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John Leslie Green John Leslie Green VC ( 4 December 1888 – 1 July 1916 ) 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 . Early life . Born in Buckden , Huntingdonshire to John George and Florence May Green , Green attended Felsted School , and went on to study medicine at Downing College , Cambridge , and St . Bartholomew ' s Hospital , London . At the outbreak of World War I he had not yet completed his medical studies , but was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps . Green married Miss E M Moss on 1 January 1916 . Military career . Green served as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps , British Army , attached to 1 / 5th Battalion , The Sherwood Foresters ( The Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment ) . He saw action in the Battle of Loos . He was 27 years old , when he performed a deed for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross . Citation . His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Army Medical Services Museum in Aldershot , England . Legacy . Leslie Green has a road named after him in Houghton , Cambridgeshire . He is listed on the Role of Honour in the village church .
Salisbury - class frigate The Type 61 " Salisbury " class were a class of British aircraft direction ( or radar picket ) frigate s built for the Royal Navy . They were related to the Type 41 " Leopard " class frigates , but with reduced armament to make way for more aircraft direction equipment . Unlike the Battle class AD conversions , the primary role of the Type 61 was not operations with fast carrier groups for which their diesel powered cruising engines , increasingly lacked the speed . The role of the Type 61 was as a seaworthy air ocean surveillance ship and air control ship supporting Suez ( for which they were too late ) type amphibious operations and air strikes . The equipment fitted to the Type 61s was essentially that of second line aircraft carriers and ambhibious helicopter carriers . While the frontline carriers ( eg Eagle , Hermes and Victorious ) carried the 3D bulky 984 radar and the ability to analyse and prioritise 24 to 100 air targets , the second line carriers ( Ark Royal , Centaur , Bulwark , Albion ) and the Type 61 AD frigates carried initially 960 ( rapidly updated to 965 ) radar for AW and 982 radar for a degree of 3D cover and better air control over land . By the late 1960s the decision to phase out the carriers and other factors were making the 984 unsustainable . Hermes and Victorious were too small to carry secondary surveillance or backup radar ; 984 was becoming more difficult to maintain and not reliable , and Victorious and Hermes essentially had a capacity for only 25 second generation fighter and bombers and ASW helicopters , which was of limited value . Therefore a new radar , 985 , superior as a radar to 984 and 965 was developed to use the 982 antenna and fitted in the late 1960s to what would be the last conventional carriers , Ark Royal and Bulwark , and the Type 61 escorts . However the 985 system did not have the analysis and prioritising capabilities of the 984 system and the Type 61s lacked the computer processing capability to properly process the data or really effectively operate with the Ark . Construction Programme . Three further ships of the class were planned . Two of these were cancelled under the 1957 Defence Review , and the third ( " Coventry " ) was suspended . It was hoped to order " Coventry " in 1961 , but in the event it was decided to order a " Leander " class frigate that became HMS " Penelope " .
Robert Sturges Lieutenant - General Sir Robert Grice Sturges KBE , CB , DSO ( 1891 – 1970 ) was an officer in the Royal Marines . Military career . Sturges joined the Royal Navy in 1908 . Commissioned a sub - lieutenant on 15 May 1912 , he transferred to the Royal Marines as a lieutenant from the same date ( confirmed on 19 December 1914 ) He served in World War I , seeing action in the Gallipoli Campaign and the Battle of Jutland , receiving promotion to captain on 30 January 1917 . He was officially transferred to the Royal Marine Light Infantry on 30 January 1917 . Between the wars , he was promoted to major on 17 June 1929 and to lieutenant - colonel on 1 April 1936 . He was brevetted colonel and promoted to colonel on 3 April 1939 ( seniority 31 December 1938 ) . During World War II he was the commander of the British occupation of Iceland in May 1940 . He was promoted to acting colonel commandant and temporary brigadier on 4 June and was mentioned in despatches in July . He was Commander of the British occupation of Madagascar in 1942 . He went on to be Commander of the Special Service Group ( Commandos ) in 1943 . He was described as " intrepid in action , ruddy in countenance , and forcefully bucolic in language " . He retired in 1946 .
Robert Hale ( doctor ) Robert Hale ( 12 February 1702 ( o . s . ) – 20 March 1767 ) was a doctor and military officer from Beverly , Massachusetts . Biography . Hale graduated from Harvard in 1721 and later practiced as a physician in Beverly . He commanded a regiment under William Pepperell at the Siege of Louisbourg in 1745 . In 1747 , he was appointed by the legislature of Massachusetts a commissioner to New York to adopt measures for the general defence , and in 1755 was a commissioner to New Hampshire to plan an expedition against the French . He was appointed sheriff of Essex County , Massachusetts , in 1761 , and was for 13 years a member of the legislature .
