish%20Russians | Scottish Russians
Barclay de Tolly was a field marshal and minister of war during Napoleon's 1812 invasion and the War of the Sixth Coalition. Prince Alexander Barclay de Tolly-Weymarn (1824–1905) was a Russian regimental, division and corps commander. He was the son of Wilhelm Peter Jost von Weymarn, and the grandson ... | 6,133,505 |
55513705 | Scottish Russians | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scottish%20Russians | Scottish Russians
traced to George Learmonth. According to his family, George Learmonth descended from the 13th-century Scottish poet Thomas the Rhymer (also known as Thomas Learmonth).
Julia Lermontova (1846–1919), the first female Russian chemist, was the third woman to receive a doctorate in Europe. Lermontova stud... | 6,133,506 |
55513705 | Scottish Russians | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scottish%20Russians | Scottish Russians
Tobias Tomson-Hominsky, a soldier in the Russian service. Egor Famintsyn was an ober-commandant of the Petropavlovkaya Fortress, and Andrei Famintsyn () (1835, Moscow – 1918, Saint Petersburg) was a botanist and academician at the Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1884. (1841 — 1896) was a Russian mus... | 6,133,507 |
55513705 | Scottish Russians | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scottish%20Russians | Scottish Russians
Army's north group in the White movement during Alexander Dutov's revolt against Soviet authorities in Orenburg. He received the Gold Sword for Bravery during World War I on the Eastern Front for valor in 1915.
The Artamonovs were descendants of Art MacKeen-Magin, a soldier in the Polish–Lithuanian s... | 6,133,508 |
55513705 | Scottish Russians | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scottish%20Russians | Scottish Russians
of Tsarskoye Selo, the Pavlovsk Palace and the adjacent new town of Sophia from his 1779 arrival in Russia to Catherine's death in 1796. Count Andrey Matveyev (1666–1728), whose mother was Scottish, was one of the first Russian ambassadors and Peter the Great's agent in London and the Hague.
The Grei... | 6,133,509 |
55513705 | Scottish Russians | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scottish%20Russians | Scottish Russians
Russian Navy.
Friedrich von Löwis of Menar (, 6 September 1767, Haapsalu – 16 April 1824) was a lieutenant-general during the Napoleonic Wars. His family (commonly spelled "Lewis" in English) came to Sweden from South Scotland around 1630. By the time of Fedor's birth, his family was established in L... | 6,133,510 |
55513705 | Scottish Russians | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scottish%20Russians | Scottish Russians
connected to the clan's Haddo branch. Alexander Gordon (1670–1752) was a general who fought under Peter the Great from 1696 to 1711 and for the Jacobites in the Jacobite rising of 1715. Gordon is mentioned as "Sandy Don" in the song, "Cam Ye O'er Frae France". He wrote a history of Peter the Great (in... | 6,133,511 |
55513705 | Scottish Russians | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scottish%20Russians | Scottish Russians
remain throughout Russia. He built the Blue, Green, Red and Potseluev bridges.
Foma Fomich Mekenzi (1740–1786) was a rear admiral who founded the city of Sevastopol in 1783. Of Scottish Catholic origin from the Clan Mackenzie, he was born in the spring of 1740 (two years after his parents' marriage).... | 6,133,512 |
55513705 | Scottish Russians | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scottish%20Russians | Scottish Russians
P. Dukes, 'North-east Scots in Muscovy in the seventeenth century' in Northern Scotland, vol. 1, no. 1, 1972
- L. Bittner and L. Gross, Reportorium der diplomatischen Vertreter aller lander, vol. 1, 1648–1715, Oldenburg and Berlin, 1936
- D. Fedosov, The Caledonian Connection, Aberdeen, 1996
- A.F.... | 6,133,513 |
55513705 | Scottish Russians | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scottish%20Russians | Scottish Russians
n Northern Scotland, vol. 1, no. 1, 1972
- L. Bittner and L. Gross, Reportorium der diplomatischen Vertreter aller lander, vol. 1, 1648–1715, Oldenburg and Berlin, 1936
- D. Fedosov, The Caledonian Connection, Aberdeen, 1996
- A.F. Steuart, Papers Relating to the Scots in Poland 1576–1793, Edinburg... | 6,133,514 |
55514144 | Christopher Tait | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christopher%20Tait | Christopher Tait
Christopher Tait
Christopher Tait, also known as Tait Nucleus?, is an American singer, songwriter and musician. He is best known as the synthesizer player of the rock band Electric Six. Although he was credited as an associate on "Fire", it wasn't until the band's lineup change in 2002 when he officia... | 6,133,515 |
55514144 | Christopher Tait | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christopher%20Tait | Christopher Tait
City" in 2008.
