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Antonella Kerr, Marchioness of Lothian

Her parents had married in 1918, but were divorced in 1928, after her mother, the daughter of an Italian lieutenant-general, Conte Michele Salazar (descendant of a Spanish nobleman from the times of the Spanish presence in Italy), left her 66-year-old father for a 27-year-old army officer, William Carr.

Battle of Condore

An Anglo-Indian force under the command of Colonel Francis Forde attacked and defeated a similarly sized French force under the command of Conflans, capturing all their baggage and artillery.

Fatima Nursery, Primary and High School

Fatima Nursery, Primary and High School Bangalore ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು in Bangalore, in the state of Karnataka in India was started in 1974 by Mr M. Yella Singh (an ex-Army Officer) and Mrs Caroline as President of the School, with 37 teachers and 1000+ students.

Koichi Morita

Lieutenant-Colonel Koichi Morita (1865 – 1929) was a Japanese army officer born in Tokyo.

Siege of Masulipatam

The British were commanded by Colonel Francis Forde while the French defenders were under the command of Conflans.

Tourism in Zimbabwe

They have become famous and a tourist attraction because Cecil John Rhodes famous for his vision that led to foundation of Rhodesia, and other early white pioneers like Leander Starr Jameson, Major Allan Wilson, and most of the members of the Shangani Patrol are buried in these hills at another site named World's View.

William Harvey Christie

Major William Harvey Christie (1808–1873) British army officer and public servant in colonial New South Wales.


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1750 in Canada

James Glenie, army officer, military engineer, businessman, office holder, and politician (d.1817)

A Divided Heart

A Divided Heart is an Australian film directed by Denny Lawrence, released in 2005, portraying a complex romantic conflict set in wartime Sydney, 1942, involving two sisters and an American army officer.

Alfred Jansa

Feldmarschalleutnant Alfred Johann Theophil Jansa von Tannenau, (born July 16, 1884, Stanislawow - December 20, 1963, Vienna) was an Austrian Army Officer.

Alfred Ritter von Hubicki

Alfred Eduard Franz Ritter von Hubicki (5 February 1887 – 14 July 1971) was a Hungarian born Austrian army officer who was a Panzer General in the German army during World War II.

Ballington

Ballington Booth (1857-1940), Salvation Army Officer and co-founder of Volunteers of America

Barnard E. Bee

Barnard Elliott Bee, Jr. (1824–1861), career United States Army officer and a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War

Bernard Bonnet

Bernard Bonnet was born in Grünstadt, Germany, where his father, an army officer, was serving.

Bhowani Junction

It starred Ava Gardner as Victoria Jones, an Anglo-Indian who has been serving with the British armed forces, and Stewart Granger as Colonel Rodney Savage, a (British) Indian Army officer.

Bill Moss

W. Stanley Moss (1921–1965), British WW II army officer, writer, broadcaster, journalist and traveller

Bruce Clark

Bruce B. G. Clarke (born 1943), retired US Army officer, author and consultant

California Conquest

Arturo Bordega and Julia Lawrence eventually travel to Fort Ross, where they are able to capture Fredo Brios (as well as a fictional Russian princess, Helena de Gagarine, and a high-ranking Russian army officer), and otherwise manage to thwart the treasonous conspiracy.

Charles Cathcart

Charles Cathcart, 8th Lord Cathcart (1686 — 1740), British Army officer, also known as The Honourable Charles Cathcart

Clandestine HUMINT asset recruiting

Won Jeong-hwa, who was arrested by South Korea in 2008 and charged with spying for North Korea, is accused of using this method to obtain information from an army officer.

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, sometimes spelled de l'Isle, (10 May 1760, Lons-le-Saunier – 26 June 1836, Choisy-le-Roi), was a French army officer of the French Revolutionary Wars.

Cyprian Bridge Island

The island is named after Major Cyprian Bridge (1807-1885) who was a British army officer, particularly famed for his activities in the Flagstaff War, which was fought against the Māori in New Zealand in 1845.

Delannoy number

The Delannoy numbers are named after French army officer and amateur mathematician Henri Delannoy.