HMS Ruby ( 1708 ) HMS " Ruby " was a 50 - gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy , built by Sir Joseph Allin at Deptford Dockyard to the 1706 Establishment , and launched on 25 March 1708 . She achieved an unwelcome notoriety in March 1741 when her captain , Samuel Goodere , was convicted of murder at Bristol and subsequently hanged ; he had enticed his elder brother , Sir John Dineley Goodere , 2nd Baronet , on board , and had caused him to be strangled in the purser ' s cabin . " Ruby " was renamed HMS " Mermaid " in 1744 , and was sold out of the service in 1748 .
Takeji Nara Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army . Biography . Nara was born in what is now part of Kanuma city , Tochigi Prefecture to a farming family . He attended military preparatory schools as a youth , and graduated from the 11th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1889 as a second lieutenant in the artillery . In 1893 , he attended the Army Artillery School , and the participated in the First Sino - Japanese War from 1894 - 1895 . After the war , he returned to the Army Staff College , graduating from the 13th class in December 1899 . He subsequently served in a number of staff positions within the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff , and was send to Germany as a military attaché . During the Russo - Japanese War , Nara was commander of an Independent Heavy Artillery Brigade which operated the siege artillery units attached to the IJA 3rd Army . After the war and another visit to Germany , he rose to be Vice Minister of War . Promoted to major general in 1914 , he served as commander of the Japanese China Garrison Army , and later as chief of staff of Japanese forces in Tsingtao . Nara was promoted to lieutenant general in 1918 , and attended the Versailles Peace Treaty Conference as part of the Japanese delegation . He also chaired the commission investigating the Nikolayevsk Incident . Nara subsequently served as Chief aide - de - camp to Crown Prince Hirohito , and then as Chief Aide - de - camp to the Emperor of Japan after Hirohito ' s coronation , until 1933 . At the request of the " genrō " Yamagata Aritomo , Nara supervised the Crown prince ’ s education in military affairs through both lectures and active experience . Under his direction , Hirohito mastered horsemanship , and practiced firing live weapons , even to the extent of having a firing range built within the Akasaka Palace . In 1921 , he was part of the entourage which accompanied Hirohito on his official visit to Europe . He was promoted to full general in 1924 and became a member of the Privy Council . In 1933 , he was elevated to the title of baron ( " danshaku " ) under the " kazoku " peerage system , retiring from his military career soon afterwards . In the post war period , he served as Chairman of the " Dai Nippon Butoku Kai . " Nara died in 1962 and his diaries from the period that he was aide - de - camp to Emperor Hirohito shed additional light on the thoughts and role of the Emperor during World War II . Notes . Most of the information in this article was translated from the Japanese Wikipedia site .
USS LST - 553 USS " LST - 553 " was a United States Navy in commission from 1944 to 1947 . Construction and commissioning . " LST - 553 " was laid down on 24 January 1944 at Evansville , Indiana , by the Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Company . She was launched on 16 March 1944 , sponsored by Miss Agnes L . Maulding , and commissioned on 22 April 1944 with Lieutenant John K . Alegeo in command . Service history . During World War II , " LST - 553 " was assigned to the Pacific Theater of Operations . She participated in the capture and occupation of the southern Palau Islands in September and October 1944 . She then took part in the Philippines campaign , participating in the Leyte landings in October and November 1944 , the Lingayen Gulf landings in January 1945 , and the landings at Zambales and Subic Bay in January 1945 . She then participated in the assault on and occupation of Okinawa Gunto from April through June 1945 . Following the war , " LST - 553 " commanded by Lieutenant William George Keat conducted minesweeping operations in the waters surrounding the Home Islands of Japan in the Port of Yokhoma and performed occupation duty in the Far East ( South China Sea ) until late January 1947 . Minesweeping Operations were conducted with mattresses padding the wheel house to buffer personnel from detonating mines . Occupation duties included survey visits by ships officers to both Hiroshima and Nagasaki . Decommissioning and disposal . " LST - 553 " was decommissioned on 13 February 1947 and transferred to the United States Army at Yokohama , Japan , the same day . She was stricken from the Navy List on 25 April 1947 . Honors and awards . " LST - 553 " received five battle star s for her World War II service .