# Belle Ghoul.
Tait is a founding member of the band Belle Ghoul, started in 2011.
They released their first album "Rabbit's Moon & Doomsday" in 2014.
# Laser Destroyer Team.
Tait is a founding member of the band Laser Destroyer Team, started in 2014, alongside Keith Thompson (aka S... | 6,133,516 |
55514144 | Christopher Tait | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christopher%20Tait | Christopher Tait
Tait explained how the project started: "Passenger Recovery started basically from personal experience. So we bought this house in Detroit where travelling musicians can go to have a sober green room. There is recovery reading, chargers, coffee and most importantly peace and quiet.”
Passenger set out ... | 6,133,517 |
55514144 | Christopher Tait | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christopher%20Tait | Christopher Tait
his own personal experiences of addiction would mean the project worked for others finding themselves in a similar situation: "I’m not alone, and much as my ego would like me to be the only single “tortured artist” on the planet that’s ever dealt with this, I’m not. We’re everywhere [...] Our hope is t... | 6,133,518 |
55514099 | Wing–Allore House | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wing–Allore%20House | Wing–Allore House
Wing–Allore House
The Wing–Allore House is a funeral home located at 203 E. Elm Avenue in Monroe. The house was built as a private home, converted to a funeral home in the 1930s, and remains in business as the Allore Chapel of the Martenson Family of Funeral Homes. It was added to the National Regist... | 6,133,519 |
55514099 | Wing–Allore House | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wing–Allore%20House | Wing–Allore House
from 1825–29 and 1831-33. In 1828, Wing purchased the property on which this house now stands. It is uncertain when the house itself was constructed, but it could have been as early as 1829. Wing and his wife Harriet lived in the house until 1844, when they passed it on to their son, Talcott E. Wing. ... | 6,133,520 |
55514099 | Wing–Allore House | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wing–Allore%20House | Wing–Allore House
Historical Society in 1888 and 1889. Talcott Wing lived in this house until his death in 1890, and his estate sold in 1892.
Ellen J. Hall owned the house from 1892 to 1899, then sold it to nurseryman Theodore E. Ilgenfritz. Theodore was the son of Israel Ilgenfritz, a Monroe pioneer and nationally kn... | 6,133,521 |
55514099 | Wing–Allore House | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wing–Allore%20House | Wing–Allore House
and at the beginning of 1938 opened a mortuary. Later that year, Frank Weber, Eli Allore, and Gus Beam formed a partnership and purchased the house, reopening as the Allore, Beam and Weber Mortuary. Eli Allore, the driving force behind the firm, was born in 1907, and in 1925 joined Frank Weber's firm ... | 6,133,522 |
55514099 | Wing–Allore House | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wing–Allore%20House | Wing–Allore House
operated the business and lived in the apartment above the funeral home with his wife until 1994, when he retired and sold the firm. The Martenson Family Funeral Homes of Trenton, Michigan purchased the house and business in 1994, retaining the Allore name.
# Description.
The original part of the Wi... | 6,133,523 |
55514099 | Wing–Allore House | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wing–Allore%20House | Wing–Allore House
ve the funeral home with his wife until 1994, when he retired and sold the firm. The Martenson Family Funeral Homes of Trenton, Michigan purchased the house and business in 1994, retaining the Allore name.
# Description.
The original part of the Wing–Allore House, dating from approximately 1829, is ... | 6,133,524 |
55514120 | Thomas F. Holgate | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas%20F.%20Holgate | Thomas F. Holgate
Thomas F. Holgate
Thomas F. Holgate (April 8, 1859 - April 11, 1945) was a Canadian-born American mathematician and academic administrator. He served as the president of Northwestern University from 1904 to 1906, and from 1916 to 1919.
# Early life.
Thomas F. Holgate was born on April 8, 1859 in Ha... | 6,133,525 |
55514120 | Thomas F. Holgate | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas%20F.%20Holgate | Thomas F. Holgate
adian-born American mathematician and academic administrator. He served as the president of Northwestern University from 1904 to 1906, and from 1916 to 1919.
