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Green Howards Regimental Museum The Green Howards Regimental Museum is the museum of the Green Howards infantry regiment of the British Army . It is located in the old Trinity Church in the centre of the market place of Richmond in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire , England . The Green Howards were amalgamated with The Prince of Wales ' s Own Regiment of Yorkshire and The Duke of Wellington ' s Regiment , all Yorkshire - based regiments in the King ' s Division , to form The Yorkshire Regiment on 6 June 2006 . Founded in 1938 , The museum houses artefacts and displays showing three centuries of the history of the regiment . Medal display . Within the museums collection are 3 , 750 medals and decorations presented to members of the regiment including 16 Victoria Cross es ( VC ) and three George Cross es . The Victoria Cross for Lt Col Oliver Cyril Spencer Watson VC DSO Commanding the 2nd / 5th King ' s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry at the time of his award of the VC is also held by the museum . He was Commissioned into the Green Howards in 1897 and promoted to Lieutenant in 1898 and posted to their 2nd battalion in India . He served in the Tirah Expedition 1897 - 8 on the North West Frontier where he was severely wounded and the Boxer Rebellion 1900 . He was promoted Lieutenant in 1898 and after being invalided from India in 1903 he retired to the reserve of regular officers in 1904 . In 1909 he joined the 1st County of London Yeomanry ( Middlesex , Duke of Cambridge ' s Hussars ) . He was promoted Lieutenant in 1911 , Captain in 1913 . He served in Gallipoli in April 1915 and was promoted to major in July 1915 , before returning to the UK . Attached to 2 / 5th Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in 1916 , he went to France as second - in - command in 1917 . He was Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the DSO in May 1917 . He was wounded at Bullecourt on 3 May 1917 . He was awarded the VC for gallantry , on 28 March 1918 at Rossignol Wood , France . Organising bombing parties and leading attacks under intense fire , he was killed covering the withdrawal of his men . The medal bar of Pte Henry Tandey VC DCM MM , who transferred from the Green Howards 12th Battalion on 26 July 1918 to the 5th Battalion The Duke of Wellington ' s ( West Riding Regiment ) , is also held by the regiment . Tandey ' s VC was awarded for gallantry during a counter - attack following the capture of Marcoing , France , on 28 September 1918 and the citation for it was printed in the London Gazette on 14 December 1918 . Tandey ' s DCM ( Canal du Nord , during the 2nd Battle of Cambrai on 28 August 1918 ) and MM ( Havrincourt on 12 September 1918 ) were also awarded for acts of gallantry whilst serving with the 5th battalion of the Duke of Wellington ' s Regiment .
108th Infantry Division ( German Empire ) The 108th Infantry Division ( " 108 . Infanterie - Division " ) was a unit of the Imperial German Army in World War I . The division was formed in May 1915 as " Division Beckmann " ( named for its commander , Max Beckmann ) and became the 108th Infantry Division on November 7 , 1915 . It was part of a wave of new infantry divisions formed in 1915 . The division was disbanded in September 1918 and its assets distributed to other units . The division was formed primarily from the excess infantry regiments of existing divisions which were being triangularized . The division ' s 97th Infantry Regiment came from the 42nd Infantry Division ; the 137th Infantry Regiment came from the 31st Infantry Division ; and the 265th Reserve Infantry Regiment came from the 80th Reserve Division . Combat chronicle . The 108th Infantry Division initially served on the Eastern Front , serving in the Baltic region until June 1916 . It then went south to the front in Ukraine on the Styr River where it faced the Brusilov Offensive and then remained in the line until the armistice on the Eastern Front in December 1917 . The division was then sent to the Western Front , entering the line north of the Ailette River , where it remained