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George Inwood Section Commander George Walter Inwood GC ( 22 September 1905 - 16 October 1940 ) of the Home Guard was posthumously awarded the George Cross for the " . . . highest form of cool courage and self - sacrifice for others " he displayed on the night of the 15 / 16 October 1940 in Birmingham . Biography . He was born on the 22 September 1905 , the son of George Walter Inwood ( aka William Thomas Inwood ) and Margaret Caroline ( née Jones ) and was baptised in St Martins , Birmingham , Warwickshire on the 11 October 1905 . He is buried in Yardley Cemetery in Birmingham . 15 / 16 October 1940 . After a heavy Luftwaffe air raid on Birmingham on the night of 15 / 16 October 1940 , Inwood was asked by the police to aid in recovery work in Bishop Street ( in the Five Ways area . Leading six volunteers he discovered that several unconscious people were trapped in a gas - filled cellar . A hole was dug and Inwood was lowered on a rope . He managed to pull two men clear but was overcome by fumes on his third foray down . A doctor on the scene was unable to revive him . George Cross citation . Notice of his Inwood ' s George Cross appeared in the London Gazette on the 27 May 1941 . His widow received his award at an investiture on the 10 October 1941 .
Soldier discrimination in the United Kingdom This article refers to discrimination against soldier s of the armed forces of the United Kingdom which encompasses the Royal Navy , the British Army and the Royal Air Force . In December 2007 , the Prime Minister requested a report to evaluate the relationship between “ our Armed Forces and the rest of society ” . The report to the Prime Minister refers to a number of incidents , namely : An army officer was refused entry to Harrods in November 2006 ( Harrods continues to refuse entrance to persons in ‘ combat dress ’ ) ; Troops returning from Afghanistan were told to change into civilian clothes at Birmingham Airport in December 2007 ; Troops returning from Afghanistan into Edinburgh Airport were directed away from the public areas through ad hoc facilities in 2007 ; Patients from the Armed Forces rehabilitation centre at Headley Court were subjected to verbal abuse in November 2007 ; RAF personnel were banned from wearing uniform in Peterborough after incidents of verbal abuse ; and there were other unreported incidents of discrimination and harassment against soldiers . In December 2008 , a pizza shop discontinued offering discount s to members of the British troops but continued to offer such discounts to the police , the fire service and NHS staff . On 4 September 2008 , the Metro Hotel refused a wounded soldier a room , forcing him to spend the night in his car . Moreover , there were incidents of public houses banning soldiers in 2002 . Current legal practice . As for the Metro Hotel , legal experts confirmed it was not against the law for hotel staff to turn away a potential customer because of his or her job . The report to the Prime Minister states that “ It is quite intolerable that those who wear the Queen ’ s uniform should be denied access to public or commercial services as a result , but there is no legal protection for the targets of such discrimination . ” Proposals to improve the situation are limited to the “ legal protection of the uniform ” . Thus , a hotel could , presumably , still refuse an officer who did not wear his uniform . For example , the Metro Hotel refused the non - uniformed soldier when he presented his army warrant card . Some members of the public have taken matters into their own hands . Metro Hotel had to call the police as their lines were flooded with angry , abusive and threatening calls . Mr Kai Graf von der Pahlen and Mr Taha Idris of the Swansea Bay Racial Equality Council published research on ‘ soldier discrimination ’ which raises the question whether ‘ soldier discrimination ’ may amount to unlawful , indirect gender discrimination . The research shows that male soldiers may have a case for unlawful gender discrimination because most of the soldiers of the UK Armed Forces are male . The discriminator is thus effectively excluding a pre - dominantly ( approximately 90 % ) male group of people which is classed as “ indirect gender discrimination ” under the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and , therefore , unlawful .
