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Dennis J . Buckley , Jr . Dennis J . Buckley , Jr . was a United States Navy sailor who was awarded the Silver Star posthumously for his actions during World War II . Biography . Dennis Joseph Buckley , Jr . , was born on April 22 , 1920 in Holyoke , Massachusetts . He enlisted in the U . S . Navy on September 30 , 1940 . Fireman First Class Buckley was posthumously awarded the Silver Star for displaying exceptional courage in attempting to board and salvage a blockade runner which had been intercepted by his ship , the destroyer USS " Eberle " ( DD - 430 ) on March 10 , 1943 . The explosion of demolition charge s planted by the blockade runner ' s crew took his life . Silver Star citation . The following is the text of the actual citation : For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity while attached to a United States warship in action against enemy forces on March 10 , 1943 . When a hostile Blockade Runner intercepted and attacked . BUCKLEY , as a member of a boarding party attempting to salvage the vessel , displayed exceptional courage in the face of grave danger from threatening flames and the powerful explosions of demolition charges . While preparing to ascend the ladder of the Runner in order to assist in the hazardous salvage operations . BUCKLEY lost his life as the result of a sudden violent explosion . His exemplary conduct and heroic devotion to duty were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service . He gallantly gave his life for his country . Namesakes . The destroyer escort USS " Dennis J . Buckley " ( DE - 553 ) was named for Fireman First Class Buckley . Her construction was canceled on June 10 , 1944 prior to launching . In December 1944 , the destroyer USS " Dennis J . Buckley " ( DD - 808 ) , in commission from 1945 to 1973 , was named in his honor .
Maximilian Wirsching Dr . Maximilian Wirsching ( 23 November 1919 – 18 April 2004 ) was a highly decorated Hauptmann in the Wehrmacht during World War II . He was also a recipient of the Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross . The Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership . Maximilian Wirsching committed suicide on 18 April 2004 .
USS Cabell ( AK - 166 ) USS " Cabell " ( AK - 166 ) was an " Alamosa " - class cargo ship commissioned by the U . S . Navy for service in World War II . She was responsible for delivering troops , goods and equipment to locations in the war zone . " Cabell " ( AK - 166 ) was launched 23 December 1944 , by Kaiser Cargo Co . , Richmond , California , under a Maritime Commission contract ; sponsored by Mrs . W . P . Gilmore ; acquired by the Navy 11 April 1945 ; commissioned the same day , Lieutenant E . J . McCluskey , USNR , in command ; and reported to the U . S . Pacific Fleet . World War II Pacific Theatre operations . " Cabell " made one cargo voyage from San Francisco , California , to Eniwetok and San Pedro Bay , Philippine Islands , between 1 June 1945 and 22 August . She sailed from San Francisco again 8 September with cargo for Eniwetok and Yokosuka Naval Base in Tokyo Bay , where she arrived 7 October . Continuing this vital support of occupation operations , she called at ports in the Philippines , and on Okinawa , Saipan , and Guam , before arriving at San Pedro , California , 15 April 1946 . Post - war decommissioning . She was decommissioned at Seattle , Washington , 19 July 1946 , and returned to the Maritime Commission 3 days later . The ship was sold to a Swedish firm and reflagged as MV " Sommen " in 1947 . In 1963 , it was reflagged again as the Greek ship MV " Donald " , and disappeared later in the year , with 27 people and a 5 , 000 ton cargo of iron bound for Indonesia . The ship had last been heard from on August 25 , 1963 , when the captain sent word that the ship had encountered rough seas in the Indian Ocean . References .
Qadr ( munition ) The 9A Qadr is Iran ' s first generation of air - launched precision - guided munition s ( PGMs ) , developed by the missile - manufacturing companies of the Iranian Ministry of Defence ( and not the well - established Aerospace Industries Organisation , builder of Iran ' s surface - to - surface guided weapons ) . The GBU - 67 / 9A Qadr is an unpowered Electro - Optically guided Glide - Bomb ( EO GB ) , built around a 2 , 000 lb Mk 84 class bomb body . Both the Qadr and the Zoobin have been designed around standard US - pattern general - purpose bomb shapes , from existing IRIAF stocks . Both weapons have also been given US - style ` GBU ' and ` AGM ' designations , although the designers say that these numbers have no greater significance beyond inventory management and parts stocks .
