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David Ernest Hornell David Ernest Hornell , VC ( 26 January 1910 – 24 June 1944 ) 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 . Details . Flight Lieutenant Hornell was flying as aircraft captain on Consolidated Canso amphibians with 162 ( Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron ) , RCAF from RAF Wick in Northern Scotland , when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC . On 24 June 1944 on sea patrol near the Faroes in the North Atlantic , Flight Lieutenant Hornell ' s twin - engined Catalina amphibian aircraft was attacked and badly damaged by the German U - boat U - 1225 ; nevertheless he succeeded in sinking the U - 1225 and then with superhuman effort managed to bring his aircraft down on the heavy swell , the plane blazing furiously . There was only one serviceable dinghy which could not hold all the crew so they took it in turns in the water . By the time the survivors were rescued after 21 hours , Flight Lieutenant Hornell was blinded and weak from exposure and cold . He died shortly after being picked up . He is buried in Lerwick Cemetery , Shetland Islands . His medal is on loan to the Air Command Headquarters in Winnipeg . Further information . Hornell was born in Mimico , Ontario where he attended Mimico High School obtaining the Fred Werden scholarship given in memory of the son of Mimico ' s Postmaster who was killed in the First World War . One of the elementary schools in Mimico is named after him . He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force in January 1941 , and received his pilot ' s wings in September the same year . After further instruction in Charlottetown , Prince Edward Island , he was posted to the Royal Canadian Air Force station on North Vancouver Island . Flight Lieutenant Hornell completed 60 operational missions , involving some 600 hours flying . The PBY Canso operated out of the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton , Ontario , was restored in the colours and markings of 162 ( Bomber Reconnaissance ) Squadron and dedicated to the memory of Flight Lieutenant David Hornell , VC . ( See Canadian Warplanes - PBY - 5A ) . A squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Cadets is named after him , 700 David Hornell V . C . Squadron , and it is located in the west end of Toronto , Ontario . There is a ferry to the Toronto Island Airport named after Hornell , as well as the Wing Operations building at CFB 14 Wing Greenwood , Nova Scotia , Canada . The medal . Air Command Heritage Museum , Winnipeg , Manitoba .
Aarne Juutilainen Aarne Edward Juutilainen ( 18 October 1904 – 28 October 1976 ) , nicknamed " The Terror of Morocco " , was a Finnish army captain who served in the French Foreign Legion in Morocco between 1930 and 1935 . After returning to Finland , he served in the Finnish army and became a national hero in the Battle of Kollaa during the Winter War with Russia . He was wounded three times during World War II . Juutilainen was born in Sortavala , and died in Helsinki . His brother was flying ace Ilmari Juutilainen . French Foreign Legion . On 20 June 1930 , Juutilainen travelled to France and joined the French Foreign Legion . He was transferred to Fort St . Nicolas in Southern France , near Marseille , and from there to Oran in Algeria . He spent time in a Foreign Legion training camp in the town of Sidi Bel Abbès . From there he was transferred to Fez and fought in several battles against the Arab rebels in the Atlas Mountains . Because of his service in Morocco , he was called the " The Terror of Morocco " by Finnish troops . The war in the Atlas Mountains was long , and in 1931 the Arab offensive surrendered . Juutilainen returned to Finland on 20 June 1935 , by which time the whole of Morocco was under French control . The Winter War . In November 1939 , the Soviet Union attacked Finland , starting the Winter War . Juutilainen served in the Finnish army during this war , notably during the Battle of Kollaa . Major General Woldemar Hägglund ' s question " Will Kollaa hold ? " ( " " ) was famously answered by Lieutenant Juutilainen : " Kollaa will hold , unless the orders are to run . " During his command at Kollaa in December 1939 , Juutilainen negotiated with Hägglund about the strategy for the Kollaa Front . The Battle of Kollaa was strategically important . " Unless we are told to run " meant exactly that ; a week earlier , he had received a regimental order to withdraw , which he disregarded . Afterwards , lieutenant - colonel and regiment commander Wilhelm Teittinen , who commanded the JR / 34 at the Kollaa Front , honored Juutilainen : " He created the Kollaa Spirit " . By 1940 , Juutilainen was a captain commanding the " Moroccan company " , a unit of " good shots and good skiers " who had all been decorated for bravery . A contemporary news report described the unit as having achieved " startling victories in this sector " during the war . Juutilainen ' s men called him " papa " . He used the guerilla warfare skills he learned with the French Foreign Legion to train his men . By this time , Juutilainen had lost one finger of his right hand as a result of Russian shrapnel .
