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In 1940, he joined the Queen's Royal Regiment as a Captain and undertook a range of staff and military teaching positions in Britain.
The Royal Armoured Corps was to be reduced by a total of two regiments, with the 9th / 12th Royal Lancers amalgamated with the Queen's Royal Lancers to form a single lancer regiment, and the 1st and 2nd Royal Tank Regiments joined to form a single Royal Tank Regiment.
In 1915 the line was extended further to Queen's Park, where it joined the DC lines of the London and North Western Railway ( LNWR ) that ran alongside the LNWR's main line ( now the West Coast Main Line ) as far as Watford Junction.
It joined an elite group of multiple Queen's Award winners and was recognition of the fact that over half of all new customers now come from outside the UK and they account for 44 % of all revenue.
Nevertheless he subsequently joined the forces of William of Orange, by whom he was made colonel of the Queen's Troop of Horse Guards on 20 April 1689, and commanded the Queen's Troop at the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690 during the Williamite War in Ireland.
# Other Ministers of the Crown, in chronological order of appointment to the Queen's Privy Council for Canada ( then in order of election or appointment to parliament if they joined the Privy Council on the same day ), followed by Ministers of State
There, he in 1907 enlisted in The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada and joined the Kappa Alpha Society, through which he met his long-time friend and future prime minister of Canada, William Lyon Mackenzie King.
Following the final performance of the anniversary tour at The Barbican, London, in October 2010, Gates joined the West End production of Les Misérables at Queen's Theatre where he continued to play the part of Marius until June 2011.
In 2003, Moses joined the department of drama at Queen's University as an assistant professor.
One piece that he directed there was W. S. Gilbert's first successful solo play, Dulcamara, or the Little Duck and the Great Quack ( 1866 ) A year later he joined the company of the newly-opened Queen's Theatre, where he acted with Charles Wyndham, J. L. Toole, Lionel Brough, John Clayton, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Ellen Terry and Nellie Farren.
In 1860 he joined The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada and was a Wimbledon marksman in 1874.
When the Liberals won the subsequent 1874 federal election, Blake joined the cabinet of Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie and served as Minister of Justice and President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada.
He joined the Queen's Hall Orchestra ( conducted by Henry Wood ) at the age of 15 and was later ( 1932 ) engaged by Sir Thomas Beecham for the newly founded London Philharmonic Orchestra, but he also enjoyed a rich solo and chamber-music career.
Queen's Park joined the Scottish League in 1900 and took part in the 1900 – 01 season.
Queen's joined the Football Association based in London in 1870 – the only football governing body in existence at the time.
When War ended, Queen's joined the Scottish ' A ' Division, where they stayed for three season, before relegation in 1948.
In 1869 Howe joined the Canadian Cabinet as President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada after receiving a promise of " better terms " for Nova Scotia.
The 6th became Royal Engineers, the 7th joined the Royal Tank Regiment, and the 10th became a battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders.
Smith had joined the Territorial Army by commission into the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars, in which Churchill was already an officer, in 1913, and was Captain in the regiment before the outbreak of the First World War.
In 2007 she was appointed CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for her work on the Millennium Commission which she joined in 1994.
In 2004 the station moved to a new digital broadcast centre located at Queen's Gardens in Hull, where it was joined by a full TV operation, supporting Look North.
On Sunday, January 12, and Monday, January 13, 1612, the King's Men joined with Queen Anne's Men to give Court performances of two Queen's Men's plays by Thomas Heywood, The Silver Age and The Rape of Lucrece.
Later that month, Milliken joined Queen's University as a Fellow at the School of Policy Studies where he teaches and conducts research.

Queen's and advanced
Richelieu advanced politically by faithfully serving the Queen's favourite, Concino Concini, the most powerful minister in the kingdom.
The club was given a bye and advanced straight to the Grey Cup final for the first time, but were severely outmatched, losing 54 – 0 to Queen's University at Varsity Stadium in Toronto.
Having been advanced to KCB in the Queen's Birthday Honours 1966, he was made General Officer Commanding Far East Land Forces with the rank of lieutenant general on 28 July 1966, tri-service Commander in Chief of Far East Command in 1967 and, having been promoted to full general on 29 March 1968, General Officer Commanding Southern Command on 12 May 1969.
After being advanced to GCB in the Queen's Birthday Honours 1970, he was appointed Chief of the General Staff on 1 April 1971 in which role he provided advice to the British Government on the response to the early stages of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
He was appointed ADC to the Queen on 6 October 1987 and advanced to GCB in the Queen's Birthday Honours 1988.
He then became Chief of the General Staff ( CGS ) on 15 March 1994, being advanced to GCB in the Queen's Birthday Honours 1994.
He became ADC General to the Queen from 7 April 1981, was advanced to GCB in the Queen's Birthday Honours 1982 and became Chief of the General Staff on 1 August 1982.
He was appointed Commander in Chief Far East Land Forces on 25 June 1958 and, having been promoted to full general on 13 February 1959 and advanced to GCB in the Queen's Birthday Honours 1961, he became Chief of the Imperial General Staff on 1 November 1961 ( restyled Chief of the General Staff in April 1964 ).

