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Distinguished Service Medal ( Australia ) The Distinguished Service Medal ( DSM ) is a military decoration awarded to personnel of the Australian Defence Force for distinguished leadership in action . The DSM was introduced in 1991 and is the second highest distinguished service decoration in the Australian Honours System . Recipients of the Distinguished Service Medal are entitled to use the post - nominal letters " DSM " . Since its inception 125 have been awarded , which includes three Bars , with the most recent being announced in the 2012 Queen ' s Birthday Honours List . Government allowance . The Government of Australia may grant an allowance to veterans or serving members of the Australian Defence Force who have been awarded the Distinguished Service Medal , or other awards for gallantry . At November 2007 , this allowance was A $ 2 . 10 per fortnight .
USS Cape Johnson ( AP - 172 ) USS " Cape Johnson " ( AP - 172 ) , was a United States Navy troop transport ship that was used in the South Pacific during World War II . The ship was named for a cape off the coast of Washington state . Service history . Construction and commissioning , 1943 – 1944 . " Cape Johnson " , a 5 , 668 - ton Maritime Commission C1 - B type cargo ship , was built at Wilmington , California . She was launched on 20 February 1943 by Consolidated Steel Corporation , Ltd . , Wilmington , California , under a Maritime Commission contract and sponsored by Mrs . A . C . Steward . The ship was converted to a troop transport by Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co . ; acquired by the Navy and commissioned on 1 June 1944 , Commander L . C . Farley , USNR , in command ; and reported to the Pacific Fleet . 1944 – 1946 . " Cape Johnson " was initially used to redistribute Army and Marine forces between the Marianas and bases in the South Pacific . In November 1944 she arrived with a supply echelon off the assault areas at Leyte in the Philippines and then landed her troops at Samar . In January 1945 , " Cape Johnson " landed troops in Lingayen Gulf during the initial assault on Luzon Island . In mid - February she arrived off Iwo Jima with Marine Corps troops and cargo , which she put ashore as needed through the end of March . The transport then returned to San Francisco and carried troops from there to Manila . With the bitter fighting on the island over , " Cape Johnson " embarked men of the 5th Marines , whom she carried to Pearl Harbor . Sailing on to San Francisco , where she arrived on 22 April 1945 , " Cape Johnson " transported troops from the west coast to Manila , and on 16 August cleared the Philippines for Pearl Harbor . With occupation troops loaded there , the transport arrived at Wakayama , Honshū , Japan on 27 September , and then began transpacific crossings returning servicemen to the States . She was decommissioned 25 July 1946 and returned to her former owner the next day . The ship was sold for scrapping , on 10 June 1963 , to Zidell Explorations , Inc . , Portland , Oregon . Harry Hess . The American geologist Harry Hess commanded the USS " Cape Johnson " during her commission . In addition to his Naval duties , Hess carefully tracked his travel routes to Pacific Ocean landings on the Marianas , Philippines , and Iwo Jima , continuously using his ship ' s echo sounder . This unplanned wartime scientific surveying enabled Hess to collect ocean floor profiles across the North Pacific Ocean , resulting in the discovery of flat - topped submarine volcano es , which he termed guyot s . This information led to many discoveries which helped to form the basis of the theory of plate tectonics . Awards . " Cape Johnson " received two battle star s for World War II service .
Vickers Valetta The Vickers Valetta was a British twin - engine military transport aircraft of the late 1940s . It was an all - metal mid - wing monoplane with a tailwheel undercarriage . Design and development . The Valetta was a military transport development of the Viking civil airliner . The 158th Viking became the prototype Valetta , which was first flown from Brooklands by Mutt Summers on 30 June 1947 . The Valetta differed from the Viking fundamentally in being fitted with more powerful engines , a strengthened floor and large loading doors . The Viking and Valetta provided the basis of the Varsity . The Varsity although similar was slightly larger and had a tricycle landing gear and under - fuselage pannier . Operational history . The Valetta C . 1 entered service with the RAF in 1948 , replacing the Douglas Dakota with RAF Transport Command and with transport squadrons in the Middle and Far East . The Valetta was used used to carry out parachute drops in the 1956 Suez Crisis , and was used to provide transport support for a number of other British Military operations in the 1950s and 1960s , such as during the Malayan Emergency and operations in Aden . The Valetta T . 3 was built to provide a navigational trainer for service with the RAF College at RAF Cranwell and with No . 1 and No . 2 Air Navigation Schools . 40 were delivered from August 1951 . 18 aircraft were later converted to T . 4 standard with a longer nose to accommodate a radar scanner in order to train crews in the AI ( Airborne Interception ) role .