Henry K . Hamner Henry Rawlings Hamner was born 13 March 1922 in London , England . Appointed to the United States Naval Academy from Virginia , he graduated and gained his commission in June 1942 . Hamner served to fit out and commission several new ships during the war , in addition to serving in the 12th Naval District and at Norfolk , Va . He was appointed lieutenant in July 1944 . Lieutenant Hamner died 6 April 1945 aboard , when the ship was crashed by a kamikaze during the suicidal Japanese " kikusui " massed attack of that day off Okinawa where " the fleet had come to stay " . Namesake . In November 1945 , the destroyer was named in his honor .
SS Empire Brigade SS " Empire Brigade was a cargo ship that was built in 1912 as SS " Hannington Court . She served through the First World War and was sold in 1936 to Achille Lauro , who renamed her Elios . In 1940 when Italy declared war on France and the United Kingdom she was interned by the UK as a war prize and taken over by the Ministry of War Transport ( MoWT ) , which renamed her " Empire Brigade " . Four months later she was torpedo ed and sunk by . Building . The shipyards of Sir John Priestman & Co Ltd , Southwick , Sunderland built the ship in 1912 . She was launched as " Hannington Court " on 10 October 1902 and completed in November 1912 . She was long , with a beam of and a depth of . She had nine corrugated furnaces with a combined grate area of that heated three 180 lb / in single - ended boilers with a combined heating surface of . These fed a single three - cylinder triple - expansion steam engine built by Blair and Co Ltd of Stockton - on - Tees . The engine had cylinders of , and bore by stroke , was rated at 440 NHP and gave the ship a speed of Peacetime career . " Hannington Court " s original owner was United British Steamship Co , which registered her in London and appointed Haldin and Philipps to manage her . The business was dubbed " Court Line " for its custom of giving all its ships names that ended in " Court " . In 1936 Court Line sold her to Achille Lauro ' s " Flota Lauro " , which renamed her " Elios " and registered her in Naples . On 10 June 1940 Italy declared war on France and the UK and invaded France . " Elios " was in port in Newcastle , where the UK authorities seized her as a war prize . The Ministry of War Transport , renamed her " Empire Brigade " , registered her in Newcastle and appointed Cairns , Noble & Co Ltd to manage her . Wartime career and loss . In October 1940 " Empire Brigade " , with Sydney Parks as her Master , loaded a cargo of 750 tons of copper , 129 tons of ferrous alloys and 980 tons of steel at Montreal in Canada and then sailed to Sydney , Nova Scotia where she joined Convoy SC - 7 which was bound for Liverpool . " Empire Brigade " s cargo was bound for Leith " via " the Tyne . The convoy left Sydney on 5 October 1940 , initially with only one escort ship , the . A wolf pack of U - boat s found the convoy on 16 October and quickly overwhelmed it , sinking many ships over the next few days . " Empire Brigade " survived until 0138 hrs on 19 October , when torpedoed and sank her in the Western Approaches about east - southeast of Rockall . Out of a complement of 41 , five crew members and one DEMS gunner were killed . The rescued her Master and 34 crew members and landed them at Greenock . Those killed on " Empire Brigade " are commemorated at the Tower Hill Memorial in London .
134th Indiana Infantry Regiment The 134th Indiana Infantry Regiment served in the Union Army between May 25 and September 2 , 1864 , during the American Civil War . Service . The regiment was organized at Indianapolis , Indiana and mustered in on May 25 , 1864 . It was ordered to Tennessee and Alabama for railroad guard duty , until early September 1864 . The regiment was mustered out on September 2 , 1864 . During its service the regiment lost twenty - eight men to disease .
