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Albert Chowne Albert Chowne VC , MM ( 19 July 1920 – 25 March 1945 ) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to Commonwealth forces . Early life . Chowne was born in Sydney . He attended Chatswood Boys Intermediate High School and Naremburn Junior Technical School . In 1935 , he began work as a shirt - cutter with David Jones . In his spare time Chowne played rugby union and tennis , and took part in Scouting . World War II . Chowne spent a brief period in the 36th Battalion , a Militia unit , before enlisting in the Australian Imperial Force in late May 1940 . He was assigned to the 2 / 13th Battalion as a platoon message runner ( and was later made company runner . The unit , part of the 9th Division arrived in the Middle East in November 1940 and later joined the North African campaign , defending Tobruk for eight months in 1941 . During his time at Tobruk , Chowne transferred to the carrier platoon and was promoted to Corporal . After Tobruk the 2 / 13th performed garrison duties in Syria where , in September , Chowne was promoted to Sergeant . He was wounded in the leg and hand at El Alamein the following month and spent three weeks in hospital . He returned to Australia with the battalion in January 1943 . In July , the unit was deployed to New Guinea campaign , taking part in the Battle of Finschhafen . Chowne , now commanding a mortar platoon , was awarded the Military Medal for twice crawling close to enemy positions to direct mortar fire . Regarded as exceptionally cool by his comrades , Chowne combined fearlessness with a self - effacing manner . He was commissioned as a Lieutenant in January 1944 and he married Daphne Barton , a Corporal in the Australian Women ' s Army Service , in March that year . Having completed the jungle warfare training course at Canungra , Queensland , Chowne was posted to the 2 / 2nd Battalion , part of the 6th Division , in October 1944 . The 2 / 2nd was sent to the Aitape - Wewak campaign in New Guinea , two months later . Victoria Cross action . On 25 March 1945 near Dagua , Chowne attacked an enemy position which was holding up further movement towards Wewak . Seeing that the leading platoon was suffering heavy casualties , Chowne rushed forward and knocked out two light machine guns with grenades and then , calling on his men to follow him and firing his sub machine gun from the hip , he charged the position . Although he was twice wounded in the chest , the impetus of his charge carried him forward 50 yards under intense machine gun and rifle fire and he accounted for two more of the enemy before he was killed . Chowne was awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously and was buried at the Lae War Cemetery , Lae , New Guinea . A street in Campbell , Canberra is named after him as is Albert Chowne Memorial Hall , a community facility in Willoughby , Sydney . His VC is displayed at the Australian War Memorial .
Sylhet Cadet College Sylhet Cadet College ( Bengali : সিলেট ক্যাডেট কলেজ ) is a military high school for boys ( Grade VII - XII ) situated 7 km north to Sylhet divisional City , east to the Osmani Air Port Road , beside Parjatan motel of Sylhet . History . When Bangladesh ( as East Pakistan ) was part of Pakistan , Pakistan Army established some cadet colleges in West Pakistan ( Now Pakistan ) and some cadet colleges in East Pakistan ( now Bangladesh ) in the form of British Public Schools Act 1868 . After the liberation war , Bangladesh Army established eight more cadet colleges ( among them Mymensingh Girls Cadet College , Joypurhat Girls Cadet College , Feni Girls Cadet College had been established for girls ) . Sylhet Cadet College is the first cadet college established after the liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971 . It was established in Pakistan as a model school in 1969 . In 1974 , it was modified and converted to a model college . Bangladesh Army modified this model college and converted it to a cadet college in 1978 . In 1979 , An admission test took place for selecting the students from model college to keep them in this new modified Cadet College . First , second and third batch of this new cadet college was from the model college , and in the same year 4th Batch was taken as fresh cadets . First Batch passed the college in 1982 and first intake , i . e . fourth batch , passed in 1985 . And from that time , an admission test started taking place every year to admit new cadets in class seven . Infrastructure . House : The three houses are on the same building . On the ground floor there is Titumir House , on 1st floor Hazrat Shahjalal ( R : ) house and on the 2nd floor is the Surma house . There are 34 rooms in each house in 3 different blocks . Titumir House has 31 rooms for the living of cadets while the other houses have 32 for them . The remaining rooms are reserved for House Office , House Store and Night Duty Master ' s Room in case of Titumir House . Dining Hall A large dining space for the cadets , located just beside the house . The dining hall is named Birsrestho Matiur Rahman dining hall . Hospital Birsrestho Nur Mohammad hospital is situated on South - eastern corner of the college adjacent to the Athletics Ground . It is a single - story building . Cadets including other members of the college can report to the hospital in case of sickness or an injury . A Major of Bangladesh Army is usually in charge of the hospital . Auditorium A large auditorium is there adjacent to the academic block . The auditorium is named after Birshrestho Mostofa Kamal . All the competitions , cultural shows and Assembly are held here . Academics . Sylhet Cadet College has been providing great academic support to the cadets to make them a perfect man for the service of the nation . Recently SCC has made a brilliant result in Secondary School Certificate ( SSC ) examination , 2007 ( 28th ) and 2010 ( 31st ) . They all achieved GPA 5 . 00 . The academic performance of SCC is always on the increase . The result of SCC has always been best in Sylhet Education Board .