# Early life.
Thomas F. Holgate was born on April 8, 1859 in Hastings County, Canada. He graduated from the University of Toronto with a bache... | 6,133,526 |
55514166 | Gars | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gars | Gars
Gars
Gars or GARS may refer to:
# Places.
- Gars am Inn, a municipality Bavaria, Germany
- Gars Abbey, a monastery founded in 768 in Gars am Inn
- Gars, Alpes-Maritimes, a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France
- Gars am Kamp, a market town in the district of Horn in Lower Austria
... | 6,133,527 |
55514150 | Romesh Weerawardane | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Romesh%20Weerawardane | Romesh Weerawardane
Romesh Weerawardane
Romesh Weerawardane (born 22 October 1979) is a Sri Lankan chess player. Weerawardane was the first Sri Lankan to be an International Master. Weerawardane competed in two Chess Olympiads in 2010 and 2016, scoring 2/6 and 2.5/10 respectively. He serves as a FIDE Instructor.
Rome... | 6,133,528 |
55514150 | Romesh Weerawardane | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Romesh%20Weerawardane | Romesh Weerawardane
s in 2010 and 2016, scoring 2/6 and 2.5/10 respectively. He serves as a FIDE Instructor.
Romesh Weerawardane has also represented the national team in the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in 2013 and 2017. He won the Kalutara International Chess Festival tournament in 2014 and the Sri Lanka Gran... | 6,133,529 |
55514148 | Dishui Cave | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dishui%20Cave | Dishui Cave
Dishui Cave
Dishui Cave (), also known as Dishui Hole or Mount Dishui, is a mountain with many caves. It is regarded as a "pearl" of the landscape of Shaoshan. The mountain is the farthest end of the long valley of Shaoshan. The rocks of the valley have been worn into caves by the dripping water of a strea... | 6,133,530 |
55514148 | Dishui Cave | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dishui%20Cave | Dishui Cave
is the farthest end of the long valley of Shaoshan. The rocks of the valley have been worn into caves by the dripping water of a stream. The caves are close to Dishuidong Mountain, Longtoushan Mountain () on the south, the Huxieping Mountain () on the north and the Niuxingshan Mountain () at the back. There... | 6,133,531 |
55514080 | Operation Blue Bird | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Operation%20Blue%20Bird | Operation Blue Bird
Operation Blue Bird
"For the Indian National Security Forces Operation: Operation Bluebird"
Operation Blue Bird or "Force K" or "Operation K" was carried out by the Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionage (SDECE), a former French intelligence Agency, in 1956 during the second ye... | 6,133,532 |
55514080 | Operation Blue Bird | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Operation%20Blue%20Bird | Operation Blue Bird
in Kabylia called "Blue Bird" or "Force K" as in "Kabyle".
The operation is considered a failure, as during this time it saw the FLN gain increased funds, weapons, and manpower. Operation Blue Bird has was kept secret and is still largely unknown to the public in France and Algeria. Yves Courrière ... | 6,133,533 |
55514080 | Operation Blue Bird | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Operation%20Blue%20Bird | Operation Blue Bird
to take charge of the "counter-maquis" in coastal Kabylie, the proposal was initially rejected.
Soustelle obtained from General Lorillot, commander of the Tenth Military Region and his 2nd Bureau, an agreement for the launch of a counter-maquis operation. Captain Benedetti of the Operational Intell... | 6,133,534 |
55514080 | Operation Blue Bird | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Operation%20Blue%20Bird | Operation Blue Bird
experience of special missions, first left the police departments, manipulators of the undercover agent, the real key to the system.
