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Patrick Mullen ( Medal of Honor ) Patrick Mullen ( May 6 , 1844 – February 14 , 1897 ) ( birth name is Patrick Mullin ) is one of only 19 servicemen to twice receive the Medal of Honor . He was a member of the United States Navy . Biography . Patrick Mullen was born May 6 , 1844 in Ireland and joined the United States Navy from Baltimore , Maryland . While stationed aboard the USS Wyandank he received the Medal of Honor for his actions during a boat expedition up Mattox Creek , March 17 , 1865 . Medal of Honor citation . FIRST AWARD Citation : Served as boatswain ' s mate on board the U . S . S . Wyandank during a boat expedition up Mattox Creek , March 17 , 1865 . Rendering gallant assistance to his commanding officer , Mullen , lying on his back , loaded the howitzer and then fired so carefully as to kill and wound many rebels , causing their retreat . SECOND AWARD G . O . No . : 62 , June 29 , 1865 . Citation : Served as boatswain ' s mate on board the U . S . S . Don , 1 May 1865 . Engaged in picking up the crew of picket launch No . 6 , which had swamped . Mullen , seeing an officer who was at that time no longer able to keep up and was below the surface of the water , jumped overboard and brought the officer to the boat , thereby rescuing him from drowning , which brave action entitled him to wear a bar on the medal he had already received at Mattox Creek , 17 March 1865 .
No . 147 Squadron RCAF History . RCAF Canadian Home War Establishment ( HWE ) Squadron . Formed as part of Western Air Command ( WAC ) on 1 July 1942 at Sea Island , B . C . . Served as a Bomber Reconnaissance ( BR ) unit tasked with anti - submarine duty . Moved to RCAF Station Tofino , B . C . in March 1943 . Disbanded 15 March 1944 . Two letter Squadron code was briefly SZ from July 1942 until the use of Squadron codes was discontinued in the RCAF HWE on the 16 Oct 1942 , " for security reasons " .
Andy Salmon Major General Andrew " Andy " Salmon CMG OBE ( born 2 July 1959 ) was , until February 2010 , the Commandant General Royal Marines . Early life . Salmon was educated at the Royal Grammar School , Guildford before attending Godalming College to do his A - levels . He graduated from the University of Warwick with a BA in Modern History in 1980 , and later earned an MA in Defence Studies from King ' s College London in 1993 . Military career . Salmon joined the Royal Marines in 1977 . In his early service years , he was involved in various operations including tours in Belfast ( 1978 ) , the Falklands ( 1982 ) , Crossmaglen ( 1983 ) , South Armagh ( 1990 ) , Northern Iraq ( 1991 ) and Angola ( 1992 ) . During this time he served with 40 Commando , 42 Commando and 45 Commando . Salmon was Policy Advisor to the Chiefs of Staff during the Kosovo War between 1998 and 1999 . He then served as Commanding Officer of 42 Commando , attached to the Amphibious Ready Group ( since renamed the " Amphibious Task Group " ) , during two interventions in Sierra Leone in 2000 . In 2001 he became Director , Balkans in the Ministry of Defence and handled issues arising from the Insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia in Spring 2001 and relations with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia before being posted to Iraq as Director Plans , Coalition Military Assistance and Training Team , Baghdad in 2003 . He became Commandant of the Commando Training Centre Royal Marines in 2007 before being appointed Commander UK Amphibious Forces in 2008 . He was deployed as General Officer Commanding Multi - National Division ( South East ) , Iraq in August 2008 . On 26 June 2009 , Salmon assumed the appointment of Commandant General Royal Marines , the professional head of the Royal Marines , during a ceremony held at the Commando Training Centre Royal Marines in Lympstone , Devon . He became Director of Force Readiness and Generation in NATO in 2010 and built their new Comprehensive Crisis and Operations Management Centre . Awards and decorations . In April 2001 , the then Lieutenant Colonel and acting Colonel Salmon , received the Queen ’ s Commendation for Valuable Service : in recognition of gallant and distinguished services during operations in Sierra Leone from 6 May to 30 September 2000 In December 2003 , the then Colonel Salmon , was appointed an Officer of the Military Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire . In December 2006 , the then Brigadier Salmon , was awarded the Bronze Star by the United States : in recognition of gallant and distinguished services during coalition operations in Iraq In September 2009 , Major General Salmon , was appointed an Ordinary Member of the Third Class , or Companion , of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George : in recognition of gallant and distinguished service in Iraq during the period 1 October 2008 to 31 March 2009 Personal life . Salmon is President and Founder of the C Group , a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts , sits on the Advisory Board of the Security Gap Programme at the London School of Economics and is a Visiting Senior Fellow there .
