Public records (Maintenance and repairThe article discusses the joint project of the British National Archives and the Ancestry.co.uk where service and pension records of 2.5 million soldiers of the British army of World War 1 will be available on the Internet. These historic war records are of...
joined the Territorial Army giving a false age. Called up in 1939 I found myself for a short time riding a bike commandeered from my firm. Being too young(even with my false age) to be sent abroad, was posted to another transport unit and was in Manchester until 1941 including the blit...
Two things are well known about Powell and Pressburger’s 1943 epic about the life of an old-fashioned ex-army officer serving in the Home Guard during World War II: Churchill disliked the whole idea of it, and may have thought it was about him, and the Blimp character, over-fed and ...
Previously, he held chairs in both the US and the UK, including as Major General Matthew C Horner Distinguished Professor of Military Theory at the US Marine Corps University, Quantico, Virginia. He was Chairman of the Council of the UK Army Records Society from 2001 to 2014. His previous ...
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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 ...
作者:Cannon, Richard 页数:118 定价:$ 22.32 ISBN:9781178565164 豆瓣评分 目前无人评价 评价: 写笔记 写书评 加入购书单 分享到 内容简介· ··· This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, erra...
As Marcus Rediker notes ‘it took a small army of workers to build a slave ship, especially one of average size, two hundred tons’.[8] Lancaster’s ropemakers, joiners, anchorsmiths and sailmakers, would have all played a role in making and fitting out the ‘Trafalgar’. The hive of...
This Week in London – Life in the Roman army explored; clockwork treasures from China; and, Kew Gardens’ Orchid Festival… February 1, 2024 •A major new exhibition on life as a Roman legionary opens at the British Museum today.Legion: Life in the Roman armyshares stories of real legi...
would have understood the significance of the final sentence: ‘His Excellency thinks that he should be watched and brought to the notice of the police’. 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. ...