Queen's and contingent
The army invaded Bavaria on 2 July and promptly captured the Schellenberg after a devastating assault that included a contingent from the Queen's.
The Queen's Guard is the name given to the contingent of infantry responsible for guarding Buckingham Palace and St. James's Palace ( including Clarence House ) in London.
Turner was 29 years old and a captain in the Militia cavalry regiment the Queen's Own Canadian Hussars when he joined the second Canadian contingent to the Second Boer War.

Queen's and under
He later opined that the governor-general's role was more than a representative of the sovereign, explaining: " under section 2 of the Constitution the Governor-General is the Queen's representative and exercises certain royal prerogative powers and functions ; under section 61 of the Constitution the Governor-General is the holder of a quite separate and independent office created, not by the Crown, but by the Constitution, and empowered to exercise, in his own right as Governor-General and not as a representative or delegate of the Queen, all the powers and functions of Australia's head of state.
As a colony or other dependent state or territory lacks the authority to vest in a true head of state of its own, it either has no comparable office, simply receiving those roles exercised by the paramount powers ( in person or, most of the time, through an appointed representative, often styled governor or lieutenant-governor, but also various other titles, on the Cook Islands even simply King / Queen's Representative ) or has one, such as a formerly sovereign dynasty, but under a form of metropolitan guardianship, such as protection, vassal or tributary status.
Several of the guest singers recorded new versions of Queen's hits under the Queen + name, such as Robbie Williams providing vocals for " We Are the Champions " for the soundtrack of A Knight's Tale ( 2001 ).
A contemporary record notes that during that year, Henry spent time at The Queen's College, Oxford, under the care of his uncle Henry Beaufort, the Chancellor of the university.
However, under HM The Queen's 21 August 1996 letters patent, divorced wives and widows who subsequently remarry of a Prince of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland " shall not be entitled to hold and enjoy the style, title or attribute of Royal Highness.
Another major conspiracy was the Babington Plot-the event which most directly led to Mary's execution, the discovery of which involved a double agent Gilbert Gifford acting under the direction of Francis Walsingham, the Queen's highly effective spy master.
Essex performed military service under his stepfather in the Netherlands, before making an impact at court and winning the Queen's favour.
By the autumn of 1559 several foreign princes were vying for the Queen's hand ; their impatient envoys came under the impression that Elizabeth was fooling them, " keeping Lord Robert's enemies and the country engaged with words until this wicked deed of killing his wife is consummated.
The Opus Dei album also features a cover of Queen's " One Vision " with lyrics translated into German under the title Geburt einer Nation, revealing the ambiguity of lines like " One race one hope / One real decision ".
Application forms under the new system were released in July 2005 and the appointment of 175 new Queen's Counsel was announced on 20 July 2006.
Established in January 1341 ' under the name of the Hall of the Queen's scholars of Oxford ' ( sub nomine aule scholarium Regine de Oxon ), the college was subsequently called the ' Queen's Hall ', ' Queenhall ' and ' Queen's College '.
A historian of the Queen's Hall, Robert Elkin, writes, " At this period the standard of orchestral playing in London was distinctly low, and the well-drilled efficiency of the Berliners under their dynamic conductor came as something of a revelation.
A substantial number of the players performed at the 1930 Promenade Concerts under Sir Henry Wood, and the full BBC Symphony Orchestra gave its first concert on 22 October 1930, conducted by Boult at the Queen's Hall.
" Hadley cites, in particular, the six-day Delius festival at the Queen's Hall in 1929 under Beecham's general direction, in the presence of the composer in his bath-chair.
After the third performance of the work, at the Queen's Hall under Sir Henry Wood, The Times wrote, " Continually changing patterns scintillate … till one is hypnotised by the ingenuity of the thing.
In 1927 the Berlin Philharmonic, under Furtwängler, gave two concerts at the Queen's Hall.
The Proms continued though, under private sponsorship, until the Queen's Hall was gutted by an air raid in 1941 ( its site is now the St George's Hotel and BBC Henry Wood House ).
It was on December 14, 1989 announced from the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada that Queen Elizabeth II had, by commission under the royal sign-manual and Great Seal of Canada, approved Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's choice of Hnatyshyn to succeed Jeanne Sauvé as the Queen's representative.
* June 9-The Queen's Hall Orchestra, under Sir Henry Wood, plays its first concert under its new name of the London Symphony Orchestra.
In 1893 he was appointed Master of the Queen's Musick to Queen Victoria, and afterward held the same office under Kings Edward VII and George V.
The loss of the Aldgate property left the college in extreme poverty, and the street front of the college was only completed in the 1580s under the generosity of Christopher Wray, then Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench.

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