Corporal Hoi Kim Heng ( 1970 – 21 May 1994 ) was a police officer of the Singapore Police Force who was stabbed to death at the age of 24 by Soh Loo Ban after a chase near Fook Hai Building in Singapore on 21 May 1994.

Hoi, a regular police officer with the Central Police Division, was on regular patrol with his partner, Corporal Tan Huang Yee, in their Fast Response Car in the Chinatown area when they spotted Soh along Nankin Street.

When reaching the Fook Hai Building, Soh stopped, turned and dashed into the pursuing officers, colliding into Corporal Hoi and sending both men to the ground.

As they collided, Soh stabbed Hoi in the neck with his knife, before continuing on his escape with Corporal Tan still in pursuit.

Other officers arriving at the scene found Corporal Hoi barely alive and he was rushed to the hospital, but he and Soh did not survive.

* May 21-A Singapore Police Force officer, Corporal Hoi Kim Heng, 24, dies after being stabbed in the neck during the attempted arrest of drug abuser Soh Loo Ban.

* May 23-Corporal Tan Huang Yee is given a rare field promotion to the rank of sergeant, while Corporal Hoi Kim Heng is conferred the same award posthumously.

Corporal Himmelstoß ( spelled Himmelstoss in some editions ) was a post-man before enlisting in the war.

The Barrett M82 is credited with a maximum effective range of ; and it was with a. 50BMG caliber McMillan TAC-50 rifle that Canadian Master Corporal Rob Furlong made the longest recorded ( until 2010 ) confirmed sniper kill in history, when he shot a Taliban fighter at a range of in Afghanistan during Operation Anaconda in 2002.

An instructor with the 14th Infantry Training Battalion at Dubbo, he was appointed Acting Corporal, then reverted to Private.

Several soldiers were arrested for their involvement in the mutiny, including Corporal Foday Sankoh who was jail for seven years at the Pademba Road Prison, after he was convicted of treason.

The Bumper ( rocket ) | Bumper was a two-stage rocket consisting of a Post-War V-2 topped by a WAC Corporal rocket.

In September 2012, Lance Corporal Sean Jones of The Princess of Wales's Regiment was awarded the Military Cross for his role in a bayonet charge which took place in October 2011 .< Ref >

The first Allied soldier killed in the liberation of France was Free French SAS Corporal Emile Bouétard of the 4th Bataillon d ’ Infanterie de l ’ Air, also in Britanny in Plumelec: June 6, 0 h 40.

Anna Edwards's father died before she was born, and her mother married an Irish soldier, Corporal Patrick Donohoe of the Engineers, who was later awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery in Bombay during the Indian Mutiny.

He elected to " go Active " ( the euphemism for volunteering for overseas service ) and his aptitude was such that he was appointed Lance Corporal and attended NCO school, and became a basic training instructor in the rank of corporal.

He indicated that it was used to assassinate the state archives custodian Renato León Zenteno and the Army Corporal Manuel Leyton.

Among the hospital patients who escaped were a Corporal Mayer of the NNC ; Bombardier Lewis of the Royal Artillery and Trooper Green of the Natal Mounted Police who was wounded in the thigh by a spent bullet.

In addition, one member of Stevenson's 2nd / 3rd NNC, Corporal William Anderson, was killed by British fire while fleeing the station just prior to the arrival of the Zulus.

Its currency is named corporals, at a rate of two corporals for every United States dollar ; both the flag and the monetary unit are named after U. S. Marine Corporal Earl McCabe, who deserted his company while stationed at Port-au-Prince during the American occupation in 1922, and in transit to Miami, was shipwrecked on San Lorenzo.

He was enlisted in the Regular Army as Corporal Neville L. Brand, infantryman on March 5, 1941, he was listed as being six feet tall and weighing 169 pounds.

He was hired for one day ’ s work as “ Corporal Klinger ” on the M * A * S * H episode, “ Chief Surgeon Who ?”.

* 2011 Chris Ortiz was promoted to the rank of Corporal in the detention center.

Ness County was named for Corporal Noah V. Ness of the 7th Kansas Cavalry.

Surface-to-Surface projects were the Honest John, Little John, Hawk, Lacrosse, and Corporal Type III ; the liquid-fueled Corporal Type III was soon canceled and the solid Thiokol fueled Sergeant project started.

It was JPL that designed the Corporal system and later was the R & D designer of the Sergeant.

A system was developed where senior cadets aged 16 or older were temporarily enrolled in the RCAF / CF on short term contracts and given the rank of Acting Corporal.

In 1951, Firestone was given the defense contract for the MGM-5 Corporal missile.

During an engagement when the order was given to withdraw to the safety of a communications trench, Corporal Ware, whose cool gallantry had been very marked during the advance, was one of the few men remaining unwounded.

Roberts has claimed that he reached the rank of Sergeant while in the Army although others have given his rank as Lance Corporal.

All of the Misfits were given ranks, with LeRoux known as " Corporal Cajun ".

The government announced it would name the field after Corporal Frank S. Scott on July 20, 1917 ; Scott was the first enlisted person to be killed in an aviation crash.

In one famous episode, Corporal Thomas Waters of 5th Parachute Brigade Signal Section was awarded the Military Medal for laying and maintaining the field telephone line under heavy enemy fire across the Caen Canal Bridge on D Day 1944.

The small party was detailed to penetrate Sub-Lieutenant Juan Baldini's 1st Platoon on the western slopes to secure a prisoner, supported to their rear by a battery of six 105 mm field guns, under cover of which the specialist snipers shot at Baldini while another fired a 66 at one of the 1st Platoon mortar pits under Corporal Óscar Carrizo.

A UB-Korporal / Kvartermesteraspirant ( Rate Corporal / Petty Officer-in-training ) is a soldier who has finished the UB course ( Utskrevet Befalskurs ), a course intended to prepare conscripted soldiers for non-commissioned officer duties, but is still under training in " the field ".

At a bombed-out field hospital, the Americans pick up a motley collection of stragglers, among them British doctor Captain Halliday ( Richard Nugent ), four Commonwealth troops, and Free French Corporal Leroux ( Louis Mercier ).

Corporal field artillery missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida, the Air Force Space & Missile Museum

Corporal is the lowest grade of non-commissioned officer in the U. S. Marine Corps, though promotion to corporal traditionally confers a significant jump in authority and responsibility compared to promotion from private through lance corporal.

Further promotion to the NCO ranks ( Corporal and above ) is competitive and takes into account the individual service record of the Marine.

" Gomer Pyle " received an honorary promotion to Lance Corporal from the Commandant of the Marine Corps James L. Jones in 2001, and on September 25, 2007, he was promoted from Lance Corporal to Corporal by Lt. General John F. Goodman.

Shortly after his promotion on 10 June 1912, Corporal Middleton was transferred to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he would have a chance to compete for an Army commission.

The general requirements for promotion to Master Corporal include a Qualification Level 5 course ( known as a Journeyman course in some trades ), a primary leadership qualification course ( PLQ ), and a time in the rank of Corporal for a minimum of two years.

Here, he unwillingly accepts a promotion from Corporal to Sergeant, and the two travel to Huế to cover the enemy's wartime atrocities and meet up with Cowboy again.