Ram Chandra Bharadwaj Ram Chandra Bharadwaj , also known as Pandit Ram Chandra was the president of the Ghadar Party between 1914 and 1917 . As a member of the Ghadar Party , Ram Chandra was also one of the founding editors of the Hindustan Ghadar and a key leader of the party in its role in the Indo - German Conspiracy . He assumed the role of the president of the party following Lala Har Dayal ' s departure for Switzerland in 1914 and , along with Bhagwan Singh and Maulvi Mohammed Barkatullah , was key in rallying the support of the South Asian community in the Pacific Coast in the wake of the Komagata Maru incident for the planned February mutiny . Ram Chandra was assassinated on 24 April 1918 on the last day of the Hindu German Conspiracy Trial by Ram Singh , a fellow defendant , on the latter ' s belief that Ram Chandra was a British Agent .
USS Mist ( SP - 567 ) The second USS " Mist " ( SP - 567 ) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919 . " Mist " was built as a private steam launch of the same name by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company at Bristol , Rhode Island , in 1904 . In April 1917 , the U . S . Navy informally acquired her from her owner , Edward Morell , for use as a section patrol vessel during World War I . She was commissioned as USS " Mist " ( SP - 567 ) on 28 April 1917 with Boatswain ' s Mate J . H . Maxner , USNRF , in command . Formal acquisition of " Mist " from Morrell followed on 12 May 1917 . Assigned to the 1st Naval District in northern New England , " Mist " served for the rest of World War I as a dispatch boat and guard boat in the vicinity of Boston , Massachusetts . She also supported the minesweeping training activities of the Mine Sweeping Division , which operated along the coast of Massachusetts from its base at Boston Harbor . " Mist " was returned to Morrell on 3 February 1919 .
Blas de Lezo - class cruiser The " Blas de Lezo " - class cruisers were a group of two cruisers built for the Spanish Navy in the 1920s . The ships were ordered in 1915 but construction proceeded slowly due to materials shortages during World War I . The ships were built by Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval in Ferrol and showed considerable British design influence , resembling contemporary British C - class cruisers . " Mendez Nunez " was reconstructed into an anti - aircraft cruiser in 1944 . She was re - armed with 8 - 120mm Vickers anti - aircraft guns in single mountings , 4 × 2 37mm and 2 × 4 20mm light AA guns of German origin . The superstructure was completely rebuilt and fitted with modern fire control equipment . Two triple banks of torpedo tubes were retained .
Charles Van Rensselaer III Charles Van Rensselaer III ( April 19 , 1926 – July 16 , 1999 ) was a member of the Rensselaer family of New York . Along with his brother Philip , Charles Van Rensselaer was one of the few remaining members of the historic Rensselaer family . Charles Van Rensselaer died at age 73 in an automobile accident in Palm Beach , Florida , where he had resided for thirty years . Interment was in St . John ' s Cemetery in Cold Spring Harbor , New York ; he was survived by his brother Philip .
