• William Holmes (1762–1834), M.D., J.P., was Surgeon-General to the British Forces in Canada; a magistrate and landowner at Quebec. Born at Stewartstown...
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    Lieutenant-General Sir William George Holmes KBE CB DSO & Bar (20 August 1892 – 16 January 1969) was a senior British Army officer who fought with distinction...
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  • Victoria Cross William Holmes (British Army medical officer) (1762–1834), Surgeon-General to the British Forces in Canada William Norman Holmes (1896–?), World...
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  • William Holmes (1779–1851), British politician William Holmes (British Army officer) (1892–1969), British general during the Second World War William...
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    British Army during the First World War fought the largest and most costly war in its long history. Unlike the French and German Armies, the British Army...
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    general officer rank or the rank of brigadier (together now recognized as starred officers) in the British Army, Royal Marines, British Indian Army or other...
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    prestigious medical schools of Paris, Holmes was granted his Doctor of Medicine degree from Harvard Medical School in 1836. He taught at Dartmouth Medical School...
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    The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed...
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    training its British officers at the Addiscombe Military Seminary. Promotion in the Company's army went strictly by seniority for both British and Indian...
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    At the start of 1939, the British Army was, as it traditionally always had been, a small volunteer professional army. At the beginning of the Second World...
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    responsibility of the British Army, which appointed a non-commissioned officer from the Gibraltar Regiment as Officer-in-Charge of the Apes. Holmes took over responsibility...
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    Marshal Sir William Robert Robertson, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, DSO (29 January 1860 – 12 February 1933) was a British Army officer who served as...
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    Sherlock Holmes (/ˈʃɜːrlɒk ˈhoʊmz/) is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a "consulting detective"...
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    The history of the British Army spans over three and a half centuries since its founding in 1660 and involves numerous European wars, colonial wars and...
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    1936) was a cavalry officer of the British Army, an amateur sportsman, and later Governor of Malta. After home service in Britain and Ireland his regiment...
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    The Indian Army during British rule, also referred to as the British Indian Army, was the main military force of the British Indian Empire until 1947...
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    Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, is subtitled Being a reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., Late of the Army Medical Department...
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  • Warrant Officer Class 2 Michael John Potts, Royal Army Medical Corps Warrant Officer Class 2 Prakash Rai, Royal Army Medical Corps Warrant Officer Class...
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    the 1946 New Year Honours The British Empire Medal (formally British Empire Medal for Meritorious Service) is a British medal awarded for meritorious...
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    metabolism, nutrition and general medical practice. In addition he was an inventor and published translator of poetry. William Holmes Crosby Jr. was born in Wheeling...
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    Nigel Bruce (category British Army personnel of World War I)
    subsequently medically evacuated to the United Kingdom, where he spent the rest of 1915 recovering in hospital. He was discharged from the British Army as medically...
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  • Sherlock, a British television series that started airing on BBC One in July 2010. The series is a contemporary adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes stories...
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    The British cavalry were the first British Army units to see action during the First World War. Captain Hornby of the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards...
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  • Indian Army Medical Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Arthur William Henry Field (103369), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. No. 6190175 Warrant Officer Class...
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    British Army came into being with the unification of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army...
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    This is a list of nicknames of regiments of the British Army. Many nicknames were used by successor regiments (following renaming or amalgamation). Contents...
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    William Daniel Leahy (/ˈleɪhiˌ ˈleɪ.i/) (6 May 1875 – 20 July 1959) was an American naval officer. The most senior United States military officer on active...
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  • Elizabeth's Own) Warrant Officer Class 1 Angus William Bartaby. Army Air Corps Major Andrew Martin Buckley. Royal Army Medical Corps Captain (Acting Major)...
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    of the British 7th Armoured Division". One of the first tasks undertaken by the Eighth Army, with X Corps (Lieutenant-General William Holmes) that had...
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  • Colonial Medical Service, Lady Medical Officer, Malaya. For services during internment. Captain William Anthony Casterton Smelt, Treasurer, British North...
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