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James Palmer Huffam Major James Palmer Huffam VC ( 31 March 1897 – 16 February 1968 ) 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 was 21 years old , and a second lieutenant in the 5th Battalion , The Duke of Wellington ' s ( West Riding ) Regiment , British Army , attd , 2nd Battalion during the First World War . On 31 August 1918 at St . Servin ' s Farm , France , he performed a deed for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross . Second Lieutenant Huffam with three men rushed an enemy machine - gun post and put it out of action . His position was then heavily attacked and he withdrew , carrying back a wounded comrade . Again in the night , accompanied by two men only he rushed an enemy machine - gun , capturing eight prisoners and enabling the advance to continue . After World War I he remained in the army and was for a time seconded to the Royal Air Force as a Flying Officer . He served in the Second World War and achieved the rank of major . His medal is privately owned and not publicly displayed .
German submarine U - 760 German submarine " U - 760 " was a Type VIIC U - boat of the German Kriegsmarine during World War II . Her keel was laid down 5 August 1940 by the Kriegsmarinewerft of Wilhelmshaven , and she was commissioned 15 October 1942 with " Oberleutnant zur See " Otto - Ulrich Blum in command . Blum commanded her for her entire career in the Kriegsmarine . U - 760 conducted two war patrols , but never sank or damaged a ship . On 26 February 1943 " Obermaschinist " Jakob Ippendorf was killed during an air attack in Wilhelmshaven . On 12 August 1943 " Matrosenenobergefreiter " Günter Werner was lost during an air attack in the North Atlantic . On 8 September 1943 , about 150 miles off Cape Finisterre , U - 760 was sailing on the surface alongside " U - 262 " when they were attacked by Allied aircraft . " U - 760 " fled into Vigo harbour and was taken under the guns of the Spanish cruiser " Navarra " . International neutrality agreements allowed ships to spend up to 24 hours in neutral harbours to make emergency repairs , but " U - 760 " was unable to get underway in time . She was interned at Ferrol for the remainder of World War II . The submarine engine was dismantled and used to generate electric energy for the city of Vigo ' s tram network . On 23 July 1945 , the boat was taken to the United Kingdom for Operation Deadlight and was scuttled on 13 December 1945 . One other U - boat was interred in Spain during World War II : " U - 573 " .
Grivesnes Grivesnes is a commune in the Somme department in Picardie in northern France . Geography . Grivesnes is situated on the D26 road , some south of Amiens . History . A castle is reputed to have existed before the Jacquerie uprising of 1358 ( which started in this district ) , but sources lack any substance . < br > A 15th century manor house was destroyed by Burgundian troops during their retreat from Beauvais after the victory of Jeanne Hachette . < br > Between 1611 , the date of his marriage , and 1640 , the date of his death , Louis of Goussencourt erected the principal parts of the château . < br > Enlarged in the 18th century , the château was very much part of the Ancien Régime and when , during the French revolution , it was decided to confiscate the property , the Count of Grivesnes didn ’ t oppose it , as his son ( Louis - Henri ( 1766 – 1849 ) ) had already emigrated to Quebec . < br > During the auctions of 1793 and 1794 , the castle was sold as national property . An inhabitant of Grivesnes , Roch Théry , whose family had lived in the parish for more than two centuries , purchased some of the land as well as the mill , although it was later returned to its owners . The entire site was sold in 1899 to an Amiens notary by the name of Lenain . During the First World War , the town was ravaged and all the community archives were destroyed . The castle , surrounded by a park of 19 hectares , comprised a distillery and a farm of 132 hectares , underwent shelling that damaged 66 % of the property . < br > From March 29 to April 7 , 1918 , the town was the centre of a fierce battle . Fighting hand - to - hand , with fixed bayonet s , the French and British troops cut off the road to Amiens to the Germans . Many soldiers were buried in unmarked graves , without any ceremony . < br > In June 1990 , a commemorative stele was erected by French and German ex - combatants . Places of interest . Grivesnes is fortunate to still have two ancient monuments , after the ravages of World War I .