Michigan sharpshooter units of the American Civil War The State of Michigan raised a number of Battalion and Company - sized specialist sharpshooter units in addition to the 1st Regiment Michigan Volunteer Sharpshooters . Brady ' s Independent Company . Brady ' s Company was organized at Detroit , Michigan on February 3 , 1862 . The company was attached to the 16th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment . Dygert ' s Independent Company . Brady ' s Company was organized in February 1862 . The company was attached to the 16th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment . Hall ' s Independent Battalion . Hall ' s Battalion was organized at Marshall , Michigan between August 27 and November 2 , 1864 . The battalion was attached to the 16th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment and was amalgamated with it on April 10 , 1865 . Jardine ' s Independent Company . Jardine ' s Company was organized at Saginaw , Michigan on May 3 , 1864 . The company was attached to the 27th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment . United States Sharpshooters . Companies " C " , " I " , and " K " of the 1st United States Volunteer Sharpshooter Regiment as well as Company " B " of the 2nd United States Volunteer Sharpshooter Regiment were raised in Michigan . Western Sharpshooters Regiment . Company " D " of the Western Sharpshooters Regiment was raised in Michigan . The Western Sharpshooters were the Western Theater counterpart to " Berdan ' s " 1st and 2nd U . S . V . S . S . which operated in the Army of the Potomac . The regiment , which was repeatedly renamed , was in continual service from Nov 23 , 1861 to July 7 , 1865 . Major John Piper , of the 1st Regiment Michigan Volunteer Sharpshooters , was originally a member of Company " D " ( WSS ) , but resigned in 1863 to take a position in the new Michigan sharpshooter regiment . A veteran of Company D ( " The Michigan Boys " ) , Sergeant Lorenzo A . Barker , wrote the only history of the regiment , " With the Western Sharpshooters " , published in 1905 . Barker ' s manuscript diary is located in the Historical Manuscript collection of the Michigan Historical Museum where his engraved Henry Repeating Rifle is also preserved .
Gladys Powers Gladys Stokes Luxford Powers ( 10 May 1899 – 15 August 2008 ) was thought to be , at age 109 , the last female veteran of the First World War following the 27 March 2007 death of fellow 109 - year - old Charlotte Winters from the US . However the subsequent discovery of fellow Britons Ivy Campany , who died on 19 December 2008 , and Florence Green has disproved this . Regardless , Powers was the last veteran living in Canada , following the death of Dwight Wilson on 9 May 2007 , the day before Powers ' 108th birthday . The last Canadian - born veteran , 109 - year - old John Babcock , later moved to the United States where he lived until his death on 18 February 2010 . Powers was born in Lewisham , County of London , the daughter of Frederick Charles Stokes . During her childhood she lived in both Turkey and Australia . In 1915 , she volunteered as a barracks waitress for the WAAC despite the minimum age being 17 . Later she transferred to the WRAF . In 1920 , she married Edward Luxford , a Canadian soldier , whom she had met while visiting her older brother , Cyril , in hospital , where the latter was recovering from shell shock incurred during the war . The Luxfords moved to Calgary that year , and walked almost 1000 kilometres along the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks to British Columbia in 1925 . They later divorced and Powers remarried and was widowed twice , before meeting and marrying Andrew Powers in 1973 , whom she also outlived . She lived in Abbotsford from 1992 until her death in 2008 . It is locally said that Cyril Street and Gladys Avenue in Abbotsford are named after the siblings .
