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18 unusual facts about sergeant


1917–18 Manchester United F.C. season

On 9 October 1917 while Fighting in France during the First World War, United former player Arthur Beadsworth was killed while serving as a Sergeant in the Seventh Battalion of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment of the British Army.

Absolute Conviction

Morse, his Sergeant Lewis and D.S. Cheetham (Steven Mackintosh), question various inmates, including Cryer's former partners, Bailey and Thornton, who are also incarcerated at Farnleigh and various victims of the fraud.

Army Men: Sarge's Heroes

The player plays as Sarge, the protagonist for many of the Army Men games.

Barbara Kelley

She enlisted in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) on 6 June 1940 and was discharged with the rank of Sergeant on 17 January 1946.

Billy Sánchez

William "Billy" Sánchez Tosado (born 1966) is the current Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate of Puerto Rico.

Blythe Duff

By series eight in 1993 her character was promoted to Detective Sergeant.

Brighton, Missouri

Brighton, Missouri is revealed to be the boyhood home of Sergeant Matthew Baker, the fictional protagionist in the 2007 Ubisoft Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3 game, Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway.

Cam Woolley

Cam Woolley (born January 24, 1957) is a traffic and safety reporter for CP24 and a former police officer (rank of Sergeant) with the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) in the Greater Toronto Area.

Hong Kong Adventure Corps

Scarlet Red Sash is worn by all Senior Non-commissioned Officers (Sergeant or above).

John Draper Perrin

Perrin was born in Medicine Hat, North-West Territories, to William Perrin, a former British soldier in the Wolseley Expedition, (1st Battalion, 60th King's Royal Rifles) and Sergeant in the North West Mounted Police and Sarah Lytle; both parents were Irish immigrants.

Marziale Cerutti

In November 1916, he was posted as a sergente to his first operational assignment, with 79a Squadriglia.

NZR ED class

This locomotive was known as The Sergeant because of the three longitudinal stripes on each side of the body.

Police Minstrels

Seats for the public concerts were sold door-to-door by uniformed Sergeants.

River Heights, Saskatoon

When police arrived after responding to a suspicious person call he shot Corporal Kenneth Sawyers at a rural home before being tracked down to the Canarama mall parking lot and shot down by Sergeant Jim Cox.

Scissortail sergeant

It earns its name from the black-striped tail and sides, which are reminiscent of the insignia of a military Sergeant, being similar to those of the Sergeant Major damselfish.

The Three Faces of Al

A recurring theme in previous albums was Danger insulting Bradshaw by forgetting his current rank, referring to him as Sergeant Bradshaw, when Bradshaw had been promoted to Lieutenant.

Tok Janggut

On 29 April 1915, Encik Latiff sent Sergeant Sulaiman, better known as Sergeant Che Wan, to arrest Tok Janggut for failing to pay the government tax.

Will Jimeno

The two men were located and extricated after former U.S. Marines Sergeant Jason Thomas and Staff Sergeant Dave Karnes heard their cries for help.


1st Battalion 3rd Marines

BLT 1/3 has produced one of very few nominations for the Medal of Honor thus far in the Global War on Terror, Sergeant Rafael Peralta.

Arizona Rangers

Sergeant Jeff Kidder was said to have exchanged gunfire while intoxicated, with Mexican police in Naco, Sonora.

Barbara Havers

The character of Detective Sergeant Havers serves as a sidekick and foil to the lead character, Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley of Scotland Yard.

Bell Rock Lighthouse

On 15 December 1955, RAF Bristol Sycamore helicopter XG501, crewed by Flight Sergeant P.A. Beart

British Columbia Youth Parliament

The Premier-elect also appoints various other officers, such as a Lieutenant Governor, a Speaker, a chief clerk, and a Sergeant-At-Arms, among others.

Canada's Golgotha

In 2002 British documentary maker Iain Overton alleged that the crucified soldier did exist, and named him as Sergeant Harry Band (not "Brant").

Canada's Worst Driver 8

Cam Woolley returning for his seventh year, is the traffic expert on CP24 in Toronto, and has 25 years as a traffic sergeant with the Ontario Provincial Police.

Casey Claw

It was originally developed by Mark Casey in 1993, a former marching member and drum sergeant of the The Cavaliers of Rosemont, Illinois.

Ceres, California

Andres Raya, a U.S. Marine on leave after coming back from Iraq, was armed with an SKS rifle and opened fire on officers, hitting Officer Ryno and killing Sergeant Stevenson.

Charles L. Glazer

Mr. Glazer, formerly the Republican National Committeeman for Connecticut, served on the Executive Committee of the Republican National Committee and was the Sergeant-at-Arms at the 2004 Republican National Convention.

Daphne Park, Baroness Park of Monmouth

Park was promoted to the rank of sergeant and trained groups of operatives for Operation Jedburgh whose task was to support the Resistance in Europe.

Fort Logan National Cemetery

First Sergeant Maximo Yabes (January 29, 1932 – February 26, 1967) - (Vietnam) U.S. Army, Company A, 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division.

Gary Basaraba

He appeared as Sergeant Richard Santoro on Steven Bochco's Brooklyn South and Officer Ray Heckler on the critically acclaimed but shortly lived Boomtown.

Glen Sefcik

Coach Sefcik has individually coached Colonels and Command Sergeant Majors at the Pre-Command Course for the US Army in leadership and development as well as leaders in the insurance and Federal Emergency Management agencies.

Gregorio Araneta Avenue

It is an 8-10 lane divided avenue designated as part of Circumferential Road 3 (C-3) which travels from Sergeant Rivera Street, at its north end in Balintawak, and meets Nicanor Domingo Street in the south in San Juan near the border with Santa Mesa, City of Manila.

