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Donald Dickson Farmer Lieutenant - Colonel Donald Dickson Farmer VC MSM ( 28 May 1877 – 23 December 1956 ) was a Scottish 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 . He joined the Cameron Highlanders on 29 March 1892 , and served with the 1st Battalion in the Sudan Campaign , 1898 , and was present at the battles of Atbara and Khartoum . Details . Farmer was 23 years old , and a sergeant in the 1st Battalion , The Queen ' s Own Cameron Highlanders , British Army during the Second Boer War when he won the VC on 13 December 1900 at Nooitgedacht , South Africa . His citation reads : During World War I he served with the King ' s Regiment ( Liverpool ) . The medal . His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Regimental Museum of Queens Own Highlanders , Fort George , Inverness - shire , Scotland .
USS Roi ( CVE - 103 ) USS " Roi " ( CVE - 103 ) , originally MC hull 1140 and later projected as an AVG and an ACV , was laid down as Alava Bay " ( CVE - 103 ) on 22 March 1944 by Kaiser Shipbuilding Co . , Vancouver , Washington ; renamed Roi " on 26 April 1944 ; launched on 2 June 1944 ; sponsored by Mrs . William Sinton ; acquired from the Maritime Commission and commissioned on 6 July 1944 , Captain P . H . Lyon in command . Service history . World War II . Following shakedown off San Diego , " Roi " was assigned to the Carrier Transport Squadron which carried planes , equipment , and men to forward bases . On 13 August 1944 , she steamed for Espiritu Santo and Manus Island , loaded with 287 passengers and 71 planes , returning to San Diego on 27 September . Underway again for Manus on 21 October , she returned to San Diego before departing on 2 December on a third voyage which took her to Eniwetok and Guam . Following overhaul at Alameda , California , " Roi " made two round - trip voyages to bases in the Marshall and Mariana Islands before returning to Pearl Harbor to begin carrier refresher operations in preparation for her new duty as a replenishment carrier for the fast carrier task force of the 3rd Fleet . Loading 61 replacement aircraft in a 30 - day combat ready state , " Roi " sailed to Guam , where she reported to Task Group 30 . 8 ( TG 30 . 8 ) . Her duties were now to furnish pilots , crewmen , planes , and aviation supplies to the carriers of Task Force 38 ( TF 38 ) on rendezvous days following their attacks on the Japanese home islands . " Roi " got underway on 4 July with , and , and met TF 38 at sea on 12 July , 16 July , and 20 July , retiring to Guam on the 21st to reload . She got underway on the 27th with 61 more planes , and joined the fast carriers on the 31st . Returning to Guam , the ship reloaded and met the task force again on 14 August , just prior to the cessation of hostilities , then remained with the 3rd Fleet off Japan in preparation for the occupation . Post - War . Following the end of the war , " Roi " was used in " Magic - Carpet " operations , returning veterans to the United States for discharge . " Roi " was decommissioned at Bremerton on 9 May 1946 , struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 21 May , and sold on 31 December 1946 to Zidell Machinery & Supply of Portland , Oregon . Awards . " Roi " earned one battle star for World War II service .
32nd Indiana Infantry Regiment 32nd Regiment Indiana Infantry was also known as the 1st German Regiment ( an all - German regiment ) . Governor Oliver P . Morton commissioned August Willich of Cincinnati as Colonel of the 32nd Indiana . The Thirty - second gained nationwide recognition for its stand against Confederate forces at Rowlett ' s Station , Ky . A detachment of 500 men under Lt . Col . Henry von Trebra fought off 1300 men of Terry ' s Texas Rangers and infantry under General Hindman . The 32nd formed the " hollow square " , and drove the attackers back , losing 10 and 22 wounded , but killing thirty - three of the enemy , including Col . Terry and wounding fifty others . The 32nd saw action at Shiloh on the second day , during which Col . Willich displayed great leadership . When his troops became unsteady under fire , he stood before them , his back to the enemy , and conducted the regiment through the manual of arms . He had the regimental band play ' La Marsaillaise ' , which was the anthem for all republican movements in Europe . Recovering its stability , the 32nd launched a bayonet attack . Willich was promoted to brigade command . The 32nd remained in his brigade , under command of von Trebra and , later , Frank Erdelmeyer . August Bloedner , a Private of Cincinnati , commemorate the deaths of his comrades killed in action at the Battle of Rowlett ' s Station , Kentucky , in December 1861 , by building the first monument of the American Civil War .
