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unusual facts about HMS ''Veteran''



Alfred Bartłomiej Peszke

Alfred Bartłomiej Peszke (born 14 December 1899, died 3 March 1966 in Croydon) was a Polish Air Force officer, infantry veteran of the Polish-Soviet War (1919-1921) and Air Force veteran of the September 1939 Campaign.

Ambleton Delight

Filmed exclusively in East Sussex, UK it is directed by Brighton and Hove based Daniel Parkes, based on a script by Japanese writer Itsuka Yamasaki and Ben Rohde, produced by Sinéad Ferguson and starring veteran Coronation Street actor Brian Capron.

Andreas Görlitz

Shortly after signing for Bayern, Görlitz made his debut for the Germany national team, appearing in the last five minutes of the 1–1 friendly with Brazil, on 8 September 2004; the following month, he assisted veteran Thomas Brdaric as the striker closed the score at 2–0, in another exhibition game, now with Iran.

Austin M. Knight

Born in Ware, Massachusetts to future American Civil War veteran Charles Sanford Knight and Cordelia Cutter Knight, Austin Melvin Knight was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy from Florida on June 30, 1869, graduating in 1873.

Babasaheb Bhosale

While he was suffering his sentence at Yerwada Central Jail, veteran freedom fighter late Tulsidas Jadhav was also suffering imprisonment for his role during the Indian freedom movement at the same prison.

Bellylove

Lisa Rae Black, a veteran of the Los Angeles music scene, recruited Valenta after the demise of her project featuring Barbi Von Greif, which was produced by Dave Rouse and Pierre de Beauport of the Rolling Stones' road crew.

Bolte

Charles L. Bolte (1895–1989), U.S. Army general and World War I and World War II veteran

Burkeville, Virginia

Polk Miller, renowned old time banjo-player, story-teller, veterinarian, and Confederate veteran; was born on a plantation just west of Burkeville in 1844.

Cuniberti

Vittorio Cuniberti, an Italian military officer who envisioned the concept of the all big gun battleship, best exemplified by HMS Dreadnought.

Davis Filfred

Davis Filfred is also a United States Marine Corps Veteran of the Persian Gulf War (1990–1991).

District of Columbia War Memorial

In September 2008, Rep. Ted Poe of Texas, with the support of Frank Buckles, then the last living US veteran of World War I, proposed a bill in Congress stating the memorial should be expanded and designated the national memorial to World War I.

Dorothy Mengering

In 1983, she married again, this time to Hans Mengering, a retired engineer and decorated World War II veteran.

Elie and Earlsferry

An unusual feature is the periscope from the submarine HMS Excalibur.

Harsh Mayar

The film was shot in Rajasthan in 2009 and he worked with debut director- Nila Madhab Panda and with veteran actor Gulshan Grover and comic actor Pitobash Tripathy.

HMS Iron Duke

HMS Duke of Wellington, a 131 gun first-rate ship of the line also named after the first Duke of Wellington

HMS K13

HMS K5 was lost with all hands in January 1921, also due to problems with the air intakes that ventilate the boiler rooms.

HMS M33

M33 next saw service, along with five other monitors (M23, M25, M27, M31 and HMS Humber), which were sent to Murmansk in 1919 to relieve the North Russian Expeditionary Force.

I Wish the Phone Would Ring

In addition to veteran members Jurado and Ann Curless, this was the first single released by Exposé to feature Kelly Moneymaker as a member of the group, since Gioia Bruno had departed in 1991 due to the discovery of a benign throat tumor.

James Carson

James S. Carson (1874–1960), American corporate executive and Spanish–American War veteran

Jamnagar

Cricket is a major sport in Jamnagar, and a number veteran, well-established, and emerging Indian test cricketers originate from Jamnagar; including vinu mankad, Salim Durrani, karsan ghavri, Indrajitsinhji, Ajay Jadeja and Ravindra Jadeja.

Japanese aircraft carrier Taihō

Taihō was then moved to Lingga Roads, a naval anchorage off Sumatra, where she joined veteran carriers Shokaku and Zuikaku in the First Carrier Division, First Mobile Force.

Jim Fannon

Fannon is a veteran real estate sales representative with RE/MAX in the St. Catharines area and is the founder of Nature’s Hemp, a local business selling hemp-related food products.

Joan Freeman

In 1962, Freeman was cast as Marilyn Hayes in the doom and gloom classic film, Panic in Year Zero! alongside veteran film stars Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, and singer teenage heart-throb Frankie Avalon.

John Epperson

In Winter 2004, Epperson (in a different drag role) played the role of the Wicked Stepmother in the New York City Opera's revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella in a cast with Eartha Kitt, Dick van Patten and fellow Wigstock veteran Renée Taylor.

John Reesor Williams

In 2005, veteran legislators Sean Conway and Bob Runciman both named Williams as the most boring speaker they had encountered in the course of their careers.

