In December 2006, it was announced that Corporal Bryan Budd 3rd Battalion had been awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for two separate acts of " inspirational leadership and the greatest valour " which led to his death during actions against the Taliban in Afghanistan in July and August 2006.

The camp was named after Lance Corporal George Patrick Julien, a Canadian Army soldier who was awarded the Military Medal as a Private, for his actions at Hill 187 in Korea in May 1953.

In the Battle of Loos, notable for being the first battle in which British forces used poison gas, the 9th ( Scottish ) Division assaulted the Hohenzollern Redoubt, the 5th Camerons suffered horrific casualties, and Corporal James Dalgleish Pollock gained a Victoria Cross for his actions.

One Victoria Cross was awarded for actions at Chunuk Bair to Corporal Cyril Bassett, who repaired phone lines while under fire.

It was the birthplace of James Gillingham who pioneered the development of articulated artificial limbs was also born in the town, as was Corporal Samuel Vickery who was awarded the VC in 1897 for his actions during the attack on the Dargai Heights, Tirah, India during the Tirah Campaign.

Corporal John French, from the 2 / 9th Battalion, was awarded a posthumous VC for his actions on 4 September 1942.

For his actions Corporal Wood was awarded the Victoria Cross, the last VC won by the regiment during the First World War.

Corporal Hall was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross while serving with the 1st Airborne Ranger Company for his gallant actions at Chipyon-Ni during the Korean War.

Lance Corporal Johnson Beharry of the 1st Battalion, PWRR was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions during his unit's deployment to Al-Amarah, near Basrah.

Lance Corporal Eric Danquah of the 1st battalion, PWRR was awarded the Joint Commanders Commendation for his actions during his units deployment to IRAQ Al-Amara, near Basrah.

Corporal Thomas Peck Hunter of was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions during Operation Roast at Lake Comacchio, Italy during the Second World War.

Instead, the Comacchio Company was named after a battle fought in Lake Comacchio, Italy, by Royal Marines in 1945, where Corporal Thomas Peck Hunter of 43 Commando posthumously received the Victoria Cross for his actions.

He was 20 years old and a Corporal in the 7th Battalion ( Victoria ), Australian Imperial Force during the First World War when he was awarded the VC for his actions on 9 August 1915, at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, Turkey: The enemy made a determined counter-attack on the centre of the newly captured trench held by a lieutenant ( Frederick Harold Tubb ), two corporals ( Alexander Stewart Burton and Corporal Dunstan ) and a few men.

When he was 19 years old, and a Corporal in the 16th Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters ( The Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment ), British Army during the First World War, he was awarded the VC for his actions during the Battle of Passchendaele.

The Predator is imprisoned for six weeks until being released through the actions of Corporal Harrison.

During the tour, Corporal Andrew Rainey became one of the first ever other ranks to win the Military Cross, for his actions during a heavy contact between 3 Platoon, A Company and a Bosnian Serb military unit on the confrontation line in the north of the Maglaj Finger.

Freddie Stowers ( January 12, 1896 – September 28, 1918 ) was a Corporal in the United States Army who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his actions in World War I while serving in an American unit under French command.

Corporal Reg Rattey received the award for his actions during the fighting around Slater's Knoll on 22 March 1945, while Private Frank Partridge earned his in one of the final actions of the campaign on 24 July 1945 during fighting along the Ratsua front.

" Nigger " is used by soldiers of both races in jokes and as expressions of bravado (" put a nigger behind the trigger ", says the black Corporal " Eightball "), with racial differences among the men seen as secondary to their shared exposure to the dangers of combat: Gunnery Sergeant Hartman ( R. Lee Ermey ) says, " There is no racial bigotry here.

Corporal Gary Schluter of the Florida State Highway Patrol-who has " seen the number of suicides, and attempts, climb steadily over the last few years " at the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, as well as persuaded multiple would-be suicides at that site to live-advises: " People look at that water and think it's very serene, an easy way to die.

He is possibly related to Corporal Knopf, ( as Knopf can be translated as knob ), one half of the town watch in Bad Blintz, Überwald, seen in The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents.

His serious voice juxtaposed well with humor ; thus, his characters often have a humorous or even goofy side as seen in Corporal Giroro in Sgt.

