* British Services Antarctic Expedition 2012

Since 2001, financial services in the British Virgin Islands have been regulated by the independent Financial Services Commission.

The Naval and Army Air Services also directed a number of strategic raids against Britain, leading the way in bombing techniques and also forcing the British to bolster their anti-aircraft defences.

All uniform branches of the Hong Kong ( Police, Police Auxiliary, Police Pipeband, Fire ( including Ambulance service members ), Immigration, Customs, Correctional Services, Government Flying Service, Civil Aid Service ) salute according to British Army traditions.

The British Post Office adopted the Baudot system for use on a simplex circuit between London and Paris in 1897, and subsequently made considerable use of duplex Baudot systems on their Inland Telegraph Services.

His work was inspired and paralleled by the British psychiatrist William Sargant at St Thomas ' Hospital, London, and Belmont Hospital, Surrey, who was also involved in the Intelligence Services and who experimented extensively on his patients without their consent, causing similar long-term damage.

Former president of the BVI's Financial Services Commission, Michael Riegels, recites the anecdote that the industry commenced on an unknown date in the 1970s when a lawyer from a firm in New York telephoned him with a proposal to incorporate a company in the British Virgin Islands to take advantage of a double taxation relief treaty with the United States.

Edward played a role in the modernisation of the British Home Fleet, the reform of the Army Medical Services, and the reorganisation of the British Army after the Second Boer War.

The Public Relations and Information Services Control Group of the British Element of the Allied Control Commission began in 1945 to issue directives to officers in charge of producing newspapers and radio broadcasts for the German population to emphasize " the moral responsibility of all Germans for Nazi crimes.

This included the conversion of Handley Page Halifax bombers into freighters, six of which were sold to Bond Air Services, an early post-war independent British airline.

* Royal Engineers Museum British Army Postal Services History

In 1948, control of Silver City passed from the Zinc Corporation to British Aviation Services.

British Aviation Services ( BAS ), an early post-World War II airline holding company and air transport operator, became one of Silver City's shareholders, initially taking a 10 % stake.

The Norwegian Shipping and Trade Mission was established in London shortly thereafter, and the name abbreviated to Nortraship, following a suggestion from the British Postal Services.

Livingstone was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for " Services to the Computer Games Industry " in the New Years Honours List 2006.

In 1943, while in occupied France, Canaris is said to have made contact with British agents: he was conducted blindfolded to the Convent of the Nuns of the Passion of our Blessed Lord, 127 Rue de la Santé, where he met the local head of the British Intelligence Services, code name " Jade Amicol ", in reality Colonel Claude Olivier.

The British government convened the Imperial Wireless and Cable Conference in 1928 " to examine the situation that had arisen as a result of the competition of Beam Wireless with the Cable Services ".

Called the " 1st Airborne Task Force ", the force was composed of the 1st Special Services Forces, British 2nd Independent Parachute Brigade, the 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team, the 509th and 551st Parachute Infantry Battalions, the glider-borne 550th Airborne Infantry Battalion, and supporting units.

He is also chairman of various international advisory boards and councils for many international companies, including Power Corp. ( Montreal ), Bombardier ( Montreal ), the China International Trust and Investment Corp. ( Beijing ), J. P. Morgan Chase and Co. ( New York ), Violy, Byorum and Partners ( New York ), VS & A Communications Partners ( New York ), Independent Newspapers ( Dublin ) and General Enterprise Management Services Limited ( British Virgin Islands ).

Recent projects have included the £ 35 million renovation of the Lionel Robbins Building, which houses the British Library of Political and Economic Science, LSE's Library and a brand new Student Services Centre in the Old Building as well as LSE Garrick on the junction of Houghton Street and Aldwych.

Known as King Edward VII Retirement Home for Officers, this later included convalescents from military and civil service backgrounds, until the late 1990s for retired officers of the British Armed Services.

* Protocol Data Services, a British information technology services company

The islands are located from the Isla de los Estados in Argentina ( and from the Argentine mainland ); from Chile ; west of the Shag Rocks ( South Georgia ) and north of the British Antarctic Territory ( which overlaps with the Argentine and Chilean claims to Antarctica in that region ).

The British Antarctic Survey operates a transcontinental air link between Port Stanley Airport and the Rothera Research Station on the Antarctic Peninsula and servicing also other British bases in the British Antarctic Territory using a de Havilland Canada Dash 7.

Then, in 1985, British Antarctic Survey scientists Farman, Gardiner and Shanklin published results of abnormally low ozone concentrations above Halley Bay near the South Pole.