Corrado III Trinci Corrado III ( or IV ) Trinci ( died June 14 , 1441 ) was lord of Foligno from 1421 until 1439 . Trinci ruled Foligno with his brothers Niccolò and Bartolomeo , until their assassination by the castellan of Nocera Umbra . Corrado Trinci took his revenge by attacking the town and killing the castellan . Initially a fierce enemy of the Pope , Trinci was known for plundering monasteries . Attacked by Francesco I Sforza , however , he obtained the title of vicar of Foligno and Nocera Umbra from Pope Martin V . After this appointment , Trinci was sent to recapture Perugia , held at the time by Oddo Fortebracci . In 1428 , however , he again rebelled against the Church . Peace with Rome was restored by 1435 , but Trinci maintained his control of Montefalco . When Trinci favoured the rebellion of Piero Tomacelli in Spoleto , Pope Eugene IV sent Cardinal Giovanni Vitelleschi to destroy him . The siege of Foligno ended in 1439 , when he was betrayed by the population and taken prisoner . He died in the castle of Soriano , strangled along with his two sons . References . < br >
The Death of Major Peirson , 6 January 1781 The Death of Major Peirson , 6 January 1781 is a 1783 large oil painting by John Singleton Copley . It depicts the death of Major Francis Peirson at the Battle of Jersey on 6 January 1781 . The Battle of Jersey was the last French attempt to seize the island of Jersey , and one of the last battles with invading forces from a foreign nation in the British Isles . The invasion was organised privately by Baron Philippe de Rullecourt but funded and supplied by the French government , and was intended to remove the threat that British naval vessel based in Jersey posed to American ships in the American Revolutionary War . Approximately 1 , 000 French soldiers , commanded by de Rullecourt and an Indian , Mir Sayyad , landed at La Rocque , Grouville , overnight on 5 – 6 January . They occupied St Helier early on the morning of 6 January . They captured the Lieutenant Governor of Jersey Moses Corbet , in bed . Although he surrendered , Peirson , the 24 - year - old commander of around 2 , 000 troops of the British garrison , refused to surrender . As Peirson organised a counter - attack , a French shot killed him . Lieutenant Philippe Dumaresq of the Jersey militia took command of the British forces , which comprised detachments of the 95th Regiment of Foot , 78th Highlanders , and Jersey Militia . The British forces quickly overwhelmed the French , most of whom surrendered . John Boydell , a successful engraver and publisher and Aldermen of the City of London , commissioned Copley to paint a large by , painting . The scene looks towards the final French resistance in Royal Square , viewed along what is now Peirson Place , with the French soldiers taking their last stand around the statue of George II . Further British reinforcements are visible on the hill at the top left . The statue and some of the buildings depicted still stand ( some with bullet holes caused by the battle ) . Although Peirson was killed in the early stages of the battle , the painting shows Peirson ( wearing white , at the centre of the painting under the large Union Flag , supported by other officers ) , and being shot down leading the final charge , giving him a more heroic role and fate . To the left , his black servant Pompey avenges his master by shooting the sniper . It is believed that the depictions of the officers supporting the stricken Peirson are true portraits ; the black servant of auctioneer James Christie was the model for Pompey , although it is unclear whether a black servant played a role ( there is no suggestion in contemporaneous sources ) . Copley modeled the civilians fleeing to the right were modeled on his wife , family nurse and children . Peirson became a national hero , and the painting drew crowds when it was first exhibited at 28 Haymarket in May 1784 , with admission charged at 1 shilling . The Tate Gallery purchased the painting in 1864 . Today , a copy appears on the 10 Jersey pound note .
Marcus Popillius Laenas ( consul 173 BC ) Marcus Popillius Laenas was a Roman statesman . He was praetor in 176 BC . He did not go to his province of Sardinia because he did not want to upset the success that the propraetor , Titus Aebutius , was enjoying . A new leader would need time to get acquainted with the situation and thus precious time would be lost . He was consul for the year 173 BC , together with Lucius Postumius Albinus . Popillius went to his province and started fighting a tribe of Ligurians in northern Italy , the Statellati . He fought a bloody battle at the town of Carystum , which came to a conclusion when Popillius sent in the cavalry that broke through the Liguriuan lines . The cavalry then slew many of the men trying to flee to the city . The Romans killed 10 , 000 Ligurians and took 700 prisoner while losing 3 , 000 themselves . The remaining Ligurians , thinking that Popillius would be lenient , surrendered themselves . Popillius , however , destroyed their town and sold them and their property . The Senate was outraged when it heard of the treatment shown to a people who had not taken up arms against Rome and were attacked without provocation . The Senate demanded that Popillius restore the Ligurians to their homes and property . Popillius was himself outraged and refused to obey the Senate ' s commands . He returned to Rome and attacked the Senate for their actions . He claimed that it should have given him a thanksgiving instead of ordering him to return his spoils to his victims . Many senators again attacked him and his actions so Popillius returned to his province having failed to gain the support of the Senate . The following year , Popillius continued his aggressions against the Statellati killing 6 , 000 more in battle . His actions caused the rest of the Ligurians to rise up in arms . In response the Senate passed a decree that anyone hindering the return of the Statellati to their freedom would face trial . Popillius refused to return to Rome until a tribune of the plebs promised to bring him to trial " in absentia " . Popillius was tried , but the trial came to nothing due to the influence of his brother the consul for the year and other Popillii Despite his actions against the Ligurians , Popillius was later elected censor with Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum in 159 BC .