Franco - German Brigade The Franco - German Brigade ( ; ) is a joint formation consisting of units from both the French Armée de Terre and German Heer armies and is integrated in Eurocorps . History . The Brigade was formed in 1987 following a summit between President Mitterrand of France and Chancellor Kohl of Germany . The Brigade became operational on October 2 , 1989 , under the command of General Jean - Pierre Sengeisen . Currently , the FGB is stationed at Müllheim , Metz , Donaueschingen , Illkirch - Graffenstaden , and Immendingen as part of the Eurocorps . In February 2009 it was announced that a German battalion of the force was to be moved to Illkirch near Strasbourg , the first time a German unit had been stationed in France since the Nazi occupation of World War II . On 31 October 2013 , France announced that in 2014 it would shut down the 110th Infantry Regiment based in Donaueschingen and thus withdraw around 1000 men from Germany . This would leave the brigade with 4000 men , but would put an end to each country having a major presence in the other , France would be left with ~ 500 troops in Germany and vice versa . Organisation . The Franco - German brigade can be described as a mechanised formation ; its combat units are an armoured reconnaissance regiment , three infantry battalions , and an artillery regiment . The logistical support unit and the brigade ' s HQ have mixed complements drawn from both countries . Future French participation . The Franco - German brigade was not one of the seven brigades mentioned in the French government ' s 2013 security and defence white paper . The extent of future participation of French forces in the brigade , post the implementation of the white paper , is not known .
Wehrmachtbericht The Wehrmachtbericht ( German for " armed forces report " ) was a daily radio report on the " Großdeutscher Rundfunk " of Nazi Germany , published by the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ( OKW ) regarding the military situation on all fronts of World War II . It was redacted by a special propaganda department attached to the Wehrmacht " Führungsstab " ( Chief of Operation Staff ) under Generaloberst Alfred Jodl , relying on material delivered by " Propagandakompanien " within the fighting troops , while private war correspondent s were not admitted . All broadcasts had to be authorized by Goebbels ' Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda as controlling institution of the German media , which led to a constant rivalry between the ministerial bureaucracy and the Wehrmacht executive staff . Both Goebbels and Jodl considered the " Wehrmachtsbericht " a vital instrument of home front mobilization under total war circumstances . The first report aired with the Invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 and the last was given on 9 May 1945 from Flensburg . After the Invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 , the reports broadcast at midday would begin with a fanfare ( from Franz Liszt s symphonic poem " Les Préludes " ) , followed by the announcer saying " Aus dem Führerhauptquartier , das Oberkommando der Wehrmacht gibt bekannt " ( " From the Leader ' s Headquarters , the Armed Forces High Command announces " ) . Erich Murawski , director of the Department of Military Records , analyzed the reports given by the Wehrmacht and determined four stages in the broadcast style of the Wehrmachtbericht : References of persons or military units in the Wehrmachtbericht were considered a high military honour and held in high esteem . These references were established by the " Oberkommando des Heeres " under Generaloberst Walther von Brauchitsch on 27 April 1940 . A further award , the Honour Roll of the German Army , was later introduced in mid 1941 . Adolf Hitler established the Honour Roll Clasp of the Army on 30 January 1944 as a visible and wearable award for bravery .