Chin – Doihara Agreement The Chin – Doihara Agreement ( ) was a treaty that resolved the North Chahar Incident of 27 June 1935 between the Empire of Japan and Republic of China . The agreement was made between Kwantung Army negotiator , Kenji Doihara , representing Japan , and Deputy Commander of the Kuomintang 29th Army , General Qin Dechun ( Chin Techun ) , representing China . It resulted in the demilitarisation of Chahar . As a result of the Chin – Doihara Agreement it was agreed : As a result of the Agreement , Qin became head of the Chahar Provisional Government . As with the previous He - Umezu Agreement which gave Japan virtual control over the province of Hebei , the Chin – Doihara Agreement was a first step in the establishment of Japanese control over northern China and Inner Mongolia . The Agreement resulted in considerable anti - Japanese sentiment in China and was one of the causes of the December 9th Movement at the end of 1935 .
Alcazaba An alcazaba ( , ) , alcáçova ( ) or alcassaba ( ) is a Moorish fortification in Spain and Portugal . The word derives from the Arabic word القصبة ( " al - qasbah " ) , a walled - fortification in a city . According to architect restorer , Leopoldo Torres Balbás , the Alcazaba of Málaga is the prototype of military architecture in the Taifa period , with its double walled and many fortifications . Its only parallel is the castle of Krak des Chevaliers in Syria . " Alcazabas " also are present in Almería , Antequera , Badajoz , Guadix , Mérida , Molina de Aragón , Alcalá la Real and Granada , which is the oldest section of the Alhambra palace . The word " alcazaba " should not be confused with " alcázar " ( Spanish ) and " alcácer " ( Portuguese ) , which have their etymology in the Arabic " al - qasr " , which in turn derives from the Latin ' castrum ' , and denotes a fort or castle .
USS Regulus ( AF - 57 ) USS " Regulus " ( AF - 57 ) was an " Denebola " - class stores ship acquired by the U . S . Navy . Her task was to carry stores , refrigerated items , and equipment to ships in the fleet , and to remote stations and staging areas . The second vessel to be named " Regulus " by the Navy , " Regulus " was built under Maritime Commission contract , was laid down as " Escanaba Victory " ( MCV hull 112 ) by the Oregon Shipbuilding Corp . , Portland , Oregon , 29 April 1944 ; launched 7 June 1944 ; sponsored by Mrs . Aubrey D . Day ; and delivered to the Maritime Commission 29 June 1944 . Acquisition by the U . S . Navy . Initially operated for the Maritime Commission by the American South African Line , " Escanaba Victory " was acquired by the Navy from the Commission ' s successor , the Maritime Administration , 5 May 1952 ; converted by the Todd Shipyard , Brooklyn , New York ; and commissioned as " Regulus " ( AF - 57 ) 3 February 1954 , Comdr . John D . Lautaret in command . Operations . Completing initial training and outfitting on the west coast , " Regulus " , homeported at Alameda , California , loaded at San Francisco , California , and on 8 May 1954 got underway for the Far East . A unit of ServRon 3 , she operated out of Sasebo and replenished units of the U . S . 7th Fleet at sea and in ports from Japan to the Philippines until November when she steamed for the United States . Returning to San Francisco 2 December , she deployed again 26 February - 26 August 1955 , extending her range on that tour to ports in Indochina . Supporting Vietnam operations . For the remainder of that decade and through the next , she continued to rotate regularly to the western Pacific Ocean , transporting in 1957 art treasures from Korea to the United States for exhibition . During the early sixties , her deployed time in WestPac was increased and from 1964 her primary mission was shifted to replenishment of 7th Fleet units operating off the coast of Vietnam . Her triennial overhaul periods excepted , " Regulus " , equipped in 1965 with a helicopter deck for vertical replenishment , continued to carry provisions to the units of the U . S . Pacific Fleet until the night of 16 – 17 August 1971 . Grounded on a reef in a typhoon . While riding out typhoon Rose at Hong Kong , " Regulus " grounded on Kau I Chau Island on 17 August 1971 , ripping open her hull . After three weeks of attempting to refloat " Regulus " , it was finally decided that the damage she had incurred was too severe to warrant salvage . The ship was cut up and removed in pieces . " Regulus " was decommissioned 10 September 1971 and subsequently struck from the Navy list . Military awards and honors . Regulus ’ crew was eligible for the following medals :
Frank Jefferson Francis Arthur Jefferson VC ( 18 August 1921 – 4 September 1982 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross , the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces . It was awarded for his actions during the Battle of Monte Cassino in World War II . Details . Jefferson was 22 years old , and a fusilier in the 2nd Battalion , The Lancashire Fusiliers , British Army during the Second World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC . On 16 May 1944 , during an attack on the Gustav Line , Monte Cassino , Italy , the leading company of Fusilier Jefferson ' s battalion had to dig in without protection . The enemy counter - attacked opening fire at short range , and Fusilier Jefferson on his own initiative seized a PIAT gun and , running forward under a hail of bullets , fired on the leading tank . It burst into flames and its crew were killed . The fusilier then reloaded and went towards the second tank which withdrew before he could get within range . By this time , British tanks had arrived and the enemy counter - attack was smashed . Further information . Jefferson later achieved the rank of lance - corporal . The medal . Jefferson ' s VC was stolen from his mother ' s home in 1982 and has not been recovered .
