During World War II, various British and Commonwealth units, including the Long Range Desert Group ( LRDG ), the No. 1 Demolition Squadron or ' PPA ' ( Popski's Private Army ), and the Special Air Service ( SAS ) were noted for their exploits in the deserts of Egypt, Libya and Chad using unarmored motor vehicles, often fitted with machine guns and cannons of various types.

Lancelot Speed's cartoon work is the source of the nickname for the colourful commander of the WWII Special Forces unit " Popski's Private Army ".

* Popski's Private Army — a small World War II Special Forces unit of the British 8th Army

Popski's Private Army, officially No. 1 Demolition Squadron, PPA, was a unit of British Special Forces founded in Cairo in 1942 by Lieutenant Colonel ( then Major ) Vladimir Peniakoff DSO MC.

Popski's Private Army was one of several raiding units formed in the Western Desert during the Second World War.

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This list includes the first edition of each of ' the big five ' books on PPA, starting with Popski's own bestseller.

During the World War II years, Jones worked closely with Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, to create the Private Snafu series of Army educational cartoons.

* Private E-2, a paygrade for the rank of Private in the U. S. Army

The other women were: Nancy Hart, Lucy Mathilda Kenny ( also known as Private Bill Thompson of the Confederate States Army ) and Mary Musgrove.

Afterwards, it follows Tom Hanks as United States Army Rangers Captain John H. Miller and seven other soldiers ( Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Vin Diesel, Giovanni Ribisi, Adam Goldberg, and Jeremy Davies ) as they search for a paratrooper, Private First Class James Francis Ryan ( Matt Damon ), who is the last-surviving brother of four servicemen.

** Members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army shoot and kill Major Michael Dillon-Lee and Private William Robert Davies of the British Army.

* Private Pike, a character in the television series Dad's Army

In June 2006 Hanks was inducted as an honorary member of the United States Army Rangers Hall of Fame for his accurate portrayal of a Captain in the movie Saving Private Ryan ; Hanks, who was unable to attend the induction ceremony, was the first actor to receive such an honor.

Rank and organization: Private First Class, U. S. Army, Company A, 100th Infantry Battalion, 442d Combat Team.

In his 2006 self-published book I Kept My Word: The Personal Promise Between a World War II Army Private and His Captain About What Really Happened to Glenn Miller, Clarence B. Wolfe — a gunner with Battery D, 134th AAA Battalion, in Folkestone, England — claims that his battery shot down Miller's plane.

Pete is a featured character in the following Donald Duck cartoons: Donald's Lucky Day ( 1939 ), Officer Duck ( 1939 ), The Riveter ( 1940 ), Timber ( 1941 ), Donald Gets Drafted ( 1942 ), The Vanishing Private ( 1942 ), Sky Trooper ( 1942 ), Bellboy Donald ( 1942 ), The Old Army Game ( 1943 ), Trombone Trouble ( 1944 ), The New Neighbor ( 1953 ) and Canvas Back Duck ( 1953, where he fights a semi-pro boxing match with Donald Duck ).

On 15 January 1880, a submission for a DCM was also made for Private Michael McMahon ( Army Hospital Corps ).

* Private Museum about the Salvation Army

* Actor Arnold Ridley ( 1896-1984 ), best known as Private Charles Godfrey in BBC sitcom Dad's Army, lived in Northwood

For his service to the U. S. Army, Private Serling was awarded the Purple Heart, the Bronze Star, and the Philippine Liberation Medal.

A number of well-known people were educated at Dumfries Academy, among them Henry Duncan, founder of the world's first commercial savings bank, Sir James Anderson, who captained the SS Great Eastern on the Transatlantic telegraph cable laying voyages in 1865 and 1866, James Matthew Barrie, author of Peter Pan, missionary Jane Haining, international diplomat Alexander Knox Helm, John Laurie, actor ( Private Fraser in Dad's Army ), artist Robin Philipson, singer John Hanson, Alex Graham, cartoonist best known for the Fred Basset series and Jock Wishart, who in 1998 set a new world record for circumnavigating the globe in a powered vessel.

* David Armstrong-A determined Private in the United States Army who is training on Malden when the fighting breaks out, he lost his squad on Everon after a botched retreat attempt.

He served in the United States Army from 19 August 1953 to 20 August 1954, leaving as Private First Class.

Private Jacob Parrott, a Union Army volunteer from Ohio, became the first recipient of the medal, awarded to him for his volunteering for and participation in, a raid on a Confederate train in Big Shanty, Georgia on April 12, 1862 during the American Civil War.