The inspector of the DST Ousmeur, himself of Kabyle origin, on the order of his hierarchy comes into contact with Tahar Hachiche, one of his "obligés" of Azazga. The ... | 6,133,535 |
55514080 | Operation Blue Bird | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Operation%20Blue%20Bird | Operation Blue Bird
he reports to his friend, garage mechanic Mohamed Yazouren, friend of Said Mohammedi, who encouraged Krim Belkacem reluctant at first. They entrusted him with the organization and responsibility of the maneuver. On the ground, especially in Iflissen, Omar Toumi will take charge of the recruitment, a... | 6,133,536 |
55514080 | Operation Blue Bird | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Operation%20Blue%20Bird | Operation Blue Bird
executed, the van that delivered the newspaper L'Echo d'Alger brought the first weapons (muskets, Garand, Sten, shotguns), the corresponding ammunition and 2 million francs. Thus, 200 weapons of war are delivered in January 1956, 80 in February-March. The funds allocated by the Governor General amou... | 6,133,537 |
55514080 | Operation Blue Bird | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Operation%20Blue%20Bird | Operation Blue Bird
éret bleu »
- Camille Lacoste-Dujardin, Opération oiseau bleu. Des Kabyles, des ethnologues et la guerre d'Algérie., La Découverte, 1997, (). Dans un compte rendu dans la revue des Annales, le spécialiste de l'histoire coloniale Jacques Frémeaux déplore que le livre de Camille Lacoste-Dujardin ne p... | 6,133,538 |
55514019 | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gloucestershire%20Regiment%20on%20the%20Somme | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme
Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme
The Gloucestershire Regiment was formed in 1881 as a line infantry regiment of the British Army, and at the outbreak of World War I it comprised two regular battalions, three territorial battalions, and a reserve battalion. As the war progress... | 6,133,539 |
55514019 | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gloucestershire%20Regiment%20on%20the%20Somme | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme
through the German lines and restore mobile warfare to the Western Front, a stubborn defence by German forces in well-defended positions forced the British into a succession of battles and a lengthy war of attrition that was brought to a halt by bad weather on 18 November 1916.
Ni... | 6,133,540 |
55514019 | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gloucestershire%20Regiment%20on%20the%20Somme | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme
La Boiselle on the third day, and also the last when it was involved in the capture of Grandcourt on the final day of the offensive. In between, the various battalions of the regiment fought at Contalmaison, Bazentin-le-Petit, Ovillers, Pozières, the Leipzig Redoubt, High Wood, Gui... | 6,133,541 |
55514019 | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gloucestershire%20Regiment%20on%20the%20Somme | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme
restructured following the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907. At the outbreak of World War I in 1914 the fighting establishment of the Gloucestershire Regiment comprised two regular and three territorial battalions, supported by a home-based unit, the 3rd (Special Reserve) Ba... | 6,133,542 |
55514019 | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gloucestershire%20Regiment%20on%20the%20Somme | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme
Battalion, 144th Brigade, 48th Division
- 1/5th Battalion, 145th Brigade, 48th Division
- 1/6th Battalion, 144th Brigade, 48th Division
New army:
- 8th Battalion, 57th Brigade, 19th Division
- 10th Battalion, 1st Brigade, 1st Division
- 12th Battalion, 95th Brigade, 5th Divis... | 6,133,543 |
55514019 | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gloucestershire%20Regiment%20on%20the%20Somme | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme
and was in reserve during the Battle of Loos, but did not see any action. 10th Battalion arrived in France in August 1915, and had suffered very heavily as one of the assault battalions in the Battle of Loos. 12th Battalion arrived in France in December 1915, but had not been in ac... | 6,133,544 |
55514019 | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gloucestershire%20Regiment%20on%20the%20Somme | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme
the Battle of Verdun denuded French forces to such an extent that the Battle of the Somme became a predominantly British operation. The Somme had been a comparatively quiet sector, allowing the German 2nd Army ample time to prepare a defence in depth consisting of wide belts of wir... | 6,133,545 |
55514019 | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gloucestershire%20Regiment%20on%20the%20Somme | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme
through the second line between Poziéres and Ginchy, capture the German third line in the area Morval–Flers–Le Sars, and threaten Bapaume. General Rawlinson, commanding the Fourth Army, favoured a more limited 'bite and hold' approach based on artillery bombardment and limited tact... | 6,133,546 |
55514019 | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gloucestershire%20Regiment%20on%20the%20Somme | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme
and a lengthy war of attrition.