HMS Hawke ( 1794 ) HMS " Hawke " was a former Dutch hoy , one of 19 , that the British Admiralty purchased in 1794 for service with the Royal Navy . She seems to have participated in only one engagement against the French and was sold in 1796 . Career . The Admiralty had her fitted out at Woolwich between April 1794 and April 1795 , and Lieutenant John E . P . Sewell commissioned her in April 1794 . Lieutenant Henry Hicks took command in 1795 and she joined Admiral Sir Sidney Smith ’ s squadron . Smith assigned all his gunvessels to the defence of the Îles Saint - Marcouf , which are some three and a half miles from the French coast and about nine miles south - east of Cape La Hogue , and which consist of two islands , West and East . The gunvessels and the shore batteries and redoubts the British erected on the islands were initially under Hicks and then under Lieutenant Charles Papps Price in . On 7 September the French mounted an attack with 17 large boats filled with men . They retreated in confusion after coming under fire from the redoubts the British had erected on East Island and from the gunvessels , among them the hoys " Hawke " , " Badger " , , and , and the " Musquito " - class floating battery . Fate . " Hawke " was fitted between October 1795 and January 1796 . She was sold for £40 on 12 February 1796 . However , she apparently became a storeship and sank at her moorings in Plymouth dockyard later that year .
Nikolai Gusev Nikolay Ivanovich Gusev ( ; – ca . 6 May 1962 ) was a Soviet Red Army officer . Nikolay Gusev was awarded two Orders of Lenin , four Orders of the Red Banner , two Orders of Suvorov ( 1st Class ) , Order of the Red Star , Order of the Badge of Honor , and numerous medals .
Anthony Stack Brigadier General Anthony Stack , CD is a Brigadier General in service of the Canadian Forces . He is the Deputy Commander of the Land Force Atlantic Area . Early life . Brigadier General Anthony Stack , was born in St . John ' s , Newfoundland and Labrador in 1961 . He attended Gonzaga High School , and was a member of 2415 Gonzaga Royal Canadian Army Cadets Corps . Military career . Anthony Stack enlisted in the Army reserve in 1978 . He served two terms as the Commanding Officer of the 56 Field Engineer Squadron , as well as one term as G3 Newfoundland District . He was also Company Commander and Chief Instructor at the Atlantic Area Rank and Trade School in Gagetown , New Brunswick . A graduate of the Army Command and Staff College in Kingston , Ontario and the Joint Reserve Command and Staff Program at the Canadian Forces College in Toronto . In 2001 Brigadier - General Stack was the first Commanding Officer of the Land Force Atlantic Area Civil - Military Co - operation ( CIMIC ) unit . In January 2004 , he deployed with Operation ATHENA to Afghanistan where he served as the Chief of CIMIC Operations for the NATO - led International Security Assistance Force in Kabul . After returning from Afghanistan he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and placed in deputy command of 37 Canadian Brigade group . In 2006 he was promoted to the rank of Colonel and assumed command of the brigade . In December 2009 he was promoted to the Rank of Brigadier General and made deputy Commander of the Land Force Atlantic Area . Civilian life . At the Memorial University of Newfoundland Brigadier - General Stack earned a Bachelor of Education ( Secondary ) and Bachelor of Science ( Mathematics ) degrees in 1985 and obtained a Master of Education ( Leadership Studies ) in 2001 . Today Brigadier General Stack was also the principal of St . Peter ' s Junior High School in Mount Pearl , NL before leaving in 2011 . He has a wife named Wanda and one son named Shane .
