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New recruits, escapees and repatriated POWs joined the division over the coming months, but the division was still so much weakened that the 4th Parachute Brigade had to be merged into the 1st Brigade, and the division as a whole could barely produce two brigades of infantry.
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New and recruits
As his military successes were well known in Spain, he attracted many recruits from a variety of backgrounds who joined his quest for riches in the New World.
New recruits view a display about his heroism, " the day shameful and glorious in the history of the Patrol ".
Reducing the mobilization strength of the army to 120, 000 under the New Army Structure plan is to be accomplished in part by limiting initial training of recruits to six months, followed by reducing the period allotted for refresher training from twenty years to ten years.
Carl Galioto, the head of the company's technical division, stated that it opened the office because it had difficulty hiring New York City-area recruits.
On 29 August 1953, in reviewing a biography of William Cobbett in the New Statesman, Taylor wrote " The Establishment draws in recruits from outside as soon as they are ready to conform to its standards and become respectable.
In November 1862 he was asked to organize a force of thirty thousand new recruits, drawn from New York and New England.
In December he sailed from New York with a this large force of raw recruits to replace Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler at New Orleans, Louisiana, as commander of the Department of the Gulf.
New recruits underwent the initiation rite three at a time so that no member knew more than two other members of the society.
New recruits subscribed to the anti-authoritarian views of the time and wanted their voices to have an equal status with the old-time party workers.
New members are referred to as " recruits ," " rookies ," " probies " ( short for " probationary "), or even " red hats " in some departments that require the recruit to wear special gear or markings ( such as a red helmet in some departments ) to denote their ranking.
During World War I the town was the starting point of the " Kangaroo March ", one of a series of snowball marches conducted in New South Wales during the war where groups of recruits would march toward Sydney and appeal to men in the towns along the route to join them and enlist in the Australian Imperial Force.
Native recruits during drill in German New Guinea
New recruits start with a limited equipment selection.
New recruits to BBC London 94. 9 included award-winning presenter Jon Gaunt from BBC Three Counties Radio, former GLR presenter Danny Baker, and Sean Rowley.
) These recruits arrived on 16 November 1653 and essentially guaranteed the evolution of Ville Marie and of all New France.
Waiouru is a military town that has grown up in conjunction with the New Zealand Army Camp and the Training Group ( ATG ), which is responsible for the training of recruits and other soldiers.
She engineers a contest between the New Mutants and Hellions, and recruits Magma for the Massachusetts Academy, and then has Empath accompany Magma to her home of Nova Roma.
In 1992, a New York Times article discussed the lack of training faced by recruits and members of the organization.
New recruits queue near the tombstones.
There are a number of franchisees, with the third and fourth recruits Burck's fellow Secaucus, New Jersey resident Robert Coffman and Burck's girlfriend, Cindy Fox.
López played high school basketball at famed Rice High School in New York City, where he would follow New York high school players Kareem Abdul Jabbar ( Lew Alcindor ) and Kenny Anderson in becoming one of the most highly touted recruits in U. S. high school history.
New and escapees
Category: New Zealand escapees
The remaining two escapees and their accomplice are being held on federal murder charges in New Mexico.
There have been long standing populations in the New Forest and the Forest of Dean and many of the other populations originated from park escapees.
New Line produced or co-produced three more films in 1981 and 1983: Alone in the Dark, a horror film about escapees from a lunatic asylum ; Xtro, a science fiction fantasy ; and Polyester, directed by John Waters.
As all the escapees flee the Egg Vineyard, Eggman tries to teleport everyone into his reserve Egg Grapes, but the reprogrammed armor, instead, sends them all to New Mobotropolis, a city created entirely out of Nanites by NICOLE.
New and repatriated
He spent the remainder of the war in various POW camps in New Zealand before being repatriated to Germany in 1919.
New Zealand musician, Neil Finn, his wife Sharon, and another business partner, together own a quarter-share in the repatriated record label.
