wearer; it will be worn by each Officer and Enlisted Man of the Army whenever the field kit is worn; it will be suspended from the neck, underneath the clothing by means of a cord or thong passed through a small hole in the Tag; it is further described as being part of the uniform...
the war had ended and it was subsequently abandoned. Later in the 1920s, the French Army needed to replace theCanon d’Infanterie de 37 modèle 1916 Tir Rapide Puteaux(English: 37 mm model 1916 Puteaux Quick Firing Infantry Cannon ), which was...
During WW1, all South African volunteers to join the navy found themselves in the Royal Navy from 1914. It was only by the onset of World War 2 in 1940 that a South African Navy as we know it even started to take shape. Even in 1940, all the South African Navy could offer any ...
During the 1938-45 war, nearly all NZAOC soldiers who had been transferred to civilian roles in 1931 found themselves back in uniform, restarting their military careers as Ordnance Officers, Warrant Officers, and Senior Non-Commissioned Officers (SNCOs) alongside their peers who had been retained....
1898688 – BRAITHWAITE – Eustace Edward Adolphus Ricardo – British Guiana [Guyana] The online Oxford Dictionary of National Biography lists him as “Braithwaite, Eustace Edward Adolph Ricardo [known as E. R. Braithwaite]”, but he enlisted in the RAF as Eustace Adolphus Braithwaite, at Euston ...
I met Michael Manley of Jamaica in London, still in the uniform of the Royal Canadian Air Force and we became friends. Billy Strachan of Jamaica was a bomber pilot. Winston Racile and Gilbert Hubah came to England with me on the Strathall; they were both of East Indian origin and ...