69th Infantry Division ( Wehrmacht ) The 69th Infantry Division was a combat division of the German Wehrmacht during the Second World War . History . Formed as a " second wave " division in August 1939 from the Münster - based 16th Artillery Command , the unit spent the first months of the war in the Eifel region of northwest Germany . In April 1940 , the division participated in the German invasion of Norway . A small party of soldiers from the unit landed at Egersund where they seized the telecommunications cable linking Norway with mainland Europe , encountering no significant opposition . A further 900 soldiers from the division were put ashore near Bergen where they captured the defensive fortifications ( which had fired on the approaching German ships ) as well as the city after engaging Norwegian forces in combat . The largest element of the division , some 5 , 000 soldiers in 250 transport planes , landed at Sola airport after it was seized by German paratroopers . The division then captured the nearby city of Stavanger . After the successful Norwegian Campaign , the 69th Infantry Division remained in occupied Norway until November 1942 . In December 1942 the division was moved to the Leningrad front as part of Army Group North ' s 18th Army . ( One regiment , the 193rd Grenadier , was left in Norway and replaced by another . ) ( See Siege of Leningrad . ) The division remained in the area and was pushed back to the Pskov area by Soviet offensives through February 1944 . In July 1944 the division was transferred south to Army Group Centre , which was reeling from repeated Soviet assaults . Falling back to Memel and then evacuated to East Prussia , by the beginning of 1945 the division was one of four defending the besieged city of Königsberg . Subjected to intense aerial bombing and artillery assault , the surviving members of the unit surrendered to the Red Army shortly after the city fell on April 9 , 1945 . Organization . In 1939 the 69th Infantry Division consisted of the following components : Having left a regiment in Norway and replacing it with another , the division ' s components in 1944 were : Commanders . The following officers commanded the 69th Infantry Division :
John Burke ( colonel ) John Timothy Burke ( July 8 , 1838 – June 23 , 1914 ) was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War . He was court martial ed for alleged cowardice at the Battle of Antietam and dismissed from the army . Burke was born in Dunmanway , County Cork , Ireland . He emigrated to the United States and settled in Oswego , New York . At the start of the war , Burke was the lieutenant colonel of the 37th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment " The Irish Rifles . " During the Peninsula Campaign , he was wounded in the first of the Seven Days Battles on June 25 , 1862 , at Oak Grove . By the Maryland Campaign in September 1862 , he had become the colonel of the 63rd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment in " The Irish Brigade " . During the fighting around the Sunken Road at Antietam General Thomas F . Meagher , commander of the Irish Brigade , was wounded . Colonel Burke assumed command of the brigade and led it from September 17 – 18 when Geneaner Meagher returned to command . Burke died in Oswego at the age of 75 and was buried in the town ' s cemetery .
HMS Madagascar ( 1811 ) The Néréide was a 38 - gun frigate of the French Navy designed by Sané . In 1810 , she sailed to Guadeloupe but was repelled by the blockade off Basse - Terre , and returned to Brest after a fight with HMS " Rainbow " and HMS " Avon " . She was captured during the action of 20 May 1811 , and brought into British service as HMS " Madagascar " . She took part in the Peninsular War against France and the War of 1812 with the United States of America . " Madagascar " , , and were in company on 6 March 1814 at the recapture of the " Diamond " . Shortly thereafter , Captain Bentinck Cavendish Doyle of " Lightning " transferred to take command of " Madagascar " . In June 1814 , the ship in a flotilla under the command of Admiral Lord Cochrane carried General William Miller and his troops from Bordeaux to the Chesapeake Bay to reinforce General Ross in the War of 1812 . During the Battle of North Point , a supplementary body of Royal Marines , drawn from 15 ships of the fleet , were assigned to the 2nd Battalion of Royal Marines , under the command of brevet Lieutenant Colonel James Malcolm . One of the two fatalities , Thomas Daw , was from HMS Ramillies .
Edwin Harris Dunning Squadron Commander Edwin Harris Dunning , DSC ( 17 July 1892 – 7 August 1917 ) , of the British Royal Naval Air Service , was the first pilot to land an aircraft on a moving ship . Dunning was born in South Africa on 17 July 1892 the second child of Sir Edwin Harris Dunning of Jacques Hall , Bradfield , Essex , he was educated at Royal Naval Colleges at Osborne and Dartmouth . Dunning landed his Sopwith Pup on HMS " Furious " in Scapa Flow , Orkney on 2 August 1917 . He was killed five days later , during his second landing attempt of the day , when an updraft caught his port wing , throwing his plane overboard . Knocked unconscious , he drowned in the cockpit . He is buried at St Lawrence ' s Church , Bradfield , beside his mother . A plaque in the church states " The Admiralty wish you to know what great service he performed for the Navy . It was in fact a demonstration of landing an Aeroplane on the deck of a Man - of - War whilst the latter was under way . This had never been done before ; and the data obtained was of the upmost value . It will make Aeoplanes indispensable to a fleet ; & possibly , revolutionise Naval Warfare . The risk taken by Squadron Commander Dunning needed much courage . He had already made two successful landings ; but expressed a wish to land again himself , before other Pilots did so ; and in this last run he was killed . My Lords desire to place on record their sense of the loss to the Naval Service of this gallant Officer . " In memory of Dunning , the Dunning Cup or Dunning Memorial Cup is given annually to the officer who is considered to have done most to further aviation in connection with the Fleet for the year in question . In the 1950s and 1960s it was awarded to Royal Air Force squadrons which achieve the highest standard on courses at the Joint Anti - Submarine School .