The National Museum of the American Indian repatriated eleven wampum belts to Haudenosaunee chiefs at the Onondaga Longhouse Six Nations Reserve in New York.
They were then commanded by the Emperor to surrender to the Allied Australians, Americans, and New Zealanders, and they were then repatriated to Japan.
Following the First World War, the Hillston area was divided into relatively small rural properties onto which returning soldiers were repatriated under the New South Wales soldier settlement scheme.
He was injured at the commencement of the Battle of El Alamein and his wounds were such that he was repatriated back to New Zealand.
His wounds, to his mouth and tongue, were serious and he was repatriated to New Zealand where he would spend nearly a year in extensive rehabilitation.
No one knows how it made its way there from America, but in 1897, through the efforts of U. S. Senator George Frisbie Hoar, it was repatriated to New England.
He was interred at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York, but his will instructs that his remains be repatriated once the current régime runs its course.
One of the tractors used by Hillary's party was later repatriated to New Zealand and is on display along with other British Trans Antarctic Expedition vehicles in the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Lopesierra and his group were responsible for smuggling shipments of hundreds of kilograms of cocaine into the United States, and for laundering the proceeds so they could be repatriated through Puerto Rico, New York, and Miami back to Colombia.
New Zealand policy at the time was that long serving men were to be repatriated and their places taken by men with less time in service.
New and POWs
* 1944 – World War II: possibly the biggest prison breakout in history occurs as 545 Japanese POWs attempt to escape outside the town of Cowra, New South Wales, Australia.
No evidence exists of Boer POWs being sent to the Dominions of the British Empire such as Australia, Canada or New Zealand.
These POWs were from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Jamaica.
The dead POWs included 6, 318 British personnel, 2, 815 Australians, 2, 490 Dutch, about 356 Americans and a smaller number of Canadians and New Zealanders.
New massacres of POWs were reported in Stavelot, Cheneux, La Gleize, and Stoumont, on December 18, 19, and 20.
Another New Zealand soldier claimed at his court-martial that he joined the corps for similar reasons, to gather intelligence on the Germans to form a revolution among POWs, or to sabotage the unit if the revolution failed.
POWs from Australia, New Zealand, and Great Britain were imprisoned.
Those who refused became POWs and were mostly shipped to New Guinea.
After the Allies ' European victory in the Second World War, a German submarine flying a white flag sailed up the river, where New Hampshire state police received its captain and crew as POWs.
* Swett, Scott and Tim Ziegler, To Set The Record Straight: How Swift Boat Veterans, POWs and the New Media Defeated John Kerry, New American Media Publishing, 2008.
Japanese forces also committed atrocities against POWs on New Ireland.
Listeners in other countries monitored POW messages as well, and the practice was resumed by New Zealanders during the Korean War when the voices of POWs themselves were often broadcast over Radio Peking.
That year he also founded Yeni Dünya ( New World ), which he used to popularize the foundations of scientific socialism amongst Turkish POWs.
New Zealander Norman Jardine explained how, once liberated, his group of POWs were given a revolver by a U. S. Army officer and told to shoot any guards who had treated them unfairly.
At this point there were 7, 089 American and 886 British POWs ( of these 606 were from the British Isles, and included 147 Canadians, 37 Australians, 58 Poles, 22 New Zealanders, 8 South Africans, 5 Czechs, 2 French and 1 Norwegian ).
A riot by Japanese POWs at Featherston prisoner of war camp in New Zealand, in February 1943, led to security being tightened at Cowra.
In the first week of August 1944, a tip-off from an informer at Cowra led authorities to plan a move of all Japanese POWs at Cowra, except officers and NCOs, to another camp at Hay, New South Wales, some 400 km to the west.
Most of these POWs were transferred from Camp Roswell, which was a base or main POW camp for New Mexico.
* Spidle, Jake W., Jr. " Axis Invasion of the American West: POWs in New Mexico, 1942-1946 ".
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