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    A Chelsea Pensioner, or In-Pensioner, is a resident at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, an Old Soldiers' retirement home and nursing home for former members...
    14 KB (1,552 words) - 21:13, 26 September 2024
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    Archive 2005 – MILAVIA Military Aviation News". "Rotor & Wing". www.aviationtoday.com. Archived from the original on 15 May 2004. Army Pensioner Blog...
    8 KB (789 words) - 14:38, 25 April 2024
  • into the British Army for a 21 year engagement, following which (should he survive so long) he was discharged as a Pensioner. Pensioners were sometimes...
    18 KB (2,336 words) - 12:14, 16 September 2024
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    grandfather, William Prendergast, who lost an arm in Pamplona, was an army pensioner who was reported to have died insane. His mother had "repeated attacks...
    13 KB (1,501 words) - 19:23, 18 August 2024
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    Until 17 March 1834, they were known as The Honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners. The corps was formed as the Troop of Gentlemen in 1509 by King Henry...
    10 KB (990 words) - 04:37, 29 July 2024
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    into the British Army for a 21-year engagement, following which (should he survive so long) he was discharged as a Pensioner. Pensioners were sometimes...
    160 KB (14,821 words) - 15:18, 18 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for George Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon
    estoiles and in base a portcullis chained Or. Supporters Dexter an army pensioner in hospital uniform sinister a postman holding with the exterior hand...
    8 KB (306 words) - 06:25, 29 August 2024
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    the Guard and the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, or "gentlemen pensioners", and a few locally raised companies to garrison important places such...
    31 KB (3,439 words) - 00:17, 18 September 2024
  • Alts was an Irish secret society allegedly named after a Protestant army pensioner. The Terry Alts was one of many clandestine societies founded in Ireland...
    2 KB (217 words) - 04:24, 31 July 2023
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    from India on the ship Alfred. Back in Liverpool Connolly was now an army pensioner. He lodged with Thomas and Catherine Burrows at 124 Upper Mann Street...
    10 KB (1,365 words) - 23:49, 31 August 2024
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    The Pensioner Guards were English military personnel who served on convict transportation ships en route to colonial Western Australia between 1850 and...
    15 KB (1,587 words) - 15:09, 26 May 2024
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    translator. Scaffolding was built for his hanging in December, and an army pensioner was paid $50 to act as the hangman. Local Indigenous Chiefs were also...
    101 KB (8,788 words) - 20:50, 22 September 2024
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    A Greenwich Pensioner was the Naval equivalent of a Chelsea Pensioner. Although the initial concept of a Greenwich pensioner was that of someone living...
    10 KB (949 words) - 10:26, 4 August 2024
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    estoiles and in base a portcullis chained Or. Supporters Dexter an army pensioner in hospital uniform sinister a postman holding with the exterior hand...
    2 KB (167 words) - 17:00, 12 December 2023
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    Colin Thackery (category Chelsea Pensioners)
    posted in Hong Kong. After retiring from the Army he joined a local operatic society. A Chelsea Pensioner, he lives in the Royal Hospital Chelsea, where...
    5 KB (300 words) - 11:27, 9 March 2024
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    Francis Turnley — landlord of the town at the time. Dan McBride, an army pensioner, was given the job of permanent garrison and was armed with one musket...
    14 KB (1,466 words) - 16:52, 25 September 2024
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    Royal Hospital Chelsea (category Army museums in London)
    provide care and accommodation for veterans. Residents are known as Chelsea Pensioners. The gardens of the Royal Hospital are Grade II listed on the Register...
    29 KB (3,117 words) - 17:08, 12 September 2024
  • position as Medical Officer to the Pensioner Settlements, having previously served as an Assistant Surveyor in the British army in India. He retired to England...
    2 KB (119 words) - 05:51, 14 April 2022
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    difficulty adjusting to civilian life are among the army's reasons for financing its pensioners and reservists. Temporary military personnel are part...
    230 KB (24,008 words) - 15:03, 3 October 2024
  • first child Mary Kate and lived with and a boarder who was a widowed army pensioner. They emigrated to Boston in 1904. Patrick Crowe died suddenly on 29...
    16 KB (1,737 words) - 22:48, 18 April 2024
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