HMS Constant Warwick ( 1645 ) The Constant Warwick was a 32 - gun fourth rate frigate which served in the English Royal Navy , built by Peter Pett I at Ratcliff and launched in 1645 . She is sometimes regarded as the ' first English frigate ' , although a number of vessels built or acquired earlier ( during the 1630s and 1640s ) also merit a similar description . The term ' frigate ' during the period of this ship referred to a method of construction , rather than a role which did not develop until the following century . She was not built for the Navy , but was built as a privateer for a consortium which included the Earl of Warwick ( hence her name ) and Sir William Batten ( Surveyor of the Navy ) , but was hired by the navy from 1646 until 20 January 1649 , when she was purchased outright . " Constant Warwick " was rebuilt at least once . Her original dimensions altered by 1660 , evidence that she may have seen structural changes during the 1650s . She was certainly rebuilt by Sir John Tippetts at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1666 as a 42 - gun fourth rate ship of the line . Her armament had been reduced to 40 guns by 1685 , with eighteen demi - culverins ( drakes ) on the lower deck , eighteen sakers ( 6 - pounder guns ) on the upper deck , and four 3 - pounder guns on the quarter deck . She was downgraded to a fifth rate in 1691 , scheduled to be reduced to 28 guns , but before this took effect she was captured on 12 July 1691 off Portugal by a French squadron .
Amos Humiston Amos Humiston was killed in action during the American Civil War on the Gettysburg Battlefield , dying with his children ' s image that his wife had mailed to him months earlier . A local girl found the image , and Dr . J . Francis Bournes saw it at her father ' s tavern and subsequently promoted the File : " " wounded , he had laid himself down to die . In his hands … was an ambrotype containing the portraits of three small children … " [ It is ] " desired that all papers in the country will draw attention " [ so ] " the family … may come into possession of it " " ( The Philadelphia Inquirer , October 19 , 1863 ) . Humiston ' s wife in Portville , New York — who hadn ' t received a letter from her husband since the Battle of Gettysburg — responded to the photograph description in the American Presbyterian of October 29 . She subsequently confirmed the image after Bourns sent her a carte de visite copy of the image . Bourns took the original to her ; and the image identification , as well as Bourns ' project for an orphans ' home at Gettysburg , were publicized . The family subsequently resided at the " National Homestead at Gettysburg " ( opened October 1866 ) for 3 years until the widow remarried , when they relocated to Massachusetts . Historiography . After numerous postbellum retellings and a 1993 memorial regarding the story at Gettysburg , Pennsylvania ; Mark H . Dunkelman published Humiston ' s 1999 biography using Humiston ' s war letters — including a May 1863 poem of how Humiston missed his family .
USS Odum ( APD - 71 ) USS " Odum " ( APD - 71 ) , ex - DE - 670 , was a United States Navy high - speed transport in commission from 1945 to 1946 . Construction and commissioning . " Odum " was laid down as the " Buckley " - class destroyer escort USS " Odum " ( DE - 670 ) by the Consolidated Steel Corporation at Orange , Texas , on 15 October 1943 and launched as such on 19 January 1944 , sponsored by Mrs . Katherine Odum , mother of the ships namesake , Fireman First Class Joseph R . Odum . The ship was reclassified as a " Charles Lawrence " - class high - speed transport and redesignated APD - 71 on 27 June 1944 . After conversion to her new role , the ship was commissioned on 12 January 1945 with Lieutenant Commander John A . Cromly in command . Service history . World War II . Following shakedown off Bermuda , " Odum " transited the Panama Canal and proceeded up the Pacific coast to San Diego , California , whence she departed on 16 May 1945 for Hawaii . There she completed amphibious warfare training off Maui , took on underwater demolition team gear , and headed to the Western Pacific for World War II service . Discharging her cargo at Guam , she proceeded to Ulithi Atoll , whence she escorted transport SS " Kote Baroe " to Leyte in the Philippine Islands , arriving there on 29 June 1945 . From Leyte , escort missions took her again to Ulithi Atoll , thence to Hollandia in New Guinea , and back to Leyte . Postwar . At Leyte , in mid - August , following the surrender of Japan on 15 August 1945 , " Odum " joined Task Force 33 and , on 31 August 1945 , got underway to escort transports carrying troops for the occupation of Japan . Arriving in Japan on 8 September 1945 , she departed again on 12 September 1945 to escort transports carrying Allied former prisoners of war to the Philippines . " Odum " remained in the Far East supporting the occupation of Japan until late November 1945 , when she headed back to the United States . Assigned to the United States Atlantic Fleet , she operated in Transport Squadron 2 along the United States East Coast and off Cuba and Puerto Rico until entering the Charleston Naval Shipyard at Charleston , South Carolina , for inactivation on 26 July 1946 , after which she proceeded to Green Cove Springs , Florida for decommissioning . Decommissioning and disposal . " Odum " decommissioned at Green Cove Springs on 15 November 1946 and entered the Florida Group of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet on the St . Johns River there . Later transferred to the Texas Group of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet , " Odum " remained inactive in reserve for 20 years until stricken from the Navy List on either 1 November 1966 or 1 December 1966 . Chilean Navy service . " Odum " was sold to Chile on 15 November 1966 under the Military Assistance Program . During the dictatorship of Pinochet the " Serrano " was used for the transport of political prisoners to Dawson Island . She served in the Chilean Navy as " Serrano " ( APD - 26 ) until retired in 1984 and scrapped .