Battle of Blountville The Battle of Blountville , sometimes called Battle of Blountsville , was a battle of the American Civil War , occurring on September 22 , 1863 , in Sullivan County , Tennessee . The battle occurred during a Union expedition into East Tennessee led by Major General Ambrose Burnside , commander of the Department of the Ohio , with the objective of clearing the roads and gap s to Virginia and securing the saltworks in southwestern Virginia . On September 22 , Union Col . John W . Foster , with his cavalry and artillery , engaged Col . James E . Carter and his troops at Blountville . Foster attacked at noon and in the four - hour battle shelled the town and initiated a flanking movement , compelling the Confederates to withdraw . Blountsville was the initial step in the Union ’ s attempt to force Confederate Maj . Gen . Sam Jones and his command to retire from East Tennessee . The Sullivan County courthouse in Blountville was gutted by a fire that broke out during the shelling . It was rebuilt in 1866 .
4th Mounted Brigade ( United Kingdom ) The 4th Mounted Brigade previously known as the 2 / 1st South Wales Brigade was a second line yeomanry brigade of the British Army during the First World War . Raised after the declaration of war , it was a mirror formation of the first line South Wales Mounted Brigade . It had under command the 2 / 1st Pembroke Yeomanry , the 2 / 1st Montgomeryshire Yeomanry , the 2 / 1st Welsh Horse and the 2 / 1st Glamorgan Yeomanry . All of which were converted in cyclist units in 1916 , the brigade , never having seen any active service , ceased to exist .
Gust J . Swenning Gust J . Swenning ( 2 August 1917 – 1 December 1942 ) was an American sailor who served in the United States Navy and was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross . Navy career . " Swenning " was born at Manor , Texas and enlisted in the Navy on 9 September 1938 . Upon completion of basic training at San Diego , California , he was transferred to USS New Orleans ( CA - 32 ) for duty . After participation in the defense of Pearl Harbor , the Battle of the Coral Sea , the Battle of Midway , and operations off Guadalcanal and in the Solomon Islands , " Swenning " was still serving in New Orleans on 30 November 1942 . That night , Japanese naval forces began the Battle of Tassafaronga , Solomon Islands . Awarded the Navy Cross . " Swenning " was a member of the Forward Repair Party when New Orleans was struck by a torpedo which detonated the forward magazines . He unhesitatingly dived through the oil and water in a flooded compartment to close a watertight door . In further efforts to assist in bringing the damaged ship to port , he labored tirelessly and continuously for twelve hours after the cessation of the action . His courageous devotion to duty was in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service . " Swenning " died on 1 December 1942 and was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross . Namesake . USS Swenning ( DE - 394 ) was named in his honor . The ship was laid down on 17 July 1943 by the Brown Shipbuilding Co . , Houston , Texas ; launched on 13 September 1943 ; sponsored by Miss Hertha Rhode ; and commissioned on 1 December 1943 , Lt . Richard E . Peek , Jr . , USNR , in command .
Japanese destroyer Hamanami Participated in Battle of the Philippine Sea . Battle of Leyte Gulf : Battle off Samar : Assigned to 1st Diversion Task Force , On October 26 assisted the sinking Noshiro . On 11 November 1944 , " Hamanami " was escorting troop convoy TA No . 3 from Manila , Philippines to Ormoc . She was sunk by aircraft of Task Force 38 in Ormoc Bay , west of Leyte ( ) , with 63 killed and 42 injured . rescued 167 survivors , including ComDesDiv 32 ( Captain Oshima Ichitaro ) and Commander Motokura . Three transports and their escorts : , and , all went down with " Hamanami " .
