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* Royal Observer Corps, branch of the RAF and British air raid warning organisation ( 1926 to 1957 ), nuclear burst and fallout warning organisation ( 1957 – 1995 ), now disbanded
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As the threat of Cold War eased, a number of such civil defense organisations have been disbanded or mothballed ( as in the case of the Royal Observer Corps in the United Kingdom and the United States civil defense ), while others have changed their focuses into providing rescue services after natural disasters ( as for the State Emergency Service in Australia ).
* Royal Observer Corps
In May 1943, C. B. Farrel of the Royal Observer Corps was supposedly distracted from his duties by a Nessie sighting.
* Royal Observer Corps
* Operational instruments of the Royal Observer Corps
Gibson, who had been in the Royal Observer Corps ' trophy-winning international aircraft recognition team since 1980, was unable to identify the aircraft.
During the Second World War, the colleges of the university ( with the exception of Birkbeck ) and their students left London for safer parts of the UK, while Senate House was used by the Ministry of Information, with its roof becoming an observation point for the Royal Observer Corps.
* Major-General Edward Bailey Ashmore, Army officer who served in the Royal Artillery, the Royal Flying Corps, and the Royal Air Force, and founded the Royal Observer Corps
There was a small Luftwaffe detachment providing a manned look-out ( just like the Royal Observer Corps ) for Allied planes which were undertaking operations against the Air Bases of Volkel and Eindhoven.
There was a small Luftwaffe detachment providing a manned look-out ( just like the Royal Observer Corps ) for Allied planes which were undertaking operations against the Air Bases of Volkel and Eindhoven.
There was also a Royal Observer Corps ' Orlit ' type surface observation post on the Popeley Fields around one third of a mile from the Gomersal Cricket ground.
During 1940, Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ) schools were established across Australia to support EATS in Initial Training, Elementary Flying Training, Service Flying Training, Air Navigation, Air Observer, Bombing and Gunnery and Wireless Air Gunnery.
In the United Kingdom, the Royal Observer Corps was a civil defence unit disbanded in 1995.
A Royal Observer Corps observer lieutenant commander's rank insignia
Throughout much of its existence, the British Royal Observer Corps ( ROC ) maintained a rank of observer lieutenant commander ( Obs Lt Cdr ).
* Royal Observer Corps 1 April 1968-31 December 1995
Wills had served as an Observer with the Royal Naval Air Service during the Great War, and was the driving force behind the expansion of the company from an office and a bathroom ( for developing films ) in Hendon to a business with major contracts in Africa and Asia as well as in the UK.
During World War II a Royal Observer Corps watchtower was sited here giving a wide overall view of the Firth of Clyde.
Buckley's remains were recovered by the late Major Jens Nielsen ( Royal Danish Army ) attached to the United Nations Observer Group Beirut on December 27, 1991.
Between 1954 and 1992 Lisburn contained the operational headquarters of No 31 Belfast Group Royal Observer Corps who operated from a protected nuclear bunker on Knox Road within Thiepval Barracks.
During The Second World War the original roof of the folly was removed so that the tower could be used as an observation post by the Royal Observer Corps.
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* 1918 – The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
Fleming served throughout World War I as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and was Mentioned in Dispatches.
Category: Royal Army Medical Corps officers
Production could not start because of the outbreak of World War I, and Martin joined the Admiralty and Bamford the Royal Army Service Corps.
At the same time, he was doing his National Service with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in Shrewsbury, where Busby had advised him to apply as it meant he could still play for United at the weekend.
Many of the Army's constituent Regiments and Corps have been granted the " Royal " prefix and have members of the Royal Family occupying senior positions within some regiments.
Advances in technology saw advent of the tank, with the creation of the Royal Tank Regiment, and advances in aircraft design, with the creation of the Royal Flying Corps, which were to be decisive in future battles.
Following the downfall of Czechoslovakia and occupation of its Czech part by Nazi Germany in 1939, Czechoslovak units and formations served with the Polish Army ( Czechoslovak Legion ), the French Army, the Royal Air Force, the British Army ( the 1st Czechoslovak Armoured Brigade ), and the Red Army ( I Corps ).
* Conductor ( Army ), a senior Warrant Officer appointment in the Royal Logistic Corps and its predecessors
It is still used in this form by the British Territorial Army, and the Royal Canadian Armour Corps of the Canadian Army.