George Boyce

George W. G. Boyce, Jr. (?–1944), United States Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient

George Burnett

George Ritter Burnett (1858–1908), United States Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient

George Vaughan

George Vaughan Hart (c1752-1832), British army officer and politician

H. L. Hunley JROTC Award

While the award does have a strong naval theme, it is suitable for award to cadets of other branches due to the fact that the commander of the Hunley, Lt. George E. Dixon, was a serving Army officer.

Henry Crocker

Henry H. Crocker (1839–1913), Union Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient

Hoisington

Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Army officer, one of the first women to attain the rank of Brigadier General.

Hugh Annesley

Hugh Annesley, 5th Earl Annesley (1831–1908), British Army officer and Member of Parliament

Hugh Casey

Hugh John Casey (1898–1981), his father, United States Army officer

Ian Ferguson

Ian Bruce Ferguson (1917–1988), Australian Army officer in World War II and the Korean War

John Acland

John Dyke Acland (1746–1778), British Army officer and MP for Callington 1774–1778

John Chamberlain

John Loomis Chamberlain (1858–1948), American army officer, recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal

John Currie

John Cecil Currie (1898–1944), British Army officer during World War II

John Shrapnell

He is a descendant of British army officer General Henry Shrapnel, inventor of the shrapnel shell.

Karol D. Witkowski

In 1879 he enlisted in the Austrian Army (in 19th century southern Poland was occupied by Austria and named Galicia), where he gained popularity by making portraits of his fellow soldiers and commanding officers, including a portrait of General Duke William of Württemberg and portrait of Lieutenant Field Marshal Emanuel Salomon of Friedberg - Mírohorsky (this army officer also was a genre painter, it is possible, why later in USA Karl Witkowski became genre painter).

La vida por Perón

Similar themes were addressed in the novel Santa Evita by Tomás Eloy Martínez, in which an Army officer is entrusted with the stolen body of Evita Perón, ordered to keep it hidden in order to prevent its becoming a shrine to the Peronist movement.

Lester R. Stone, Jr.

His mother Doris lent the medal to U.S. Army officer and NASA astronaut Douglas H. Wheelock to take on his June 2010 launch to the International Space Station.

Michael Bowes-Lyon

Michael Bowes-Lyon, 18th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (born 1957), former politician and former British Army officer

Pontiac Bonneville

The name was taken from the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, the site of much early auto racing and most of the world's land speed record runs, which was named in turn after U.S. Army officer Benjamin Bonneville.

Queipo

Gonzalo Queipo de Llano (1875–1951), Spanish Army Officer who fought for the Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War

Roger Wolcott Hall

Roger Wolcott Hall (May 20, 1919, Baltimore, Maryland - 20 July 2008, Windsor Hills, DE; congestive heart failure) was an American Army officer and spy in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II and the author of a humorous memoir of his experiences in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), entitled You’re Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger (1957).

Samson Kutateladze

His father, Semen Samsonovich, had been a nobleman; he was before the Great October Revolution a student at Petrograd University and then an army officer.

Samuel Parker

Samuel I. Parker (1891–1975), United States Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient

Stanley Adams

Stanley T. Adams (1922–1999), American Army officer, recipient of the Medal of Honor during the Korean War

Swails

Stephen Atkins Swails (1832–1900), black Union Army officer and South Carolina politician

The Colditz Story

It is based on the book written by Pat Reid, a British army officer who was imprisoned in Oflag IV-C, Colditz Castle, in Germany during the Second World War and who was the Escape Officer for British POWs within the castle.

Vicente Rojo

Vicente Rojo Lluch, Republican army officer during the Spanish Civil War

Viggers

Freddie Viggers, former senior British Army officer and current Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod

Vredenburgh

Peter Vredenburgh Jr. (1837–1864), American lawyer and Union Army officer

William Crampton Gore

The son of an army officer from Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Gore studied medicine at TCD, graduating in 1897 and practising until 1901.

William Eyre

William Eyre of Neston (fl. 1642–1660), parliamentarian army officer and politician

William Ketchum

William Scott Ketchum (1813–1873), U. S. Army officer before and during the American Civil War

William Mackintosh

Captain William Mackintosh, Irish-born British Army officer and Canadian engineer

William Sewell

William Joyce Sewell (1835–1901), Union Army officer and Senator from New Jersey

Zulfiqar Ali Khan

:This article is about the Pakistani air marshal, for the Indian politician and army officer see Zulfikar Ali Khan.