Francisco de Melo da Gama de Araújo e Azevedo The Field Marshal Francisco de Melo da Gama de Araújo e Azevedo ( May 16 , 1773 - January 17 , 1859 in Quinta da Garrida , Parish of St . João da Ribeira Ponte de Lima , Portugal ) was a field marshal l of the Portuguese Army and Governor of Diu in Portuguese India between March 21 , 1821 and January 1840
Ysmael R . Villegas Staff Sergeant Ysmael R . Villegas ( March 21 , 1924 in Casa Blanca , California – March 20 , 1945 in Luzon , Philippines ) , was a United States Army soldier who posthumously received the Medal of Honor - the United States ' highest military decoration for his actions during World War II . On March 20 , 1945 , at age 20 , Staff Sergeant Ysmael R . Villegas was killed in action during the Battle of Luzon in the Philippines . Villegas single - handedly cleared five enemy foxholes that had his squad pinned down . Early years . Villegas was a Mexican - American born and raised in Casa Blanca , the Hispanic section of Riverside , California . There he received his primary and secondary education and joined the United States Army in July 1944 . After he finished his basic training , he was assigned to Company F , 127th Infantry Regiment , 32nd Infantry Division which was assigned to the invasion of the Philippines . World War II . On March 1 , 1945 , Villegas ' company found itself engaged in combat against Japanese forces at Villa Verde Trail on Luzon Island in the Philippines , in what is known as the Battle of Luzon . His squad was attacked by an enemy machinegun nest . Villegas took it upon himself to save his squad by destroying the nest and its occupants . For his actions he was awarded the Silver Star medal . On March 20 , 1945 , Villegas was ordered to lead his squad in an advance which would result in the taking of a hill . They confronted an enemy which was entrenched and who attacked them with heavy machinegun and rifle fire . He led his men towards the crest of the hill and then upon his own initiative attacked five enemy foxholes , killing all of its occupants . Villegas was mortally wounded when he attacked the sixth foxhole . On October 19 , 1945 , President Harry S . Truman , posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor to Villegas , presenting the medal to his surviving family . Honors . Villegas was buried with full military honors at the Riverside National Cemetery located in Riverside , California . The Veterans of Foreign Wars ( VFW ) named Post # 184 in Riverside the " Ysmael R . Villegas Memorial Casa Blanca Post " in his honor . A statue by sculpture Gary Coutrer , called Villegas Memorial , was dedicated on May 27 , 1995 , and is located on Main Street Civic Center Courtyard in Riverside . The Ysmael R . Villegas Middle School in Riverside is named in his honor . Awards and decorations . Among Staff Sergeant Ysmael R . Villegas ' decorations and medals were the following :
Charles Kuentz Charles Kuentz ( February 18 , 1897 , Ranspach – April 7 , 2005 ) was an Alsatian centenarian and veteran of World War I . He is known for having served the German army during the Battle of Passchendaele in World War I , and the French army during World War II . He lived to the age of 108 , dying in 2005 . Born in Alsace , Kuentz was conscripted by the Kaiser ' s army at the age of 19 , since the Alsace - Lorraine and its Franco - German ethnic population had been under Germany authority since 1871 , following the French defeat in the Franco - Prussian War . While serving in the Imperial German Army during World War I , he saw action on both the Eastern and Western Fronts . Following The Armistice on November 11 , 1918 , Kuentz immediately returned home , even before he was officially mustered out of his unit . He returned to civilian life as a postal employee . His homeland was now back under French control , and Kuentz chose to acquire the French nationality so at the outbreak of the Second World War he was called to service once again , but this time by France ; however , his service was short - lived , as he was soon absolved of his obligation due to his age and marital / family status . When France surrendered to Germany in 1940 , he was once again a German citizen . His son François was conscripted by the German military during the war and served in the Waffen SS . François was killed in action in 1944 , during the Allies ' Invasion of Normandy . After the fall of the Third Reich , Kuentz became once again a French citizen , which he would remain for the rest of his life . In November 2004 , he met British veteran Harry Patch , who had fought on the opposing side of him in the Battle of Passchendaele . This was filmed and later shown in the BBC One documentary " The Last Tommy " , broadcast in November 2005 . In that same year , Kuentz gave a series of thirty interviews , the purpose of which was to share his recollections of The Great War . He said that his aim in doing so was to ensure that the war would not be forgotten , and thus that such a tragedy would not be repeated . Charles Kuentz died in Colmar , aged 108 years and 48 days . He and his family had always considered themselves to be French , and he had been a member of multiple French patriotic organizations . At his funeral , which was attended by an honor guard composed of members from the patriotic organizations of which he himself had been a member , his coffin was draped with the French Flag . At the time of his death , Charles Kuentz was ( although incorrectly ) believed to have been the Imperial German Army ' s ( and indeed all of Germany ' s ) last surviving veteran of The Great War .
