A veteran of the 1916 Easter Rising, the War of Independence and the Civil War, Lemass was first elected as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála ( TD ) for the Dublin South constituency in a by-election on 18 November 1924 and was returned at each election until the constituency was abolished in 1948, when he was re-elected for Dublin South – Central until his retirement in 1969.

His father was a veteran of the 1916 Easter Rising and a former adjutant in the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) who was elected to Dáil Éireann in 1944 as a Fianna Fáil candidate.

In 1916 she married Henry Duncan, a cabinet maker and wounded war veteran, who was supportive of her supposed supernatural talents.

According to one history, Arthur Reimer was among this group, joining his 1916 Vice Presidential running mate, Caleb Harrison, Buffalo, New York druggist and party veteran Boris Reinstein, the late Daniel DeLeon's son, Solon DeLeon, and Dr. Julius Hammer of New York City.

He was subsequently invalided home aboard HMAT Port Sydney on 24 June 1916, and was formally discharged on 22 August 1916 -- a Gallipoli veteran at only 17.

William Perkins Black ( November 11, 1842 – January 3, 1916 ) was a lawyer and veteran of the American Civil War.

Prominent BNP dissidents Chris Jackson and Michael Easter joined the NF in the latter half of 2009 while, more recently, the veteran nationalists Richard Edmonds and Tess Culnane have both rejoined the party.

On the way to this destination the battalion encountered the veteran Fenian, John MacBride, who on the spot joined the battalion as second-in-command, and in fact took over part of the command throughout Easter Week, although he had had no prior knowledge and was in the area by accident.

* Frank Fahy, member of the teaching staff, 1906-21 ; politician, veteran of the Easter Rising and War of Independence, elected TD in the first Dáil 1919, Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann ( 1932-50 ) and Fianna Fáil TD for Meath

In May 1998, in a protest by 2000 ex-PoWs, a Burma Railway veteran torched the Rising Sun banner before both Emperor Akihito and the Queen.

Both the veteran ( the Prime Mover ) and the new journalist ( the Rising Star ) then work with a local high school to help improve their newspaper journalism program.

He was born in Pittsboro, Miss., and was a veteran of World War 1.

All Quiet on the Western Front () is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I.

File: Alfred A. Stratton. jpg | Alfred A. Stratton, an American Civil War veteran and double amputee

* Netherwood Hughes, World War I veteran, died in 2009, aged 108

Angry, impatient and short-tempered, Buzzcut is a Vietnam War veteran who served in the Marine Corps and, with the possible exception of Principal McVicker, hates the duo more than any other character.

Sir Harry Hinsley, a Bletchley veteran and the official historian of British Intelligence during the Second World War, said that Ultra shortened the war by two to four years and that the outcome of the war would have been uncertain without it.

American Revolutionary War veteran Henry Hall is credited as first to farm cranberries in the Cape Cod town of Dennis around 1816.

At the end of the book there is a poem written from the point of view of a veteran comparing World War I to the Trojan War.

Aldington, a veteran of World War I, claimed that his novel was accurate in terms of speech and style.

* 1901 – Florence Green, British, last surviving veteran of World War I ( d. 2012 )

* 2012 – Florence Green, British, last surviving veteran of World War I ( b. 1901 )

A former Marine and Vietnam War veteran, Reed is a police writer, an occasional war correspondent, and an aficionado of raffish bars.

He is the most recent president to have been a World War II veteran.

* John Salmon Ford ( 1815 – 1897 ), American political figure in Texas ; best known as " Rip " Ford ; served in state Congress and Senate ; veteran of Mexican War and Civil War

* 1964 – World War II veteran Walter Seifert runs amok in an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children and two teachers and seriously injuring several more with a home-made flamethrower and a lance.

Although Andrew Jackson served as a courier in a militia unit at age thirteen, Monroe is regarded as the last U. S. President who was a Revolutionary War veteran, since he served as an officer of the Continental Army and took part in combat.

Modified to a single cut rather than two, Whale uses the same technique in The Road Back to signal the instability of a returning World War I veteran.

* 2009 – William Frederick " Bill " Stone, British World War I veteran ( b. 1900 )

The story of a Korean War veteran, brainwashed by the Communist Chinese to assassinate a candidate for President, co-starred Laurence Harvey and Janet Leigh and Angela Lansbury as Harvey's evil mother.