1 . 1 " / 75 caliber gun The 1 . 1 " / 75 caliber gun was an American anti - aircraft weapon of World War II . The name means that it had a bore diameter of and barrel length of 75 × 1 . 1 inches = , using the " caliber " nomenclature common to large artillery pieces . It was developed when the U . S . Navy Bureau of Ordnance ( BuOrd ) decided that the . 50 caliber machine gun was not adequate for future AA duties : During the early part of World War II , they were deployed on most U . S . Navy warships of destroyer and larger size . Before the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor on December 7 , five 1 . 1 caliber quad mounts had been sent to Cavite Navy Yard in Manila Bay , Philippines for fitting to the cruiser of the Asiatic Fleet . Four were mounted on the " Houston " and the fifth was a spare . To the surprise of most at Cavite , the one spare left on the dock survived the Japanese bombing . Since the mount was too heavy for the few harbor patrol vessels still stationed in Manila Bay , the fifth spare mount was put on a barge along with 25 , 000 rounds of 1 . 1 ammunition and taken to Corregidor and donated to the US Army . There is no further record of what happened with that one 1 . 1 caliber mount sent to Corregidor . Some online articles referring to this " donated to the Army " mount exist . One states the guns were installed in a special concrete mount and used successfully against Japanese airplanes until destroyed by gunfire . Due to teething problems that were never rectified , the gun was very unpopular with its crews . It was replaced with the Bofors 40 mm gun whenever possible , but served until the end of the war on some ships . The guns were sometimes referred to as " Chicago Pianos . "
3rd Independent Battery Kansas Light Artillery 3rd Independent Battery Kansas Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War . Service . The battery was originally recruited by Henry Hopkins and John F . Aduddell in late 1861 , but was ultimately organized as Company B , 2nd Kansas Cavalry . It was reorganized as artillery on October 27 , 1862 with guns captured at the Battle of Old Fort Wayne and designated as Hopkins ' Battery Kansas Light Artillery , which was only meant to be a temporary assignment . The designation was officially changed to 3rd Kansas Battery on October 1 , 1863 by order of the War Department . The battery was attached to 3rd Brigade , 1st Division , Army of the Frontier , Department of the Missouri , October 1862 , to February 1863 . District of Northwest Arkansas , Department of the Missouri , to June 1863 . District of the Frontier , Department of the Missouri , to December 1863 . 3rd Brigade , District Frontier , Department of the Missouri , to January 1864 . 3rd Brigade , District of the Frontier , VII Corps , Department of Arkansas , to January 1865 . The 3rd Kansas Battery mustered out of service at Fort Leavenworth , Kansas on January 19 , 1865 . At that time , veterans and recruits ( 45 men ) in the battery were transferred to the 2nd Kansas Battery . Detailed service . Occupation of Newtonia October 4 , 1862 . Hazel Bottom October 14 . Shell ' s Mill October 16 . Cane Hill November 28 . Battle of Prairie Grove , Ark . , December 7 . Expedition over Boston Mountains to Van Buren December 27 – 31 . At Rhea ' s Mills January 1 , 1863 . Ordered to Fort Gibson February , arriving March 1 , and duty there until July 17 , 1863 . Action at Webber ' s Falls April 28 . Honey Springs July 1 . At Webber ' s Falls and Scullyville until September . March to Van Buren September 2 , and duty there until January 1865 . ( A detachment of 60 men were sent to Little Rock on September 13 , 1864 to receive a new battery and remained on duty there until January 1 , 1865 . Attached to Battery G , 1st Missouri Light Artillery , September 13 , 1864 to January 1 , 1865 . ) Casualties . The battery lost a total of 20 men during service ; 2 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded , 18 enlisted men died of disease .