Bindon Blood General Sir Bindon Blood , GCB ( 7 November 1842 – 16 May 1940 ) was a British military commander who served in Egypt , Afghanistan , India and Africa . Military career . Born near Jedburgh , Scotland , Blood was related to Colonel Thomas Blood who attempted to steal the Crown Jewels in 1671 . Blood attended the Royal School , Banagher , Queen ' s College , Galway , and the Addiscombe Military College . He was commissioned in 1860 in the Royal Engineers as a temporary lieutenant in charge of signaling and pontoon bridge construction in India , and for brief periods in Zululand and South Africa . Promoted to captain in 1873 , he served with British forces in the North - West Frontier ( Jowaki ) . In 1879 he was sent back to Africa for the Anglo - Zulu War . He went on to fight in the Second Anglo - Afghan War and the battle of Tel - el - Kebir . By 1882 he was a brevet lieutenant - colonel . The following year , 1883 , Blood married Charlotte E . Colvin , second daughter of Sir Auckland Colvin , a distinguished Indian administrator from a well - connected family . Then he returned to India and took command of the Bengal Sappers and Miners in 1885 . After seven years he reached the rank of brigadier - general , serving in the garrison at Rawalpindi , and then in the relief force known as the Chitral Expedition . He then commanded the Malakand Field Force and the Buner Field Force , relieving the garrison during the siege of Malakand . At the end of this command he was promoted to major - general . Lord Kitchener succeeded as chief of command during the Second Boer War in late 1900 , and requested Blood for service in South Africa , where he arrived in early March 1901 . He spent six months fighting in the Eastern Transvaal and received the local rank of Lieutenant - General on the Staff in April 1901 . In late September 1901 he returned to India to take up the position of Commander - in - Chief Punjab Command , where he arrived the following month . In November 1907 he retired to London , where he continued to lead a very active life . He was made colonel - commandant of the Royal Engineers in 1914 and worked to recruit soldiers for the World War I . He was aged 94 when he was made Chief Royal Engineer ( CRE ) in 1936 . He died in 1940 , survived by his one daughter . Notes . Entries in Burkes Landed Gentry show General Sir Bindon not to be a descendant of Colonel Thomas Blood , who attempted to steal the crown jewels , as Colonel Thomas Blood was from a younger branch of the family . General Sir Bindon descends from Colonel Thomas Blood ' s uncle the Rev . Neptune Blood .
Battle of Bilin River The Battle of Bilin River was the first major battle of the Burma Campaign in World War II . Fought between 14 February and 18 February 1942 , the battle was a tactical victory for Japan over the British Indian Army , and it led to a decisive victory for Japan immediately afterwards at the Battle of Sittang Bridge . Brigadier Sir John George Smyth , V . C . — who commanded 17th Infantry Division of the British Indian Army at Bilin River — said the Bilin River " at that time of year was only a ditch , but a good co - ordinating line " . 17th Division was , at that time , a new formation that had yet to see its first battle . The Japanese 112th Battalion of the Southern Army entered Burma ( now Myanmar ) on 15 January . They took Tavoy ( now Dawei ) on 19 January , cutting off the garrison at Mergui ( which escaped by sea ) . In the process they captured three small airfields , giving them close air support . They then advanced towards Kawkareik . Smyth wanted to withdraw immediately to better defensive terrain , but he was ordered to " stay put " . Prelude . On 26 January , the Japanese 55th Division advanced on Moulmein . Taking the town would give them another airfield , but it was hard for the Indians to defend . It was also a difficult place from which to retreat , because there was no bridge over the Gulf of Martaban ; any retreat would need to be by ferry . The British Indian Army held out for two days of fierce fighting , and then got away on a river steamer . In the process they lost about 600 soldiers and a significant amount of materiel . Smyth sent Brigadier " Punch " Cowan to Rangoon to speak with the Army Commander , General Hutton , and ask for permission to move to behind the Sittang River ( now Sittaung ) . In what Smyth called a " disastrous decision " , and perhaps influenced by his own orders from higher up , Hutton refused . The battle . 17th Division held at the Bilin River for two days of close - quarters jungle fighting . The Japanese tactics were to outflank , and eventually with encirclement imminent , Hutton came up from Rangoon and gave Smyth permission to fall back . 17th Division disengaged under cover of darkness and began a thirty - mile retreat along the dusty track to the Sittang Bridge . Aftermath . 17th Division slowly withdrew toward the bridge over the Sittang River . But it was outflanked by the Japanese who reached the area of the bridge and forced its demolition . The bulk of 17th Division was caught on the wrong side of the Sittang . While most of the men were able to eventually cross the river , almost all of their equipment had been lost .