Ana Betancourt Ana Betancourt ( December 14 , 1832 Camagüey , Cuba – February 7 , 1901 Madrid , Spain ) was a Cuban woman who took a leading role in the war of independence from Spain . She is a national heroine in Cuba . Life . The first Cuban war of independence from Spain began in 1868 . Women , known as Mambisas , played a significant role in the war , as political agitators , nurses , and fighters . Ana Betancourt , was from a wealthy landholding family and was one of the first to argue for women in Cuban . She was married to the patriot Ignacio Mora de la Pera . In 1869 , she addressed the Constitutional Assembly of Cuban patriots at Guáimaro in which she linked female emancipation to the abolition of slavery and the struggle against colonialism . Although unused to hardship she lived in the forest with the revolutionaries . On July 9 , 1871 , she and her husband were taken by surprise by the Spanish forces and captured . She was sentenced to exile in Spain where she lived the rest of her life never seeing de la Pera again . She continued to support the cause of Cuban independence from her exile . At the age of 69 in 1901 she was about to return to her native country but contracted fulminating bronchopneumonia and died before she could begin her journey . Her remains were buried in Spain until 1968 . In that year they were set in the pantheon of the Revolutionary Armed Forces , in the Cemetery Colón in Havana . Commemorations . She is commemorated in the modern Republic of Cuba by the Order of Anna Betancourt medal , awarded to Cuban women who “ demonstrate revolutionary and internationalist merit and anti - imperialist fidelity and / or great merit in a field of work that contributes to the national interest . ” Originally this was the highest award of the Federation of Cuban Women , and the order was officially sanctioned in 1979 as a state award . The Cuban Ana Betancourt schools for rural girls are named in her honor . References .
Polish 36th Observation Escadrille The 36th Observation Escadrille was a unit of the Polish Air Force at the beginning of the second world war . The unit was attached to the Poznań Army . Air crew . Commanding officer : kpt . obs . Bolesław Dorembowicz . Equipment . 7 Lublin R - XIIID airplanes and 2 RWD - 8 .
USS Theodore Roosevelt ( ID - 1478 ) The first USS " Theodore Roosevelt " ( ID - 1478 ) was a United States Navy troop transport in commission from 1918 to 1919 . Construction , acquisition , and commissioning . SS " Theodore Roosevelt " was a passenger steamer built in 1906 at Toledo , Ohio , by the Toledo Shipbuilding Company , and operated commercially on Lake Michigan . Ordered taken over by the U . S . Navy on 6 April 1918 for World War I service as a troop stransport , she was acquired by the United States Navy from the Roosevelt Steamship Company sometime in the spring of 1918 , assigned Identification Number ( Id . No . ) 1478 , and fitted out as a troop transport during the summer and fall of 1918 . Though some sources suggest that " Theodore Roosevelt " served in a non - commissioned capacity in the Navy , the fact that the 1919 " Navy Directory " lists Lieutenant Harry D . Irwin , USNRF , as " " . . . comdg U . S . S . Roosevelt . . . " " is a strong indication that she was in fact commissioned as USS " Theodore Roosevelt " ( ID - 1478 ) during 1918 . Operations . By 1 November 1918 , " Theodore Roosevelt " was assigned to duty as a transport carrying troops back and forth across the English Channel between the United Kingdom and France . She continued that duty at least until 1 April 1919 and probably returned to the United States sometime in April or May . Decommissioning and disposal . As of 1 June 1919 , " Theodore Roosevelt " was at New York awaiting disposition . On 1 July 1919 , she was sold to the Cleveland Steamship Company and her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register the same day . Later career . Once again SS " Theodore Roosevelt " , she resumed her commercial career as a passenger ship on the Great Lakes , operating on Lake Erie . In 1926 , she was sold to the Maritime Securities Company of Manitowoc , Wisconsin , and underwent modifications . In 1927 , she was sold to the Chicago Roosevelt Steamship Company of Duluth , Minnesota . As a result of either the 1926 or 1927 sale , she moved back to Lake Michigan . Later in her career she also operated in the Detroit , Michigan , area , and perhaps elsewhere in the Great Lakes . She was sold again to T . J . McGuire of Duluth , " Theodore Roosevelt " appears to have been laid up sometime around 1945 . She was sold in 1946 to the Cleveland and Cedar Point Steamship Company of Duluth , the again in 1947 to the Cleveland and Buffalo Steamship Company of Cleveland . She finally was sold for scrapping in 1950 to the Cream City Lumber and Wrecking Company of Milwaukee , Wisconsin .