HMS Burford ( 1679 ) HMS " Burford " was a 70 - gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy , launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1679 . She was rebuilt at Deptford in 1699 , remaining as a 70 - gun third rate . " Burford " was wrecked on February 14 , 1719 after running aground at an unspecified location on the Italian coast .
British Empire Union The British Empire Union ( BEU ) was created in the United Kingdom during World War I , in 1916 , after changing its name from the Anti - German Union , which had been founded in 1915 . Sir George Makgill was the BEU ' s Honorary Secretary and Lord Edward Illiffe was its treasurer . The BEU was anti - socialist and thought that the Labour Party would " Bolshevise Britain " and argued for a paramilitary force to combat it . It was also associated with the antisemitism of Leopold Maxse . It held anti - German demonstrations in Hyde Park and elsewhere and is thought to have had around 10 , 000 members across fifty branches by the end of 1918 . The BEU advocated ' wholesale internment ' and received over 1 , 250 , 000 signatures on petition for this cause , which it presented to the Prime Minister . It also disrupted meetings of pacifist and civil liberties groups and produced anti - German posters . The BEU also protested to the BBC about Patrick Hamilton ' s play " Rope " . On 28 July 1916 the Vice - Presidents of the BEU , Lord and Lady Bathurst , subscribed to a full - page advertisement in " The Morning Post " stating their objectives : 1 . To consolidate the British Empire and to develop Trade and Commerce within the Empire and with our Allies . 2 . To alter our existing naturalisation laws to render it impossible for aliens seeking naturalisation to become British citizens so long as they remain subjects of other countries . This is to apply to existing cases . 3 . To pursue an Educational propaganda throughout the country in furtherance of the policies that have been expounded by Mr . W . M . Hughes [ Prime Minister of Australia ] ; to establish branches in every constituency and county , and to support candidates pledged to these policies in both the country and in the House of Commons ; to urge the importance of the measures proposed to assist the more vigorous prosecution of the war , and to bring about its speedy and satisfactory termination , and to controvert the false economic doctrine so aptly described as ' Laissez - faire ' . It continued post - war far - right activities for a time , in cooperation with the Economic League .
Joint Communications Unit The Joint Communications Unit ( JCU ) is a technical unit of the SOCOM charged to standardize and ensure interoperability of communication procedures and equipment of the Joint Special Operations Command ( JSOC ) and its subordinate units . The JCU was activated at Ft . Bragg , NC in 1980 , after the failure of Operation Eagle Claw . The JCU has earned the reputation of " DoD ' s Finest Communicators . "
Battle of Vlaardingen ( 1351 ) There was a civil war in Holland and Hainaut ( which was in a personal union with Holland ) in 1350 between the Hooks and the Cods . The Hooks were fighting for the Countess Margaret of Hainault , supported by England , while the Cods were fighting for Margaret ' s son William , who was ruling Holland in name of Margaret . William defeated the Hooks and the English in the Battle of Vlaardingen in 1351 .
Philip C . Hayes Philip Cornelius Hayes ( February 3 , 1833 – July 13 , 1916 ) was a U . S . Representative from Illinois , as well as an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War . Background . Born in Granby , Connecticut , Hayes moved with his father ' s family to La Salle County , Illinois . He attended the country schools and graduated from Oberlin ( Ohio ) College in 1860 and from the Theological Seminary , Oberlin , Ohio , in 1863 . Civil war . He enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War and was commissioned as a captain in the 103rd Ohio Infantry on July 16 , 1862 . He was promoted to lieutenant colonel on November 18 , 1864 . In the omnibus promotions following the surrender of Confederate forces in the spring of 1865 , he was brevetted colonel and brigadier general , dating from March 13 , 1865 . Public office and politics . Following the war , Hayes returned to Ohio . He became the superintendent of schools in Mount Vernon , Ohio , in 1866 . He moved to Circleville , Ohio , in 1867 , and then to Bryan , Ohio , in 1869 . In 1874 , Hayes moved from Ohio to Morris , Illinois . He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1872 . Hayes was elected as a Republican to the 45th United States Congress in 1876 , unseating independent incumbent Alexander Campbell , a theoretician of the Greenback movement ; and was re - elected to the Forty - sixth Congress in 1878 . He was not a candidate for renomination in 1880 . He moved to Joliet , Illinois , in 1892 , where he resumed journalism . Philip C . Hayes died in Joliet on July 13 , 1916 , and was interred in Elmhurst Cemetery .