Bradley was already on the summit of Mount Suribachi with his platoon, when Sergeant Michael Strank, Corporal Harlon Block, PFC Ira Hayes, PFC Rene Gagnon and PFC Franklin Sousley, who had a larger flag on orders to place it so that it could be seen from great distance, asked him to lend them a hand in raising the flag attached to a heavy length of pipe.

On 22 February 1975, in an ambush in the Lomas de Zamora suburb of Buenos Aires, three policemen ( First Sergeant Nicolás Cardozo, Corporal Roberto Roque Fredes and Constables Eugenio Rodriguez and Abel Pascuzzi ) were killed after their patrol car came under fire from Montoneros guerrillas.

MSC chartered the first two ship classes in the MPS role ( the Corporal Louis J. Hauge, Jr. and Sergeant Matej Kocak classes ) from civilian shipping lines and converted them.

The soldiers immediately released Koroma from prison and installed him as their chairman and Head of State of the country, with Corporal Tamba Gborie as deputy in command of the AFRC.

On October 12, 1998 twenty-five soldiers in the Sierra Leone army, including Corporal Tamba Gborie, Brigadier Hassan Karim Conteh, Colonel Samuel Francis Koroma, Major Kula Samba and Colonel Abdul Karim Sesay, were executed by firing squad after they were convicted at a court martial in Freetown for orchestrating the 1997 coup that ousted president Kabbah from power.

Toledo is the hometown of Corporal Maxwell Klinger in the long-running 1970s television series M * A * S * H, an association that sprang from actor Jamie Farr being from there.

They persuade an attractive young cipher clerk, Corporal Tatiana Romanova, to falsely defect from her post in Istanbul, claiming to have fallen in love with Bond after seeing his file photograph.

Outraged that Stevenson and some of his colonial NCOs also fled from the barricades, a few British soldiers fired after them, killing Corporal William Anderson.

Corporal Duarte finally won a favorable ruling from the Supreme Court for his land grant case in 1878, but by then he had sold the entire Rancho.

There is also a marker honoring Lance Corporal Chad Robert Hildebrandt ( October 12, 1983 — October 17, 2005 ), the first casualty in the Iraq War from Springer.

This concern for the welfare of the common soldier together with his ability to inspire trust and confidence, and his willingness to share the dangers of battle, often earned him adulation from his men – " The known world could not produce a man of more humanity ," observed Corporal Matthew Bishop.

The Corporal missile was tested from 1959 to 1963, before giving way to Sergeant and Lance tactical nuclear missiles.

In 2004, Lance Corporal Jacob Lugo became the first military serviceman from Flower Mound to die in the line of duty.

In the Finnish Defence Force, NCO's ( Aliupseeristo ) includes all ranks from Corporal ( Alikersantti, lit.

Lauritz Weideman, Corporal Peder Balke, and Nels Dyhren from Toten attended the 1814 constitutional convention at Eidsvold.

Lauritz Weideman, Corporal Peder Balke, and Nels Dyhren from Toten attended the 1814 constitutional convention at Eidsvold.

In the South Pacific in 1944, U. S. Marine Corporal Allison ( Robert Mitchum ) and his reconnaissance party had been in the process of disembarking from a U. S. Navy submarine when they were discovered and fired upon by the Japanese.

A Cromwell under the command of Corporal Horne then advanced onto the main street from another side street and fired into the Tiger's rear, knocking it out, before reversing back into cover.

Lance Corporal Ian Malone ( 8 December 1974 – 6 April 2003 ) from Dublin, Ireland, was a member of the British Army's Irish Guards.

While the Argentine Navy has three Corporal ranks, from junior to senior: Cabo Segundo ( Corporal Second Class ), Cabo Primero ( Corporal First Class ) and Cabo Principal ( Principal Corporal ), which is equal to the Army rank of Sargento ( Sergeant ).

Corporal is the lowest NCO rank in the Royal Air Force ( aside from the RAF Regiment who have Lance-Corporals ), coming between Junior Technician or Senior Aircraftman ( Technician ) and Sergeant in the technical trades, or Senior Aircraftman and Sergeant in the non technical trades.