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Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude KCB CMG DSO (24 June 1864 – 18 November 1917) was a British Army officer. He is known for his operations in the Mesopotamian campaign during the First World War and for conquering Baghdad in 1917.
In 1390 Scrope accompanied John Beaufort, half-brother of the future King Henry IV, on the Barbary Crusade to Mahdia, but otherwise little is known of his early life. [4] An annuity granted to him by King Richard II was continued by Henry IV after Richard's deposition, and in 1403 Scrope was styled "king's knight", and fought on Henry IV's side at the Battle of Shrewsbury. [5]
General Sir Michael David Jackson, GCB, CBE, DSO, DL (21 March 1944 – 15 October 2024) was a British Army officer and one of its most high-profile generals since the Second World War. [1] Originally commissioned into the Intelligence Corps in 1963, he transferred to the Parachute Regiment in 1970, with which he served two of his three tours ...
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Monument of William Pole (d.1587), Pole Chapel, Colyton Church Genealogical brass inscription on monument of William Pole (d.1587), Pole Chapel, Colyton Church. He was the only son of William Pole by his second wife Agnes Drake, daughter of John Drake of Ash in the parish of Musbury, Devon, an eminent and ancient Devon family.
Sir John Park Campbell, OBE (1 April 1934 – 10 September 2024) was a Scottish farmer and businessman. Early life. Born on 1 April 1934, [1] Campbell and his ...
Hamka’s death came after Loughnane subjected her to what Justice Christopher Beale described as a "torrent of highly abusive text messages" in which he threatened to torture her, drown her, set ...
Sir Kenneth Carmichael Macdonald, KCB (born 1930) is a retired British civil servant and businessman. Educated at the University of Glasgow, he served in the Royal Air Force for two years before entering the civil service in 1954 as an official in the Air Ministry. After three years at HM Treasury, he was moved to the Ministry of Defence (MoD ...