Mowag T1 4x4 History and Development The 1953 constructed MOWAG T 1 4x4 was modular built : with an open loading ramp , with radio shack as a closed van , etc . In order to keep the manufacturing , maintenance and repair as simple and inexpensive , many parts of the U . S . DODGE car maker are used , especially from the Dodge WC . The Mowag T1 exist with or without winch . Most MOWAG T1 4x4 were built as right - hand drive vehicles , there were over 1600 cars delivered in 7 different versions to the Swiss Army . MOWAG 4x4 T 1 were also supplied as emergency vehicles to fire departments and the police . The Army used the MOWAG T 1 4x4 until 1995 , many vehicles are now in private hands . Three vehicles of the military and police are now in the army museum in Full / Fort Reuenthal .
Tissa Weeratunga General Tissa Indraka " Bull " Weeratunga , VSV , ndc , psc , GW ( August 29 , 1930 – November 2003 ) was a former Commander of the Sri Lankan Army ( 1981 – 1985 ) and first General Officer Commanding ( GOC ) of the Joint Operations Headquarters ( JOH ) ( at present referred Chief of the Defence Staff ) , he was later Sri Lanka ' s High Commissioner to Canada . Early life and education . Born to Arthur ( proprietor planter ) & Henrietta Weeratunga ( née Gurusingha ) of Matara and he had one sister , Krishnajina who married Ana Seneviratne ( former Sri Lankan Inspector - General of Police ) . Tissa Weerathunga was educated at the prestigious Royal College , Colombo . He was a graduate of the Staff College , Camberley and the National Defence College , India . Military career . Weeratunga joined the newly formed Ceylon Army on October 11 , 1949 , in its first cadet officer intake and received his basic officer training at Royal Military Academy , Sandhurst , and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Ceylon Light Infantry in 1950 . He served as adjutant of the Ruhunu Regiment and Ceylon Light Infantry , later transferred to the Gemunu Watch and later became the commanding officer of its 1st Battalion . In 1965 he was the Brigade Major of the 1st Brigade Group in Panagoda . In 1971 a Lieutenant Colonel , he saw combat during the 1971 Insurrection as coordinating officer , Moneragala District and later took command of the Ceylon Army General Service Corps and the Ceylon Army Pioneer Corps . From 1972 to 1976 stationed in the northern part of the country fist as part as the commander of the Task Force Anti Illicit Immigration ( TAFII ) . In 1976 he was appointed Commander Western Command and later made Director Operations and Training at Army Headquarters . On December 1 , 1977 , he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier and appointed Inspector of Training of the Army . In March 1979 he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Army on and same time he functioned as Commander Security Forces , Jaffna from July 13 , 1979 , to December 31 , 1979 . He was made Commander of the Sri Lankan Army on October 14 , 1981 , and held the post till November 2 , 1985 , he was appointed as the first General Officer Commanding of the Joint Operation Command on February 11 , 1985 . He was promoted to the rank of General on August 29 , 1989 . Upon retiring from the army he was made Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Canada in 1986 . Weeratunga was accused of alleged of human rights abuses , however these have not been substantiated nor resulted in any judicial proceedings . Family . General Weeratunga was married to Sonia Paul Weeratunga and had three children : Rohan , Annouchka and Ajit . He died at the age 73 in November 2003 and was cremated with full Military Honours at General Cemetery Kanatte on November 9 , 2003 .