His father, Archibald Stuart, was a War of 1812 veteran, slaveholder, attorney, and Democratic politician who represented Patrick County in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly, and also served one term in the United States House of Representatives.

A veteran of World War II Noland took advantage of the G. I.

* 1919 – Clifford Chadderton, Canadian World War II veteran, chief executive officer of The War Amps

The ' Medal of Italian Independence ' is worn, indicating a veteran of the Risorgimento ( The Wars for Italian Unification ).

The last IRA veteran of the Irish War of Independence, Dan Keating, who died in 2007, also supported Republican Sinn Féin.

One of Pendergast's political proteges was a young World War I veteran from Independence: Harry S. Truman, who had been his nephew's commanding officer in the war, was elected Presiding Judge ( equivalent to a County Executive ) of Jackson County with Pendergast support in 1926, went on to become a U. S. Senator from Missouri, Vice President, and in 1945, following the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the thirty-third President of the United States.

Boyer ignored Haitian political opponents who called for reforms, such as parliamentary democracy, and veteran generals of the War of Independence, who believed that the revolution was not complete and that they were being neglected.

In the aftermath of this episode, the southern government under Seán Lemass, himself an IRA veteran of the War of Independence and Civil War, tried to forge closer ties with the authorities in Northern Ireland in order to promote peaceful cooperation on the island.

Firby Hall is the site of a new manor house, built in the late 18th century by a veteran of the American War of Independence.

The area is named for Charles Carroll, a revolutionary war veteran who was also the only Roman Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Originally known as Antep, the title gazi ( meaning veteran in Turkish ) was added to the province's and the provincial capital's name in 1921, due to its population's extraordinary courage during the Turkish War of Independence.

The Partido is named in honour of Bernardino Rivadavia ( 1780 – 1845 ), veteran of the Argentine War of Independence and President of Argentina 1826 – 1827.

The stadium itself is named after Pádraig Ó Caoimh, a native of Roscommon, this Irish War of Independence veteran became secretary of the Cork County Board at 21, and he began a 35-year stint as General-Secretary of the GAA barely a decade later.

The conflicts in La Plata region did not cease after the war in 1825, and then Brazil was forced to send a fleet of seventeen warships ( a nau, ten corvettes, and six steamships ) headed by veteran Independence leader John Pascoe Grenfell to address the United Provinces of La Plata River in 1851.

* Jim Hurley, veteran of the Irish War of Independence, Cork Gaelic footballer and hurler ( born 1902 ).

* 2 January-Dan Keating, Ireland's oldest man and last surviving veteran of the Irish War of Independence ( died 2007 ).

* Jim Hurley, veteran of the Irish War of Independence, Cork Gaelic footballer and hurler ( died 1965 ).

* 23 December-Seán Clancy, veteran of the Irish War of Independence ( died 2006 )

Three ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Paul Hamilton, named in honor of Paul Hamilton, ( 1762 – 1819 ), a veteran of the American War of Independence and the third Secretary of the Navy.

His fifth and best known novel is Amongst Women, the story of Michael Moran, an IRA veteran of the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War, who now dominates his family in the unforgiving farmlands of Co. Leitrim, near Mohill.

Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz (, ; 12 November 1883 – 28 November 1940 ) was a Belarusian-Polish general, veteran of World War I, Russian Civil War, Estonian War of Independence, Polish-Bolshevik War and the Invasion of Poland at the start of World War II.

Among its ranks, there were also veterans from the Spanish Independence, the North American ( American Revolution | War of Independence ), and from the Spanish American Wars ; there were even cases like the Anglo-German Major Carlos Sowersby, veteran from the Battle of Borodino against Napoleón Bonaparte in Russia in 1812.

The grandson of the IRA War of Independence veteran and Irish Labour activist Tom Kelly, he attended the Abbey Grammar School in Newry followed by the University of Ulster.

El Potroso was reinforced by a fort by way of an 1826 decree by President Bernardino Rivadavia, and on December 27, 1827, the citadel was established under the command of a veteran of the Argentine War of Independence, Bernardino Escribano, as Fuerte de la Federación.

Suárez, a veteran of one of last battles of the War for Independence ( the Battle of Junín, in Perú ), inadvertently gave the failing settlement its new name by his actions: " Junín.