Gauführer Gauführer was an early paramilitary rank used by the " Schutzstaffel " ( SS ) between 1925 and 1929 . Translated as " SS - region leader " , the " SS - Gauführer " had command of several " SS - Stafflen " which were in turn commanded by an " SS - Staffelführer " . The rank of " Gauführer " was influenced by the similar named Nazi Party position of " Gauleiter " . The insignia for a " Gauführer " was a swastika armband with two white stripes . The rank of " SS - Gauführer " ceased to exist in 1929 when the " SS - Gaus " were re - consolidated into new SS units known as " SS - Oberführerbereiche " , each commanded by an " SS - Oberführer " .
Stasanor Stasanor ( in ; lived 4th century BC ) was a native of Soli in Cyprus who held a distinguished position among the officers of Alexander the Great . Stasanor , officer of Alexander . He probably entered the service of that monarch after the conquest of Cyprus in 333 BC , but the first occasion on which his name is mentioned is during the campaign in Bactria , when he was detached by Alexander with a strong force to reduce Arsames , the revolted satrap of Aria . This service , in conjunction with Phrataphernes , he successfully accomplished , and rejoined Alexander at Zariaspa in the autumn of 328 BC , bringing with him Arsames himself as a captive , as well as Barzanes , who had been appointed by Bessus satrap of Parthia . Stasanor the Satrap . As a reward for this exploit he obtained the satrapy of Aria , which was , however , soon after changed for that of Drangiana , in the command of which he remained during the whole of Alexander ' s campaign in India . On the king ' s return , Stasanor was one of those who met him in Carmania with a very opportune supply of camels and other beasts of burden , but returned to resume the charge of his province when Alexander continued his march towards Persis . In the first partition of the provinces after the death of Alexander ( 323 BC ) , Stasanor retained his former satrapy of Drangiana , but in the subsequent division at Triparadisus ( 321 BC ) , he exchanged it for the more important government of Bactria and Sogdiana . Here he appears to have remained quiet for some years , taking no open part , so far as we are informed in the contest between Eumenes and Antigonus . After the victory of Antigonus , although Stasanor had apparently inclined in favour of Eumenes , Antigonus found it prudent to pardon him and left him in the undisturbed possession of his satrapy , 316 BC . , since Stasanor had secured the attachment of the native population by the justice and moderation of his rule , and thus firmly established his power in the satrapy . Fate . From this time his name does not appear again in history . Justin however explains that around 305 BCE Seleucus attacked and conquered Bactria , probably in a conflict with Stasanor or possibly his successor : Connections . He was a contemporary and compatriot of Clearchus of Soli ( born in the same city of Soli , in Cyprus ) , a peripatetic ian philosopher who was seemingly involved in the foundation of the Bactrian city of Alexandria on the Oxus .
Seistan Force The Seistan Force , originally called East Persia Cordon , was a force of British Indian Army troops set up to prevent enemy infiltration from Persia into Afghanistan during World War I . The force was established to protect British interests in Persia from subversion by German agents , most notably Wilhelm Wassmuss . The force was also tasked to intercept and destroy the Turco - German expedition to Kabul that sought Afghan alliance in the Central war effort and Afghan assistance to war time revolutionary conspiracies in India . Unit history . In August 1914 ( at the start of World War I ) a small force , under the orders of the 2nd Quetta Brigade , was maintained in Western Balochistan to suppress arms traffic . In July 1915 this force was expanded and became the East Persia Cordon to prevent enemy infiltration from Persia into Afghanistan . A similar Russian Cordon was established to prevent infiltration into north - west Afghanistan . From March 1916 the force became the Seistan Force under the commander - in - chief in India . Following the Revolution in Russia , the Malleson Mission was sent to Trans - Caspia and the Seistan Force became the Lines of Communication for the Mission from September 1918 under the orders of the 4th ( Quetta ) Division . With the withdrawal of the force from Trans - Caspia , the troops in Persia were withdrawn and the last elements left in November 1920 . Despatches . The following is part of the text of a despatch by General Sir Charles Monro , Commander - in - Chief , India , on military operations in the Indian Empire from March 1916 to March 1917 , published in the London Gazette on 31 October 1917 :
Field marshal ( Uganda ) The rank of Field Marshal is a high rank in the military of Uganda . President Idi Amin was the commander - in - chief of the army , awarding himself the rank of field marshal . The highest ranking individual in the modern Ugandan army , the Uganda People ' s Defence Force ( UPDF ) , is the current President Yoweri Museveni , who uses the title of General .