George Lawrence Price Private George Lawrence Price ( Regimental Number : 256265 ) ( December 15 , 1892 – November 11 , 1918 ) was a Canadian soldier . He is traditionally recognized as the last soldier of the British Empire to be killed during the First World War . Early life . He was born in Falmouth , Nova Scotia , on December 15 , 1892 , and raised on Church Street , in what is now Port Williams , Nova Scotia . He lived in Moose Jaw , Saskatchewan , when he was conscripted on October 15 , 1917 . He served with " A " Company of the 28th Battalion , Canadian Expeditionary Force . November 11 , 1918 . On November 11 , Pte Price was part of an advance to take the small village of Havré . After a crossing of the Canal du Centre into the town of Ville - sur - Haine under German machine gun fire , Price and his patrol moved toward a row of houses intent on pursuing the machine gunner who had harassed their crossing of the canal . The patrol had entered the house from which they had thought the shooting had come , but found the Germans had exited through the back door as they entered the front . They then pursued into the house next door and again found it empty . George Price was fatally shot in the region of his heart by a German sniper as he stepped out of the house into the street , against contrary advice from a house occupant , at 10 : 58 a . m . , November 11 , 1918 . He died just 2 minutes before the armistice ceasefire , that ended the war , came into effect at 11 a . m . Memorials . Price was buried in Havre Old Communal Cemetery , one of the cemeteries subsequently concentrated into the St Symphorien military cemetery , just southeast of Mons . Coincidentally , this is also the final resting place of John Parr and George Edwin Ellison , respectively the first and last British soldiers killed during the Great War . In 1968 , on the 50th anniversary of his death and the armistice surviving members of his company traveled to Ville - sur - Haine and a memorial plaque was placed onto a wall of a house near the location of his death . The inscription , in English and then in French , reads in English : The house has since been torn down , but the plaque has been placed on a brick and stone monument near the site where the house originally stood , and thus still near the place where he fell . In 1991 , the town of Ville - sur - Haine erected a new footbridge across the adjacent Canal du Centre , at . A plebiscite was held and on 11 November of that year the bridge was officially named the George Price Footbridge ( ) .
Stanisław Haller de Hallenburg Stanisław Haller ( born 26 April 1872 , murdered in April 1940 ) was a Polish politician and general , and cousin of General Józef Haller de Hallenburg . Life . Between 1894 and 1918 he served in the Austro - Hungarian Army . Among other functions , he was commandant of Fortress Kraków . In 1918 he joined the renascent Polish Army . During the Polish - Soviet War he contributed to the defeat of Budionny ' s army and its expulsion beyond the Bug River . In 1919 - 1920 , 1923 – 25 and in May 1926 he was Chief of the Polish General Staff . After 1926 he was placed in retirement as a political opponent of the new regime headed by Józef Piłsudski . In 1939 he was arrested by the Soviets and placed in a POW camp in Starobielsk . Along with other Polish POW s , he was murdered by the NKVD in April 1940 , the month of his sixty - eighth birthday , near Kharkov , in the Katyn Massacre s . Stanisław Haller is patron of the 5th command regiment of the Kraków - based Polish 2nd Mechanized Corps .
