* Review by Wilfred E. Major of P. K.

He created individual photographic portraits of Major Forbes Thrasher and John Wilfred Kennedy.

Doc Edwards Former Major League Baseball manager

A team of ATIC analysts monitored the MiG-15 flight test program at Kadena Air Force Base, Okinawa, which included flights by one Major Charles E. " Chuck " Yeager from the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base.

He was the great-grandson of Major Timothy Dwight and Mary ( Edwards ) Dwight, the latter's father being Rev.

The first prototype XP-84 was transferred to Muroc Army Air Field ( present-day Edwards Air Force Base ) where it flew for the first time on 28 February 1946 with Major William A. Lien at the controls.

* Mike Edwards ( second baseman ) ( born 1952 ), Major League Baseball second baseman, 1977 – 1980

* Mike Edwards ( third baseman ) ( born 1976 ), Major League Baseball infielder / outfielder, 2003 – 2006

Bush ( former Trustee of the University ), Ken Burns, Condoleezza Rice, Pervez Musharaff, Colin Powell, Carl Sagan, Desmond Tutu, Bob Dole, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Benjamin Netanyahu, Thomas Friedman, Charles Krauthammer, José María Aznar, Tom Brokaw, John Edwards, Gerhard Schröder, Doris Kearns Goodwin, David Kay, Queen Noor, John Glenn, Lord George Robertson, Benazir Bhutto, Lech Wałęsa, Madeleine Albright, Thomas Kean, Brit Hume, Barbara Bush, Rudolph Giuliani, Michael Beschloss, Shimon Peres, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, John Updike, Lawrence Eagleburger, Mario Cuomo, William Bennett, Juan Williams, Pierre Salinger, Sam Nunn, Vicente Fox, Dan Rather, Dominique de Villepin, Bill Clinton ( organized by the San Antonio Business Council ) and John Cleese.

* December 12 – in Operation Firewall, U. S. Air Force Major Adrian Drew sets a new world speed record, in a modified F-101A Voodoo, of 1, 207 mph ( 1, 942 km / h ) over Edwards Air Force Base, California.

* November 9 – A North American X-15 flown by U. S. Air Force test pilot Major Robert M. White becomes the first airplane to exceed Mach 6, achieving Mach 6. 04 ( 4, 094 mph, 6, 593 km / h ) at an altitude of 102, 000 feet ( 31, 090 meters ) during a flight of under 8 minutes between Mud Lake, Nevada, and Edwards Air Force Base, California.

Laughlin U-2s were among the first to provide photographic evidence of Soviet missile installations in Cuba in 1962 when 4080th U-2 pilot Major Steve Heyser flew his U-2C over Cuba after taking off from Edwards AFB, California.

* Johnny Edwards ( baseball ) ( born 1938 ), American Major League Baseball player

The Forum was first published on November 17, 1891 by Major A. W. Edwards.

On 14 October 1962, a Lockheed U-2 from the 4080th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing at Laughlin Air Force Base near Del Rio, Texas and piloted by Major Richard S. Heyser, launched from Edwards AFB, California for a high altitude reconnaissance flight over Cuba.

In this problem, Rogers was supported by Major General Sir William Rice Edwards, head of the Bengal medical department and Sir William Duke, the Indian Civil Service Member of Council in charge of the Medical Department.

Major William Mordaunt Marsh Edwards, VC, DL ( 7 May 1855 – 17 September 1912 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

However, by the 1890s, improved railway communications between the mainland eastern colonies led Major General James Edwards — who had recently completed a survey of colonial military forces — to the belief that the colonies could be defended by the rapid mobilisation of brigades of infantry.

Major software developers Peter Johnson, Tim Tyler, Martin Edmondson, Nicholas Chamberlain, Kevin Edwards, David Hoskins, Matthew Atkinson, Chris Roberts, Tony Oakden, Peter Scott, Gary Partis, Peter Irvin, Jeremy Smith, David Braben, Ian Bell, Geoff Crammond, Jonathan Griffiths and Nick Pelling have all produced software published by Superior, sometimes released under the joint Superior Software / Acornsoft brandname.

* In the 1966 Blake Edwards World War II comedy What Did You Do in the War, Daddy ?, Major Pott ( Harry Morgan ) includes the last lines of the rhyme in his rantings after he is driven mad from getting lost in a maze of catacombs under the Sicilian village.

James was named after his father and Major John Newman Edwards.

At the time, the Chief Scout was Major F. J. Bowen and the Scoutmaster was Mr Albert Edwards.

*** Major John Cook ( VC ) VC

He was a Major when he earned his VC.

*** Major Allan Ebenezer Ker VC

Major Anders Lassen, Victoria Cross | VC, Military Cross | MC and two bars, the only UKSF recipient of the VC, was a SBS commander during the Second World War.

* Major Herbert James ( 1888-1958 ), VC winner at Gallipoli, First World War

He was the father-in-law of Major William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L ' Isle VC, and first cousin-once-removed to General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton.

* 1927 – 1929: Major ( Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel ) Bernard Cyril Freyberg, VC, CMG, DSO **

He was a Major when he earned his VC.

** Major General William George Walker, VC, CB ( attended Haileybury College, Colvin House, 1876 – 1881 )

** Major General Clifford Coffin, VC, CB, DSO & Bar ( attended Haileybury College, Lawrence House, 1884 – 1886 )

** Major Richard Raymond Willis, VC ( staff at Haileybury College, 1921 – 1921 )

He was a Major when he earned his VC.

Major Charles Heaphy VC ( 1821 – 3 August 1881 ) was a New Zealand explorer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious military award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

One colonial soldier, Major Charles Heaphy was awarded the VC for his actions in 1864, when he was commanding British troops.

* Melfa Crossing, site of a World War II battle at which Major John Keefer Mahony earned a VC for valour.

4th Infantry Brigade ( Major General Sir Evelyn Wood VC )

* Major David Vivian Currie VC ( later promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel )

Major General Ernest Wright Alexander VC CB CMG ( 2 October 1870 – 25 August 1934 ) was by birth an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

* Major Thomas Crean ( 1873-1923 ), VC winner in Boer War

* Major General Sir Luke O ' Connor ( 1831-1915 ), VC winner in Crimean War

Major Hans Garret Moore won the VC with the 88th during the Zulu War.

One Old Belvederian has been awarded the Victoria Cross, Surgeon Captain Thomas Joseph Crean VC DSO ( 1873 to 1923 ); he later achieved the rank of Major.

* D-day Victoria Cross: Story of Sergeant Major Stanley Hollis, VC ( Philip Wilkinson, 1997 )