Justin Wilcox

After that loss Wilcox won three straight fights over David Douglas, Pride veteran Daisuke Nakamura and The Ultimate Fighter 13 alumni Shamar Bailey.

Ki-o-rahi

The men's team included 22-test All Black veteran Wayne Shelford who led the team to a 57-10 test win against Ki-o-Rahi Dieppe Organisation, the French Ki-o-Rahi federation.

Lauri Nurminen

Aarne Arvonen was believed to be the last Finnish Civil War veteran at death until Nurminen was found and verified as a veteran in 2010, nearly one year after his death.

Manuel Yan

(January 24, 1920 – December 5, 2008) was a Filipino soldier, World War II veteran and Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines from 1968 until 1972.

Michigan Stags

The team was composed of journeymen at best, with the exceptions of star left winger Marc Tardif, veteran Western leaguer Gary Veneruzzo and beleaguered ex-NHL goaltender Gerry Desjardins.

Morrisson

After producing several demos in the 90's, his earliest official releases were underground deep, soulful house tracks for veteran DJ/Producer Julius Papp on Julius' NeoDisco label.

Norman Augustus Finch

On 22/23 April 1918 at Zeebrugge, Belgium, Sergeant Finch was second in command of the pom-poms and Lewis gun in the foretop of HMS Vindictive.

Ocoee High School

The Marching Band has performed in the Cotton Bowl Music Festival, the Florida Citrus Parade, the Ikea Thanksgiving Parade, multiple Under Armour Football All-American Games that were broadcast on Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN), multiple Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parades at Universal Studios Florida, and the New York City Veteran's Day Parade.

Organization of the Air Service of the American Expeditionary Force

The Air Service, Second Army Air Service was activated on October 12 with Col. Frank P. Lahm as chief, and the Air Service, Third Army Air Service was created immediately after the armistice to provide aviation support to the army of occupation, primarily from veteran units transferred from the First Army Air Service.

Ovince St. Preux

Ovince returned to action less than a month after his win over Britt to fight UFC and Strikeforce veteran Benji Radach on the main card of Strikeforce: Henderson vs. Babalu II.

Patrick Keohane

Served with Edward "Teddy" Evans on HMS Talbot.

Priya Bapat

She played the role of the daughter of the main protagonist, Dinkar Bhosale, played by veteran Marathi actor, Sachin Khedekar.

Roger Neumann

Neumann's hard-driving arrangements for the Rather Large Band were executed by such veteran sidemen as Herman Riley, Bob Enevoldsen, Bob Hardaway, Herbie Harper and John Heard.

Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

In 2012, the campus is used for filming numerous scenes of Arnaud Desplechin's movie Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian (2013), which ultimately will be in competition at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, figuring the now vanished Winter Veteran Hospital of Topeka, Kansas.

Spofford Lake

On May 26, 1882, while on tour with a company organized by Clara Louise Kellogg, the 19-year-old classical pianist Herman Rietzel, already a concert veteran and considered to be well-launched on a promising career, joined George Conly, a bass singer with the company, for a pleasure outing on the lake.

Stan Storimans

Stanislaus N.I.M. (Stan) Storimans (January 8, 1969 Tilburg – August 12, 2008 Gori, Georgia) was a Dutch RTL TV veteran cameraman.

Ted Williams Tunnel

The tunnel is named after the former Boston Red Sox baseball player and U.S. Marine air corps veteran Ted Williams.

The 'Nam

Vietnam veteran Don Lomax, creator of the independent title Vietnam Journal, took over writing duties for The 'Nam in the early 1990s.

The Good Men Project

The for-profit arm of the Good Men Project, Good Men Media, Inc., was founded in March 2010 by Lisa Hickey, an advertising veteran and social media consultant.

The Power of the Dog

Keller has just begun his career as a DEA agent, coming over from operative work with the CIA, and a veteran of Viet Nam's Phoenix Program.

Tokyo Connection

Halcali, again, features many artists and producers throughout the album, such as: electrocore unit 80kidz, Shibuya-kei veteran Maki Nomiya (ex-Pizzicato Five) and Japanese Ska group Your Song Is Good as the backing band.

Vietnam: The Last Battle

Veteran Robert Muller, interviewed on China Beach, calls the war a lie and talks about his own belief of this soon after his landing there in 1965.

Vitaly Minakov

Minakov defeated UFC and Bellator veteran Eddie Sanchez on June 7, 2012 at Fight Nights - Battle of Moscow 7.

W. H. Clatworthy

Willard H. Clatworthy,(October 16, 1915 – February 15, 2010) was a professor emeritus from University at Buffalo and a World War II veteran from Williamsville, New York.

Wyre Piddle

It was the home village of Claude Choules, who was born in Pershore on 3 March 1901 and became the last surviving male veteran of World War I.


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