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After World War II broke out, he fought as a partisan, before he met up with British soldiers of the 1st Scots Guards and became their interpreter.
With a small caravan, including a Cossack guide, Chinese interpreter and Uyghur cook, Mannerheim first trekked to Khotan in search of British and Japanese spies.
From 1766 on, he worked as an interpreter for the British Indian Department.
A professor of English Literature at several universities, during World War II Merle was conscripted in the French army and assigned as an interpreter to the British Expeditionary Force.
Kalsey earned a Master's in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and worked as a freelance writer, interpreter, and translator for several years.
Because of his diverse language skills, gained when his mother ran the establishment for foreigners, he served as an interpreter for the British Army.
He served as Bertrand Russell's interpreter when the renowned British philosopher visited China in 1920.
Zaslany also worked as interpreter for Patrick Domville, head of RAF Intelligence in Palestine ( who was described by Haganah leader Dov Hos as the " best Zionist informer on the English "), until the latter was posted to Iraq in 1938, and through him became acquainted with many of the British intelligence officers.
On Parkes's arrival in Macau in October 1841 he prepared for employment in the office of John Robert Morrison, secretary and first interpreter of Sir Henry Pottinger, who was then British minister plenipotentiary and chief superintendent of trade in China.
Satow was present as a young interpreter for the British admiral, Sir Augustus Kuper on the British flagship HMS Euryalus commanded by Captain J. H. I.
Paul Benedict arrived as Harry Bentley, a loyal, kind, handsome, friendly British next-door neighbor, who worked as a Russian language interpreter at the United Nations.
In September 1776, he was arrested as a spy but the British pardoned him, only after serving 18 months of his sentence and claims of torture on a British boat, in order to use his abilities as an interpreter for their Hessian mercenaries.
Within a week of his arrival by way of China as a young student interpreter in the British Japan Consular Service, at age 19, the Namamugi Incident ( Namamugi Jiken ), in which a British merchant was killed on the Tōkaidō, took place on September 14, 1862.
Gubbins was appointed a student interpreter in the British Japan Consular Service in 1871 ; English Secretary to the Conference at Tokyo for the Revision of the Treaties, after Ernest Satow left Japan in 1883 ; and on June 1, 1889, became Japanese Secretary at Tokyo.
Conrad Weiser served as an interpreter and arbitrator for the British colonial governments.
In 1832 the redoubtable Prussian missionary doctor cum diplomat interpreter and later opium trader Karl Friedrich August Gutslaff visited Fuzhou with Captain Lindsey of the British ship Lord Amherst.
Evgeni Belov, a young Moscow interpreter contracted by a group of four British students, made friends with them.
From 1798 to 1800 he served as adjutant and interpreter to Vice Admiral M. K. Makarov, commander of a Russian squadron operating jointly with the British fleet in the North Sea.
There were nine English men and one Acadian who was the British interpreter.
He remained unemployed for sometime ; he earned a living by working as an interpreter and German Language translator, during World War II, in the Censor Section of the Army H. Q., New Delhi, translating for the British Indian Army, ' official ' documents captured from the Germans.
Having distinguished himself at the siege of Seringapatam in 1792, he was appointed by Lord Cornwallis to the situation of Persian interpreter to a British force serving with a native prince.

British and later
It was not a part of any one of the three ( later four ) zones for occupation by Soviet, American, British, and French troops respectively.
* 1943 – World War II: The U. S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.
In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.
In 1947, British rule in the South Asia was replaced by the sovereign, independent nations of India, Pakistan and later Bangladesh, resulting in the migration of millions people and significant loss of life and property.
As the numbers of settlers from the mainland increased ( at first mostly prisoners and involuntary indentured labourers, later purposely recruited farmers ), these indigenous people lost territory and numbers in the face of punitive expeditions by British troops, land encroachment and the effects of various epidemic diseases.
* Associated Talking Pictures, a British film studio of the 1930s later renamed as Ealing Studios
According to the Jargon File, American hackers switched to what they later discovered to be the British quotation system because placing a period inside a quotation mark can change the meaning of data strings that are meant to be typed character-for-character.
Meanwhile, in 1868, tombs at Ialysus in Rhodes had yielded to Alfred Biliotti many fine painted vases of styles which were called later the third and fourth " Mycenaean "; but these, bought by John Ruskin, and presented to the British Museum, excited less attention than they deserved, being supposed to be of some local Asiatic fabric of uncertain date.
Much later, he was reinstated by the British, ruling during 1839-1842.
Five years later a British Isles side returned to South Africa.
Four years later, in 1903, the British and Irish team returned to South Africa.
Called the " Grand Old Man " later in life, he was always a dynamic popular orator who appealed strongly to British workers and lower middle class.
Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of the British Isles from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas, Australia and North Africa.
Nearly five decades later the battle was among the actions recognised by a clasp attached to the Naval General Service Medal, awarded upon application to all British participants still living in 1847.
Writing many years later, Bonaparte commented that if the French Navy had adopted the same tactical principles as the British:
Because of continued pressure on space the decision was taken to move natural history to a new building in South Kensington, which would later become the British Museum of Natural History.
The British Army was heavily involved in the Napoleonic Wars in which the army served in multiple campaigns across Europe ( including continuous deployment in the Peninsular War ), the Caribbean, North Africa and later in North America.
The Voortrekkers were those Boers ( mainly from the eastern Cape ) who left the Cape en masse in a series of large scale migrations later called the Great Trek beginning in 1835 as a result of British colonialism and constant border wars.
British businessman Bernie Ecclestone owned Brabham during most of the 1970s and 1980s, and later became responsible for administering the commercial aspects of Formula One.
The Aro Confederacy of Nigeria may have had presence in western ( later called British ) Cameroon due to migration in the 18th and 19th centuries.
A letter from Queen Elizabeth ( later the Queen Mother ), dated 17 May 1947, showed " her decided lack of enthusiasm for the socialist government " and describes the British electorate as " poor people, so many half-educated and bemused " for electing Attlee over Winston Churchill, whom she saw as a war hero.
The British vacated Egypt two years later, leaving the Ottomans, the Albanians, and the long-weakened Mamluks jostling for control of the country.
The technical knowledge of making hydraulic cement was later formalized by French and British engineers in the 18th century.
In 1897 British physicist J. J. Thomson showed the rays were composed of a previously unknown negatively charged particle, which was later named the electron.

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