Mahlon Tisdale Mahlon Street Tisdale ( December 6 , 1890 – July 12 , 1972 ) was a Vice Admiral in the United States Navy . He was awarded two Navy Cross es , one for staff service in World War I , and another during the Battle of Tassafaronga in World War II . Early life . Mahlon Street Tisdale was born on December 6 , 1890 in Wenona , Illinois . He was appointed to the United States Naval Academy in 1908 and graduated with a commission as an Ensign in the United States Navy on 7 June 1912 . Before World War I , Tisdale served aboard cruisers USS North Dakota and USS Salem . Aboard USS Salem , Tisdale participated in the Veracruz Expedition in 1914 . When United States entered the World War I , Tisdale was appointed an Aide and Flag secretary on the staff of Commander Patrol Force , Atlantic Fleet and later served on USS Birmingham as Aide on the staff of Commander of U . S . Naval Forces in France . For this service , Tisdale received a Navy Cross . After return to the United States in January 1919 , Tisdale served as executive officer on USS Hart . He stayed in this capacity until March 1920 , when he was transferred to the USS Ludlow . In January 1921 , he was transfer to the staff of the Commander , Battleship Division Six , Pacific Fleet , where he served aboard USS Wyoming as division radio officer . In June 1921 , Tisdale was transferred to the Naval Academy , where he became an superintendent . Subsequently , Tisdale received his first command , when he served as commander of the USS Farenholt from October 23 , 1926 until June , 1928 . Naval career . Tisdale ' s career including surface command ( ) , , various staff positions , and Commander , Destroyers , Pacific Fleet ( ComDesPac ) during World War II . He was also Commandant of Midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy at the start of World War II . After his superior ' s ship was put out of action during the Battle of Tassafaronga he assumed command of the task force , continuing the battle from the . For his actions , Tisdale was awarded a star to his existing Navy Cross . Decorations . Vice Admiral Tisdale´s ribbon bar : Legacy . The Oliver Hazard Perry class guided missile frigate was named in his honor .
Pluggy Pluggy ( Mohawk : Tecanyaterighto , Plukkemehnotee ) ( d . 29 December 1776 ) was an 18th - century Mingo chieftain and ally of Logan during Lord Dunmore ' s War . During the American Revolutionary War , he allied with the British and commanded a series of raids against American settlements throughout Ohio and Kentucky before his death against McClelland ' s Station in 1776 . Life . Originally from a Mohawk band , Pluggy gathered a number of Mingo and Iroquois followers and moved westward eventually setting on the site of Delaware , Ohio in 1772 . During Lord Dunmore ' s War , he was one of the most active chieftains allied to the Shawnee conducting extensive raids against settlements as far as western Pennsylvania and Virginia from his base at Pluggy ' s Town , 18 miles north of present - day Columbus , Ohio . Despite the peace following the Treaty of Camp Charlotte , Pluggy remained a fierce and particularly hostile enemy after finding " " his blood relations lying dead " " by Virginian colonists . Throughout the late - 1770s , Pluggy ' s Town was used by Pluggy and other renegade Chippewas , Wyandots , and Ottawas to stage raids against American settlements . In late - 1775 , he joined the British at the start of western operations in the American Revolution . In December 1776 , Pluggy led a band of thirty warriors up the Ohio and Licking River s attacking Harrod ' s Town on Christmas morning and , later that day , ambushed a 10 - man party under John Todd and John Gabriel Jones . The men had been marching down the valley towards the Ohio River , where Jones and George Rogers Clark had stored 500 pounds of gunpowder , when they were attacked killing Jones and another man in the fusillade and capturing another four men in the final charge . The remaining four were able to escape , the story later being told by one of the survivors , pioneer and hunter David Cooper , in the 1987 book " The Kentuckians " by Janice Holt Giles . Several days later , he arrived at McClelland ' s Station , a settlement of thirty families located in present - day downtown Georgetown and defended by twenty settlers including frontiersman Robert Todd , Robert Ford , Robert Patterson , Edward Worthington , Charles White and founder John B . McClelland . On 29 December , Pluggy led between forty and fifty warriors against the fort and retreated after several hours of fighting leaving a number of men dead including Charles White and John McClelland . During the retreat , Pluggy himself was shot and killed by four of the fort ' s defenders in retribution for the death of McClelland . He was later buried by members of his tribe on a bluff overhanging the nearby spring and , for a number of years afterwards , a popular legend claimed that the echo heard in the area was the death cry of Pluggy .
Huche ' er Huche ' er was a general serving under the warlord Zhang Xiu during the late Han Dynasty period of Chinese history . He was not of Chinese origin , and some historians believe he may have come from a Slavic background , although others assert it is much more probable that he was of Magyar , Turkic , Jewish , Hun or Persian ancestry . Huche ' er fought for Dong Zhuo until Dong ' s death , whereupon he then became a general under Zhang Xiu . He was said to have been the greatest warrior of Zhang Xiu ' s army , and even Cao Cao gave gold to him for his prowess when Zhang Xiu surrendered . In the historical novel " Romance of the Three Kingdoms " , on the night of the Battle of Wancheng , Huche ' er stole Dian Wei ' s weapon , ensuring victory over Cao Cao ' s forces . He was not mentioned again in historical texts or the novel after the battle .
