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3 unusual facts about Quartermaster


Australian Army Cadets

Other appointments that may be held by OOC/IOCs are Quartermaster, Adjutant, Administration Officer, Training Officer, Operations Officer, as well as various other appointments that exist at Battalion, Regional and National Headquarters.

Förvaltare

The original military meaning of the word 'Förvaltare' was the same as 'Conductor', as in a Warrant Officer Conductor of Ordnance Stores or Quartermaster Stores.

New Zealand Advanced Ordnance Depot

An Ordnance Officer was, on occasion, posted to 1 RNZIR as the Quartermaster or Assistant Quartermaster.


Animal Law Review

Kim McCoy, former cast member on Animal Planet's Whale Wars, Quartermaster and International Executive Director of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

Battle of Fort Stevens

The U.S. Army's Quartermaster General, Brig. Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs, took command of an "Emergency Division", composed of federal employees who were armed during the raid, directly under the command of McCook.

Brussels Cemetery

The remainder are all British Army officers and include Colonel Sir William Howe de Lacy (the Quartermaster-General of the British Army), Colonel Edward Stables and Lieutenant-Colonel William Henry Milnes (both 1st Foot Guards), and Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon (3rd Foot Guards).

Busan Citizens Park

Camp Hialeah supported tenant units that included the Pusan Storage Facility, the largest (cold) storage facility within U.S. Forces Korea for supplies and goods to commissaries and exchanges Korea-wide, the 61st Chemical Company, the 552nd Military Police Company and the 4th Quartermaster Detachment (Airborne).

Charles Mansfield Clarke

Sir Charles Clarke, 3rd Baronet (1839–1932), English Quartermaster-General and Governor of Malta

Charles Tyson

At the start of the First World War, Tyson established a Cadet Corp. at the school, before enlisting in the Royal Army Medical Corps, reaching the rank of Captain and becoming quartermaster with 105th Field Ambulance Corp.

Company quartermaster sergeant

Squadron quartermaster sergeant is the equivalent in the Royal Armoured Corps, Special Air Service, Royal Engineers, Royal Corps of Signals, Army Air Corps, Royal Army Medical Corps, Royal Logistic Corps, Honourable Artillery Company, and formerly in the Royal Corps of Transport.

CSS George Page

She was attached to the Quartermaster's Department of the United States Army, until captured by the Confederates at nearby Aquia Creek, Virginia in May 1861, when she became a part of the Virginia State Navy.

Denys Cochin

After graduating from the school Louis-le-Grand, he joined the military as a quartermaster in the eight cuirassier, before becoming flag carrier for General Charles Denis Bourbaki.

Edgar Purnell Hooley

--Note: Not the same as the Territorial Army as described in Wikipedia, which makes no mention of the TFR of Hooley's era. A relevant article or section for linking does not appear to exist yet--> to the 8th Battalion, of The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) with the rank of Quartermaster and Honorary Captain.

Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford

In May 1855, he left for the Crimean War, in which he served firstly with his battalion, then from July 1855 as aide-de-camp to the commander of the 2nd Division, Lieutenant-General Edwin Markham, and finally from November 1855 as deputy assistant quartermaster general on the staff at Headquarters, being promoted brevet Major.

Graham Young

After release from hospital in 1971, he began work as a quartermaster at John Hadland Laboratories in Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, near his sister's home in Hemel Hempstead.

Graves B. Erskine

In September 1924, he became Depot Quartermaster, Marine Barracks, Quantico, Virginia.

Gregory Holman Bromley Way

In accordance with orders received there, the expedition sailed for the River Plate, arriving at Montevideo in the beginning of June 1807, where it joined the force under General John Whitelocke, of which Way was appointed assistant quartermaster-general.

Henry C. Hodges

In 1863 Lt. Colonel Hodges was made the Chief Quartermaster of the Army of the Cumberland, reporting to Major General Rosecrans, and participating in the Battle of Chickamauga from September 19 – 20, 1863.

Henry Hope Crealock

During the Austro-Prussian War he was military attaché at Vienna, and from 1874 to 1877 he served as quartermaster-general in Ireland.

Herbert Hasler

Hasler was born in Dublin on 27 February 1914, the youngest son of Lieutenant Arthur Thomas Hasler (a Royal Army Medical Corps quartermaster), and his wife, Annie Georgina (née Andrews).

Immanuel Winkler

Winkler presented his plan to Friedrich von Lindequist the settlement politician and former Secretary of State, Erich Ludendorff first General Quartermaster of the Supreme Army Command, and government officials in Berlin in March 1918.

Jahangir Alam Chowdhury

A former Principal Staff Officer of the Army of Bangladesh he was elevated to the position of Quartermaster General at the same time General Moeen U Ahmed, the Chief of the Army (and his coursemate) was made first serving 4 Star General in the history of Bangladesh.