until April 1918 . It then fought in the Somme region until it was dissolved on September 19 , 1918 . Allied intelligence rated the division as third class . Order of battle on formation . The 108th Infantry Division was formed as a triangular division . The order of battle of the division on October 3 , 1915 was as follows : Late - war order of battle . The division underwent relatively few organizational changes over the course of the war . Cavalry was reduced , artillery and signals commands were formed , and combat engineer support was expanded to a full pioneer battalion . The order of battle on April 26 , 1918 was as follows :
Fujiwara no Nobuyori In the late 1150s , a dispute arose between the followers of the reigning Emperor Nijō and those who favored the retired ( cloistered ) Emperor Go - Shirakawa . Though Fujiwara no Michinori and the Taira clan supported Nijō , Nobuyori and his Minamoto allies supported Go - Shirakawa ' s bid to retain some influence and power . When Taira no Kiyomori , head of his clan , left Kyoto for a time in 1159 , it seemed the perfect opportunity for Nobuyori and the Minamoto to make a move ; though some say Kiyomori left the city intentionally , luring his enemies into a trap . Nobuyori and the Minamoto attacked the Sanjō Palace , abducting the former Emperor Go - Shirakawa , killing much of his staff , and setting the building aflame . They brought him to the Great Palace , where Emperor Nijō was being held hostage as well . They then moved on to the home of chief - councillor Fujiwara no Michinori , killing everyone there ; Michinori escaped , only to be captured and decapitated soon afterwards . Nobuyori then had Nijō appoint him Chancellor , under duress . Though he still had enemies at Court who encouraged the emperor to resist and to escape , overall Nobuyori ' s plan had succeeded . This did not last for long , however , since Taira no Kiyomori returned , and the Minamoto were not sufficiently prepared to defend the city against him . The emperor and ex - emperor both were freed , the Minamoto defeated , and Nobuyori killed .
Hans Ritter von Hemmer Hans Ritter ( Knight ) von Hemmer , ( * June 26 , 1869 in Munich , Germany ; † December 15 , 1931 ) , son of Colonel Anthony Hemmer , was an officer in the Royal Bavarian Army and Knight Commander of the Military Order of Max Joseph . He attended school at the humanistic Gymnasium in Regensburg , then joined on 12 August 1888 the 11th Bavarian Infantry Regiment ( not the same as the 11th Bavarian Infantry Division ( German Empire ) of World War I ) . In 1896 he was sent for 3 years training at the Bavarian war academy , followed in 1900 by two years at the Royal Bavarian Army General Staff , and from 1909 he worked at the Prussian General Staff in Berlin . Then , from 19 September 1912 he was at the Bavarian army General Staff . In World War I he participated in the fighting in August 1914 at the Battle of Lorraine , and part of the Somme . On 30 November 1914 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and took over as Head of the General Staff of the I . Corps Reserve . On 6 July 1915 , he became the Chief of General Staff of the Imperial German Southern Army in Galicia under General Felix Graf von Bothmer . On the Eastern Front in 1916 he was in heavy fighting during the fighting in Galicia , the Carpathians and Sereth , today in Romania . In 1917 he was involved in the battles for Berezhany , and other places now in the Ukraine and was awarded the Pour le mérite , and promoted to Colonel . Then he coordinated the operation planned in eastern Galicia against the Russians . After the peace of Brest - Litovsk with the Bolsheviks , he moved in February 1918 back to the western front and was chief of the General Staff Armed Forces High Command Army 19 ( again with General von Bothmer ) covering Lorraine . In this role , he oversaw the situation in Lorraine , and , after the armistice on November 11 , he and von Bothmer oversaw the withdrawal back to Bavarian territory . After the war he served the Reichswehr of the Weimar republic and in 1920 was promoted to Major General . He died on 15 December 1931 .