James J . Lindsay General James Joseph Lindsay ( born October 10 , 1932 in Portage , Wisconsin ) is a retired United States Army four - star general , and served as the first commander of the United States Special Operations Command . Military career . Lindsay ' s military career began when he enlisted in the Army in 1952 . He graduated from the U . S . Army Officer Candidate School in May 1953 as a Second Lieutenant in the Infantry . His military education includes the Infantry Officer Advanced Course , Army Language School ( German and Russian ) the US Marine Corps Command and Staff College and the National War College . He earned a bachelor ’ s degree from the University of Nebraska at Omaha and a Master of Science degree in Foreign Affairs from George Washington University . Lindsay commanded units at all levels , from platoon through MACOM , in both peacetime and war . His first assignments were with the 82nd Airborne Division , 7th Special Forces Group and Military Intelligence . Within the 82nd Airborne Division he held eight assignments , from platoon to division level . During the Vietnam War , he was an advisor to the Vietnamese Airborne Brigade , commanded the 2nd Battalion 60th Infantry , 9th Infantry Division and was the G3 ( Assistant Chief - of - Staff , Operations and Plans ) for the 9th Infantry Division . As a general , Lindsay commanded the 82nd Airborne Division , the United States Army Infantry School , the XVIII Airborne Corps , the United States Readiness Command , and was the first Commander in Chief , United States Special Operations Command . General Lindsay retired July 1 , 1990 . Awards and decorations . General Lindsay ’ s awards and decorations include : Post military . In retirement , Lindsay serves as president of the Airborne and Special Operations Museum Foundation , and is a Senior Observer with the Army ’ s Battle Command Training Program . He sits on the Board of Advisors of the National Infantry Foundation . He was inducted into both the United States Army Ranger Hall of Fame and Officer Candidate School Hall of Fame . He was the 1996 recipient of the National Infantry Association ’ s Doughboy Award , and the 1998 recipient of the United States Special Operations Command Bull Simon Award . General Lindsay and his wife Gerry live in Vass , North Carolina . Their children include : Steven Lindsay , Michael Lindsay , Kevin Lindsay , and Barbara Jacon ; their grandchildren : Erin Lindsay - Caulkins ( deceased ) , Brittany Lindsay , Wayne Lindsay , Lindsay Patton , Tyler Jacon , Evan Lindsay , Michael Lindsay ; and their great - grandchildren : Aven Caulkins and Nicholas Lindsay ( deceased ) .
1st Division ( Portugal ) The 1st Division was one of the two divisions of the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps ( CEP , " Corpo Expedicionário Português " ) , the main military force of Portugal that fought in the World War I Western Front on the side of the Allies . The Division was under the command of General Gomes da Costa , during most of its existence . From the June 2 , 1917 to the April 6 , 1918 , the 1st Division was responsible for the subsectors of Neuve Chappelle and Ferme du Bois of the Portuguese Sector of the Western Front . After heavy looses in the Front , the 1st Division was removed from the front line , three days before the April 9 , 1918 German offensive that gave origin of the Battle of the Lys , where CEP was virtually destructed . In July 1918 , the 1st Division was the core for the reconstruction of the CEP and participated in the final Allied offensive . The 4th Company of IV Battalion the 1st Division , under the command of captain Barros Bastos made a final assault against the German positions near the Scheldt river on the November 11 , 1918 , on the same day of the Armistice . This was the last Portuguese combat action of World War I .
Cowthally Castle Cowthally Castle , also known as Couthalley , is a ruined L - plan castle near Carnwath , Lanarkshire , Scotland . The remains are protected as a scheduled monument . The castle appears to have been constructed in the 12th century , and was re - built in 1375 . The castle passed to Sir John Somerville , 4th Baron of Linton through marriage in 1317 to Lady Elizabeth Douglas . The castle was altered and extended in 1415 and again in 1524 . The castle was besieged in 1557 and was partially destroyed and was rebuilt in 1586 . The buildings at the Castle surviving in the 17th century were carefully described by the 11th Lord Somerville in his family history ; the " Memorie of the Somervilles " .
USS Case ( DD - 285 ) USS " Case " ( DD - 285 ) was a " Clemson " - class destroyer in the United States Navy following World War I . She was named for Augustus Case . History . " Case " was launched 21 September 1919 by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation , Squantum , Massachusetts ; sponsored by Miss A . R . Case ; commissioned 8 December 1919 , Commander C . S . Joyce in command ; and reported to Destroyer Division 43 , Atlantic Fleet . Between January and July 1920 , " Case " operated along the east coast , and on winter maneuvers in the Caribbean , during which she obtained tactical data for Naval War College study . From July 1920 through December 1921 , she operated in reduced commission with fifty per cent of complement . Beginning in December 1921 , " Case " was permanently assigned to Destroyer Division 25 for a regular schedule of operations designed to keep her operational readiness at its maximum . Along with gunnery and engineering exercises and competitions , she joined the fleet annually in maneuvers and war problems . From 1924 to 1925 , " Case " was flagship of her division , and With it in April 1926 sailed to the European station , where the flag was shown and good - will created by visits to various British and Mediterranean ports . Returning to the United States a year later , the destroyer resumed operations along the east coast and in the Caribbean . Designated for scrapping in accordance with the London Naval Treaty in 1929 , " Case " was decommissioned at Philadelphia , Pennsylvania 22 October 1930 , and sold as a stripped hulk 17 January 1931 .