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5 unusual facts about Hamel


Charles Sackville-West, 4th Baron Sackville

Within days of this posting however Sackville-West was wounded in the jaw when a high-explosive shell detonated in the midst of his command group as he inspected the trenches in front of Hamel.

Cregagh

Some of the streets in Cregagh are named after Second World War generals (e.g. Montgomery, Alanbrooke) while a significant number are named after First World War battlefields (e.g. Picardy, Hamel).

Geoffrey Cather

As a 25-year-old lieutenant in the 9th Battalion, The Royal Irish Fusiliers, he was awarded the VC for his actions on 1 July 1916 near Hamel, France.

John Hopley

He survived the war and received a DSO "for conspicuous gallantry in action" at Beaumont-Hamel in 1916.

John Lavarack

By December 1917, Lavarack was a Lieutenant Colonel and General Staff Officer, 1st grade in the Australian 4th Division, and took part in battles at Dernancourt, Villers-Bretonneux, Hamel and Amiens, with Lavarack's hand in planning for the Battle of Hamel setting the stage for several subsequent Australian victories.


Alan Hamel

Somers recently made the news by declaring on The View that she and Hamel have sex several times a day.

In the late 1970s, he hosted The Alan Hamel Show, a popular daytime talk show on Canadian TV, and was the television spokesman for the Alpha Beta grocery stores in California and its sister chain Acme in the Northeast.

Baltasar Anduaga y Espinosa

He translated and edited the works of Jeremy Bentham in fourteen volumes between 1841 and 1843, as well as the two volume Una Historia Constitucional de la Monarquía Española (A Constitutional History of the Spanish Monarchy) by Frenchman Victor du Hamel, published in France in 1845.

County roads in Hennepin County, Minnesota

County Road 116 begins at Hamel Road (County 115) in Medina, then passes through Corcoran to Territorial Road in the unincorporated town of Fletcher, then follows Territorial Road to the Wright County line at the Crow River, where it becomes Wright County Road 22.

Denis de Belleval

In September 1980, de Belleval announced that the Quebec government had purchased an eleven per cent stake in the Nordair airline and was supporting efforts from a group led by Quebecair president Alfred Hamel to purchase Nordair from Air Canada.

Gustav Hamel

In the exploit for which he is best remembered, Hamel flew a Blériot on Saturday 9 September 1911, covering the 21 miles between Hendon and Windsor in 18 minutes (took off at 4:55pm and arrived at 5:13pm) to deliver the first official airmail to the Postmaster General.

Heinz Hämel

After the Armistice was signed the SS Regiment Germania at first remained in France then moved to Holland as part of the occupying forces, then in late 1940 SS Regiment Germania was used as the basis of a new SS Division SS Division Wiking so Hämel found himself in Munich helping to form and train the new Division.

Hendrick Hamel

In 1666, after thirteen years (during the reign of Hyeonjong of Joseon, 1659–1674) of what then had become imprisonment, eight men including Hamel were able to escape.

Illinois Route 150

SBI Route 150 originally ran from the U.S. 51/60/62 bridges south of Cairo north to Hamel (located northeast of Saint Louis, Missouri) on what is now Illinois Route 3, the portion of Illinois 150 from Chester to Steeleville, and Illinois Route 4.

Infinite-dimensional vector function

Moreover, for any set A, there exist infinite-dimensional vector spaces having the (Hamel) dimension of the cardinality of A (e.g., the space of functions A\rightarrow K with finitely-many nonzero elements, where K is the desired field of scalars).

Laurence Whalen

Private law practice in Washington, D.C., with Hamel and Park (now Hopkins, Sutter, Hamel and Park), 1977-84; also in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with Crowe & Dunlevy, 1984-87.

Murray Hammick

(1890-1968), engineering degree Camb, Major in 6th Bn Manchester Regt in Great War, Chief Engineer Iraqi Petroleum Company, Petroleum Warfare Department in Second War, co-inventor of HAMEL PLUTO D-Day pipeline system, Lance Corporal Home Guard.

Philippe Hamel

Philippe Hamel (October 12, 1884 – January 22, 1954) was a nationalist and progressive politician in Quebec, Canada.

Progressive-Sounds

Founded by Chad Harnish and Simon "Progsounds" Jones, the site has featured hundreds of single and album reviews, including occasional guest reviews by artists and DJs such as Bill Hamel and Jonathan Lisle.

Théophile Hamel

Hamel's paternal ancestry can be traced to French immigrant Jean Hamel, who arrived in New France from Avremesnil (Normandy) in 1656.


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