My earliest recollection of the vagaries of military travel was my father’s homecoming on leave during the winter of 1940/41. Father, who had worked in the family building business for some 10 years, had enlisted in the Territorial Army in 1939, and hoping that his experience in the const...
Appearing before a committee of MPs earlier this month, Lieutenant General Sharon Nesmith, deputy chief of the general staff, spoke about the army's plans to modernise, which were set out in 2021 as part of a body of work that was done in line with the government's inte...
United Kingdom (1942-1943) Semi-Amphibious Cargo Vehicle – 3 Prototypes Built The Hexonaut’s story began between 1942 and 1943. Operating in Burma (now Myanmar) during the Second World War, the British ‘Forgotten Army’ – the 14th Army – had as much of an enemy in the harsh ...
During his time in uniform he commanded a variety of supply and transport units in the UK, Germany and on operations in Northern Ireland, the Balkans and the Middle East. He served on the staff of the quartermaster general and the Defence Logistics Organisation, managing support to a variety ...
The French considered Grant to be dangerous and, to all intents and purposes, a spy to be dealt with by the police, not the army.Grant saw a copy of this letter and decided that it made his agreement to parole worthless. He escaped and passed himself off as an American officer, ...
Sir Douglas Haig is an underrated commander, partly because to regain the initiative was virtually impossible when he succeeded to the command, partly because the subordinate generals, his instruments, were not, with few exceptions, of high rofessional calibre, partly because the citizen army had ...
In addition, the Turks and the Hispanic US Army prisoners discovered marijuana plants growing wild on the mountainsides when out on wood-foraging expeditions, and at least some of the British took up the habit of smoking the dried leaves. This was frowned on by some of the camp staff, but...
18.12.1942 - 1945 transferred, Glider Pilot Regiment - Army Air Corps 1943 - 1944 General Staff Officer 3rd grade (GSO3) (Intelligence), 1st Airborne Division (North Africa, Italy & Arnhem [wounded]) 1945 General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), 44th Airborne Division (India) Ministry of...
similar to the British Indian Army soldier in 1940s during the Hur uprising. A judge of the highest court in Pakistan notes that there was uniform precedence and similarity in the behaviour and verdict of Supreme Court judges in dealing with petitions of dismissed Prime Ministers belonging to ...
ve mutually agreed to uphold. In his office, I’d noticed a copy ofSoul Fuel for Young Explorers, a best-selling, adventure-themed devotional written by the explorer Bear Grylls. Before he was a teacher, Potts was indeed briefly in the army and still serves as a volunteer cadet. He is...