Nicolas de Harlay , seigneur de Sancy Nicolas de Harlay , seigneur de Sancy ( 1546 – 1629 ) was a French soldier and diplomat . Life . Although de Harlay belonged to the Protestant branch of the family of Harlay , he adopted the Catholic religion in 1572 during the massacres of the Huguenots . In 1589 he obtained in Geneva and Berne sums sufficient to raise an army of mercenaries for Henry III , partly by the sale of jewel s , among them the Sancy diamond which in 1835 found its way to the Russia n imperial treasure , and partly by leading the Swiss to suppose that the troops were intended for serious war against Savoy . Henry IV made him superintendent of his finances in 1594 , but in 1599 he was replaced by Maximilien de Béthune , duc de Sully . Meanwhile he had been a second time converted to Catholicism , but his influence at court waned , and he retired from public life in 1605 . He survived until the 13th of October 1629 , leaving a " Discours sur l ' occurrence des affaires " . His son , Achille Harlay de Sancy ( 1581 – 1646 ) , was bishop of Saint - Malo . Sancy diamonds . Sancy diamond . The Sancy diamond ' s known history began circa 1570 in Constantinople when purchased by de Sancy . Something of a gem connoisseur , de Sancy used his knowledge to prosperous advantage . Henry III of France suffered from premature baldness and tried to conceal this fact by wearing a cap . As diamonds were becoming increasingly fashionable at the time , Henry arranged to borrow de Sancy ' s diamond to decorate his cap . Henry IV also borrowed the stone , for the more practical purpose of using it as security for financing an army . Legend has it that a messenger carrying the jewel never reached his destination , but de Sancy ( by then Superintendent of Finance ) was convinced that the man was loyal and had a search conducted until the site of the messenger ' s robbery and murder was found . When the body was disinterred , the jewel was found in the faithful man ' s stomach . De Sancy later sold the diamond to James I ( successor of Queen Elizabeth ) about 1605 when it is thought the Sancy acquired its name . It was described in the Tower of London ' s 1605 Inventory of Jewels as " . . . one fayre dyamonde , cut in fawcetts , bought of Sauncy . "
Joseph de Montclar Joseph de Pons - Guimera Baron de Montclair , ( 1625 – 1690 ) , French cavalry general Commander in chief of the Alsace , he was an implacable executioner of the orders of Louis XIV and Louvois . In 1676 the king ordered the destruction of Haguenau , which he accomplished in January 1677 . The same year he destroyed many more fortresses . In the War of the Grand Alliance he took part in the destruction of large parts of the Palatinate .
Shivaji ' s forts Shivaji , founder of Maratha empire in western India in 1664 , was well known for his forts ; he was in possession of around three hundred at the time of his death . Many , like Panhala Fort and Rajgad existed before him but others , like Sindhudurg and Pratapgad , were built by him from scratch . Also , the fort of Raigad was built as the place of throne , i . e . , the capital , of Maratha Empire by Hiroji Indalkar ( Deshmukh ) on the orders of Shivaji . This is the place where Shivaji was coronated and today also his Samadhi stands in front of the Jagadishwar temple . These forts were central to his empire and their remains are among the foremost sources of information about his rule . The French missionary Father Fryer witnessed the fortifications of Gingee , Madras , built by Shivaji after its conquest , and appreciated his technical knowhow and knowledge . Sindhudurg was built in order to control attacks by Portuguese and Siddhis on the coastal areas of the Maratha Empire . This fort is the witness of Shivaji ' s Navy which was later led by Kanhoji Angre in times of Shivaji ' s grandson Shahu I , and came to glory . Also Shivaji built the forts of Colaba and Underi to control the activities of the Siddhis in Arabian Sea . At the time of Underi ' s construction British opposed a lot and stood with their warships in the sea to obstacle the material being supplied for the construction of the fort . But for their surprise the material required for construction was being supplied with the help of small boats in night . The hill fort Salher in Nashik district was at a distance of from the hill fort Jingi , near Chennai . Over such long distance , hill forts were supported by seaforts . The seafort , Kolaba Fort , near Mumbai , was at a distance of from the seafort Sindhudurg . All of these forts were put under a havaldar with a strong garrison . Strict discipline was followed . These forts proved useful during Mughal - Maratha wars . Along with Rana Kumbha of Mewar and Raja Bhoj of Shilahar , he stands as a grand figure in the art of fortification in Indian sub - continent . There are a number of legends about these forts . Even today thousands of youths visit these forts in his memory . Notable features of Shivaji ' s forts include :