He became a general staff officer with IX Corps, part of General Sir Herbert Plumer's Second Army, in July 1917.

General Sir Claude Auchinleck stated that, but for Ultra-" Rommel would have certainly got through to Cairo ".

Essex left Sir Philip Skippon, his Sergeant Major General of Foot, in command while he himself escaped to Plymouth in a fishing boat.

( 1978 ) Chauvel of the Light Horse A Biography of General Sir Harry Chauvel, GCMG, KCB.

The professional head of the British Army is the Chief of the General Staff, currently General Sir Peter Wall KCB CBE ADC Gen.

On 29 May 2007 it was reported that General Sir Mike Jackson, second-in-command of 1 Para on Bloody Sunday, said: " I have no doubt that innocent people were shot ".

" In August 1777, General Sir William Howe led a British army through Delaware on his way to a victory at the Battle of Brandywine and capture of the city of Philadelphia.

The house had previously belonged to Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane and before him General Sir Robert Arbuthnot KCB.

Major General Sir Frederick Roberts led the Kabul Field Force over the Shutargardan Pass into central Afghanistan, defeated the Afghan Army at Char Asiab on 6 October 1879 and occupied Kabul.

# General Sir Arthur Currie of Canada,

# General Sir John Monash of Australia,

* Sir Arthur Currie, Lieutenant General, British Army, commanding Canadian Corps

* Sir Miles Dempsey, General, British Army

* Sir Freddie De Guingand, Major General, British Army

* Sir Richard McCreery, General, British Army

* Sir John Monash, General, Australian Army

* Sir Frederick E. Morgan, Lieutenant General, British Army

* Sir Henry Worth Thornton, Major General, British Army ( American born )

Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon ( 1817 – 1890 ), eldest son of the second marriage of the fourth Earl, was a General in the Army and sat as Member of Parliament for Aberdeenshire East.

His eldest son, Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon was also a General in the Army.

The Commission heard evidence from Sir Matthew Nathan, Augustine Birrell, Lord Wimborne, Sir Neville Chamberlain ( Inspector-General of the Royal Irish Constabulary ), General Lovick Friend, Major Ivor Price of Military Intelligence and others.

Bacon was subsequently a part of the legal team headed by Attorney General Sir Edward Coke at Essex's treason trial.

* Desmond Morton, The Canadian General Sir William Otter, Toronto: Hakkert, 1974.

Past Lecturers include Jane Goodall, Ernesto Zedillo, Mikhail Gorbachev, Madeleine Albright, General Norman Schwarzkopf, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and most recently, Greg Mortenson, Colin Powell and Bobby Bowden.

Eight international Nobel Prize winners have written and sent a document to the U. S. Attorney General calling for freedom for the Cuban Five, signed by Zhores Alferov ( Nobel Prize for Physics, 2000 ), Desmond Tutu ( Nobel Peace Prize, 1984 ), Nadine Gordimer ( Nobel Prize in Literature, 1991 ), Rigoberta Menchú ( Nobel Peace Prize, 1992 ), Adolfo Pérez Esquivel ( Nobel Peace Prize, 1980 ), Wole Soyinka ( Nobel Prize in Literature, 1986 ), José Saramago ( Nobel Prize in Literature, 1996 ), Günter Grass ( Nobel Prize in Literature, 1999 ).

Riane Eisler is a founding member of the General Evolution Research Group ( GERG ), a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science and World Business Academy, and a commissioner of the World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality, along with the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and other spiritual leaders.

In the 2011 General Elections, Yaw from the Worker's Party won the seat for Hougang SMC against PAP's Desmond Choo, taking 64. 81 per cent of the valid votes.

File: General Theological Seminary Desmond Tutu Center. jpg | The Desmond Tutu Center on 10th Avenue

** Lieutenant General Desmond Kuek Bak Chye, former Chief of the Defence Force, Singapore Armed Forces

His wife was the daughter of ( William ) Malcolm Low ( Lucknow, India, 6 November 1835-14 June 1923 ) and wife ( m. 30 July 1872 ), Lady Ida Matilda Alice Feilding ( 23 June 1840-16 December 1915 ), paternal granddaughter of General Sir John Low ( Clatto, Fife, 13 December 1788-10 January 1880 ) and wife ( m. Mussoorie, India, 10 April 1829 ) Augusta Ludlow Shakespear ( Calcutta, India, 4 March 1809-16 August 1892 ), and maternal granddaughter of William Basil Percy Feilding, 7th Earl of Denbigh, 6th Earl of Desmond and wife Lady Mary Elizabeth Kitty Moreton ( daughter of Thomas Reynolds-Moreton, 1st Earl of Ducie and wife Lady Frances Herbert ).