James A. Ekin

Despite his excellent service in the Army quartermaster department, Ekin is remembered largely for his participation as a member of the military tribunal that heard the case against eight conspirators in the assassination of President Lincoln.

James Thornton

James Johnston Thornton (1816–?), judge, land developer, and quartermaster of the Union Army

John Cowans

He returned to the United Kingdom in 1910 to be Director-General of the Territorial Forces and then became Quartermaster-General to the Forces in 1912; in this capacity he was responsible for finding acccommodation and supplies for more than a million newly enlisted servicemen at the start of World War I and worked closely with the Women's Legion and the YMCA to achieve this.

Joshua B. Howell

His father, Colonel Joshua Ladd Howell had served in the War of 1812 and his grandfather, also named Joshua Ladd Howell, served as a quartermaster during the American Revolution.

Leonard Webb

Webb was born in 1921, the second son of William and Lillian Webb, in Cologne, Germany where his father was serving as Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant in the then 14th King's Hussars while on duty in the occupation of the Rhine.

Lucius Seymour Storrs

He is the great-grandson of Dan Storrs (1748–1831), a selectman in Mansfield and a quartermaster of the Connecticut Militia, and Ruth Connant Storrs (1749–1792).

Minay Shmyryov

At first a quartermaster for the Red Army in battles against the White Guard during the Russian Civil War, Shmyryov became a member of the Bolshevik Party in 1920, but returned home the same year after falling ill during the wartime epidemic of typhus, and was appointed to head a local unit tasked with the struggle against "lawlessness" from 1920 to 1923.

Nikolai Obruchev

At this time he proposed reorganising the Main Staff into five directorates: First and Second Quartermaster Generals, Adjutant General, Military Communications and Military Topography.

Pádraig Ó Cuinn

Pádraig Ó Cuin (Pádraig Quinn; 1898 – August, 1974) was an Irish Republican Army Quartermaster General in the Fourth Northern Division in the Irish War of Independence.

Passi, Iloilo

Passi was made the quartermaster depot of United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) for the food of the army that resisted in Bataan through Capiz.

Paul Brightwell

One of Brightwell's most memorable roles was in Titanic as Quartermaster Hichens, the crew member who was at the Ship's Wheel at the time of RMS Titanic's impact with the iceberg which sank it.

Pavel Liprandi

On the French invasion of Russia in 1812, he unsuccessfully tried to enter the Akhtyrsky Hussars, but had to satisfy himself with being a volunteer on the staff of 6 Corps (commanded by Dmitry Dokhturov), in which his brother Ivan Petrovich was serving as chief quartermaster.

Quartermaster General of the United States Army

Georgia quartermaster general Ira Roe Foster is, perhaps, the best example of a Confederate quartermaster exercising considerable power over both production and supply within his state.

Richard Trant

Trant became Quartermaster-General in 1983, succeeding Sir Paul Travers, and joined the Army Board.

Rick West

He received recruit training and Quartermaster (QM) training at Orlando, Florida, followed by Enlisted Submarine School at Naval Submarine Base New London (Groton, Connecticut).

Ridgeley, West Virginia

Clairsville, named for Sir John St Clair, Lt Colonel and Quartermaster General for the British General Edward Braddock.

Seán F. Quinn

On 22 April 1923, he was at a safe house in Castlebellingham along with his brothers Padraig Quinn (IRA Quartermaster General) and Malachi (father of Ruairi Quinn Labour TD).

Timothy Bedel

On December 11, 1779, General George Washington ordered Colonel Bedel to raise another regiment at Coos to help Colonel Moses Hazen and general Jacob Bayley in the construction of a possible invasion route to Canada and to conduct an investigation of misconduct and fraud against the Continental Army Quartermaster at Coos, New Hampshire.

Tunji Olurin

He became the Brigade Battalion in Kainji in 1973 and was the Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General of the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna.

United States Department of War

Yielding to pressure from Congress and industry, Secretary Baker placed Benedict Crowell in charge of munitions and made Major General George W. Goethals acting quartermaster general and General Peyton C. March chief of staff.

USS Pontoosuc

Seven of Pontoosucs sailors received the Medal of Honor for their actions during this campaign: Cabin Boy John Anglin, Coxswain Asa Betham, Boatswain's Mate Robert M. Blair, Captain of the Forecastle John P. Erickson, Landsman George W. McWilliams, Chief Quartermaster James W. Verney, and Sailmaker's Mate Anthony Williams.

Walter Nicolai

When Erich Ludendorff was quartermaster general, there was an expansion of military intelligence for the secret police.

Wilfrid Gordon Lindsell

After Dunkirk he became Quartermaster-General Home Forces and set about re-building the Army from Kneller Hall in Twickenham.

William Mathews

William A. Mathews, 19th-century Texas colonist, soldier, courier and quartermaster in the Texas Revolution


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