Nautsi Nautsi is a tiny village in the Pechengsky District , Murmansk Oblast , Russia . Prior to World War II , it belonged to Finland . The headwaters of the Paatsjoki river , which forms part of the border between Norway and Russia , begin near here . Finnish forces retreated to this location during the 1939 war with Russia . Germany sought to capture this area during World War II because of the nearby nickel mines .
Decatur Dorsey Decatur Dorsey ( 1836 – July 11 , 1891 ) was a Union Army soldier in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U . S . military ' s highest decoration , the Medal of Honor , for his actions at the Battle of the Crater . Born into slavery , Dorsey enlisted in the United States Colored Troops and served through the last year of the war . Biography . Dorsey was born a slave in 1836 in Howard County , Maryland . He worked as a laborer before enlisting in the Union Army from Baltimore on March 22 , 1864 , at age twenty - five . He joined Company B of the 39th United States Colored Infantry Regiment as a private , but was promoted to corporal less than two months later , on May 17 . On July 30 , 1864 , Dorsey took part in the Battle of the Crater in Petersburg , Virginia . With the Siege of Petersburg at a stalemate , Union forces hoped to break the city ' s defenses by detonating explosives in a tunnel dug beneath the Confederate lines and charging the enemy positions in the aftermath of the explosion . The blast blew a huge crater in the Confederate defenses , and white Union soldiers rushed in to attack . Men who entered the crater became trapped as the Confederates regrouped and began firing down at them . Dorsey ' s division , which had been held in reserve , was then ordered to reinforce the attack . Dorsey , serving as the 39th Regiment ' s color bearer , moved ahead of his unit during the advance and planted the flag on the Confederate fortifications . When the regiment was forced to pull back , he retrieved the flag and rallied his fellow soldiers for a second attack . In this second assault , the men of the 39th breached the Confederate works and engaged in hand - to - hand combat with the defenders . They captured two hundred prisoners and two flags before being pushed back again and ordered to withdraw . Dorsey was promoted to sergeant on August 1 , two days after the battle , and again to first sergeant on January 1 , 1865 . He was awarded the Medal of Honor on November 8 , 1865 , for his actions at the Battle of the Crater and was discharged from the Army a month later , on December 4 , while in Wilmington , North Carolina . After the war he married and lived in Hoboken , New Jersey . He died there on July 11 , 1891 at the approximate age of fifty - five . He was buried at Flower Hill Cemetery in North Bergen , New Jersey . Medal of Honor citation . Planted his colors on the Confederate works in advance of his regiment , and when the regiment was driven back to the Union works he carried the colors there and bravely rallied the men .
Mohamed Abdel Ghani el - Gamasy Mohamed Abdel Ghani el - Gamasy ( Arabic : محمد عبد الغني الجمسي , 9 September 1921 – 7 June 2003 ) was an Egyptian Field Marshal ( Mushir ) and The Commander in Chief of The Armed Forces . Early life . El Gamasy was born on 9 September 1921 in Batanoon , Monufia Governorate , Egypt . He was one of two brothers and five sisters . After high school , El Gamassy joined the Egyptian Military Academy and graduated in 1939 . October War . During the War of Attrition , on March 1969 , then - President Gamal Abdel Nasser appointed el - Gamasy as chief of staff of the Suez Canal front . His appointment was part of a process of rooting out former general commander Abdel Hakim Amer ' s mostly incompetent loyalists with capable commanders , including Abdul Munim Riad , Saad el - Shazly and Ahmed Ismail . El - Gamasy later wrote that Nasser should have deconstructed Amer ' s autonomous web of control in the armed forces following the Egyptian military failiure during the Suez Crisis in 1956 . El - Gamasy was well known for being the director of operations for all forces participating in the 1973 October War . He was also appointed by Anwar Sadat as the head of the group that participated in the disengagement talks on October 28 , at " Kilometer 101 " . Reportedly , he was sad for the lost souls at the war when the American secretary of state Henry Kissinger announced that the president Sadat agreed to pull the main part of the Egyptian forces from the east side of the Suez Canal in exchange of the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the west side of the Suez Canal and retreat back into the depth of Sinai . Death . On 7 June 2003 , El Gamasy died in a hospital in Cairo after a long battle with illness .
