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unusual facts about mortally wounded



Arthur Walderne St Clair Tisdall

He was mortally wounded by a sniper during the Second Battle of Krithia at Achi Baba, Gallipoli, Turkey on 6 May 1915, and was buried where he fell, but today has no known grave.


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66th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Colonel Patrick E. Burke - mortally wounded at the Battle of Rome Cross Roads on May 16, 1864 while commanding 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Left Wing, XVI Corps, Army of the Tennessee.

Alexander of Courland

On 26 July 1686, he was mortally wounded in the second siege of Buda during the Ottoman wars and died shortly afterwards near Vienna.

Anarchism in Russia

Loris-Melikov's proposals called for some form of parliamentary body, and the Emperor Alexander II seemed to agree; these plans were never realized as on March 13 (March 1 Old Style), 1881, Alexander was assassinated: while driving on one of the central streets of St. Petersburg, near the Winter Palace, he was mortally wounded by hand-made grenades and died a few hours afterwards.

Battle of Dresden

Interestingly Napoleon's old rival Jean Victor Marie Moreau who had only recently returned from his banishment from the United States was talking to the Tsar (who wished to see Napoleon defeated) and was mortally wounded in the battle and died later on 2 September in Louny.

Bayfront Park

On February 15, 1933, Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak was shot three times in the chest and mortally wounded while shaking hands with President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in front of Bayfront Park by assassin Giuseppe Zangara.

Charles McKnight

According to Martha J. Lamb, Reverend McKnight received a severe saber cut to his head in the slashing melee that mortally wounded General Hugh Mercer at the Battle of Princeton.

Don't Torture a Duckling

The mortally-wounded Magiara drags herself to the nearby Autostrade where she futilely tries to flag down a car, and dies on the shoulder of the road.

Edgar Thomson Steel Works

On July 9, 1755, in the Battle of the Monongahela, French and Indian forces from Fort Duquesne defeated the expedition of British General Edward Braddock, who himself was mortally wounded.

Elizabeth of Bosnia

Having had the crown restored to her daughter, Elizabeth immediately proceeded to reward those who had helped her, giving a castle in Jelenec to Blaise Forgach, the Master of the Cupbearers, whose blow had mortally wounded Charles.

Erich Marcks

While on a daily round of troop unit inspections, he was mortally wounded on 12 June 1944 by an Allied fighter-bomber attack near Hébécrevon (near Marigny), several kilometers northwest of Saint-Lô.

Ernst vom Rath

In November 1938, aged 29, vom Rath was shot and mortally wounded by a 17-year-old Polish Jewish youth, Herschel Grynszpan, who had fled from Germany to France.

Fred E. Smith

On September 29, 1918, near Binarville, France, Smith showed conspicuous leadership until being mortally wounded.

George H. Hopkins

One of his brothers, Dan Hopkins who served in the same regiment was mortally wounded in the Battle of South Mountain on September 14, 1862.

Gesellschaft zur Beförderung gemeinnütziger Tätigkeit

During the French invasion, the Battle of Lübeck, he was mortally wounded by a bullet in the hallway of his home.

Gustav Trolle

After a few years of feuds, Trolle was mortally wounded in a battle at Øksnebjerg, on Fyn, Denmark, 1535.

Henri François Lambert

Lambert was conducting a reconnaissance at Menstadt, a small town near Nuremberg, when he was mortally wounded by the explosion of a bomb.

Hugh Molloy

Following a shellburst which mortally wounded the first sponger, who dropped the sponge out of the forecastle port, Molloy jumped out of the port to the forecastle, recovered the sponge and sponged and loaded the gun for the remainder of the action from his exposed position, despite the extreme danger to his person from the raking fire of enemy musketry.

Israel B. Richardson

Nicknamed "Fighting Dick" for his prowess on the battlefield, he was mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam near Sharpsburg, Maryland.

Ivan Turkenich

On August 13, 1944 Ivan Turkenich was mortally wounded in a battle near Głogów, Poland.

Jacques Thomas Sarrut

He was mortally wounded while leading his soldiers against the Anglo-Allied army at the Battle of Vitoria.

Jean Dubourdieu

Duke Charles was mortally wounded and taken prisoner by the French army under Nicolas Catinat at the battle of Marsaglia in 1693, and Dubourdieu took the body to Lausanne for interment.

Laverne Parrish

Six days later, on January 24, near San Manuel, he again braved hostile fire to tend to the wounded, carrying five men to safety and treating dozens more before being mortally wounded himself.

Leonard Covington

Covington was mortally wounded in the Battle of Crysler's Farm and died three days later at French's Mills, New York.

Mercadier

When Richard was mortally wounded at the siege of Châlus in March 1199, it was Mercadier's physician who cared for him.

Moston Community Stadium

Ronald Lindsay Johnson (24 September 1889 to 29 May 1917) was serving as an Acting Captain and Divisional Trench Mortar Officer but was mortally wounded by a German shell whilst traveling from Zillebeke Lake.

Paul Margueritte

Paul Margueritte (1860-1918) was born in Algeria, the son of General Jean Auguste Margueritte (1823-1870), who was mortally wounded in the Battle of Sedan.

Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers

As this was happening two Horse Grenadiers, Juan Bautista Cabral and Juan Bautista Baigorria saw this and saved their commander and the former later became mortally wounded as a result of enemy gunshots.

Robert Edwin Phillips

On 25 January 1917 near Kut, Mesopotamia, Lieutenant Phillips went to the assistance of his commanding officer (Edward Elers Delaval Henderson) who was lying in the open mortally wounded while leading a counter-attack.

Roderick N. Matheson

He was mortally wounded at Crampton's Gap during the Battle of South Mountain.

Sir Thomas Picton School

He is chiefly remembered for his exploits under the Duke of Wellington in the Iberian Peninsular War and at the Battle of Waterloo, where he was mortally wounded while his division stopped d'Erlon's corps attack against the allied centre left, and so became the most senior officer to die at Waterloo.

Sir William Clerke, 8th Baronet

In 1778 he succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his elder brother Francis, who was the favourite aide-de-camp to General John Burgoyne in North America, and was mortally wounded at Saratoga.

Sue Randall

Adam West (later of Batman) appeared as Frederick Pulaski, a declared descendant of the Polish military commander Casimir Pulaski, who was mortally wounded at the British Capture of Savannah, Georgia, in the American Revolution.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

In Bangkok after the march, he is mortally wounded during a mugging.

Tim Speedle

Speed dies in the Season 3 opening episode, "Lost Son", after being mortally wounded during a gunfight in a jewellery store.

Titus Hosmer

He had a Whig relative who fought and was mortally wounded in the Battle of Lexington and Concord against Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland.

William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber

In 1195 he accompanied King Richard I of England to Normandy and in 1199, William de Braose fought beside Richard at Chalus, where the king was mortally wounded.

Zutphen

Having been fortified the town withstood several sieges, specially during the wars of freedom waged by the Dutch against Spain, the most celebrated fight under its walls being the Battle of Zutphen in September 1586 when Sir Philip Sidney was mortally wounded.