Battle of Maraycalla The battle of Marayacalla was fought in 1534 between Spanish conquistador s and renegade forces of the Inca Empire , whose capital Cuzco had been taken by the Spaniards in November 1533 . The Inca army was commanded by famous general Quizquiz . After losing the battle and fleeing into the mountains , the Inca general was slain by his mutinous forces , leaving no major commander to face the Spanish occupants until the rising of Manco Inca Yupanqui in the vast siege of Cuzco , the last major battle of the Incas .
HMS Hampshire ( 1653 ) HMS " Hampshire " was a 38 - gun fourth - rate frigate of the English Royal Navy , originally built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England by Phineas Pett II at Deptford , and launched in 1653 . By 1677 her armament had been increased to 46 guns . In 1686 " Hampshire " was rebuilt at Deptford Dockyard as a 46 - gun fourth - rate ship of the line . She was sunk in action on 26 August 1697 during the Battle of Hudson ' s Bay .
Globe Tavern Confederate order of battle The following units and commanders of the Confederate army fought in the Battle of Globe Tavern from August 18 to 21 , 1864 . For August 18th and 19th , units from the divisions of William Mahone and Henry Heth were engaged , with brigades from the Petersburg Defense Force attached ( the brigade of A . H . Colquitt fought under Heth ' s command on the first day and under Mahone ' s command the second day ) . On August 21 , eight brigades from four divisions were engaged under the command of Henry Heth and William Mahone . August 18 – 19 . Operations south of Petersburg . Gen P . G . T . Beauregard , Petersburg Defense Force August 21 . Operations south of Petersburg . Gen P . G . T . Beauregard , Petersburg Defense Force Third Corps , Army of Northern Virginia . LTG A . P . Hill
Fritz Schlieper Fritz Schlieper ( 4 August 1892 – 4 June 1977 ) was a German military officer who served during World War I and World War II , eventually gaining the rank of Generalleutnant . Biography . Fritz Schlieper was born 4 August 1892 in Koldromb , Posen . In 1911 he joined the German Army . After the First World War Schlieper continued to serve in the Weimar Republic ' s Reichswehr , and when the Weimar Republic was replaced by Nazi Germany he remained in the Heer component of the Wehrmacht , and from 1935 to 1939 commanded the 17th Artillery Regiment . In 1939 he was promoted to Generalmajor and served as Chief of Staff for Military District XIII and , during the Invasion of Poland , served as the Chief of Staff for Frontier Sector Center . From 1939 to 1940 he was also the Quartermaster for the 18th Army . During Operation Barbarossa he commanded the 45th Infantry Division in one of the initial battles , the Defense of Brest Fortress . For his part in these battles he would be awarded the Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross . In 1942 he was transferred to Slovakia to command German occupying forces there . From 1944 until the war ' s end , he was the Chief of Special Staff II . After the war , Schlieper lived in Nürnberg til his death on 4 June 1977 .