John Black ( businessman ) Sir John Paul Black ( 10 February 1895 – 24 December 1965 ) held several senior positions in the British motor industry including chairman of Standard - Triumph . He was born in Kingston upon Thames on 10 February 1895 the son of a clerk , John George Black and his wife Ellen ( Smith ) and studied law at the University of London . During World War I he served first in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve before transferring to the Royal Tank Regiment where he gained the rank of Captain . After the war he joined Hillman as a sales manager and in 1921 married one of the owner ' s daughters , ( Margaret Verena b . 1887 ) . Shortly afterwards he became joint managing director alongside his brother - in - law Spencer Wilks who had also married one of the Hillman girls ( Kathleen Edith b . 1891 ) . In 1928 he joined the boards of Humber and Commer . In 1929 , after Hillman , Humber and Commer had become part of the Rootes Group he resigned his posts and took up a new position at the Standard Motor Company and in 1933 he became managing director . With the possibility of war again looming he enthusiastically backed the government scheme for Shadow Factories and gained contracts to build and operate two . During World War II he became chairman of the Aero Engine Committee , a role for which he gained a knighthood in 1943 . In the later years of the war he organised the take over of Triumph and in 1953 he became chairman of Standard - Triumph with Alick S . Dick taking over control of day to day operations . He was injured in late 1953 in an accident when being given a demonstration of the Swallow Doretti : this affected his judgment and he was forced to resign in January 1954 , officially because of his health . Shortly after Black died in 1965 , his successor at the helm of Standard - Triumph recalled Black with obvious affection as an " extrovert and exciting , if somewhat controversial personality " . Recalling cars introduced under Black such as the Triumph TR2 , Dick candidly stated that " the emphasis was on the chassis [ and on the car ' s performance ] rather than the body . [ Also ] typical [ of Black ] was the fact that all his cars had very little leg room and lots of head room because he was a six footer with short legs " . In December 1954 Black accepted an appointment as deputy chairman of Enfield Cables Ltd . In his retirement he took up farming . He died suddenly at Cheadle Hospital , Cheadle , Cheshire on 24 December 1965 at the age of 70 . Black married Daisy Hillman , daughter of William Hillman , founder of the Hillman Motor Car Company , in 1921 ; the marriage was dissolved in 1939 . He married again in 1943 to Alicia Joan Pears Linton , daughter of the Bishop of Persia later rector of Handsworth , with whom he had three sons . The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography inaccurately identifies both father and daughter .
Kranji War Memorial The Kranji War Memorial ( Chinese : 克兰芝阵亡战士公坟 ; ; ) is located at 9 Woodlands Road , in Kranji in northern Singapore . Dedicated to the men and women from United Kingdom , Australia , Canada , Sri Lanka , India , Malaya , the Netherlands and New Zealand who died defending Singapore and Malaya against the invading Japanese forces during World War II , it comprises the War Graves , the Memorial Walls , the State Cemetery , and the Military Graves . The War Memorial represents the three branches of the military - the Air Force , Army and Navy . The columns represent the Army , which marches in columns , the cover over the columns is shaped after of the wings of a plane , representing the Air Force , and the shape at the top resembles the sail of a submarine , representing the Navy . The Memorial ' s walls inscribe over 24 , 000 names of allied servicemen whose bodies were never found , spread over both sides of 12 columns of the war memorial itself . On the Kranji War Memorial the names of 191 Canadian airmen are inscribed . The grounds of the memorial is set on a hilly terrain with views around the largely undeveloped landscape , although signs of urbanity are clearly visible further afield . The modern skyline of Johor Bahru in Malaysia is also clearly visible . The grounds are immaculately maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission , and accessible only from Woodlands Road , the same road that the invading Japanese Imperial Guards had marched down on 9 February 1942 . Kranji War Memorial and Cemetery has been included into the photographic archive by the War Graves Photographic Project in association with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission . Each individual grave has been recorded together with each and every column on the memorials . Kranji War Cemetery . The War Cemetery is the final resting place for 4 , 458 allied servicemen in marked graves laid out in rows on maintained and manicured lawns . Over 850 of these graves are unidentified . Towards the north end of the cemetery grounds is the State Cemetery and burial site of Inche Yusuf bin Ishak and Benjamin Henry Sheares , the first and second Presidents of Singapore . To the west are the Military Graves for Commonwealth soldiers who died during the Konfrontasi and Malayan Communist Insurgency periods . 69 Chinese servicemen who served as members of the Commonwealth forces and who were killed by the Japanese in February 1942 were buried at the Chinese Memorial . There are also 64 burials for World War I , including special memorials for three men who were buried in civil cemeteries in Singapore and Saigon , and whose graves were impossible to locate till this day . Previously a hospital burial ground during the Japanese Occupation period , it became a military cemetery at the end of the war . Military servicemen buried elsewhere in Singapore were exhumed and reburied at the memorial . The Indian Soldiers ' were not buried at the Kranji War Memorial as they were supposed to be cremated . Instead their names were engraved on the memorial walls .
