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the historian and geographer
Robin Donkin
served in
Egypt
and
Jordan
as a
lieutenant
in the
Royal Artillery
?
George Hammond Whalley
, a
British Member of Parliament
, once claimed that the
Pope
had taken control of the
Royal Artillery
?
Napoleonic Wars
military historian
Ramsay Weston Phipps
helped to blow up the docks at the
Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855)
when he was a young
Royal Artillery
lieutenant?
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anthropologist
Ursula Graham Bower
fought for the
British Army
as a
guerrilla
with the
Naga people
during
World War II
?
British Army
officer
Sir William Horrocks
confirmed
Sir David Bruce
's theory that
Malta fever
was spread through
goat
's
milk
?
army officer
and
M.P.
William Hacket Pain
was involved in planning and organising the
Larne Gun Running
operation, which helped to arm the
Ulster Volunteers
during the
Home Rule crisis of 1912
?
English
clergyman
Ralph Tollemache
gave his many children increasingly
eccentric
names, such as that of
British Army
officer Captain
Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache
?
Khalid bin Barghash
fought a
38-minute war
with the
British
during his two-day rule as
Sultan of Zanzibar
?
Major-General
John Hill
rose high as a
courtier
and officer in the
British Army
in the reign of
Queen Anne
, becoming
Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance
despite having no particular military ability?
military historian
and
Purdue
professor
Gunther E. Rothenberg
escaped the
Nazis
and served in the
British Army
, the
Israel Defense Force
, and the
US Air Force
before attending college on the
GI Bill
?
paramilitary
loyalist
Tommy Herron
declared war on the
British Army
, but called it off after two days?
Phoebe Hessel
, who
masqueraded as a man
for 17 years to fight in the
British Army
alongside her husband, is buried in the
churchyard
at
St. Nicholas Church, Brighton
,
England
?
World War II
RAAF
fighter ace
John Waddy
later became a
Minister of the Crown
, while
British Army
paratrooper
John Waddy
went on to command the
SAS
?
Corps of Royal Engineers
the
Brighton Forum
, a
serviced office
complex in
Brighton
, England, was used to train
Anglican
schoolmistresses before being
requisitioned
for the
Royal Engineers
'
wartime
use?
the
Royal Columbian Hospital
, the oldest
hospital
in
British Columbia
, was built in
1862
during a
Gold Rush
for $3,396 by the
Corps of Royal Engineers
and a
chain gang
?
Royal Corps of Signals
the
City of London Yeomanry
was a regiment of the British
Territorial Army
which served at various times as a
cavalry
,
infantry
,
artillery
,
anti-aircraft
, and
armoured
unit, and now forms a
squadron
of the
Royal Corps of Signals
?
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