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The losses by the soldiers from Bedford were chronicled in the best-selling book The Bedford Boys by Alex Kershaw, and helped inspire the movie Saving Private Ryan. [6] The movie's director, Steven Spielberg, helped fund the memorial, including funding for the creation of the Arnold M. Spielberg Theater, in honor of his father, a World War II ...
The Bedford Boys. While writing a 2002 biography, Blood and Champagne, [5] about Robert Capa, the celebrated war photographer, [6] Kershaw came across the story of Bedford, Virginia and its sacrifice on D-Day, 6 June 1944, on Dog Green sector of Omaha beach. The resulting book, The Bedford Boys, 2003, became a New York Times best-seller. [7]
Sir Richard Wells, 1st Baronet DL (1879–1957), Conservative MP for Bedford, 1922–1945 [citation needed] Colonel Eric Harrison (1880–1948), Australian MP , 1931–1937 [ 270 ] Air Commodore Sir Frank Nelson KCMG (1883–1966), Conservative MP for Stroud , 1924–1931, and the first head of Special Operations Executive , 1940–1942 [ 64 ]
The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies - 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [25]; The Death or Glory Boys - 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later 17th/21st Lancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers [1] [3] (from the regimental badge, which was a death's head (skull), with a scroll bearing the motto "or Glory")
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Thomas Bedford may refer to: Thomas Bedford (theologian) ( fl. 1650), English controversialist Thomas Bedford (historian) (died 1773), nonjuror and church historian
This is a list of notable people from Bedford, in Bedfordshire, England. People on this list may have been born in Bedford, attended school there, or resided in Bedford. For people whose primary association to Bedford is an education from the Bedford School, see the list of people educated at Bedford School.
Gunning Bedford Jr. (1747 – March 30, 1812) was an American Founding Father, delegate to the Congress of the Confederation (Continental Congress), Attorney General of Delaware, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 which drafted the United States Constitution, a signer of the United States Constitution, and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for ...