40th Division ( German Empire ) The 40th Division ( " 40 . Division " ) , formally the 4th Division No . 40 ( " 4 . Division Nr . 40 " ) was a unit of the Saxon Army , a component of the Imperial German Army . The division was formed on April 1 , 1899 and was headquartered in Chemnitz . The division was subordinated in peacetime to the XIX ( 2nd Royal Saxon ) Army Corps ( " XIX . ( 2 . Königlich Sächsisches ) Armeekorps " ) . The division was disbanded in 1919 during the demobilization of the German Army after World War I . The division was recruited in the western part of the Kingdom of Saxony . World War I . During World War I , the division fought on the Western Front , seeing action in the Allied Great Retreat which culminated in the First Battle of the Marne and the Race to the Sea . It then spent the next several years in the trenches . In 1916 , it fought in the Battle of the Somme . In 1917 , it participated in the Battle of Passchendaele . In 1918 , it fought against the various Allied offensives and counteroffensives . Allied intelligence rated the division as second class until 1918 , but downgraded it to third class that year . Pre - World War I organization . The organization of the 40th Division in 1914 , shortly before the outbreak of World War I , was as follows : Order of battle on mobilization . On mobilization in August 1914 at the beginning of World War I , most divisional cavalry , including brigade headquarters , was withdrawn to form cavalry divisions or split up among divisions as reconnaissance units . Divisions received engineer companies and other support units from their higher headquarters . The 40th Division was redesignated the 40th Infantry Division . Its initial wartime organization was as follows : Late World War I organization . Divisions underwent many changes during the war , with regiments moving from division to division , and some being destroyed and rebuilt . During the war , most divisions became triangular - one infantry brigade with three infantry regiments rather than two infantry brigades of two regiments ( a " square division " ) . An artillery commander replaced the artillery brigade headquarters , the cavalry was further reduced , the engineer contingent was increased , and a divisional signals command was created . The 40th Infantry Division ' s order of battle on January 1 , 1918 was as follows :
John George Pattison John George Pattison VC ( 8 September 1875 – 3 June 1917 ) was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces . Pattison was born in London , England and emigrated to Canada . Details . Pattison enlisted at Calgary , Alberta on 6 March 1916 . One of four soldiers to earn the Victoria Cross at the Battle of Vimy Ridge , ( the others were Thain Wendell MacDowell , Ellis Wellwood Sifton and William Johnstone Milne ) , Pattison was 41 years old , and a private in the 50th ( Calgary ) Battalion , Canadian Expeditionary Force , during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC . On 10 April 1917 at the Battle of Vimy Ridge when the advance of Canadian troops was held up by an enemy machine - gun which was inflicting severe casualties , Private Pattison , with utter disregard of his own safety , sprang forward and jumping from shell - hole to shell - hole , reached cover within thirty yards of the enemy gun . From this point , in the face of heavy fire he hurled bombs killing and wounding some of the crew , and then rushed forward overcoming and bayoneting the surviving five gunners . His initiative and valour undoubtedly saved the situation . He was killed in action at Lens , France , on 3 June 1917 . He is buried at La Chaudière Military Cemetery , France located 7 miles north of Arras ( plot IV , row C , grave 14 ) . The medal . His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary , Alberta .
Mike Lithgow Michael John " Mike " Lithgow , OBE ( 30 August 1920 – 22 October 1963 ) was a British aviator and chief test pilot for Vickers Supermarine . He became the holder of the World Absolute Air Speed Record in 1953 flying a Supermarine Swift but died when the prototype BAC One - Eleven airliner crashed in 1963 . Early life . Mike Lithgow was born on 30 August 1920 and educated at Cheltenham College . Second World War . Joined Fleet Air Arm March 1939 - December 1945 Lieutenant Commander HMS " Ark Royal " Test Pilot . He retired from the Navy and moved to Vickers Supermarine as a test pilot in January 1946 and became the company ' s chief test pilot two years later . On 26 September 1953 flying the Supermarine Swift F . 4 prototype , WK198 , Lithgow broke the World Air Speed Record near Tripoli in Libya , reaching a speed of 735 . 7 mph ( 1184 km / h ) . He did extensive test flying on the Supermarine Attacker , Swift , Scimitar and later the Vickers Vanguard and BAC 1 - 11 . Lithgow died test flying the prototype BAC One - Eleven " G - ASHG " from Wisley airfield on 22 October 1963 when during stall tests the aircraft entered a deep stall and crashed near Chicklade , Wiltshire . Six other BAC flight test team members were killed too . References . Autobiography : " Mach One " . ( Oct 1954 ) . Allan Wingate Ltd . ASIN : B0000CIZSW Editor : " Vapour Trails " . ( 1956 ) . Allan Wingate Ltd . ASIN : B0000CJFFQ
