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After the First World War, the 66th Punjabis were grouped with the 62nd, 76th, 82nd and 84th Punjabis, and the 1st Brahmans to form the 1st Punjab Regiment in 1922.
Examples include Girls and Airplanes (gender equality), Green Hand (supporting troops post-war), Swastika (Holocaust denial), 25 (imbalance in economic status), and Second Class Citizen (prejudice and intolerance toward the gay community).
Illowra Battery otherwise known as Hill 60, is a World War II fortification, in Port Kembla, New South Wales
Laurence Marvin, "The Occitan War: A Military and Political History of the Albigensian Crusade, 1209-1218", Berry College: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 175-195.
An expanded Brigade group called Habforce had during the Anglo-Iraqi war advanced across the desert from Trans-Jordan to relieve the British garrison at RAF Habbaniya on the Euphrates River and had then assisted in the taking of Baghdad.
Benjamin Alvord, Jr. (1860–1927), son of the above, American soldier, U.S. general during World War I
The 'Ares' nickname came from his days of playing the Dungeons & Dragons role playing game, where his character was called 'Ares' (also known as the Olympian God of War).
His first American Civil War book, Brother Again Brother: The Lost Civil War Diary of Lt. Edmund Halsey (Citadel Press, 1997), was followed by the dual biography of the Civil War’s leaders, Two American Presidents: Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, 1861 1865 (Citadel, 1999), a finalist for the Lincoln Prize.
After the war, the couple remained in the city, where Helen Pearl Adam met the writer Jean Rhys, allowing her to live in the Adams' flat, editing Rhys’ first novel, Triple Sec, and introducing her to Ford Maddox Brown.
He is next heard of in the winter of 114/115, during Trajan’s Parthian war, commanding Legio VI Ferrata, which according to a fragment of the Parthica of Arrian he marched in deep snow (having secured snowshoes from native guides) across the Armenian Taurus to get to Tigranakert.
On 29 December 1808, he was taken prisoner in the action of Benavente by the British cavalry under Henry Paget (later Lord Uxbridge, and subsequently Marquess of Anglesey).
Syria's Terrorist War on Lebanon and the Peace Process,no that was no Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, p. 67.
He worked there for almost five years, during which time he covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the aftermath of the War in Lebanon, and the Arab Spring.
George Edwin Ellison (1878–1918), the last British soldier to be killed in the First World War
After the war Reinefarth became the mayor of the town of Westerland and member of the Schleswig-Holstein Landtag.
The pre-war operation of the station and the branch line features in a pivotal scene in Geoffrey Household's novel Rogue Male, when the pursuit of the protagonist by enemy agents sees them repeatedly using the station's escalators, passageways and the shuttle service.
Honor Bound series, a series of World War II thriller novels written by W.E.B. Griffin
In 1282, war with Wales broke out again; this time it would not be simply a punitive campaign, but a full-scale war of conquest.
According to Hulu, "Over 14 dreadful years between 1932 and 1945, Japan went on a rampage of war and atrocity beyond comprehension."
During the waning months of World War II, as the Soviet army advanced into Silesia and encircled Fortress (Festung) Breslau, Hanke was named by Hitler to be the city's "Battle Commander" (Kampfkommandant).
General Kouprasith Abhay, also known by his nickname 'Fat K', was a Laotian military and political figure from the Vietnam War, also designated the Second Indochina War.
In 1989 she produced I Am the Future, a film about a young woman (played by Stella Chiweshe) who travels to the big city to escape Zimbabwe's independence war in the rural areas.
“The CCP was not merely a vanguard party, but for a long time a revolutionary party. Even after the end of the civil war, the CCP continued to think of itself as outside the apparatus.” Therefore, in terms of the relationship between the CCP and the state, there was a lengthy process of internalization where the Party as an outsider became internalized into the state through its Mass Line.
He succeeded his grandfather John Oliphant, 2nd Lord Oliphant, in 1516, and was one of the Scottish nobles taken prisoner at the battle of Solway Moss on 25 November 1542, reaching Newark on 15 December, on the way to London.
