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Mary was owned by Cecil "Charlie" Brewer, a bootmaker from Exeter. [1] She served with the National Pigeon Service [2] between 1940 and 1945 [3] carrying top secret messages. [4] Mary made four trips from France to England. [5] She died in 1950 [1] and is buried in Ilford Animal Cemetery. [3] [6]
Mary of Exeter (1945) G.I. Joe (1946) Gustav (1944) Beach Comber (1944) Royal Blue (1945) A grand ceremony was held in Buckingham Palace to commemorate a platoon of pigeons that braved the battlefields of Normandy to deliver vital plans to Allied forces on the fringes of Germany. [25]
The Rail Yard Dawgs are the sixth professional hockey franchise to call the Roanoke Valley home, following the Salem/Roanoke Valley Rebels of the Eastern Hockey League and later the Southern Hockey League (1967–1976), the Salem/Virginia Raiders of the second Eastern Hockey League and Atlantic Coast Hockey League (1980–1983), the Virginia Lancers/Roanoke Valley Rebels/Rampage (1983–1993 ...
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Also includes subsidiary competitions – Hockey, Football, Squash, Golf and Lacrosse The Bottle Match is a varsity match played between the Camborne School of Mines (CSM) of Exeter University and the Royal School of Mines (RSM) of Imperial College London .
Sep. 16—Sophia Houde scored a pair of goals, helping Trinity past Mascoma Valley 5-1 in girls soccer on Friday. Sydney Demers, Amely Collado and Mackenzie Goldstein also scored for the Pioneers ...
WEB hockey captain Riley Bain , center, waves to the camera before a game vs. Whitman-Hanson at the Bridgewater Ice Arena on Friday, Dec. 30, 2022. Riley Bain, West/East Bridgewater Senior forward ...
Scotch Lass (pigeon NPS.42.21610) was a carrier pigeon who received the Dickin Medal in June 1945 from the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals for bravery in service during the Second World War. [1] She accompanied a British agent on a mission into The Netherlands . [ 2 ]