Eric Fullerton Admiral Sir Eric John Arthur Fullerton KCB DSO ( 1878 – 9 November 1962 ) was a British Royal Navy officer . Naval career . Fullerton was the second son of Admiral Sir John Fullerton and entered the Royal Navy himself in 1892 as a Cadet in HMS " Britannia " . He was promoted Sub - Lieutenant in 1899 and Lieutenant in 1900 . He specialised as a physical training instructor and in 1903 joined the new Royal Naval College , Osborne as Inspector of Gymnasia . In 1905 he joined the battleship HMS " Renown " and in January 1907 transferred to HMS " Queen " , flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet . In October 1908 he joined the royal yacht , HMY " Victoria and Albert " , and was promoted Commander in 1910 . In 1911 he was appointed executive officer of the battleship in the Mediterranean , and the following year rejoined Osborne . When the First World War broke out he was given command of the monitor HMS " Mersey " , which was used for operations off the Belgian coast , and also commanded the squadron consisting of " Mersey " and its two sister ships , HMS " Humber " and HMS " Severn " . He later transferred his command to HMS " Severn " . In 1915 , after he had been promoted Captain , his ships completed the destruction of the German cruiser SMS " Königsberg " in the Rufiji River in German East Africa . For this action he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order ( DSO ) . In 1916 he took command of the battleship HMS " Orion " in the Grand Fleet , remaining in command for the remainder of the war . In 1918 he was appointed officer - in - charge of the naval officers taking courses at the University of Cambridge . He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath ( CB ) in the 1920 New Year Honours . In August 1921 he returned to sea as Captain of the Fleet of the Atlantic Fleet to Admiral Sir Charles Madden and in 1923 he was appointed Commodore of the Naval Barracks at Chatham . In May 1926 he was promoted Rear - Admiral at the relatively early age of 48 . In April 1927 he was appointed Naval Secretary and in December 1929 he became Commander - in - Chief of the East Indies Station . He was promoted Vice - Admiral in 1930 . In 1932 he became Commander - in - Chief , Plymouth . He held the post until 1935 , in which year he was promoted Admiral , and retired in 1936 , although he served with the Royal Naval Reserve during the Second World War . He was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath ( KCB ) in 1934 . Family . Fullerton married Dorothy Sybil Fisher , daughter of John Fisher , 1st Baron Fisher , in 1908 .
Uzal Girard Ent Uzal Girard Ent was an American Army Air Force officer who served as the commander of the Ninth and the Second Air Force s during World War II . Biography . Ent was born on March 3 , 1900 , in Northumberland , Pennsylvania . He served in the infantry from 1917 to 1919 , and was commissioned into the US Air Service from West Point in 1924 . After graduating from the Command and General Staff College in 1938 he served as a military attaché at the American Embassy , Lima , Peru from July 1939 until October 1942 , acting as the senior neutral military observer on the Peruvian side after their boundary war with Ecuador . He was Chief of Staff to the U . S . Army Forces in the Middle East from October 1942 until February 1943 . He then served as Commanding General , 9th Bomber Command , 9th Air Force from February to December 1943 , and led 178 B - 24s in " Operation Tidal Wave " — the bombing raid on the oil fields at Ploieşti , Romania , on August 1 , 1943 — before being appointed Chief of Staff and then Commanding General , 2nd Air Force , based at Colorado Springs , Colorado . In September 1944 , it was General Ent who selected Lieutenant Colonel Paul Tibbets to put together an organisation and train them to drop atomic weapons from B - 29 bombers . Given Tibbets and two other names by General Arnold , General Ent replied without hesitation , " Paul Tibbets is the man to do it . " In October 1944 , Ent was seriously injured in the crash of a B - 25 on takeoff at the Fort Worth Army Airfield , Texas . Paralyzed from the waist down he learned to walk again using braces . He retired ( disability in line of duty ) in 1946 with the rank of major general . He died at Fitzsimons General Hospital in Denver , Colorado , on March 5 , 1948 . Awards . His foreign decorations include Honors . In 1951 , an Air Force base opened near Colorado Springs , Colorado , and was named in the general ' s honor . Ent Air Force Base was the initial home to the North American Air Defense Command ( NORAD ) from 1957 until 1963 when the command center moved to a highly secure facility within Cheyenne Mountain . Ent AFB then became the Ent Annex to the Cheyenne Mountain Complex in 1975 , and the facility was subsequently closed in 1976 . The Ent Federal Credit Union was also named in his honor . Veterans of Foreign Wars ( VFW ) Post 8298 in General Ent ' s hometown of Northumberland , Pennsylvania , is named " Major General Uzal G . Ent " to honor his memory .