Lithuanian partisans, resistance against Soviet regime after World War II
Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850–1916), prominent British soldier in the Sudan, the Second Boer War, and World War I. Also featured in a famous British recruitment poster in World War I.
Robert Clayton Maffett (1836–1865), officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War
In the film, Humphrey Bogart, playing an escaped prisoner, is invited by Lauren Bacall into her apartment unit, Number 10 on the third floor of the Malloch Building.
She is best known for two of her books: A Baronial Household of the Thirteenth Century is about Eleanor, wife of Simon de Montfort, detailing the time while her husband was away at war; and Medieval Travellers: The Rich and the Restless is about Mary, daughter of Edward I of England, a peripatetic nun.
Edward II was briefly held prisoner in the castle before being transferred to Berkeley Castle where he died.
Soon after the war started, the operation at Nickajack Cave was taken over by the Confederate government.
The setting is a cross-country train trip in the United States during World War II (hence the name of the play, in contrast to the popular patriotic war anthem entitled Over There).
Additionally, he was the treasurer of the Tennessee Historical Society and member of the Tennessee Historical Commission and State of Tennessee Civil War Centennial Commission.
After the war, Samuel married Hannah Emerson Willard in 1871 and had nine children (one of whom was William Willard Ashe, the noted botanist and associate of the United States Forest Service).
After participating in the post-World War II occupation of North China, where he commanded the 3rd Marine Regiment and later the U.S. Marine Forces in Qingdao, he was a student and then a faculty member at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport from 1947 to 1950.
It was also used for the up-engined GAZ-98K aerosani winter-used sled in a pusher configuration (as airboats use today), and as the standard powerplant for the similar NKL-26 propeller-driven sledges during the World War II years.
David Leonard's review for PopMatters expresses considerable concern about the Orientalist packaging of the Asian setting of the game as well as the currents of "female hypersexuality", "racism, sexism and simulations of the war on terror".
After the post-war liberation of Ethiopia, she became a strong supporter of union between Ethiopia and the former Italian Somaliland, and MI5's file continued to follow her activities.
Rudhri was defeated, and Fedlim "plundered the officers of Ruaidri O Conchobair and seized the kingship of Connacht from Assaroe (Assaroe Falls) to Slieve Aughty himself .. and took hostages of the Clann Cellaig." Forced to submit, Tadhg now accompanied Fedlim, who switched sides and proceeded to wage war against his former allies, the Anglo-Irish of Connacht.
Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983), author and Holocaust survivor who helped many Jews escape the Nazis during World War II
The Mulovsky expedition was prevented from leaving the Baltic by the outbreak of war with Sweden in 1787.
The mushikamado first came to the attention of the Americans after World War II when US Air Force servicemen would bring them back from Japan in empty transport planes.
The son of a former Iranian ambassador, French-Iranian journalist and war correspondent Freidoune Sahebjam has also reported on the crimes of the Iranian government against the Bahá'í community in Iran.
Stone notes to Schiff (Steven Hill) that he fears a family war, resulting in many murders.
Both names were chosen by Harth who had favored Samuel Becket as a writer from around 1968 on.Harth interpreted the two characters Wladimir and Estragon in Waiting for Godot as West Germany and East Germany during the Cold War who are waiting for unification.Surprisingly to everybody the iron curtain collapsed some months after the foundation of the music group Vladimir Estragon.
He held no military commission during the Civil War but was an active Commissioner of Array and garrisoned Brereton.
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.
It contained information about a series of murders that occurred in Northwest America during World War II, seven of which took place in Browning, Montana.
Aircraft displayed from the Inter-War period include the Ryan Brougham, American Eagle A-101 and Swallow TP.