# Battle of Albert.
Battalions involved: 8th
The Battle of Albert (1–13 July 1916) was the opening battle of the Somme offensive, and in the Albert–Bapaume road sector 34th Division attacked towards the village of La Boiselle. Although some gains ... | 6,133,547 |
55514019 | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gloucestershire%20Regiment%20on%20the%20Somme | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme
8th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment and 10th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment, both from 57th Brigade, attacked from the west and north of La Boiselle and with 58th Brigade captured the rest of the village. Shortly after, a German counter-attack regained the eastern end, an... | 6,133,548 |
55514019 | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gloucestershire%20Regiment%20on%20the%20Somme | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme
relieved the next day, having suffered 6 officers killed, 14 wounded and 282 other ranks killed, wounded or missing. For his actions in averting a serious reverse at La Boisselle Lieutenant-Colonel de Wiart, attached to 8th Battalion from the 4th Dragoon Guards (Royal Irish), was a... | 6,133,549 |
55514019 | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gloucestershire%20Regiment%20on%20the%20Somme | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme
Army on the German second line from north of Contalmaison on the left flank to Longueval on the right. On the left of the attack the Reserve Army carried out subsidiary operations around Ovillers to divert attention from Fourth Army's attack. On 14 July, 34th Division advanced to j... | 6,133,550 |
55514019 | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gloucestershire%20Regiment%20on%20the%20Somme | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme
the ground in front of them was unoccupied, advanced the line some and occupied Contalmaison Villa. On the night of 16–17 July, 1st Battalion was part of an intricate attack by 3rd Brigade that occupied the German front-line and support trenches northwest of Bazentin-le-Petit Wood.... | 6,133,551 |
55514019 | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gloucestershire%20Regiment%20on%20the%20Somme | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme
on 16 July was 1/4th Battalion. For the next two days the battalion fought alongside 1/7th Worcesters to capture the German trenches west and northwest of Ovillers, while troops of the 25th Division captured Ovillers itself (on 17 July), at a cost to the 1/4th of 275 casualties. A ... | 6,133,552 |
55514019 | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gloucestershire%20Regiment%20on%20the%20Somme | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme
48th Division was engaged in pushing its line forward north and north-east of Ovillers. On 19 July, 1/5th Battalion went into the line north-east of the village, and the next day it was involved in a three-hour attack north-eastwards towards Pozières. The battalion suffered 115 cas... | 6,133,553 |
55514019 | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gloucestershire%20Regiment%20on%20the%20Somme | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme
of B Company took numerous casualties from machine-guns on both flanks, and the company was unable to reach its objective. Losses to the 1/6th in this action were 11 killed and 92 wounded or missing. In a letter to his mother, now held by the Regimental Museum, Captain L. Cameron N... | 6,133,554 |
55514019 | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gloucestershire%20Regiment%20on%20the%20Somme | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme
in me which ought not to be there & I am afraid I have done in your tunic. I am awfully sorry".
## Supporting the assault on Pozières.
The 1st Australian Division assault on Pozières began 00:30 on 23 July. In support on their left flank, 1/5th Battalion attacked north-eastwards ... | 6,133,555 |
55514019 | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gloucestershire%20Regiment%20on%20the%20Somme | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme
8 officers and 148 other ranks.
On the left of the 1/5th, 1/6th Battalion also attacked north-eastwards towards Pozières. The leading platoons of C and D Companies advanced to within of their objective, but were then cut down by machine-gun fire. The supporting troops of D Company... | 6,133,556 |
55514019 | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gloucestershire%20Regiment%20on%20the%20Somme | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme
and the attacks were halted at 05:00 when it was learned that the 1/6th attack had failed. One MC and four DCMs were awarded to men of 1/6th Battalion, mostly for acts of gallantry in rescuing the wounded.
On the Australians' right flank, 10th Battalion was part of the 1st Divisio... | 6,133,557 |
55514019 | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gloucestershire%20Regiment%20on%20the%20Somme | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme
on the Intermediate Trench. It was stopped by heavy machine-gun fire from High Wood with the loss of 14 officers, including Lieutenant-Colonel de Wiart with a gunshot wound to the neck, and 186 other ranks. CSM Fowles was awarded the MC for gallantry when he assumed command after t... | 6,133,558 |
55514019 | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gloucestershire%20Regiment%20on%20the%20Somme | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme
bombardment in this position until it was relieved on the 26th.
## Attacks on the Intermediate Trench.
On 30 July, 57th Brigade again attempted to take Intermediate Trench with an assault by all four battalions. The two right-hand battalions advanced close behind the barrage and ... | 6,133,559 |
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Australians pushed on from Pozières to attack Mouquet Farm, 10th Battalion was involved in two further attempts against the Intermediate Trench, on 17 and 19 August, but both attacks failed.
## Subsequent operations by the territorials.
After a three-week rest the territorials re... | 6,133,560 |
55514019 | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gloucestershire%20Regiment%20on%20the%20Somme | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme
some 74 all ranks, while the 1/5th lost 128 all ranks. By the end of 16 August all three territorial battalions were once again out of the line.