Fitzpatrick was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit by the then Governor General of New Zealand Sir Michael Hardie Boys in 1997.

By-election: On Mr. Fitzpatrick being appointed Solicitor General, 11 July 1896

Fitzpatrick chaired the 1933 IRA General Army Convention ( GAC ).

He is a graduate of the Amphibious Warfare School ( 1968 ); the Army Command and General Staff College ( 1976 ); and the National War College ( 1982 ).

Several team members decamped and set up Data General in May 1968, and rapidly brought the 16-bit NOVA minicomputer to market.

Ken Olsen was not supportive of this project, so de Castro left DEC along with another hardware engineer, Richard Sogge, and a software engineer, Henry Burkhardt III, to found Data General ( DG ) in 1968.

After the 1968 General Assembly, the Administrative Committee charged a sub-committee with the task of proposing a symbol for the church.

* 1968 – Trygve Lie, Norwegian politician, first United Nations Secretary General ( b. 1896 )

In the presence of a UN observer team, a referendum was held on August 11, 1968, and 63 % of the electorate voted in favor of the constitution, which provided for a government with a General Assembly and a Supreme Court with judges appointed by the president.

The Portuguese Governor and Commander in Chief from 1968 to 1973, General António de Spínola, returned to Portugal and led the movement which brought democracy to Portugal and independence for its colonies.

In collaboration with AIP, Tigon produced Michael Reeves ' Witchfinder General ( aka The Conqueror Worm, 1968 ).

General Suharto politically outmanoeuvred President Sukarno, and was formally appointed president in March 1968.

* 1886 – Francis Biddle, American lawyer and judge, United States Attorney General ( d. 1968 )

* 1968 – General Motors produced its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.

In 1968 GM Hydramatic ( the automatic transmission division of General Motors ) issued a request for proposal for an electronic replacement for hard-wired relay systems.

In 1964 – 1968, he served as Chief of the Department of Staff in the Israeli General Staff.

The cable car in the castle is based on the 1968 movie Where Eagles Dare, where a U. S. Army Brigadier General is captured and taken prisoner to the Schloß Adler, a fortress high in the Alps above the town of Werfen, only reachable by cable car, and the headquarters of the German Secret Service in southern Bavaria.

Following the sale of 50 % of the car division Saab Automobile AB to General Motors, the main reason behind the merger with lorry manufacturer Scania-Vabis in 1968 had disappeared.

In April 1968, a group of senior military officers who called themselves the Anti-Corruption Revolutionary Movement led by Brigadier General John Amadu Bangura overthrew the NRC junta.

On April 23, 1968, the United Methodist Church was created when the Evangelical United Brethren Church ( represented by Bishop Reuben H. Mueller ) and The Methodist Church ( represented by Bishop Lloyd Christ Wicke ) joined hands at the constituting General Conference in Dallas, Texas.

Gilbert has also been honored by the National Academy of Sciences ( US Steel Foundation Award, 1968 ); Massachusetts General Hospital ( Warren Triennial Prize, 1977 ); the New York Academy of Sciences ; ( Louis and Bert Freedman Foundation Award, 1977 ), the Academie des Sciences of France ( Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer Award, 1977 ).

* July 16 – Trygve Lie, Norwegian, first United Nations Secretary General ( d. 1968 )

** Robert Kennedy, American politician and Attorney General of the United States ( d. 1968 )

By 1968, the new, or soon to be, US commander in South Vietnam, General Creighton Abrams had been notified that the 152mm shells were now available for the Sheridan.

In late 1968, General Abrams met with Colonel George S. Patton IV-the son of World War II General Patton-who was the regimental commander of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment ( 11th ACR Blackhorse ), the only full regiment of cavalry in Vietnam.

In 1968 152mm main gun ammo became available, and the M551 General Sheridan was deployed to South Vietnam for combat operations in January 1969.

In the 1960s the company diversified, acquiring the Friden calculator company in 1965, Packard Bell Electronics in 1966 and General Precision Equipment Corporation in 1968.