Staropromyslovsky massacre In the Staropromyslovsky massacre Russia n federal soldiers summarily executed at least 38 confirmed civilians during an apparent spree in Staropromyslovsky City District of Grozny , the | capital ] ] of the Chechen Republic , according to survivors and eyewitnesses . The killings went unpunished and publicly unacknowledged by the Russian authorities . In 2007 , one case of a triple murder was ruled against Russia in the European Court of Human Rights ( ECHR ) . The murders . The killings occurred between late December 1999 and mid - January 2000 , during the heavy fighting for the city . Most of the 38 victims were women and elderly men , and all appear to have been deliberately shot by Russian soldiers at close range . More than a dozen additional civilians may also have been murdered in the district ; in addition , six men from Staropromyslovsky City District who were last seen in Russian custody " disappeared " during this same period and remain unaccounted for . Aftermath . Russian military and civilian authorities are not known to have seriously investigated the Staropromyslovsky killings , as well as other similar incidents in Chechnya . On November 29 , 2007 the ECHR has made a decision on the case of Tangieva v . Russia in favor of a relative of victims of one of the summary executions in the district that took place in the early hours of January 11 , 2000 . The victims , parents of the applicant , were both shot dead alongside another woman in their home , which was then set alight . Their deaths were attributed to the Russian Federation ; the Court also blamed Russia for the failure to provide an effective investigation .
British Army Order of Battle ( September 1939 ) The organisation of Divisions and Brigade s of British Army in 1939 , at the outbreak of the Second World War , is listed below . The ultimate head of all the British armed forces was nominally King George VI , with the various Offices coming underneath . The War Office covered the Army in the United Kingdom , and the Middle East Command . The professional head of the Army was the Chief of the Imperial General Staff , Lord Gort . However , Gort would command the BEF when it crossed to the continent , being replaced by General Ironside . The army was administered through the Army Council , comparable to the Air Staff or the Admiralty . War Office . Leslie Hore - Belisha was responsible for the War Office in his role as Secretary of State for War . Northern Command . The Northern Command , under Commander - in - chief Lieutenant General Sir William Bartholomew , with its HQ in York . Eastern Command . Eastern Command , under Lieutenant General Sir Guy Williams , with its HQ in London . Apart from the 4th Infantry Division , the units were drawn from the Territorial Army . Western Command . The Western Command , under Lieutenant General Sir Robert Haining , had its HQ in Chester . Southern Command . The Southern Command , under Lieutenant General Sir Bertie Fisher , with its HQ in Salisbury . Aldershot Command . Aldershot Command , under Lieutenant General Sir John Dill , with its HQ in Aldershot . Scottish Command . The Scottish Command , under General Sir Charles Grant , with its HQ in Edinburgh . Northern Ireland District . The Northern Ireland District , under Major - General Robert Pollok , with its HQ in Belfast . It had no subordinate divisions or brigades . London District . The London District , under Major - General Andrew Thorne , with its HQ in London . Anti - Aircraft Command . Anti - Aircraft Command , under Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Pile , with its HQ co - located with RAF Fighter Command at RAF Bentley Priory , in the northwestern London suburb of Stanmore . There were varying numbers of brigades to each Divisional HQ , the units were drawn from the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers . Middle East Command . The Middle East Command , under Lieutenant - General Sir Archibald Wavell , with its HQ in Cairo , Egypt . India and Burma Offices . Lawrence Dundas , 2nd Marquess of Zetland was responsible for both the India and Burma Offices in his role as Secretary of State for India . Army of India . There were no British Army divisions or brigades in India but units of the British Army were posted on tour to India as the " British Army in India " and collectively with the Indian Army formed the " Army of India " under the Commander - in - Chief , India ( in 1939 General Robert Cassels ) . He commanded this force through GHQ India , covering India , Iraq and Persia .
4th North Carolina Regiment The 4th North Carolina Regiment was raised on January 16 , 1776 at Wilmington , North Carolina for service with the Continental Army under the command of Thomas Polk . The regiment saw action at the Battle of Brandywine , Battle of Germantown , Battle of Monmouth and the Siege of Charleston . The regiment was captured by the British Army at Charlestown , South Carolina on May 12 , 1780 . The regiment was disbanded on January 1 , 1783 .