Sophronius "Yuri" Dolgorukov (1602–1682), general and governor, won a series of victories in the Russian-Polish war of 1654-67, including the Battle of Werki, led the army to crush the rebellion C. Razin
Stalag X-B, a World War II German Prisoner-of-war camp located near Sandbostel
Stalag XIII-D, a German Army World War II prisoner-of-war camp in Nürnberg
The Russian abacus was brought to France around 1820 by the mathematician Jean-Victor Poncelet, who served in Napoleon's army and had been a prisoner of war in Russia.
Born in Łuniniec, Poland, as a young girl Poznańska was associated with the Polish Home Army during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising during World War II, which led to her internment in the Bergen-Belsen prisoner of war camp and her receipt of a war medal following the war.
After a flee from Antwerpen, Belgium with his division in October 1914, he spent World War I in a prisoner-of-war camp in Groningen, Netherlands playing football in the highly rated internal competition alongside Harry Waites.
He had been taken prisoner-of-war by German forces in Tunis in North Africa.
Camp Ashcan, World War II prisoner of war camp for senior Nazi leaders
On September 25, 1863, Sweet was appointed a colonel in the Veteran Reserve Corps and assigned to the garrison at the Union Army prisoner-of-war camp for Confederate States Army soldiers at Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois.
Until the early 1940s, Bernadotte had a population of about four hundred people when it was razed, with the exception of one building, to become part of the Camp Ellis prisoner of war and training camp during World War II.
During his time as a prisoner of war, McCabe taught "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" to other prisoners to maintain high spirits, and was later invited to the Lincoln White House because of his actions.
He had a quarrel extending over years with Philip, the bastard of Savoy, which ended in a duel fatal to Philip in 1599; and in 1620 he defended Saint-Aignan, who was his prisoner of war, against a prosecution threatened by Louis XIII.
In May 2006 Didillon made his WALK OF FLAME, a pilgrimage from San Francisco to Hollywood, dedicating his pilgrimage to the actress Kirsten Dunst and to his grandfather Johannes Schumacher, who had been Prisoner of War in World War II in Russia, and escaped walking hundreds of miles home to his family in Germany.
He was a German prisoner of war for two and a half years — helping with the escape attempt described in the book Great Escape, which was later the subject of a Hollywood film.
His ship, caught in a storm, sought refuge at the port of Taranto, Italy where De Dolomieu was made a prisoner of war.
In the battle since 1939; became a prisoner of war and was in detention through 1945 (since 27 April 1942 in Oflag VII-A Murnau).
The first project of Gibraltar Films was the production of a Vietnam-era prisoner-of-war film Rescue Dawn, directed by Werner Herzog.
Escape from Colditz is a game devised by successful escaper Pat Reid, based on the prisoner-of-war camp (Oflag IV-C) at Colditz Castle in Germany during World War II.
Fort Chaffee, located just outside of Fort Smith (Sebastian County) and Barling (Sebastian County) on Arkansas Highway 22, has served the United States as an army training camp, a prisoner of war camp, and a refugee camp.
Despite the frantic efforts of his superiors to obtain his release, Captain Crocker had to endure almost seventeen wretched months as a prisoner of war, mainly at Camp Ford, in Tyler, Texas.
In July, 1779, being in garrison at the post of Stoneypoint, on the Hudson river, the place was stormed at midnight by a strong force of the Americans under General Wayne, and after a sharp and close conflict of more than an hour, during which the young ensign was wounded in the shoulder by a musket ball, he found himself a prisoner of war.
His father, a Baltic German refugee from Estonia, was an architect and university lecturer, who moved after being released from a prisoner of war camp with his family to Hagen (Westfalen).
Voss subsequently spent time in the British prisoner of war camp at Island Farm, Wales, and also Grizedale, in the Lake District.
Eberbach was held in a prisoner-of-war camp until 1948 and shortly thereafter he became the director of a Protestant charity.
Ehrenberg was born in Kollnischken, East Prussia (today Kolniszki, Poland) and visited school (Staatliche Kantschule) in Goldap until 1943, when he was conscripted to the German Army and became a prisoner of war.