Lev Dovator Lev Mikhaylovich Dovator ( February 20 , 1903 Khotino , Russian Empire - December 19 , 1941 ) was a Soviet major - general and a Hero of the Soviet Union ( 1941 ) . Biography . Dovator came from a family of peasant Jewish origin . At the start of the German invasion of the Soviet Union , he was posted as Chief of Staff of the Red Army ' s 36th Cavalry Division . He soon became the commander of a cavalry group , and in August - September 1941 this cavalry group executed the most daring raid through the rear areas of the German army in the area of Smolensk . During the battle of Moscow , Dovator was the commander of 2nd Guards Cavalry Corps , which fended off the enemy advancement at Volokolamsk . He was killed in action near the outskirts of Ruza . He was reportedly cut down by machine - gun fire while crawling towards a forward position to get a better look . Dovator was posthumously given the tile Hero of the Soviet Union two days after this . ( Upon hearing of his death , Marshal Georgi Zhukov is said to have lamented that it was a grievous loss . )
RAF West Kirby RAF West Kirby was a Royal Air Force basic training camp near West Kirby , Wirral Peninsula , England . The camp at Larton in Cheshire was actually located 3 miles from West Kirby village from which it took its name . It was set up at the beginning of the Second World War as a basic training camp to train new recruits into the Royal Air Force . It was very first base of most personnel there during 1940s to 1960 most of whom were newly called up in the rank of AC2 ( the very lowest rank in the RAF ) for their 2 years National Service in the British armed forces known as a " square bashing camp " in the vernacular . At this base , the men were given their initial training on their first entry into RAF which included first learning of RAF parade ground drill with rifles , intensive physical fitness training , training in ground combat and defence under Non Commissioned Officers of the RAF Regiment and some education about the RAF and its history . Men while undergoing their basic training at West Kirby were accommodated in wooden barrack huts , each one housing about twenty men . Because West Kirby was a basic training camp with no airfield there , discipline was very much stricter than in any normal RAF operational or trade training camp . Recruits normally spent a period of 8 weeks on their training at West Kirby before being posted on to their " trade training " camp elsewhere in the United Kingdom . Thousands of conscript s went through its gates up until 1960 , when the camp was demolished and the land converted back into farming fields . The camp entrance was on Saughall Massie Road , almost opposite Oldfield Lane . A dedication plaque was installed where the camp entrance used to be in 2006 .