Battle of Arbedo The Battle of Arbedo was fought on June 30 , 1422 between the Duchy of Milan and the Swiss Confederation . In 1419 , Uri and Unterwalden bought the Bellinzona stronghold from the Sacco barons , but were unable to defend it adequately . When , in 1422 , they rejected the Milanese proposal to buy back the fortified town , their troops stationed in Bellinzona were put to rout by the Visconti army under the command of Francesco Bussone , called Il Carmagnola . An attempt to reconquer the fortified area with the support of other confederates led to the battle at Arbedo , a village 3 km north of Bellinzona . The Count of Carmagnola led the forces of the Duchy of Milan against the Swiss and was victorious . The Swiss were mainly equipped with halberds and had an initial success against the Lombard cavalry charge . Then Carmagnola brought his crossbowmen forward , while dismounting his cavalry . The dismounted men - at - arms used pikes which outreached the halberds . The Swiss were further under pressure by the crossbow fire on the flanks . The Milanese force began to push back the Swiss , who were only saved from total disaster by the appearance of a band of foragers , whom the Milanese were convinced represented a major new force . When the Milanese force pulled back to reform , the Swiss fled the battlefield , having taken heavy casualties . The victory secured Bellinzona and the Leventina to the Duchy . In addition the Duchy gained the Val d ' Ossola , thus the Swiss losing all the territorial gains they had made . The defeat discouraged the Swiss expansionist intentions towards Lake Maggiore for a long time . It was the defeat at Arbedo that made the Swiss increase the number of pikemen .
Corsham Computer Centre Corsham Computer Centre ( CCC ) is an underground British Ministry of Defence ( MoD ) installation in Corsham , Wiltshire , built in the 1980s . According to the MoD , the centre " processes data in support of the Royal Navy " . The centre has been similarly described by Des Browne in 2007 , then Secretary of State for Defence , as a " data processing facility in support of Royal Navy operations " . In written evidence to the Defence Select Committee , the Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament have suggested that the centre supports the software maintenance of the United Kingdom nuclear deterrent programme ; Trident . The facility was built in Hudswell Quarry , near Box Tunnel part of the broader complex of tunnels and quarries in the Corsham area and adjacent to the former Central Ammunition Depot built prior to World War II . The site falls within a wider facilities management contract , the Bristol Bath Total Facilities Management project , which was awarded to Debut Services , a Special Purpose Vehicle of Babcock Defence and Bovis Lend Lease , in September 2007 for a period of three years with the option to extend the contract for a further three years .
Frequent flyer program ( Guantanamo ) The frequent flyer program is a controversial technique used by the USA in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp s , in Cuba . Guards deprived detainees of sleep by moving them from one cell to another , multiple times a day , for days or weeks on end . The technique was used to " soften up " detainees prior to interrogation . Guantanamo guards were ordered to discontinue the use of the technique in March 2004 , although the practice persisted until at least later that year . Major David Frakt , USAF , defense counsel to a recipient of the program , Mohamed Jawad , said : In August 2008 , in testimony at Jawad ' s Guantanamo military commission trial , Army officers confirmed the existence of the frequent flyer program . At least 17 detainees were subjected to the program . In May 2012 Ramzi Kassem , a lawyer assisting captives with their habeas corpus petitions , reported that the frequent flyer program was still being used as a punishment technique in the isolation block known as Camp Five Echo .
Royal Australian Air Force VIP aircraft The Royal Australian Air Force has operated a number of specialised aircraft to transport members of the Royal Family , the Governor General of Australia , senior members of the Australian government , and other dignitaries . The RAAF ' s current VIP aircraft are two leased Boeing Business Jet s and three Bombardier Challenger s which are operated by No . 34 Squadron RAAF and are based at Canberra International Airport . The Boeing Business Jets are custom configured Boeing 737 - 700s fitted with facilities such as conference tables , offices suites , secure satellite and communication capabilities . The two planes have a longer range than is standard for Boeing Business Jets . The Prime Minister regularly makes use of the aircraft for domestic and international travel . Prior to the acquisition of the 737s , passenger - configured RAAF Boeing 707s tanker - transports were used . These aircraft were larger than the 737s currently in use .