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unusual facts about Lance Corporal



Ben Roberts-Smith

On 31 May 2006, Lance Corporal Roberts-Smith was employed as a patrol scout and sniper that was tasked with establishing an observation post near the Chora Pass in Oruzgan Province, Afghanistan.

Ian Upjohn

As a university student Upjohn joined the Melbourne University Regiment, achieving the rank of Lance Corporal before undertaking the Herring Course for first appointment as a commissioned officer.

Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune

Murder of Maria Lauterbach, a Lance Corporal stationed at Camp Lejeune who was murdered in December 2007.

Nils Olav

Nils Olav was given the rank of visekorporal (lance corporal) and has been promoted each time the King's Guard has returned to the tattoo.

Obergefreiter

The NATO-Code is OR-3 which would make Obergefreiter the equivalent to Private / Airman / Seaman First Class in most forces or, e.g., Lance Corporal in the Australian/New Zealand Forces.

Salma Yaqoob

At a Birmingham City Council meeting in early February 2011, Yaqoob and another Respect party councillor, Mohammed Ishtiaq, sat with their arms folded and refused to participate in a standing ovation at a meeting at which Britain's most highly decorated serving marine and Afghanistan veteran Lance Corporal Matthew Croucher, GC, RMR was a guest.

Springer, New Mexico

There is also a marker honoring Lance Corporal Chad Robert Hildebrandt (October 12, 1983—October 17, 2005), the first casualty in the Iraq War from Springer.

William Poy

He served with The Royal Hong Kong Regiment (the Volunteers) during World War II as Lance Corporal messenger and worked for the Canadian Trade Commission in Hong Kong.


see also

Amarah

The books Sniper One by Sergeant Daniel Mills, Dusty Warriors by Richard Holmes and Barefoot Soldier by Lance Corporal Johnson Beharry VC all contain very good accounts on the events in Al Amarah during this period.

George Onions

On 22 August 1918 south of Achiet-le-Petit, France, Lance-Corporal Onions, having been sent out with one man to get in touch with the battalion on the right flank, saw the enemy advancing in large numbers.

Henry Eric Harden

Lance-Corporal Harden's final resting place is in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery at Nederweert, Limburg, the Netherlands.

Ian Malone

The removal of Lance Corporal Malone's body to a Catholic church in Ballyfermot was attended by hundreds of people, including Charlie O'Connor, a local TD, whose father had served in the Irish Guards.

Joel Nash

He was then asked by members of that performance to join a local theatre group as Lance-Corporal Clive Winton in the English farce, See How They Run by Philip King.

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.

National Intelligence Medal for Valor

The medal was first awarded on 14 November 2008, to Marine Corps Lance Corporal James E. Swain, who died 15 November 2004, of wounds received while serving as a Marine Corps intelligence analyst during the Battle of Fallujah in Iraq.

Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

Northern Ireland international footballer Maik Taylor was a lance corporal before going into professional football and his father was a staff sergeant.

William Henry Metcalf

On 2 September 1918 at Arras, France, when the right flank of the battalion was held up, Lance-Corporal Metcalf rushed forward under intense machine-gun fire to a passing tank and with his signal flag walked in front of the tank directing it along the trench in a perfect hail of bullets and bombs.