Based on the Israeli series Prisoners of War, it centers on a woman (Claire Danes) who works for the CIA and is convinced a recently returned American prisoner of war (Damian Lewis) has been turned by al-Qaeda.
In fact, he had been taken prisoner by the Japanese and remained a prisoner of war at the Changi Prison until 1945, working on the construction of the Burma Railway which crossed Thailand, a feat that inspired the Pierre Boulle book 'Bridge Over the River Kwai', and the film adaptation by David Lean.
Joseph Darby, who in April 2004 the Pentagon credited as the lone soldier who came forward to halt and expose the Abu Ghraib prisoner-of-war abuse scandal in Baghdad, Iraq, is a native of Jenners and a graduate of nearby North Star High School.
Jessie Ann Scott (1883–1959), New Zealand doctor, medical officer and prisoner of war
During the war he was a prisoner of war, and was one of the "prominente" held in Oflag IV-C (Colditz).
Returning from a mission over Munich, Germany on July 11, 1944 his crew was forced to bail out near the Dutch-Belgian border and was taken prisoner of war and liberated by the Russian Army on May 2, 1945.
He was eventually released to the Geojedo Island Prisoner-of-War Camp in 1952, where worked as an interpreter for the director of the hospital, and for the U.S 8th Army.
Gustav Krist (1894-1937), Austrian adventurer, prisoner-of-war, carpet-dealer and author
Other sources claim that he spent several years as a prisoner of war in the Eritrean war, and languished in the Eritrean People's Liberation Front’s jails in Nakfa.
Specifically, Milligan, William A. Bowles, Harrison H. Dodd, Stephen Horsey and Andrew Humphreys were accused of planning to steal weapons and invade Union prisoner-of-war camps to release Confederate prisoners.
Stalag VIII-B, a notorious World War II German Army prisoner of war camp near Lamsdorf (Łambinowice)
Brigadier Sir Philip Toosey (1904-1975), who while prisoner-of-war of the Japanese in that war was the officer in charge of building the Bridge on the River Kwai.
The eight seasons were divided by the Second World War, in which he was a prisoner of war in the Far East and worked on the Burma-Siam railway.
Nearby attractions include Fort Parker Historical recreation, the Confederate Reunion grounds, and Mexia State Supported Living Center (formerly Mexia State School), which began as a prisoner of war camp for members of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps during World War II.
James N. Rowe, James Nicholas "Nick" Rowe, (1938–1989), American military officer and prisoner of war during the Vietnam War
Joseph Darby, who in April 2004 The Pentagon credited as the lone soldier who came forward to halt and expose the Abu Ghraib prisoner-of-war abuse scandal in Baghdad, Iraq, is a graduate of North Star High School.
During the Third Reich the German armed forces, the Wehrmacht established a prisoner-of-war camp in Oerbke in which up to 30,000 soldiers from the Red Army were housed.
He was inspired to follow Padre Lionel Marsden, a former prisoner-of-war of the Japanese on the Burma Railway, to work for reconciliation with the people of Japan.
During his recovery in a prisoner-of-war camp in Omsk in Siberia, he resolved to continue his career using only his left hand.
He was captured by the German army in June 1940 and imprisoned in Stalag VIII-A, a prisoner-of-war camp in Görlitz, Germany (now Zgorzelec, Poland).
Saved for the moment, Tuck then spent the next couple of years in Stalag Luft III at Żagań (Sagan), before making a number of unsuccessful escape attempts from several other prisoner of war camps across Germany and Poland.
Young had become a prisoner of war after the Battle of Salineville in Ohio ended Morgan's Raid the year before; he later escaped to Canada (then part of the British Empire), and returned to the South, where he proposed raids on the Union from the Canadian border to build the Confederate treasury and force the Union Army to protect the northern border and divert troops from the South.
One of the incidents involving Lott happened while a prisoner of war in the Tower of London.
The book picks up where McCain's first memoir, Faith of My Fathers, left off, with his return to the United States following his release as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.