76th Tactical Reconnaissance Group The 76th Tactical Reconnaissance Group is a disbanded United States Army Air Forces organization . It was last active in 1944 as part of the Desert Training Center at Thermal Army Air Field , California . History . The group was constituted and activated in early 1942 at MacDill Field , Florida as the 76th Observation Group shortly after the United States entered World War II . Its original squadron was the 24th Observation Squadron , which was joined a few days later by the 23d Observation Squadron when the group moved to Key Field , Mississippi . The group trained in aerial reconnaissance and air support techniques until March 1943 under Third Air Force . It participated in maneuvers with Second Army until September 1943 when it moved to Thermal AAF and began participating in desert training in California and Arizona . In anticipation of this move , its existing squadrons were reassigned and replaced by new units . It was disbanded on 15 April 1944 .
George Yarborough George Hampton Yarborough , Jr . ( October 14 , 1895 – June 26 , 1918 ) was an officer in the United States Marine Corps and a recipient of the Navy Cross . Biography . Born in Roxboro , North Carolina , Yarborough enrolled in class no . 4 , Marine Corps Reserve , on April 7 , 1917 , the day after the United States entered World War I , and was given the provisional rank of second lieutenant . After instruction at the Marine Barracks , Parris Island , South Carolina , he reported to the Marine Barracks at Philadelphia , Pennsylvania on June 4 , 1917 for duty with the 16th Company , 5th Regiment of Marines . Taken to New York in " Seattle " ( Armored Cruiser No . 11 ) , Yarborough embarked in " Henderson " ( Transport No . 1 ) on June 14 , 1917 sailed for France that day ; and reached St . Nazaire on the 27th of June . Yarborough , promoted to first lieutenant on August 11 , 1917 , served two tours of detached duty while assigned to the 5th Regiment , first at Cosne , France , between December 8 , 1917 and January 4 , 1918 and then at Gondrecourt , France , between February 22 , and April 29 , 1918 . On June 23 , 1918 , the height of the Battle of Belleau Wood , Lt . Yarborough arrived on the front lines . The next day , intense enemy fire from skillfully placed machine guns pinned down Yarborough ' s unit — a platoon in a support position in the American lines . The young lieutenant dashed from one shell hole to another , in the open , steadying his men , until a burst of machine gun fire hit him . Severely wounded , he refused aid until other wounded men in his unit received medical attention . Finally moved to shelter , he succumbed to his severe gunshot wounds on June 26 , 1918 . Cited for his bravery , First Lieutenant Yarborough received the Distinguished Service Cross and Navy Cross , posthumously . Namesake . The United States Navy named " Yarborough " ( DD - 314 ) for him .
William Durward Connor William Durward Connor ( February 22 , 1874 – June 16 , 1960 ) was career United States Army officer who became superintendent of the United States Military Academy . Early life . Connor was born in Wisconsin on February 22 , 1874 . He received an appointment to West Point from Iowa , graduating first in his class in 1897 . He received his commission as an engineer . Military career . He began his military career commissioned an officer in the Corps of Engineers upon graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1897 . During the Spanish - American War he served in the Philippines as an engineer and was awarded a Silver Star for heroism in combat . From 1909 to 1916 , he was with the War Department General Staff and was promoted to Colonel Deputy Chief of Staff of the American Expeditionary Forces in 1917 . In July 1918 , World War I , he was promoted Brigadier General of the 32nd Infantry Division and given command of the 63rd Brigade . Later he served as Commanding General of American forces in France from 1918 to 1920 . At the Battle of Château - Thierry he was awarded a second Silver Star . For his World War I service he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal . After the war , he was the Chief of Transportation Service in 1921 , Deputy Chief of Staff US Army , in 1922 and Commanding General of US Army forces in China , 1923 to 1926 . He was promoted to Major General in 1926 , he was Commanding General of the 2nd Infantry Division and was Commandant of the Army War College from 1927 until 1932 . He served as the Superintendent at West Point from 1932 – 1938 and then retired on 28 February 1938 . He was recalled for service during World War II from 1941 - 1942 . He is buried at the West Point Cemetery , section 18 , row G , grave 75 .