Helmut Scholz

He was selected for officer training and sent to the SS-Junkerschule, at Braunschweig being promoted in September 1939 to Unterscharführer (Sergeant).

Henry Little

Henry F. W. Little, sergeant in the Union Army and Medal of Honor recipient in the American Civil War

Jehan Bretel

Bretel held the hereditary post of sergeant at the Abbey of Saint Vaast in Arras, in which capacity he oversaw the rights of the abbacy on the river Scarpe.

Jerome Anthony Watrous

During the war, he rose to become a sergeant, and briefly attained the rank of adjutant general of the Iron Brigade.

Jimmie E. Howard

He served as Special Services Noncommissioned Officer, Headquarters and Service Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines and later, as a platoon guide and platoon sergeant with Company H, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines.

José Santiago

José L. Santiago (b. 1960), Puerto Rican sergeant major in the United States Marine Corps

K-911

They also reluctantly team up with Sergeant Wendy Welles and her Doberman Pinscher, Zeus, who, according to Welles, was trained in the Netherlands and listen to commands in Dutch (although in reality the commands are in German).

Ken Moroney

One is a senior sergeant at Green Valley, New South Wales in Sydney and another is a detective senior constable at the Counter-Terrorism Co-ordination Command.

Leon L. Van Autreve

Sergeant Major Van Autreve attended George Washington University, University of Toledo, University of Maryland and Alaska Methodist University, and was a member of Phi Alpha Theta.

Leslie Dwyer

He played Sergeant Dusty Miller in the original 1942 production of Terence Rattigan's play Flare Path.

Lewis McGee

As a sergeant in the Australian Imperial Force, McGee was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions in the Battle of Broodseinde—part of the Passchendaele offensive—on 4 October 1917.

Muir S. Fairchild

In 1916, he was deployed in the Washington National Guard with the rank of sergeant, and his unit joined in the search for Pancho Villa along the Mexican border, where he spent much time in a horse saddle in the desert heat.

Norman Augustus Finch

On 22/23 April 1918 at Zeebrugge, Belgium, Sergeant Finch was second in command of the pom-poms and Lewis gun in the foretop of HMS Vindictive.

Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis

During the course of the Red Hammer campaign he is put in command of a squad, promoted to Sergeant, drives tanks, flies helicopters and eventually gets promoted to Lieutenant and assigned back to Spetsnaz.

Philip McGough

He appeared as Sergeant Calder, a member of the British Army's bomb disposal squad, in the 1984 Doctor Who story Resurrection of the Daleks.

Piranha Brothers

Spiny Norman is possibly a subtle reference to the notorious former head of the London Drug Squad, Detective Sergeant Norman Pilcher.

Real Muthaphuckkin G's

Gotta follow ya sergeant's directions,
or get your ass pumped with a Smith & Wesson

Return of Sergeant Lapins

The film is set in Riga, where Sergeant Krists Lapiņš returns from an international mission and moves into a remote flat in the city's Āgenskalns district.

Rocky Jordan

Two further characters appear in some but not all episodes, Chris (voiced in most episodes by Lawrence Dobkin) and Sergeant Greco.

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.

Seumas Milne

Milne described the restoration of the sight of Mario Terán, the former Bolivian sergeant who killed Che Guevara, by Cuban doctors "paid for by revolutionary Venezuela in the radicalised Bolivia of Evo Morales", one of "1.4 million free eye operations carried out by Cuban doctors in 33 countries across Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa", as "an emblem both of the humanity of Fidel Castro and Guevara's legacy" and the transformation of Latin America.

Sgt. MacKenzie

Joseph MacKenzie wrote the haunting lament after the death of his wife, Christine, and in memory of his great-grandfather, Charles Stuart MacKenzie, a sergeant in the Seaforth Highlanders, who along with hundreds of his brothers-in-arms from the Elgin-Rothes area in Moray, Scotland went to fight in the Great War.

Sharpe's Triumph

Colonel Anthony Pohlmann – the defected Hanoverian sergeant who became Scindia's army commander

Stalag Luft VI

George Grimson, RAF sergeant, serial escaper and escape line organiser.

Stalag XX-A

In accordance with the Third Geneva Convention, POWs below the rank of Sergeant were required to work and were attached to Arbeitskommando ("labour units").

Stanley Bolander

It is generally agreed that Bolander is based on the Homicide book's cigar-smoking detective Donald Worden, though Worden was not paired with Jay Landsman, the sergeant on whom John Munch was based.

Stonehenge Landscape

Eustace Loraine and Staff Sergeant Wilson were killed in 1912 near to the new Stonehenge Visitors' centre.

Thénardiers

The inn, which is forced to close down after Cosette is taken, is called "The Sergeant at Waterloo", because of a peculiar adventure that M. Thénardier had following the famous battle.

Tony Azito

Azito's best-known role, however, came in yet a third production for NYSF: as the Sergeant of Police in the 1980 Broadway revival of The Pirates of Penzance, starring Linda Ronstadt and Kevin Kline.

William Gainey

Gainey served as the Command Sergeant Major for the 2nd Battalion, 68th Armored Regiment, and 1st Battalion, 35th Armored Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, Baumholder, Germany; Eagle Base, Bosnia and Herzegovina; 1st Squadron, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Polk, La.

Yoon Jang-ho

Yoon Jang-ho (Hangul: 윤장호; Hanja: 尹章豪; September 21, 1980 – February 27, 2007) was a staff sergeant (posthumous) serving as an English translator in Afghanistan as a member of the Task Force Dasan, a dispatched engineering unit of the Republic of Korea Army.