* 2006 – The National Museum of the Marine Corps is opened and dedicated by U. S. President George W. Bush and announces that Marine Corporal Jason Dunham will receive the Medal of Honor in Quantico, Virginia.

Le Mesurier was unsure about taking the role, as he was finishing the final series of George and the Dragon, and did not want another long-term television role, but was reassured by both a rise in his fee — to £ 262 / 10s per episode — and when his old friend Clive Dunn was cast in the part of Corporal Jones.

In the same deployment, Corporal Mark Wright 3rd Battalion was awarded a posthumous George Cross.

The camp was named after Lance Corporal George Patrick Julien, a Canadian Army soldier who was awarded the Military Medal as a Private, for his actions at Hill 187 in Korea in May 1953.

Corporal George " Tex " Reichart is shot fatally in the same attack that wounded Cochrane, when he retrieved the idol, which is later revealed to be a fake.

American Corporal Thomas A. Pope received the British Distinguished Conduct Medal from King George V on 12 August 1918.

The unit played a large role in the purchase of the Victoria Cross of Corporal Frederick George Topham in 2005 and its subsequent donation to the Canadian War Museum.

Canadian medical orderly Corporal Frederick George Topham was awarded the Victoria Cross for his efforts to recover casualties and take them for treatment, despite his own wounds, and great personal danger.

* George Peppard – as Corporal Chuck Fedderson

Corporal George Clift King was the first member of the troop to set foot on the location, which is why he is sometimes cited as Calgary's first citizen.

The Ontario Heritage Foundation, erected a plaque at the Etobicoke Civic Centre in 1980 commemorating Corporal Frederick George Topham, V. C.

Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts and Harry Norton Schofield ), and Corporal George Edward Nurse retrieved two of the guns.

Roberts with two other officers ( Walter Norris Congreve and Harry Norton Schofield ) and Corporal George Edward Nurse helped to hook a team into a limber and then to limber up a gun.

German Corporal Bruno Stachel ( George Peppard ) leaves the fighting in the trenches to become an officer and fighter pilot in the German Army Air Service.

The film was directed by Bryan Forbes and starred George Segal as Corporal King and James Fox as Marlowe, two World War II prisoners of war in a squalid camp near Singapore.

The Yorkshire VC ’ s were ; Captain George Sanders, Lieutenant Wilfred Edwards, Sergeant Fred McNess, Sergeant Charles Smith Hull, Sergeant Albert Mountain, Lance Corporal Frederick W Dobson, Private Arthur Poulter, Private William Boynton Butler who were acting as pallbearers.

* Corporal ( later Captain ) George Sanders, Great War

Barbut was taken prisoner and executed, and the British garrison wiped out ; only one man, Corporal George Barnsley of the 19th Infantry, survived to tell the tale ( though other sources put the number of survivors at four ).

On one occasion, Lance Corporal Bennett was awarded the George Medal for bravery while under fire.

By this stage Coppard had been promoted to Corporal and awarded the Military Medal for his gallantry at Cambrai.

For the successful defence of the base, CSM Williams was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal ( DCM ); in the same action, Corporal Malcolm Baughan was awarded an MM.

; Corporal ' Chris " Geordie " Ryan ', ( Pseudonym ), MM: former 23 ( R ) SAS.

; Trooper Steven John " Legs " Lane, MM ( posthumous ): former Lance Corporal of 9 Parachute Squadron, Royal Engineers and former Parachute Regiment.

Corporal Edward Thomas, MM, of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards fired the first shot of the British Army in World War I, at 7am on 22 August 1914, in an engagement outside Mons.

The first recipient of the Certificate of Merit medal was First Lt. William Baker, who had received an original Certificate of Merit as a Corporal during the Spanish-American War ( 1898 ).

* 1941 – Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 7: 12 am, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for treason.

# Lance Corporal or Lance Bombardier ( Abbreviated: LCPL or LBDR ) – E4

# Corporal or Bombardier ( Abbreviated: CPL or BDR ) – E5

* 1984 – Corporal Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three and wounding 13.

* 1918 – World War I: In the Argonne Forest in France, United States Corporal Alvin C. York kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132.

* 1912 – Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.

* October 8 – WWI: In the Forest of Argonne in France, U. S. Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132.

Although he has appeared in numerous films and TV series in both Europe and the US, he is probably best recognised for his role as Alexander Brandtner in the Austrian / German television series Kommissar Rex ( 1998 – 2001 ), which has been aired on television in numerous countries around the world, or as Corporal Wilhelm Wicki in the 2009 film Inglourious Basterds,

* Jedh Colby Barker ( 1945 – 67 ), United States Marine Corps Lance Corporal who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for heroism during the Vietnam War.

This concern for the welfare of the common soldier together with his ability to inspire trust and confidence, and his willingness to share the dangers of battle, often earned him adulation from his men – " The known world could not produce a man of more humanity ," observed Corporal Matthew Bishop.

* Sip Trii – Corporal ( one white chevron pointed up )

Lance Corporal Ian Malone ( 8 December 1974 – 6 April 2003 ) from Dublin, Ireland, was a member of the British Army's Irish Guards.

* Charles Horvath ... Corporal / ... ( 4 episodes, 1952 – 1955 )

It is the task of the Night Watch – Captain Vimes, Sergeant Colon, Corporal Nobbs, and new volunteer Carrot Ironfoundersson – to stop them, with some help from the Librarian of the Unseen University, an orangutan trying to get the stolen book back.

In the Adam Keller Court Martial which drew considerable public attention in April – May 1988, Reserve Corporal Adam Keller was charged with " insubordination " and " spreading of propaganda harmful to military discipline " in that while on active military duty he had written on 117 tanks and other military vehicles graffiti with the text: " Soldiers of the IDF, refuse to be occupiers and oppressors, refuse to serve in the occupied territories!

#" Corporal Clegg " ( Waters ) – 4: 13

* David Gilmour – lead guitars, vocals, lead vocals on American version of " Astronomy Domine ", " Let There Be More Light ", and " Corporal Clegg "

* Nick Mason – drums, percussion, vocals, lead vocals on " Corporal Clegg "

On the night of 8 – 9 June, action on the outer defence zone flared when Lieutenant Mark Townsend's 1 Troop ( K Company, 42 CDO ) probed Mount Harriet, killing two Argentines ( Corporal Hipolito Gonzalez and Private Martiniano Gomez ). At the same time, two platoon-size fighting patrols from 45 Commando attempted the same on Two Sisters Mountain, but the Argentine Rasit ground surveillance radar on Mount Longdon was able to detect the 45 Commando platoons, and artillery fire dispersed the force.

* Chris Thompson ( Corporal Ninny ) – drums

* 5 October – Sergeant Joseph Frantz and Corporal Louis Quenault of the French Escadrille VB24 are the first aviators in history to shoot down another aircraft with gunfire, downing a German Aviatik B. II with machine gun fire from their Voisin III over Jonchery, Reims.

* Corporal Leo Major ( 1921 – 2008 ), Corporal in the Canadian Army