The British Solomon Islands Protectorate Defence Force (BSIPDF) was a British Colonial Auxiliary Forces unit raised in the British Solomon Islands during...
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The British Solomon Islands Protectorate was first established in June 1893, when Captain Herbert Gibson of HMS Curacoa declared the southern Solomon Islands...
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Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons, is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 1000 smaller islands in Melanesia, part...
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Solomon Islands Protectorate Defence Force (1889-1946) Ceylon Defence Force: Regular force of British Ceylon (1881-1949) Citizens' Defence Force: A unit...
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Navy, 1944) Donald Gilbert Kennedy, New Zealand (British Solomon Islands Protectorate Defence Force, 1945) Seizō Kobayashi, Japan (Imperial Japanese Navy)...
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of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, the North Solomon Islands and the History of Bougainville. The human history of Solomon Islands begins with...
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islands till 1945, Imperial Japanese Army forces occupied the Solomon Islands where were the headquarters of the protectorate of the British Solomon Islands...
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fought Marine and British Solomon Islands Protectorate Defence Force patrols for the next two months until being wiped out. The island subsequently served...
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Donald Gilbert Kennedy (category British Solomon Islands Protectorate Defence Force officers)
administrator in the British colonial service in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony and the British Solomon Islands Protectorate. For his services as...
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Martin Clemens (category British Solomon Islands Protectorate Defence Force officers)
Pacific War, he volunteered for military service in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate Defence Force and was commissioned a captain. After a short leave...
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World War II by country (section Solomon Islands)
islanders enlisted in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate Defence Force, while another 3,000 worked as labourers in the Solomon Islands Labour Corps. The...
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Battle of the Tenaru (category 1942 in the Solomon Islands)
Martin Clemens, a coastwatcher and officer in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate Defence Force (BSIPDF), along with Allied intelligence from other...
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Fiji Guerrillas (category Solomon Islands in World War II)
Tongan and Solomon Islander servicemen, who served under the command of New Zealander and British Solomon Islands Protectorate Defence Force (BSIPDF) NCOs...
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David Trench (category British Solomon Islands Protectorate Defence Force officers)
fought in the Second World War and served in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate Defence Force from 1942 to 1946. For this, Trench was awarded the...
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1893 – The British Solomon Islands Protectorate was established and in 1899 encompassed the German Solomon Islands. 1922 – Protectorate constabulary...
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not a Crown Colony.) 1st Burma Division Arab Legion British Solomon Islands Protectorate Defence Force Fiji Infantry Regiment List of Indian divisions in...
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campaign began with the Japanese seizure of several areas in the British Solomon Islands and Bougainville, in the Territory of New Guinea, during the first...
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Ian Hogbin (category British Solomon Islands Protectorate Defence Force officers)
University of London. During World War II he served in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate Defence Force and later in the Australian Army in New Guinea as...
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BPP in the Solomon Islands unless the person would be stateless. The following year, the name of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate was changed...
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Jacob C. Vouza (category Solomon Islands Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
1892 – 15 March 1984) was a native police officer of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, who served with the United States Marine Corps in the Guadalcanal...
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German New Guinea (redirect from German Protectorate of New Guinea)
islands), and the North Solomon Islands were declared a German protectorate in 1885. The Caroline Islands, Palau, and the Mariana Islands (except for Guam)...
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Russell Islands, and Tulagi. It was established in 1942 and functioned until 1946. Others worked in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate Defence Force. Officially...
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supported the British military Solomon Islands Labour Corps, a civilian auxiliary of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate Defence Force during the Second...
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Islands (/ˈpɪtkɛərn/ PIT-kairn; Pitkern: Pitkern Ailen), officially Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, are a group of four volcanic islands...
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Autonomous Region of Bougainville (redirect from North Solomons Province)
country of Solomon Islands, formed the German Solomon Islands Protectorate, the geographical area later being referred to as the North Solomon Islands. Bougainville...
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Guadalcanal campaign (category 1942 in the Solomon Islands)
Martin Clemens, a coastwatcher officer in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate Defence Force and the British district officer for Guadalcanal, brought...
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statutory usage the British possessions include British Overseas Territories, and the Commonwealth realms but not protectorates. British admiralty law has...
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Cayman Islands – The Cayman Islands Regiment is the home defence unit of the Cayman Islands. It is a single territorial infantry battalion of the British Armed...
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Ellice Islands Nauru New Hebrides New Zealand Western Samoa Pitcairn Islands Solomon Islands Tonga Protectorate Ceylon India Maldives Protectorate Brunei...
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Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana (category 20th-century Solomon Islands people)
destroyer Amagiri near Plum Pudding Island on 1 August 1943. They were from the Western Province of the Solomon Islands. During World War II, Gasa and Kumana...
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