* August 6 – James Beck, who stars as Private Joe Walker in the popular UK sitcom Dad's Army, dies of a burst pancreas at the age of just 44.

On Christmas Day 1970, Sergeants Allan Brian Moss and John Wallace Galvin were shot dead and Sergeant Frederick Edwin Bowtell injured when Private Paul Ramon Ferriday opened fire into the Sergeant's Mess of the Royal Australian Army Service Corps at Nui Dat, South Vietnam with his rifle after an all-day drinking session.

Following the outbreak of the Second World War, he joined the British Army, initially as a Private in the Field Security Police.

* The largely volunteer Private Corrections Institute, a comprehensive source of information on the industry

Over the course of two weeks in April 2004, the British satirical magazine Private Eye published a journal, Teacher's Diary, written by an anonymous maths teacher at what he called ( quoting Tony Blair's spokesman, Alastair Campbell ) " a bog standard comprehensive ".

St Vincents & Mercy Private also runs a comprehensive social accountability program.

CIBIL was promoted by State Bank of India ( SBI ), Housing Development Finance Corporation ( HDFC ), Dun & Bradstreet Information Services India Private Limited ( D & B ) and TransUnion International Inc. ( TransUnion ) to provide comprehensive credit information by collecting, collating and disseminating credit information pertaining to both commercial and consumer borrowers, to a closed user group of Members.

PPA was unusual in that all recruits, including officers, reverted to lowest rank on joining – Private or Lieutenant.

" ( Beetle Bailey creator Mort Walker confirmed the story, relating a slightly expanded version in his autobiography, Mort Walker's Private Scrapbook, 2001.

For years now, I've been looking for the right World War II story to shoot, and when Robert Rodat wrote Saving Private Ryan, I found it.

" He also claimed that the story was confirmed by Mary Todd Lincoln, and partially confirmed by Private Secretary John Hay ( who thought it dated from Lincoln's nomination, not his election ).

Private Worlds ( 1935 ) is a drama film which tells the story of the staff and patients at a mental hospital, and the chief of the hospital who has problems dealing with a female psychiatrist.

The film tells the story of Henry Henry, an unemployed London street musician, and the title was a " playful tribute " to Alexander Korda's The Private Life of Henry VIII which had been Britain's first ever Academy Award for Best Picture nominee in 1934.

* " Private Eye ", a 1949 short story by Lewis Padgett ( Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore )

A fictionalized version of the Operation Bernhard story was the topic of a comedy drama serial, Private Schulz, starring Michael Elphick and Ian Richardson, produced by the BBC in 1980.

On October 20th, 2011, Private Practice ( TV series ) featured the story in an opening monologue.

The story was repeated in the same month by the national satirical magazine Private Eye.

In the 2009 Annual Private Pike returned in a General Jumbo story that was not a crossover.

Private Nick Rose in 6 Platoon resumes the story.

In 1995 he wrote, presented and co-produced two documentary series, The Prince of Wales-The Private Man, The Public Face ( ITV 1994 ) and The Last Governor-the story of the last five years of British rule in Hong Kong ( BBC 1, 1997 ).

He first appeared in The Double Life of Private Strong # 1 however his origin story and first " full length " appearance were in Adventures of the Fly # 1 ( Aug. 1959 ).

* The brothers ' story was filmed as the 1944 movie The Sullivans ( later renamed The Fighting Sullivans ) and inspired, at least in part, the 1998 film Saving Private Ryan.

The Captain John Miller portrayed in the movie never existed, but the Private Ryan story is based upon the story of the Niland Brothers, two of whom are buried in the cemetery.

Besides the novella Young Zaphod Plays it Safe and the short story The Private Life of Genghis Khan, which have since appeared in The Salmon of Doubt, the book also contains Adams ' short story A Christmas Fairly Story ( written in collaboration with Terry Jones ) and three supplements to The Meaning of Liff.

In " Private History of the ‘ Jumping Frog ’ Story ," he recounted some background to the tale — in particular, his surprise to find that the story bore a striking resemblance to an ancient Greek tale.

She was first noticed by literary agencies after her short story Private Tutor appeared in the 1997 collection.

* Private Stock Records story from BSN Pubs

* This episode begins the story about the identity of House's father ( who was not his mother's husband with which he grew up ) that continues in " Private Lives " and " Love Is Blind ".

Very rarely would anything from the live story appear there, and vice versa ( one notable exception was Dave's suicide note in " Private Dave ").

The book and the film tell the story of Private Eddie Slovik, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the American Civil War.