ORDATA ORDATA is a U . S . government database of landmine s and other unexploded ordnance , developed to assist humanitarian demining work . The original version of ORDATA released in 1997 was CD - ROM based , and incorporated material from the earlier Minefacts program . The most recent version , ORDATA 2 . 0 , is distributed on a CD - ROM , as well as being available on the World Wide Web . It is hosted on the Mine Action Information Center website of the James Madison University .
ICGV Ægir ICGV " Ægir " is an Offshore Patrol vessel of the Icelandic Coast Guard built by Aalborg Værft a / s , in Denmark . She is the first ship of the " Ægir " class and is the sistership of the slightly improved ICGV " Týr " . She participated in the two last Cod Wars . In 1990 the original 57mm cannon was replaced with the current Bofors 40 mm gun and a large crane was added in 1994 . The flight deck was enlarged in 1997 and in 2005 she was refitted in Poland with a new bridge and improved electronics suite . Historical ships . The first ship in the Icelandic Coast Guard to bear the name " Ægir " was commissioned on 14 July 1929 . In her early years she was considered the most advanced patrol and inspection ship of the Nordic countries . She participated in the First Cod War . " Ægir " sailed with the newly elected president ( 1944 ) Sveinn Björnsson in the 1940s around Iceland . Full armament during the Second World War consisted of a 57mm cannon , 37mm anti - aircraft gun , two machine gun s and depth charges along with various small arms . When the new " Ægir " arrived she was decommissioned and sold for scrap , even though she was still in excellent condition .
Harry Blanshard Wood Harry Blanshard Wood , VC , MM ( 21 June 1882 – 15 August 1924 ) was an English 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 . Harry Wood was born 21 June 1882 in Newton - on - Derwent , Yorkshire , the son of John Wood an agricultural labourer and Maria Nichol Dey . At 37 years old , Harry was a corporal in the 2nd Battalion , Scots Guards , British Army during the First World War when deed for which he was awarded the VC took place . On 13 October 1918 at St . Python , France , when the advance was desperately opposed and the streets of the village were raked by fire , Corporal Wood ' s platoon sergeant was killed and he took command of the leading platoon . The River Selle had to be crossed and the ruined bridge gained , although the space in front of it was full of snipers , so the corporal carried a very large brick into the open space , lay down behind it and , firing continuously on the snipers , covered his men while they worked their way across . Later in the day he repeatedly drove off enemy counter - attacks . He later achieved the rank of Lance - Sergeant . His nerves were badly affected by his wartime experiences . He died 15 August 1924 whilst on holiday ; he was walking with his wife when a car mounted the pavement and headed towards them . His wife pushed him out of the way but she was pinned against the wall . She suffered minor injuries but her husband was so shocked that he collapsed and fell into a coma from which he died several days later . He was buried at Arnos Vale Cemetery , Bristol , England , at Soldiers ' Corner , grave number 1738 .
Battle of Schoenfeld The Battle of Schoenfeld ( ) took place on March 1 , 1945 during World War II and was the scene of the last mounted charge in the history of the Polish cavalry . The Polish charge overran German defensive positions and forced a German retreat from the village of Schoenfeld ( today known as " Żeńsko " , formerly known in Polish as " Borujsko " ) . In March 1945 , the First Army of the Polish People ' s Army was advancing into Pomerania as part of an overall push by Soviet forces to reach the Baltic Sea and the area of Stettin ( some northwest of Schoenfeld ) . Schoenfeld was part of the third line of fortifications built by the Germans to shelter Pomerania from attack . An initial Polish attack on Schoenfeld with tanks and infantry of the 2nd Infantry Division foundered in the low , open wetlands that were dominated by the fire of infantry and antitank guns from Schoenfeld , which sat at a slightly higher elevation on a small hill ( Hill 157 ) . German troops defending the village were part of the " 163rd Infantry Division " . The 1st " Warsaw " Independent Cavalry Brigade was then employed against the German position . Two squadrons of cavalry , having used a ravine to cover their approach to their infantry and tanker brothers - in - arms , charged through the smoke of burning tanks , and achieved tactical surprise with a swift mounted assault that overran the German antitank gun positions on the forward slope of Hill 157 . This success was followed by an attack into the village itself by the cavalry , who by this time had been joined by the infantry and tanks . In the face of this development , the surviving German defenders withdrew , allowing the Poles to consolidate their gains in and around the village at 1700 . Today , a plaque mounted on a stone near the edge of Żeńsko commemorates the cavalry charge .