John B . Sams John B . Sams Jr . is Vice President of the Air Force Systems business unit , part of Boeing Integrated Defense Systems . Until his retirement in 1999 with the rank of Lieutenant General , he was commander of the US 15th Air Force based at Travis Air Force Base , California . Military career . Sams was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in 1967 , and flew more than 700 hours in 100 missions as a C - 7A pilot in Vietnam . Subsequently , he served as an operations and staff officer for the Joint Chiefs of Staff ; as the director of bomber operations and as director of conventional plans at Strategic Air Command ; and as Director of Forces , Plans and Operations at Air Force Headquarters . He commanded the 1st Airborne Command and Control Squadron ; 7 Bombardment Wing ( Heavy ) ; the College of Aerospace Doctrine , Research and Education at Air University ; 60th Airlift Wing and the Tanker Airlift Control Center at Headquarters Air Mobility Command . The general also commanded the air mobility forces for Operation Provide Hope flying support to Russia and the republics of the former Soviet Union in February 1992 . Before becoming 15th Air Force commander , he was vice commander of Air Mobility Command . Boeing . In February 2000 , Sams assumed the position of Boeing director of C - 17 Field Services , responsible for the deployment of C - 17 Globemaster III into the Air Force operating inventory . He later became the director of business development for the 767 Global Tanker / Transport Aircraft program . Education . Sams holds a bachelor ' s degree in history from The Citadel and a master ' s degree in personnel management from Central Michigan University . He is also a graduate of the Emory University Advanced Management Program and the Advanced School for Government at Harvard University . 1967 Bachelor ' s degree in history , The Citadel , Charleston , S . C . 1973 Squadron Officer School 1977 Master ' s degree in personnel management , Central Michigan University 1981 Distinguished graduate , Air Command and Staff College , Maxwell Air Force Base , Ala . 1985 Distinguished graduate , Air War College , Maxwell Air Force Base , Ala . 1988 Advanced Management Program , Emory University 1994 Advanced School for Government , Harvard University , Cambridge , Mass . 1995 Seminar XXI Program , Massachusetts Institute of Technology Boeing Names John B . Sams Jr . Vice President in Air Force Systems
Dixie baronets The Dixie Baronetcy was created in the Baronetage of England at the time of the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660 for Sir Wolstan Dixie ( 1602 – 1682 ) , a supporter of King Charles I during the English Civil War and afterwards . He was descended from a brother of Sir Wolstan Dixie , the sixteenth century Lord Mayor of London who founded the Dixie Professorship of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Cambridge . Their home was Bosworth Hall near Market Bosworth in Leicestershire . The title became extinct with the death of the thirteenth Baronet , another Sir Wolstan Dixie , in 1975 . The loss of the Bosworth Estate . " Sir ( Alexander ) Beaumont ( Churchill Dixie , 11th Baronet ) ' s temperament was neither rationalistic nor tolerant . Described as " a spendthrift , a hopeless gambler , a heavy drinker " he found it increasingly difficult to face up to his responsibilities as Squire of Bosworth . Lady Florence wrote " For some time past I have been fighting against the terrible consequences of my husband ' s immense losses on the Turf and at gambling . . It was a great blow to me to find that the last remnant of a once splendid fortune must at once go to pay this debt . Ruin . . . Beau . . . has been so accustomed to have heaps of money at his command that he cannot understand that it is all gone . . . By selling Bosworth and the property these ( debts ) could be met " " Machell , from the exigencies of his profession , was unquestionably the ruin of numerous aspiring punters whose interests clashed with his own . Beaumont Dixie , whose inclinations tended towards always backing " Archer ' s mounts " , was a notable example , and any one who witnessed the scene in the paddock after a race where Machell ' s horse did not win , will not be likely to forget the ruined Baronet wringing his hands in despair , and the irate owner standing over him with " Now , Mr Bastard Beaumont Dixie , I ' ll teach you to back Archer ' s mounts " Fred Archer was a champion jockey who mainly rode horses trained by Mathew and George Dawson . The 11th Baronet sold the estate in 1885