Cadet Forces Medal The Cadet Forces Medal is awarded to recognise long and efficient service by Commissioned Officers and non commissioned adult instructors of the UK Cadet Forces : The Army Cadet Force , the Air Training Corps , the Sea Cadet Corps and Combined Cadet Force , and Commissioned Officers of the New Zealand Cadet Forces . It is awarded for 12 years service . Additional clasps are issued for every 8 years additional service in New Zealand & for 6 additional years in the UK . The Cadet Forces Medal was issued to Officers and Instructors within the Australian Sea Cadet Corps / Naval Reserve Cadets , Australian Army Cadet Corps and Air Training Corps between 1950 and 1974 . In Australia , the award was superseded in 1999 by the Australian Cadet Forces Service Medal which was backdated to include service prior to 1999 not used for the award of the Cadet Forces Medal . Post Nominals . Recipients of the Cadet Forces Service Medal do not earn an entitlement to use post - nominal letters .
Trimontium ( Newstead ) Trimontium is the name of a Roman fort at Newstead , near Melrose , Borders , Scotland , close under the three Eildon Hills ( whence the name " trium montium " ) . It was an advance post of the Romans in the Roman province of Valentia . The fort was identified by Ptolemy in his Geography . Trimontium was occupied by the Romans intermittently from 80 to 211 . The fort was likely abandoned from c . 100 - 105 AD until c . . 140 AD . At the height of the Roman occupation of the fort , no more than 1500 soldiers and a smaller civilian population lived in the settlement . Fort . The fort was laid out like a standard Roman fort . It has three layers of defences , the first being the central fort itself with its earthen defenses built during the 1st century . The second layer is a series of four ditches built during the last part of the 2nd century . There is an additional series of walls and trenches in the west annex . In addition to the standard Roman defenses and fort , which include a Roman bath and mansio built during a major expansion in 86 AD , the Romans built other structures . Chief amongst these was an amphitheatre excavated in 1996 , which could have held between 1000 - 2000 people , smaller than many other Romano - British amphitheatres . The main road to the fort led directly west from the main fort . An additional north - south road ran along the outskirts of the fort . Site archaeology . Excavations by James Curle between February 1905 and September 1910 began the first exploration of the site , making many findings . These include the foundations of several successive forts , one above the other , which throw much light on the character of the Roman military post ; an unparalleled collection of Roman armour , including ornate cavalry parade ( or ' sports ' ) helmets ( Newstead Helmet ) , horse fittings including bronze saddleplates and studded leather chamfrons , a good series of Roman coins and some datable pottery . The whole illustrates the history of the Roman army and that of the Roman military occupation of southern Scotland very remarkably . The cavalry unit stationed at Trimontium , " ala Augustae Vocontiorum " had been raised among the Vocontii of southern Gaul . Additional ditches were dug in 1947 , which defined the defenses of the central fort . Between 1989 and 1993 , the Newstead Research Project made further excavations with the support of the Department of Archaeological Sciences at the University of Bradford . The University of Bedford did another excavation and a geophysical survey on the site in 1996 , focusing on annexes beyond the central fort . Museums . The many finds from Trimontium are on display at the Museum of Scotland , Chambers Street , Edinburgh . There is also a museum run by the Trimontium Trust at Melrose . In fiction . In Rosemary Sutcliff ' s novel " The Eagle of the Ninth " , while the characters Marcus and Esca are traveling through Valentia in search of the lost Eagle of the Ninth Legion , they spend a night in the fort , and it is described in this context .
Andre Barcat Sous Lieutenant Andre Jean Louis Barcat was a World War I fighter ace credited with five aerial victories . Honors and awards . Chevalier de la Légion d ' Honneur Officer of admirable strength , model of discipline and tenacity in combat . Killed on 16 July 1918 , having reported his fifth victory . Has been cited . Chevalier de la Légion d ' Honneur citation , 30 July 1919
Military Intelligence Division ( United States ) The Military Intelligence Division was the military intelligence branch of the United States Army and United States Department of War from May 1917 ( as the Military Intelligence Section , then Military Intelligence Branch in February 1918 , then Military Intelligence Division in June 1918 ) to March 1942 . It proceeded the Military Information Division and the General Staff Second Division and was reorganised as the Military Intelligence Service . History . World War One . Corps of Interpreters American Expeditionary Force G2 Corps of Intelligence Police Inter - War Years . Army G2 Black Chamber MI Officer Reserve Corps Signal Intelligence Service Devolution to G2 and S2 World War Two . Military Intelligence Service