In the British Army, all cavalry regiments were mechanised between 1929 and 1941, redefining their role from horse to armoured vehicles to form the Royal Armoured Corps together with the Royal Tank Regiment.
* 1665 – The Royal Netherlands Marine Corps is founded by Michiel de Ruyter
* Walter Freud, Sigmund's grandson, chemical engineer, member of Royal Pioneer Corps and British Special Operations Executive
In Great Britain's Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force these aircraft were referred to as " scouts " into the early 1920s.
* 1730-A Belgian Engineer, the Marquis of Verboom, Chief Engineer of the Spanish Royal Engineer Corps, who had taken part in the 1727 siege, arrived in San Roque commissioned by the Spanish government to design a line of fortifications across the isthmus.
In the film, Barthelmess and Fairbanks play two Royal Flying Corps pilots during World War I who deal with the pressure of wartime combat and constant death by drinking and fighting with their commanding officer.
During the Second World War Wyndham first served as a censor in the Ministry of Information, then joined the army, serving as a Corporal cipher operator in the Royal Corps of Signals.
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He served as the federal president of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists in 1969 – 70, and also as the president for its Victoria branch from 1963 until his death in 1980.
The name Simpson Desert was coined by Cecil Madigan, after Alfred Allen Simpson, an Australian philanthropist, geographer, and president of the South Australian branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia.
The city has a limited student culture due to its lack of an actual university, although the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and The Royal Academy of Art is located there, as well as The Hague University, a vocational university and a branch of The Open University of the Netherlands.
The Fleet Air Arm ( FAA ) is the branch of the British Royal Navy responsible for the operation of naval aircraft.
The Naval Wing of the RFC lasted until July 1914 when the Royal Navy reformed its air branch, under the Air Department of the Admiralty, naming it the Royal Naval Air Service ( RNAS ).
* Royal Flying Corps, a branch of the British military during World War One
Law and Order in Thimphu and in the country as a whole is the responsibility of the Royal Bhutan Police ( RBP ), a national police branch of the armed forces, established in Thimphu in September 1965 by reassigning 555 personnel from the Royal Bhutan Army.
There were also a number of other orders for steamboat engines, both for commercial customers and the Royal Navy and Murdoch was in effect the head of this branch of the business, being referred to and deferred to on all aspects of their marine business.
* Naval Canteen Service, the Royal Navy branch of the British NAAFI
The Royal Norwegian Navy ( Norwegian: Sjøforsvaret or informally " Marinen ", often abbreviated as RNoN ) is the branch of the Norwegian Armed Forces responsible for naval operations.
In Britain and some other armies, the single artillery branch has been responsible for both home and overseas ground-based air defence, although there was divided responsibility with the Royal Navy for air defence of the British Isles in World War I.
A second act received Royal Assent on 28 March 1794, entitled " An Act for extending the Wyrley and Essington Canal " – this authorised a long extension, from Sneyd ( thus making the line from Sneyd to Wyrley Bank effectively a branch ) past Lichfield to Huddlesford Junction on the Coventry Canal, together with the raising of up to £ 115, 000 (£ as of ), to complete construction.
Admiralty ( London ), Chelsea Royal Hospital, Putney Heath, Cabbage Hill, Netley Heath, Hascombe, Blackdown, Beacon Hill ( branch point ), Portsdown Hill, Portsmouth ( Southsea Common ).
* RCMP Security Service, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's political intelligence branch, replaced by Canadian Security Intelligence Service in the 1980s
Corps may also refer to a particular unit or a particular branch of service, such as the United States Marine Corps, the Corps of Royal Marines, the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, or the Corps of Commissionaires.
There is Cobham Village Club and a branch of the Royal British Legion.
He later transferred to the entertainment branch ( under luminaries such as Spike Milligan ), and immediately prior to his national service, there was a brief stint at RADA ( the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ), during which his fees were paid by film director Brian Desmond Hurst, who also used Moore as an extra in his film Trottie True.
In 1978 the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Belfast became a branch of the museum, having previously been preserved for the nation by a private trust.
This would eventually lead to the preservation of the Royal Navy light cruiser HMS Belfast, which became a branch of the museum in 1978.
The Royal Swedish Navy () is the naval branch of the Swedish Armed Forces.
In 1883, the death of the Comte de Chambord ended the elder Bourbon branch and left the Comte de Paris as head of the Royal house of France.
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