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  • Thumbnail for Tom Phillips (Royal Navy officer)
    Vaughan Phillips, KCB (19 February 1888 – 10 December 1941) was a Royal Navy officer who served during the First and Second World Wars. He was nicknamed "Tom...
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    Viscount Howe, his second-in-command, in a skirmish on 7 July while reconnoitring, he directed his troops on 8 July into a frontal assault on a fortified...
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  • Thumbnail for Lewis Barker (Australian Army officer)
    DSO, MC (5 May 1895 – 13 December 1981) was a career Australian Army officer, who saw distinguished service in both of the world wars. Lewis Barker...
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    the army. On 2 September 1918 south west of Etaing, France, a patrol reconnoitring on the west bank of a river sighted an enemy machine-gun on the east...
    5 KB (522 words) - 23:48, 31 August 2024
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    Brett Cloutman (category Officers' Training Corps officers)
    on the 6th November, 1918, at Pont-sur-Sambre. Maj. Cloutman, after reconnoitring the river crossings, found the Quartes Bridge almost intact but prepared...
    8 KB (738 words) - 04:56, 29 August 2024
  • Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Bickerdyke, along with Sergeant Ian McKay, a signaller and several other paratroopers went forward to reconnoitre the enemy...
    8 KB (908 words) - 23:25, 26 September 2024
  • January Herring and his pilot Lieutenant Hugh William Elliott, were reconnoitring enemy positions over Sequehart when they were attacked by Leutnant Heinrich...
    8 KB (789 words) - 11:39, 7 August 2024
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    George Moor (category British Militia officers)
    vanguard came to a standstill. Lieut. Moor, Acting General Staff Officer, who was reconnoitring the front, noticed this; he immediately took charge, and by...
    8 KB (790 words) - 22:16, 7 September 2024
  • Harry Godfrey Massy-Miles (category Royal Army Medical Corps officers)
    showed great initiative in establishing forward regimental aid posts, reconnoitring their sites beforehand under heavy hostile shell fire, thus greatly...
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    one of his horses was killed and another wounded under him. Shaw's reconnoitring skill and tactical judgment was of the greatest assistance to Alten...
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    the approbation of Sir Thomas Graham and Sir Henry Wellesley. Whilst reconnoitring the marshy stations, he was frequently obliged to strip, and swim from...
    25 KB (3,300 words) - 19:09, 1 September 2024
  • April after having been bombed twice en route. After spending the day reconnoitring the coastline, at 4:15 am on 30 April, Seraph surfaced. Jewell had the...
    63 KB (8,043 words) - 20:45, 29 October 2024
  • Korea's Korean People's Navy repeatedly enters South Korean waters to reconnoitre and survey the ROK Navy's patrolling tactics and defensive measures....
    15 KB (1,376 words) - 08:54, 27 October 2024
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    Major General Vaughan Cox. Holmes continued his habit of personally reconnoitring every part of his line. On 31 March 1917, he paid a daylight visit to...
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  • subaltern, took over both troops and led the left prong of the attack. Reconnoitring ahead of his men, he was wounded in the neck and then hit in the back...
    7 KB (872 words) - 03:30, 12 August 2024
  • Taylor, CBE, DSO & Bar (17 September 1905 – 17 July 1994) was a senior officer in the British Army. Taylor was commissioned into the West Yorkshire Regiment...
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    Lord Henry Percy (category Grenadier Guards officers)
    Manvers Percy, VC, KCB (22 August 1817 – 3 December 1877) was a British Army officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry...
    14 KB (1,638 words) - 23:52, 9 May 2023
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    General and retaliatory action against English shipping). In addition to reconnoitring the coast and the mouth of the Gambia, Holmes constructed a fort there...
    28 KB (3,411 words) - 19:35, 31 October 2024
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    to proceed to the Natal frontier. On 11 October 1899, while he was reconnoitring the Natal frontier, De Wet was elected vice-commandant of Heilbron....
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    people hostage, including embassy staff, several visitors, and a police officer who had been guarding the embassy. They demanded the release of prisoners...
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