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One of four soldiers to earn the Victoria Cross in the Battle of Vimy Ridge ( the others were Thain Wendell MacDowell, William Johnstone Milne and John George Pattison ), Sifton was 25 years old, and a Lance Sergeant in the 18th ( Western Ontario ) Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross.
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One and four
One moment, the road was filled with disciplined troops, marching four by four with a purpose as implacable as death ; ;
One company instituted, early in 1959, a vertical classification system consisting of four levels.
One out of every three or four marriages ends in divorce!!
One Nepōhualtzintzin ( 91 ) represented the number of days that a season of the year lasts, two Nepōhualtzitzin ( 182 ) is the number of days of the corn's cycle, from its sowing to its harvest, three Nepōhualtzintzin ( 273 ) is the number of days of a baby's gestation, and four Nepōhualtzintzin ( 364 ) completed a cycle and approximate a year ( 1 days short ).
One of the highlights of the facade is a tower topped with a cross of four arms oriented to the cardinal directions.
Blackadder is the name that encompassed four series of a BBC One period British sitcom, along with several one-off instalments.
One notable example occurred in 2000, when DC Comics refused to allow permission for the reprinting of four panels ( from Batman # 79, 92, 105 and 139 ) to illustrate Christopher York's paper All in the Family: Homophobia and Batman Comics in the 1950s.
One clade, formed by B. anthracis, B. cereus, B. mycoides, B. pseudomycoides, B. thuringiensis and B. weihenstephanensis under current classification standards, should be a single species ( within 97 % 16S identity ), but due to medical reasons, they are considered separate species, an issue also present for four species of Shigella and Escherichia coli.
Founded in 1960 by two Australians, driver Jack Brabham and designer Ron Tauranac, the team won four drivers ' and two constructors ' world championships in its 30-year Formula One history.
One of his four brothers, Abraham, died of a heart problem at the age of five.
Initially, on 1 July 1867, there were four provinces in confederation as " One dominion under the name of Canada ": Canada West ( former Upper Canada, now Ontario ), Canada East ( former Lower Canada, now Quebec ), Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick.
One controlled procedure has invited ' senders ' to telepathically transmit one of four visual images to ' receivers ' deprived of sensation in a nearby chamber ( Bem & Honorton, 1994 ).
One article originally written for the Bahá ' í Encyclopedia, characterized Covenant-breakers that have emerged in the course of Bahá ' í history as belonging to one of four categories:
* One of the four Agonalia, this day in honor of Sol Indiges ; also the Septimontium festival ( Roman Empire )
One such family, the Flavians, or gens Flavia, rose from relative obscurity to prominence in just four generations, acquiring wealth and status under the emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
One in four psychologists are employed in educational settings.
One of the four infantry battalions was assigned to each of the military zones.
One of the four National Assembly constituencies still includes Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy even though they seceded from Guadeloupe in 2007.
One of the most famous and productive problems of graph theory is the four color problem: " Is it true that any map drawn in the plane may have its regions colored with four colors, in such a way that any two regions having a common border have different colors?
One was the largest observation wheel in the world, the " Millennium Wheel ", or the London Eye, which was erected as a temporary structure, but soon became a fixture, and draws four million visitors a year.
One of the most widely used models is the International Reference Ionosphere ( IRI ) ( IRI 2007 ), which is based on data and specifies the four parameters just mentioned.
One in four Soviets was killed or wounded.
One of his slaves gave him a piece of ivory into which had been carved four scenes.
One and soldiers
One of the major themes of the novel is the difficulty of soldiers to revert to civilian life after having experienced extreme combat situations.
One night, Bäumer along with a group of other soldiers are holed up in a factory with neither rations nor comfortable bedding.
It has been argued by John Mosier that, while the French soldiers in 1940 were better trained than German soldiers, as were the Americans later, and the German army was the least mechanised of the major armies, its leadership cadres were both larger and superior and their high standards of leadership were the primary reason for the successes of the German army in World War Two as it had been in World War One.
One of the senior Polish commanders on the day, Duke Bogusław Radziwiłł, wrote that the Polish army had had 80, 000 soldiers.
One afternoon, a group of off-duty soldiers from the U. S. Signal Corps were gathered in a bar in Old Havana.
One problem was that some of the Zairian soldiers in the area had not received pay for extended periods.
Since then Mullan and Edwards have travelled to Flanders and the site of the World War One Christmas Truce and the legendary football game between British and German soldiers.
One of their most famous victories was in 1177 during the Battle of Montgisard, where some 500 Templar knights helped several thousand infantry to defeat Saladin's army of more than 26, 000 soldiers.
One of the conventions of the genre was to depict a racial and socioeconomic cross-section of the United States, either a platoon on the front lines or soldiers training on a base, which come together to fight for the good of the country.
One well-known example included female versions of certain enemies, like Low Guards, Strike Force soldiers, and the Overpatrol.
One of her proudest moments was when she singlehandedly caused the entire United States Military to flee Killmotor Hill, armed only with a broom, and her bad temper, much to the shame of the current president, Theodore Roosevelt, and the fear of the soldiers.
One month after the attack, soldiers force their way into the town hall basement and find the bodies of the emergency operations staff, who have all died of suffocation.
One filmmaker was sentenced to ten years imprisonment because his portrayal of British soldiers in a movie about the American Revolution impugned the good faith of an American ally, the United Kingdom.
One of his young soldiers, Lord Hay, is engaged to her daughter, and the Duchess begs they keep him away from the battlefield so her daughter won't " wear black before she wears white ".
" One World " was Willkie's travelogue of his travels and meetings of the then-Allies heads of state, as well as ordinary citizens and soldiers in regions such as Russia and Iran.
One hostage dies of a heart attack, 2 soldiers are killed by rebel fire, and all 14 Tupac Amaru rebels are slain.
* April 23 ( Saint George's Day ) – English Civil War: One hundred and fifty Irish soldiers bound for service with King Charles I of England are captured at sea by Parliamentarians and killed at Pembroke in Wales.
One Texian was wounded, and estimates of Mexican casualties range from one to three soldiers killed and from three to seven wounded.
One day, while Hana is playing the piano, two British soldiers enter the villa.
One of the soldiers is Kip, an Indian Sikh who has been trained as a sapper or combat engineer, specializing in bomb and ordnance disposal.
One of the soldiers she treated wrote in her autograph book that she was to be " Hung, drawn, & quartered ... Hung in diamonds, drawn in a coach and four, and quartered in the best house in the land.
One of his favorite tactics was to attack Christian cities on church feast days, knowing that many soldiers would be in church.
One of the more well-known stories about Sun Tzu, taken from Shiji, illustrates Sun Tzu's temperament as follows: Before hiring Sun Tzu, the King of Wu tested Sun Tzu's skills by commanding him to train a harem of 180 concubines into soldiers.
One pregnant woman who was gang-raped by Japanese soldiers gave birth only a few hours later ; although the baby appeared to be physically unharmed ( Robert B. Edgerton, Warriors of the Rising Sun ).
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