The British National Antarctic Expedition, later known as the Discovery Expedition, was a joint enterprise of the RGS and the Royal Society.

In the following years he continued to express the British preference for man-hauling ( the practice of propelling sledges by manpower, unassisted by animals ), a view he maintained until very late in his Antarctic career.

In December he was released on half-pay, to take up the full-time command of the British Antarctic Expedition 1910, to be known as the Terra Nova Expedition from its ship, Terra Nova.

There is no native population on the islands ; the present inhabitants are the British Government Officer, Deputy Postmaster, scientists, and support staff from the British Antarctic Survey who maintain scientific bases at Bird Island and at the capital, King Edward Point, as well as museum staff at nearby Grytviken.

The base at King Edward Point was expanded as a research facility in 1949 / 1950 by the British Antarctic Survey, which until 1962 was called the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey.

The King Edward Point base, which had become a small military garrison after the Falklands war, returned to civilian use in 2001 and is now operated by the British Antarctic Survey.

* February 11 – Burgess Ice Rise lying off the west coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica is first mapped by the British Antarctic Survey ( BAS ).

* May 16 – Scientists of the British Antarctic Survey announce discovery of the ozone hole .< ref >

Nevertheless, in February 1907 Shackleton presented his plans for an Antarctic expedition to the Royal Geographic Society, the details of which, under the name British Antarctic Expedition, were published in the Royal Society's newsletter, Geographic Journal.

This claim overlaps the British and Chilean claims, though all territorial claims in Antarctica are currently suspended ( although not abandoned ) under the Antarctic Treaty System.

* 1711 – Ships from British Admiral Hovenden Walker's Quebec Expedition founders on rocks at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River.

* 1755 – French and Indian War: Braddock Expedition – British troops and colonial militiamen are ambushed and suffer a devastating defeat by French and Native American forces.

* 1909 – Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag from the South Pole, the furthest anyone had ever reached at that time.

Another British Royal Navy attempt on the pole, part of the British Arctic Expedition, by Commander Albert H. Markham reached a then-record 83 ° 20 ' 26 " North in May 1876 before turning back.

On April 6, 1969, Wally Herbert and companions Allan Gill, Roy Koerner and Kenneth Hedges of the British Trans-Arctic Expedition became the first men to reach the North Pole on foot ( albeit with the aid of dog teams and airdrops ).

During the American Revolutionary War, their villages, including Kanadaseaga (" Seneca Castle ") were wiped out during the Sullivan Expedition by troops that invaded their homeland to punish them for assisting the British.

Challenger was named after HMS Challenger, a British corvette that was the command ship for the Challenger Expedition, a pioneering global marine research expedition undertaken from 1872 through 1876.

* HMS Discovery, one of the ships which took Captain George Nares ' British Arctic Expedition of 1875 – 1876 to the North Pole ; and

Towards the end of the year the Forbes Expedition seized the site of Fort Duquesne and began constructing a British settlement that would become known as Pittsburgh.

* date unknown – Percy Douglas, chairman of the British Graham Land Expedition ( BGLE ) Advisory Committee

* July 9 – French and Indian War – Braddock Expedition: British troops and colonial militiamen are ambushed and suffer a devastating defeat inflicted by French and Indian forces.

The Forbes Expedition was a British campaign in September – October 1758, with 6, 000 troops led by General John Forbes to drive the French out of the contested Ohio Country.

One, the Walcheren Expedition of 1809, involved a dual effort by the British Army and the Royal Navy to relieve Austrian forces under intense French pressure.

The first recorded visit by Europeans was in 1792 when Peter Puget and a crew from the British Vancouver Expedition charted the site.

The Ellesmere Ice Shelf was documented by the British Arctic Expedition of 1875 – 76, in which Lieutenant Pelham Aldrich's party went from Cape Sheridan () west to Cape Alert (), including the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf.

" Certain displays of their selfishness were commented upon by George Murray Levick, a Royal Navy Surgeon-Lieutenant and scientist who also accompanied Scott on his ill-fated British Antarctic Expedition 1910, during his surveying of penguins in the Antarctic: " At the place where they most often went in water, a long terrace of ice about six feet in height ran for some hundreds of yards along the edge of the water, and here, just as on the sea-ice, crowds would stand near the brink.

Challenger reached Hong Kong in December 1874, at which point Nares and Aldrich left the ship to take part in the British Arctic Expedition.