Fabian Ware Major General Sir Fabian Arthur Goulstone Ware ( 17 June 1869 – 29 April 1949 ) was the founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission , now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Early life . Born at Clifton , Bristol , he attended the Universities of London and Paris , obtaining a Bachelier - es - Sciences at the latter in 1894 . He then spent ten years as an assistant master at several secondary school s , and as an occasional examiner for the Civil Service Commission and Inspector of Schools to the Board of Education . In 1899 he started writing articles for the " Morning Post " . He became the representative of the Education Committee of the Royal British Commission at the Exposition Universelle ( 1900 ) . He then obtained a job as Assistant Director of Education in the Transvaal , where two years later he was promoted to Acting Director of Education for the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony . Shortly afterwards he was made Director of Education on the Transvaal Legislative Council under Viscount Milner . Returning to Britain in 1905 , he was appointed editor of the " Morning Post " , where he remained until 1911 when he became a director of Rio Tinto Limited . First World War . When the First World War started in August 1914 he attempted to join the British Army but was rejected because he was too old , and so with the assistance of Milner , he obtained command of a mobile ambulance unit provided by the British Red Cross Society . He was soon struck by the lack of an official mechanism for marking and recording the graves of those killed . He set about changing this and set up an organisation to do this , and in 1915 both he and his organisation were transferred from the Red Cross to the Army . By October 1915 , the new Graves Registration Commission had over 31 , 000 graves registered , and 50 , 000 by May 1916 . War Graves Commission . As the war continued , Ware became concerned about the fate of the graves after the war . With the help of Edward , Prince of Wales , in 1917 , he submitted a memorandum on the subject to the Imperial War Conference . On 21 May 1917 , the Imperial War Graves Commission was created by a Royal Charter , with the Prince of Wales as its President and Ware as its Vice - Chairman , a role that Ware held until his retirement in 1948 . In 1937 he published an account of the work of the commission called " The Immortal Heritage " . The outbreak of the Second World War saw him appointed Director of Graves Registration and Enquiries at the War Office , whilst continuing in his role as Vice - Chairman of the Commission . He died at home at Amberley , Gloucestershire shortly after his retirement and is buried in the local Holy Trinity Churchyard . His grave has a CWGC - style headstone and is maintained by the commission . There are also memorial tablets to him in the Warrior ' s Chapel at Westminster Abbey and in Gloucester Cathedral .
French – Armenian Agreement ( 1916 ) The French - Armenian Agreement of October 27 , 1916 was the political and military accord regarding the support of Armenian nationalist ( Armenian national liberation movement ) on the side of the allies in World War I . Details . The agreement was reported to the Talat Pasha , Ottoman Empire , and a copy of this information was found in the Ottoman Archives . Negotiations performed with leadership of Boghos Nubar from Armenian side . It was initiated ( directed to ) with Quai d ' Orsay ( French Ministry Foreign Affairs ) . Foreign Minister Aristide Briand seized this opportunity to provide troops for French commitment made in Sykes - Picot Agreement , which was still secret . Armenian leadership also meet with Sir Mark Sykes and Georges Picot . The Armenian support which will be named as French Armenian Legion was planned under command of General Edmund Allenby , however extend to original agreement , Armenians fought in Palestine , Syria . Finally , after the armistice of Mudros in Cilicia . The from the agreement , it took less than a month to the official decision regarding the establishment of the Armenian Legion November 15 , 1916 in Paris . Support won the plaudits of Clemenceau ’ s government and its Entente allies . The parties agreed to the following :
Defence Equipment and Support Defence Equipment and Support ( DE & S ) is the name of the merged procurement and support organisation within the UK Ministry of Defence . It came into being on 2 April 2007 , bringing together the MoD ' s Defence Procurement Agency and the Defence Logistics Organisation under the leadership of General Sir Kevin O ' Donoghue as the first Chief of Defence Materiel . The organisation had a civilian and military workforce of around 29 , 000 ( 77 per cent civilian and 23 per cent military ) , in the UK and abroad . DE & S operates as a single Top Level Budget . As of 2008 the DE & S workforce was around 24 , 500 , further reducing under the ' PACE ' business improvement programme to around 20 , 000 by 2012 . Of this , around 10 , 000 posts will be housed at Abbey Wood by 2012 . Mission statement . The DE & S mission