Horace L . McBride Horace Logan McBride ( June 29 , 1894 – November 14 , 1962 ) was a US Army General during World War II . He commanded American forces in the Ardennes ( Battle of the Bulge ) , the Rhineland , and Central Europe during that conflict . Early Professional Life . He attended the University of Nebraska from 1910 to 1911 , and then attended and graduated from West Point in 1916 . On commissioning , he served as a battery commander in the 347th Field Artillery in World War I as part of the American Expeditionary Forces . He took part in the Meuse - Argonne offensive . Later he was Assistant Military Attaché at The Hague , Belgium , and then in WarsawPoland in 1919 . McBride was Professor of Military Science and Tactics at Yale University from 1923 until 1927 . In 1928 he attended and graduated from the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth , Kansas . He was an instructor at the Field Artillery School from 1928 to 1932 , then served in the Philippines from 1932 until 1935 . After graduating from the Army War College in 1936 , he served as an instructor at the Command and General Staff College from 1926 until 1940 . He was stationed at the Panama Canal Zone from 1940 to 1942 . World War II . From April 1942 to March 1943 , he served as Commander of the 80th Infantry Division Artillery . McBride was promoted to Brigadier General in May 1942 . He assumed command of the entire 80th Infantry Division in 1943 and was promoted to Major General March 1943 . He served as Commanding General of the XX Corps from 1945 until 1946 . Post World War II and the Cold War . From 1946 until 1947 , McBride served as Commanding General of the 9th Division . He was Commandant of the Command and General Staff College from 1950 until 1952 . From 1953 until 1954 , he oversaw the Caribbean Command as its Commander - in - Chief , whereafter he retired in June 1954 . Decorations . His awards included the Distinguished Service Medal , two Silver Star s , the Legion of Merit , the Bronze Star and the Army Commendation Medal .
Lightweight Rucksack The Lightweight Rucksack was the primary rucksack utilized by United States troops during the Vietnam War . Its ensemble consisted of a nylon pack with a cinch cord , top flap and three exterior pockets and a tubular aluminum frame with padded shoulder straps and waist belt . The Lightweight Rucksack was developed in 1962 as a part of the United States Army ' s efforts to develop suitable equipment for use by what were then advisors in South Vietnam and later the deployed ground forces , through testing by the 5th Special Forces Group ( Airborne ) at the Panama Canal Zone . Four different patterns of the LW Rucksack exist , with the latter two models featuring attachment points which allow the pack itself to be mounted in two and three different locations on the frame , respectively . A prototype rucksack was produced in 1962 , featuring a welded frame . The 1964 model was virtually the same , but with the contract information stamped in the pack rather than sewn in on a label . The next improvement came along in 1965 , when the frame was changed to a riveted version rather than a welded one . The last modification was made in 1968 , with the addition of a middle horizontal back strap . The LW Rucksack replaced and augmented the M1956 and M1961 versions of Field Packs and was later partially replaced by the Tropical Rucksack of the M1967 MLCE ( Designed more specifically for jungle warfare in mind ) . The Pack was typically mounted low on the frame allowing bulky equipment to be strapped above . Stocks of LW Rucksacks were replaced in United States military service beginning in 1974 with the adoption of the ALICE equipment . LW Rucksacks are currently quite desirable amongst collectors and period reenactors alike , and often retail for anywhere between $ 250 and $ 350 USD at dedicated militaria dealers and online auctions .
Brandenburg - class frigate The F123 Brandenburg class is a class of German frigate . They were ordered by the German Navy in June 1989 , and then completed and commissioned between 1994 and 1996 to replace the Hamburg class destroyer s . These frigates primarily carry out antisubmarine warfare , but they also contribute to antiaircraft warfare defenses , the tactical command of squadron s , and surface - to - surface warfare operations . Their design includes some stealth features . Currently the F123 class is being upgraded under the auspices of the Fähigkeitsanpassung FüWES ( FAF ) project . The primary component being upgraded under this program is the Combat Management System , for which a version of the Thales Nederland TACTICOS system will be used . The ships will also receive an IFF upgrade , to the EADS MSSR 2000 I secondary radar system . However , its primary radars , specifically its long - range 2D search radar , the Thales Nederland LW08 , and its medium - range 3D surveillance radar , the Thales Nederland SMART - S , are to remain . The ships were to receive low - frequency active sonars under the Franco - German LFTASS programme but the French withdrew in 2000 and are now using a derivative of the British Sonar 2087 ; " Bayern " received the prototype TASS 6 - 3 sonar but it seems unlikely that more units will be ordered in the current budget environment . List of ships . All ships of the class are named after German Bundesländer and are based in Wilhelmshaven as " 2 . Fregattengeschwader " ( " 2nd Frigate Squadron " ) of the Deutsche Marine .