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Lieutenant Colonel William Ewart Fairbairn (/ ˈ f ɛər b ɛər n /; 28 February 1885 – 20 June 1960) was a British soldier and police officer. He developed hand-to-hand combat methods for the Shanghai Police during the interwar period , as well as for the Allied special forces during World War II.
Close Quarters Combat System (also known as Defendu) is a modern martial art developed by William E. Fairbairn and Eric A. Sykes prior to World War II.It is a hand-to-hand combat system based on practical experience mixed with Jujutsu and boxing that was developed to train the Shanghai Municipal Police, and was later taught in expanded form to Office of Strategic Services and Special ...
All-In Fighting by William E. Fairbairn, 1942. Commercial reprint of 2007: ISBN 978-1-58160-506-8; All-In Fighting; Intro This page was last edited on 10 November ...
Eric A. Sykes. Major Eric Anthony Sykes (5 February 1883 – 12 May 1945), born Eric Anthony Schwabe, was a soldier and firearms expert.He is most famous for his work with William E. Fairbairn in the development of the eponymous Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife and modern British Close Quarters Battle (CQB) martial arts during World War II.
Get Tough! by William E. Fairbairn, 1942. Details basic commando techniques. Reprint: ISBN 0-87364-002-0. All-In Fighting by William E. Fairbairn, 1942. Commercial reprint of 2007: ISBN 978-1-58160-506-8; Kill or Get Killed by Rex Applegate, 1943. Widely redistributed within the USMC from 1991 as FMFRP 12-80.
William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn (/ ˈ f ɛər b ɛər n /) FRSE (11 August 1889 – 31 December 1964) was a Scottish psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and a central figure in the development of the Object Relations Theory of psychoanalysis. [1]
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The origins of modern close-quarters battle lie in the combat methods pioneered by Assistant Commissioner William E. Fairbairn of the Shanghai Municipal Police, the police force of the Shanghai International Settlement (1854–1943).