is : History . Defence Equipment and Support was established on 2 April 2007 . DE & S is overseen by the Minister for Defence Equipment , Support and Technology . Senior officials . The organisation is under the leadership of the Chief of Defence Materiel , a four - star officer : an Admiral , General , Air Chief Marshal or civilian . After the restructuring in 2011 there are four three - star posts under the Chief of Defence Materiel . These are the positions of Chief of Materiel ( Fleet ) , a Royal Navy Vice Admiral , and Chief of Materiel ( Land ) , a British Army Lieutenant General ( who also holds the appointment of Quartermaster - General to the Forces ) , Chief of Materiel ( Air ) , a Royal Air Force Air Marshal and Chief of Materiel ( Joint Enablers ) . Chief Operating Officer . The Chief Operating Officer ( COO ) was responsible for project and programme delivery across DE & S . This includes supporting the equipment through life , and the performance of the industrial supply chain . The post was discontinued 1 June 2011 . Chiefs of Materiel . The Chiefs of Materiel ( CofMs ) are responsible for managing key relationships with the Capability Sponsor and User . They work at the strategic level to make sure that the operational readiness and sustainability needs of the User are met . The CofMs ensure an ethos of support to operations is in place to the User , throughout all DE & S activity . Peter Worrall Chief of Corporate Performance . The Chief of Corporate Performance ( CCP ) was responsible for managing the business effectively and setting policy in key corporate functional areas . The post was discontinued as at 1 June 2011 . Major projects . DE & S manages a variety of defence procurement and support projects inherited from the DLO and DPA for all three services . Examples of current and future procurement projects include :
USS Awatobi ( YTB - 264 ) USS " Awatobi " ( YTB - 264 ) was a harbor tugboat acquired by the U . S . Navy during the close of World War II . She was outfitted with two . 50 - caliber machine gun s and assigned to the San Francisco Bay area where she provided tug services , and other harbor services as required . Constructed at Tacoma , Washington . " Awatobi " ( YT - 264 ) was laid down on 27 March 1944 at Tacoma , Washington , by the J . M . Martinac Shipbuilding Corp . ; reclassified a large harbor tug and redesignated YTB - 264 on 15 May 1944 ; launched on 30 September 1944 ; and placed in service on 1 February 1945 . World War II service . " Awatobi " served out her entire naval career as a harbor tug in the 12th Naval District in the San Francisco Bay area of California . Decommissioning and deactivation . She was deactivated in 1960 , and her name was stricken from the Navy list in December 1960 . The details of her disposition are not available .
Xu You ( Han Dynasty ) Xu You ( died 204 ) was a strategist serving under the warlord Yuan Shao during the late Han Dynasty period of Chinese history . He was known to be greedy by nature . Xu was a close friend of Cao Cao and during the Battle of Guandu , Xu decided to leave Yuan Shao and join Cao . This was because Shen Pei had informed Yuan that Xu ' s family had been locked up for charges of corruption . At that time , Xu was suggesting a strategy to Yuan and when Yuan received the news , he sneered at Xu and said , " You still have the cheek to present your strategies in front of me . " . Xu was furious and left Yuan to join Cao . He suggested that Cao attack Wuchao , where Yuan ' s army had their supplies stored . It was due to Xu ' s plan that Cao managed to win a strategic victory over Yuan ' s massive army in the Battle of Guandu . Later , Xu showed disrespect when Cao paid his respects in front of Yuan ' s grave , and was killed by Xu Chu .
Shamsur Rahman Kallu Lieutenant General Shamsur Rahman Kallue was a veteran intelligence officer and a general in the Pakistan Army . He was also head of the Inter Services Intelligence ( ISI ) . The CIA wanted Kallue to meet Masoud to put forward U . S . interests in the region . Insight wrote ( ibid ) : " The next day Masoud headed off through the Hindu Kush mountain range to the border of Pakistan for a secret meeting scheduled on another mountain side with Gen . Shamsur Rahman Kallue , head of the Pakistan military ' s Inter Services Intelligence directorate , whose orders the fiercely independent Masoud has consistently refused to follow . After crossing two mountain passes deep in snow on his way to The Rendezvous , Masoud received a message asking him to move up the appointment several hours . He radioed back that that was impossible and that he might be a day late because of weather . Kallue said he could not wait and returned to Islamabad , Pakistan , offering to leave a helicopter to bring Massoud to Islamabad . . . He declined the offer . Benazir could not afford to implement U . S . orders to cut off weapons to Hekmatyar ' s people because ISI would have toppled her government . She decided to cut American aid to Hekmatyar to please the U . S . and increase aid to Hekmatyar from Saudi ' s generous money to please ISI . "