On 21 August, 1/4th Battalion relieved 11th Battalion Cheshire Regiment in the line south of the Leipzig Redoubt, preparatory to an assa... | 6,133,561 |
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thus reached their objective, A Company followed up and reinforced them. At 20:00 the next day the Germans began shelling the 1/4th positions, and from 22:00 they launched three separate counter-attacks, all of them repulsed. The C Company commander, Major Shellard, was awarded the... | 6,133,562 |
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the next day a German attack scattered one platoon of C Company and forced the Glosters back to the trenches they had taken over from the Warwicks two days previously. By 17:00, D Company had regained most of the ground lost by C Company, sometimes at the point of a bayonet. Four a... | 6,133,563 |
55514019 | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gloucestershire%20Regiment%20on%20the%20Somme | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme
across open ground up Nab Valley, south-west of Pole Trench, under cover of an artillery bombardment which some of the men of C Company ran into in their haste. Meanwhile, A Company advanced onto the objective via a communications trench, and was the only company to encounter any s... | 6,133,564 |
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to return. The wood was subject to numerous subsequent attacks, but was not taken until 15 September.
1st Battalion spent a week in the line near High Wood at the end of August during which time it endured the most intense shelling it experienced in the whole war. After three days... | 6,133,565 |
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was practically wiped out before the company reached the German second line, and on its right fierce fighting severely weakened B Company before it was eventually able to join A Company. Companies C and D following in support took many casualties, and only a few of these men made i... | 6,133,566 |
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in the action around High Wood were 5 officers killed and 8 wounded – amongst whom was the commanding officer Lieutenant-Colonel Pagan – and 84 other ranks killed and 122 wounded, leaving the battalion with just 4 officers and 96 other ranks fit for duty.
Later on 9 September, 10t... | 6,133,567 |
55514019 | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gloucestershire%20Regiment%20on%20the%20Somme | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme
12th
The village of Guillemont lay on the British right flank, close to the boundary with the French Sixth Army. The British Fourth Army had advanced close to the village in mid July during the Battle of Bazentin, but although several attacks in July and August pushed the front li... | 6,133,568 |
55514019 | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gloucestershire%20Regiment%20on%20the%20Somme | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme
again, alongside 1st Battalion Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, attacking on the right flank of 20th Division's assault on the village. The attack succeeded in occupying the German second line from Wedge Wood to the southeastern edge of Guillemont, but 13th Brigade's attack again... | 6,133,569 |
55514019 | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gloucestershire%20Regiment%20on%20the%20Somme | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme
2nd Lt. Fitzgerald for conspicuos gallantry in assuming command after all remaining officers of the four assaulting companies became casualties, and seven Military Medals (MM).
# Battle of Morval.
Battalions involved: 12th
On the night of 6–7 September, 5th Division was relieved... | 6,133,570 |
55514019 | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gloucestershire%20Regiment%20on%20the%20Somme | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme
Bouleaux Wood towards Combles. On their left, 1st Battalion East Surrey Regiment and 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment led 95th Brigade's attack towards Morval, and on their left was the 1st Cheshires of 15th Brigade. The East Surreys and Devonshires were supported by the Glosters'... | 6,133,571 |
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took the southern half of Morval, and just after 15:00 1st Cheshires rushed the northern half. The capture of Morval and the French capture of Fregicourt, east of Combles, had rendered the German position in Combles untenable, and the village was captured on 26 September.
# Operat... | 6,133,572 |
55514019 | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gloucestershire%20Regiment%20on%20the%20Somme | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme
face of the Schwaben Redoubt, and again on 21 October following a 116th Brigade attack on Stuff Trench. On 22 October, 19th Division moved to the Ancre sector to relieve the 25th Division, and two days later 8th Battalion moved into the front line around Stuff Redoubt. They were he... | 6,133,573 |
55514019 | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gloucestershire%20Regiment%20on%20the%20Somme | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme
10th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment across Battery Valley and into the south-western end of Grandcourt, though they were forced to abandon the village the next day. Casualties to the battalion numbered 12 officers and 283 other ranks. As a result of this action three MCs, th... | 6,133,574 |
55514019 | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gloucestershire%20Regiment%20on%20the%20Somme | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme
force. Before the offensive had even ended, the Germans began construction on new defensive positions, the Hindenburg Line, to the rear, to which they started withdrawing in March 1917.
