• Brigadier Claude Nicholson, CB (2 July 1898 – 26 June 1943) was a British Army officer who fought in the First World War and commanded the defence at the...
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  • Claude Nicholson may refer to: Claude Nicholson (rugby league) (1892–1951), Australian rugby league player Claude Nicholson (British Army officer) (1898–1943)...
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  • Keightley Nicholson (1871–1937), British ecclesiastical stained-glass maker Arthur D. Nicholson, (1947–1985) U.S. Army officer Asenath Nicholson (1792–1855)...
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    was a senior British Army officer who saw service in both world wars. He is mainly remembered as the commander of the British First Army during Operation...
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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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  • Wilmot Williams, CB, CBE, MC (8 June 1910 – 2 November 1994) was a British Army officer who served in the Second World War and later commanded the 2nd Division...
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    Canadian economist Claude Moore (1875–1928), British army officer Claude Moraes (born 1965), British labor politician and campaigner Claude Moreau (born 1958)...
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  • Talbot, CB, CBE, DSO, MC (23 September 1908 – 27 June 1994) was a British Army officer. Educated at Tonbridge School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst...
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    last day in the post. Army officers occupying the post of Chief of the Defence Staff, the professional head of all the British Armed Forces, were usually...
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    was secretly working with the British, sending information to and receiving orders from Captain Peter Nicholson, an officer stationed at Ferozepur. According...
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  • generals in the British Army since the Acts of Union 1707. The rank of general (or full general to distinguish it from the lower general officer ranks) is the...
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    MI6 (redirect from Passport Control Officer)
    involving British intelligence officers in the Balkans. It was reported that several British spies operating in the region, including SIS officers stationed...
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    DSO, OBE (15 November 1915 – 4 November 1990) was a Scottish officer in the British Army and the founder and creator of the Special Air Service (SAS)...
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    Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Francis Claude White, Corps of Royal Engineers. 7383274 Lance-Corporal Lloyd Frederick George Whitehouse, Royal Army Medical...
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    Charles Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    GCB, GCVO, OBE, DL (born 17 November 1938) is a retired senior officer of the British Army who served as Chief of the General Staff from 1994 to 1997 and...
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  • SAS: Rogue Heroes (category Use British English from November 2022)
    Rogue Heroes is a British historical drama television series created by Steven Knight, which depicts the origins of the British Army Special Air Service...
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  • Canadian Militia (category Military units and formations of the Canadian Army)
    French Royal Army. While British North American colonies were expected to maintain a colonial militia, the militias were financed by the British government...
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    Bernard Montgomery (category British Army personnel of World War I)
    November 1887 – 24 March 1976), nicknamed "Monty", was a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War, the Irish War of Independence...
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    Land Forces, was a British Army Command established prior to the Second World War in Egypt. Its primary role was to command British land forces and co-ordinate...
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  • Woman Valda Aviks as Hair Crone Peter Polycarpou as Pimp Chris Key as Army Officer Jay Bryce and Rhididan Marc as Constables Tony Whittle as Farmer Graham...
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    India altogether, 40,160 British soldiers (including units of the British Army) and 5,362 officers. Fifty-four of the Bengal Army's 74 regular Native Infantry...
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    (1776–1838) in 1837. His proposal was to establish an Army Club, with all officers of Her Majesty's Army on full or half pay eligible for membership. However...
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    Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (category British Army personnel of World War I)
    was a senior officer of the British Army. He was Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), the professional head of the British Army, during the Second...
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    William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim (category British Army personnel of World War I)
    Fourteenth Army, the so-called "forgotten army" in the Burma campaign. After the war he became the first British officer who had served in the Indian Army to...
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    Siege of Calais (1940) (category Use British English from December 2017)
    of Cassel and Hazebrouck near Dunkirk. Nicholson sent the reply "The answer is no, as it is the British Army's duty to fight as well as it is the German's"...
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  • British Army of the Rhine. T/Major Donald Stanley Duke, Civil Assistant, War Office. Geoffrey William Arnold Dummer, Principal Scientific Officer, Telecommunications...
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  • Scottish professional soldier who rose to become a general in the British Army. As a young officer during the First World War, he displayed outstanding bravery...
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    Montagu Stopford (category British Army generals of World War II)
    KBE, DSO, MC, DL (16 November 1892 – 10 March 1971) was a senior British Army officer who fought during both the First and Second World Wars. The latter...
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    Dudley Clarke (category British Army Commandos officers)
    Wrangel Clarke, CB, CBE (27 April 1899 – 7 May 1974) was an officer in the British Army, known as a pioneer of military deception operations during the...
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    1778. James Nicholson of Virginia was the designated Senior Captain in the Navy for political reasons in October 1776. He was the senior officer in the navy...
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