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Sometime later, while the former commander of the 1st Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Singles was filling the role of brigadier general at Fort Bragg (North Carolina), General Dahlquist arrived as part of a review. When he recognized Colonel Singles, he approached him and offered the colonel his hand saying, "Let bygones be bygones.
When Lieutenant colonel Gordon D. Rowe, commanding the 716th MP Battalion, received the distress call from the embassy, he dispatched several jeep patrols to investigate what was happening. The first two patrols took routes that passed by the south vehicle gate of the Independence Palace which was under attack by the VC.
At approximately 06:00 716th MP Battalion commander Lieutenant colonel Gordon Rowe sent a truck carrying 13 MPs to investigate the missing patrols. The MPs arrived at the intersection, rescued the two wounded MPs and then withdrew to a fighting position in a building on the southeast of the intersection.
Monument to the memory of Gordon on the Waterloo battlefield. The designer was John Papworth. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon KCB (1786 – 18 June 1815) was a Scottish officer in the British Army who was killed at the Battle of Waterloo. [1] [a] His correspondence was collated and published early in the early 21st century.
The 2nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. [1] Major George H. Gordon [note 1] (later Brigadier General), a West Point graduate and veteran of the Mexican–American War, organized the unit's recruitment and formation.
Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Ernest Leighton, DSO, General List. Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Edward Lemasurier, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Donald Elswood Lewis, Canadian Infantry Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel John James MacKenzie, MC, ED, Royal Canadian Artillery. Lieutenant-Colonel Wightman Belyea Manzer, ED, Canadian Infantry ...
The British Army promoted Gordon to lieutenant-colonel on 16 February 1864, [56] and he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath on 9 December 1864. [57] The traders of Shanghai offered Gordon huge sums of money to thank him for his work commanding the Ever Victorious Army.
In May 1917 Fraser was appointed acting lieutenant-colonel to command 1/6th Gordon Highlanders, a Territorial Force battalion serving in the 51st (Highland) Division. The battalion saw heavy fighting during the Third Ypres offensive that summer, and at Cambrai in the autumn. In February 1918, Fraser was sent to command a corps school of ...