There are no casualty figures specific to the Somme for the regiment, but the Commonwealth War ... | 6,133,575 |
55514019 | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gloucestershire%20Regiment%20on%20the%20Somme | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme
south of the Somme, and by February 1917 the territorials of 1/4th and 1/6th Battalions were in the front line north of Barleux, with 1/5th Battalion in reserve at Flaucourt. To their right, 1st Division, with 1st and 10th Battalions, took up positions south of Barleux. 8th Battali... | 6,133,576 |
55514019 | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gloucestershire%20Regiment%20on%20the%20Somme | Gloucestershire Regiment on the Somme
arleux. 8th Battalion spent the rest of 1916 out of the line at Gézaincourt, Beauval and Bayencourt, with spells in the trenches around Hébuterne and Courcelles in January and February 1917. In early October, 12th Battalion went with the 5th Division to the First Army on the Bethun... | 6,133,577 |
55514215 | Middlesex Greenway | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Middlesex%20Greenway | Middlesex Greenway
Middlesex Greenway
The Middlesex Greenway may refer to:
- The Middlesex Greenway (Middlesex), United Kingdom
- The Middlesex Greenway (New Jersey), United States | 6,133,578 |
55514156 | Apirat Kongsompong | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Apirat%20Kongsompong | Apirat Kongsompong
Apirat Kongsompong
Apirat Kongsompong (; ; born 23 March 1960) is the Commander in Chief of the Royal Thai Army effective 1 October 2018. He previously served as Assistant Commander in Chief from October 2017 to September 2018 and the Commanding General of the 1st Army Area from October 2016 to Sept... | 6,133,579 |
55514156 | Apirat Kongsompong | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Apirat%20Kongsompong | Apirat Kongsompong
Royal Thai Armed Forces, and Khunying Orachorn Kongsompong. He completed his primary and part of secondary education at St. Gabriel's College. He later attended the Armed Forces Academies Preparatory School (Class 20) and went on to attend Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy (Class 31) where he grad... | 6,133,580 |
55514156 | Apirat Kongsompong | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Apirat%20Kongsompong | Apirat Kongsompong
a commission as an army officer upon graduation from Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy in 1985. He served as a pilot at the Army Aviation Center at the beginning of his military career. He completed UH-1H Maintenance/Test Pilot Training at Fort Eustis, Virginia, USA. He also completed the AH-1H (C... | 6,133,581 |
55514156 | Apirat Kongsompong | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Apirat%20Kongsompong | Apirat Kongsompong
Infantry Regiment King's Guard. He served as the Commanding General of 11th Infantry Division in Chachoengsao Province. He went on to serve as the Commanding General of 15th Military Circle in Petchaburi Province. Apirat commanded 1st Division, King's Guard in Bangkok. He was later appointed the Comm... | 6,133,582 |
55514156 | Apirat Kongsompong | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Apirat%20Kongsompong | Apirat Kongsompong
Officer, 11th Infantry Regiment, King's Guard; Division Chief of Staff, 1st Division, King's Guard; Deputy Commanding General, 1st Division, King's Guard; and Deputy Commanding General, 1st Army Area.
Apirat's deployment experience includes anti-communist operations in 1986. He served as the Command... | 6,133,583 |
55514156 | Apirat Kongsompong | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Apirat%20Kongsompong | Apirat Kongsompong
of the east'), Apirat is known to have close ties with them.
Barely a month into his tenure as army chief, Apirat created a media firestorm with his comments on the necessity for military intervention in Thai politics should turmoil surface.
# Awards and decorations.
- Knight Grand Cordon (Special... | 6,133,584 |
55514193 | Robert Fisher (university president) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Fisher%20(university%20president) | Robert Fisher (university president)
Robert Fisher (university president)
Robert Fisher (born c. 1948) is an American academic administrator. He serves as the president of Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.. He is one of the highest paid university presidents in the United States.
# Early life.
Robert ... | 6,133,585 |
55514193 | Robert Fisher (university president) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Fisher%20(university%20president) | Robert Fisher (university president)
State University.
Fisher has served as the president of Belmont University since 2000. During his tenure, Fisher expanded the student body beyond the traditional pool of local residents. Enrollment also went from under 3,000 to over 8,000 between 2000 and 2017. He also oversaw the ... | 6,133,586 |
55514193 | Robert Fisher (university president) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Fisher%20(university%20president) | Robert Fisher (university president)
etween 2000 and 2017. He also oversaw the construction of the Curb Event Center and Beaman Student Life Center, the Gordon E. Inman Center, the Troutt Theater complex, and McWhorter Hall. In 2010, when a lesbian soccer coach was let go shortly after coming out, Fisher said sexual or... | 6,133,587 |
55514236 | Department of Women Affairs | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Department%20of%20Women%20Affairs | Department of Women Affairs
Department of Women Affairs
Department of Women Affairs is a government department responsible for the welfare of women in Bangladesh and is located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The department is head by Director General Shahin Ahmed Chowdhury.
