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General Sir Richard McCreery GCB, KBE, DSO, MC ( 1898-1967 ), Chief of Staff to Field Marshal Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, at the time of the Second Battle of El Alamein and later commanded the British Eighth Army in Northern Italy during 1944-45, died in Templecombe.
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He became a general staff officer with IX Corps, part of General Sir Herbert Plumer's Second Army, in July 1917.
General Sir Claude Auchinleck stated that, but for Ultra-" Rommel would have certainly got through to Cairo ".
Essex left Sir Philip Skippon, his Sergeant Major General of Foot, in command while he himself escaped to Plymouth in a fishing boat.
( 1978 ) Chauvel of the Light Horse A Biography of General Sir Harry Chauvel, GCMG, KCB.
The professional head of the British Army is the Chief of the General Staff, currently General Sir Peter Wall KCB CBE ADC Gen.
On 29 May 2007 it was reported that General Sir Mike Jackson, second-in-command of 1 Para on Bloody Sunday, said: " I have no doubt that innocent people were shot ".
" In August 1777, General Sir William Howe led a British army through Delaware on his way to a victory at the Battle of Brandywine and capture of the city of Philadelphia.
The house had previously belonged to Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane and before him General Sir Robert Arbuthnot KCB.
Major General Sir Frederick Roberts led the Kabul Field Force over the Shutargardan Pass into central Afghanistan, defeated the Afghan Army at Char Asiab on 6 October 1879 and occupied Kabul.
# General Sir Arthur Currie of Canada,
# General Sir John Monash of Australia,
* Sir Arthur Currie, Lieutenant General, British Army, commanding Canadian Corps
* Sir Miles Dempsey, General, British Army
* Sir Freddie De Guingand, Major General, British Army
* Sir Richard McCreery, General, British Army
* Sir John Monash, General, Australian Army
* Sir Frederick E. Morgan, Lieutenant General, British Army
* Sir Henry Worth Thornton, Major General, British Army ( American born )
Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon ( 1817 – 1890 ), eldest son of the second marriage of the fourth Earl, was a General in the Army and sat as Member of Parliament for Aberdeenshire East.
His eldest son, Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon was also a General in the Army.
The Commission heard evidence from Sir Matthew Nathan, Augustine Birrell, Lord Wimborne, Sir Neville Chamberlain ( Inspector-General of the Royal Irish Constabulary ), General Lovick Friend, Major Ivor Price of Military Intelligence and others.
Bacon was subsequently a part of the legal team headed by Attorney General Sir Edward Coke at Essex's treason trial.
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Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, and Edwin C. Kepler of General Electric Company.
On September 12, 2002, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, dedicated the Victims of Terrorist Attack on the Pentagon Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery.
The treaty was signed in Moscow on May 26, 1972 by the President of the United States, Richard Nixon and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev ; and ratified by the US Senate on August 3, 1972.
Indians General Manager John Hart and team owner Richard Jacobs managed to turn the team's fortunes around.
Ken Olsen was not supportive of this project, so de Castro left DEC along with another hardware engineer, Richard Sogge, and a software engineer, Henry Burkhardt III, to found Data General ( DG ) in 1968.
When he returned from that expedition 8 days later, Brigadier General Richard Montgomery had assumed command of the invasion due to Schuyler's illness.
He was kept in solitary confinement and chains, and General Richard Prescott had, according to Allen, ordered him to be treated " with much severity ".
Bulwer-Lytton was born on 25 May 1803 to General William Earle Bulwer of Heydon Hall and Wood Dalling, Norfolk and Elizabeth Barbara Lytton, daughter of Richard Warburton Lytton of Knebworth, Hertfordshire.
* Richard Glücks, SS General
" The head of the British army at the time, General Sir Richard Dannatt, first said on 30 April 2007 that he had personally decided that the Prince would serve with his unit in Iraq, and Harry was scheduled for deployment in May or June 2007, to patrol the Maysan province.
Hoover, perhaps at the behest of Richard Nixon, investigated ex-Beatle John Lennon by putting the singer under surveillance, and Hoover wrote this letter to the Attorney General in 1972.
In October 1941, Ribbentrop ’ s prestige was badly damaged by the discovery of the Soviet spy ring in Tokyo headed by Richard Sorge, who was arrested by the Japanese while in bed with the wife of General Eugen Ott, the German Ambassador.
* 1949 – Richard Carmona, American physician and 17th Surgeon General of the United States
* 1973 – " Saturday Night Massacre ": President Richard Nixon fires U. S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork.
Gordon R. England, Mary Jo Myers, and General Richard Myers in 2004
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* Richard Butler ( general ) ( 1743 – 1791 ), American Revolutionary War General, later killed fighting Native Americans in Ohio
* Richard Butler ( British Army officer ) ( 1870 – 1935 ), British Army General, served in World War I
After Franco's death, Chevy Chase, reader of the news on NBC's Saturday Nights comedic news segment Weekend Update, announced the dictator's death and read a quotation from Richard Nixon: " General Franco was a loyal friend and ally of the United States.
Thomas Cromwell, at the time the most powerful of the King's advisors, brought forth the Solicitor General, Richard Rich, to testify that More had, in his presence, denied that the King was the legitimate head of the church.
The Germans were represented officially by Foreign Secretary Richard von Kühlmann, but the most important figure in shaping the peace on the German side was General Max Hoffmann, Chief of Staff of the German armies on the Eastern Front ( Oberkommando-Ostfront ).
* Richard Carmona – former Surgeon General of the United States
In 2001, Clark was considered to be on the " short list " of choices for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ; the eventual pick was Air Force General Richard Myers.
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