# History.
The government of Bangladesh founded the... | 6,133,588 |
55514264 | Middlesex Greenway (Middlesex) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Middlesex%20Greenway%20(Middlesex) | Middlesex Greenway (Middlesex)
Middlesex Greenway (Middlesex)
The Middlesex Greenway is a long-distance walking route along the western and northern edges of the historic county of Middlesex, in the United Kingdom.
The route is 45 miles long and was devised by Stephen Collins, who walked it over two days in 1990.
Th... | 6,133,589 |
55514185 | Theatron-Festival | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theatron-Festival | Theatron-Festival
Theatron-Festival
The admission-free "Theatron" music festival in Munich has been held since the early 1970s and attracts more than 100,000 visitors annually. With the "MusicSommer" program in August 2000, the event achieved an entry in the 2002 Guinness World Records as the "longest continuous music... | 6,133,590 |
55514185 | Theatron-Festival | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theatron-Festival | Theatron-Festival
similar construction style of the ancient Greek theaters, the stage and event also received their names.
# History.
The actual initiator of the music event was Jürgen Birr aka "Anurakta", on his part a Sannyasa-follower, who already in the summer 1973, one year after the 12. Olympic summer games, sp... | 6,133,591 |
55514185 | Theatron-Festival | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theatron-Festival | Theatron-Festival
the band Sahara.
# Development.
The first concerts were still performed on the empty concrete surface. Over the years, a mobile stage system for the artists with a roof was added and the equipment became more professional. In addition to the interpreters, who mostly came from the regional area, ofte... | 6,133,592 |
55514185 | Theatron-Festival | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theatron-Festival | Theatron-Festival
, Ougenweide and Killerpilze. In 2004, Artur Silber handed over the event management to today's organizers Judith Becker and Antonio Seidemann, founder of EurArt.
As early as the beginning of the 1990s, the Theatron concerts, still known as "Theatron Rocksommer", took place all-day on Sunday. Through... | 6,133,593 |
55514185 | Theatron-Festival | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theatron-Festival | Theatron-Festival
the Rock House Association and the Media Center Munich of the JFF Institute. In addition to the support of the Munich Olympiapark GmbH, the event is also supported by other sponsors.
The audience of the "Theatron" has long been composed of all population groups and age groups. Many visitors still bri... | 6,133,594 |
55514185 | Theatron-Festival | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theatron-Festival | Theatron-Festival
been called "Theatron MusicSommer". The event takes place relatively simultaneously to the adjacent impark summer festival. For about a month, bands or singers of different musical genres and other artists perform every evening. Short films and other cultural programs also fill the stage program.
# T... | 6,133,595 |
55514185 | Theatron-Festival | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theatron-Festival | Theatron-Festival
every evening. Short films and other cultural programs also fill the stage program.
# Theatron PfingstFestival.
The three-day Pentecost festival has supplemented the summer event since the year 2000. In 2007 it was supported for the first time by the BR-Jugend- und Szenemagazin Zündfunk and belonged... | 6,133,596 |
55514226 | Wilful Murder (short story) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wilful%20Murder%20(short%20story) | Wilful Murder (short story)
Wilful Murder (short story)
"Wilful Murder" is a short story by E. W. Hornung, and features the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, and his companion and biographer, Bunny Manders. The story was first published as the fifth part of the collection "The Amateur Cracksman", published by Methuen & C... | 6,133,597 |
55514226 | Wilful Murder (short story) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wilful%20Murder%20(short%20story) | Wilful Murder (short story)
the emeralds; however, Baird seems to have deduced that the disguised Raffles is actually a gentleman. Baird secretly followed Raffles back to his artist's studio, though Raffles has shaken him off. Raffles and Bunny leave to the Albany.
On the way, in Bond Street, they pass by Jack Rutter,... | 6,133,598 |
55514226 | Wilful Murder (short story) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wilful%20Murder%20(short%20story) | Wilful Murder (short story)
another stop at the Albany, Raffles and Bunny take a train and walk to Baird's house in Kensal Rise. The house is highly barricaded. Raffles covers the spikes of a gate with corks and his coat, and both he and Bunny climb over. They see a light inside the house, and hear stairs creak. With B... | 6,133,599 |
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