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The soldier killed in the attack was 25-year-old Fusilier Lee James Rigby, (4 July 1987 – 22 May 2013) a drummer and machine-gunner in the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. Rigby, from Middleton, Greater Manchester , was born in 1987 and had served in Cyprus, Germany, and Afghanistan before becoming a recruiter and assisting ...
An eyewitness reported that "Even the little drummer boys that we had in the band, they were hung up on hooks, and opened like sheep. It was a pitiful sight". Doubt has since been cast on this account, since the youngest drummer to be killed was 18, and the youngest boy present was 16. [11]
John Lincoln Clem (nicknamed Johnny Shiloh; August 13, 1851 – May 13, 1937) was an American general officer who served as a drummer boy in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He gained fame for his bravery on the battlefield, becoming the youngest noncommissioned officer in the history of the United States Army at the age of 12.
Charles Edwin King (April 3, 1849 – September 20, 1862), was a Union drummer boy during the American Civil War. Being mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam , he is the youngest confirmed soldier from either side to die during the war.
Haim was a drummer for a heavy metal band, [6] Shamriz was a computer engineering student at Sapir College. [7] Talalka had been working in the kibbutz hatchery and was from the Bedouin town of Hura. [8] After the deaths of the three hostages, a GoPro camera from a deceased military dog was discovered to have recorded their voices several days ...
The Defense Department has released the identities of the three U.S. Army Reserve soldiers who were killed Sunday in an attack at a base in northeast Jordan, near the Syrian border.. The slain ...
Willard was wounded at the Battle of Shiloh and was transported to an Army hospital in Windom, Minnesota, where he would die of his wounds. Albert and his mother moved to Windom to accompany Willard. Albert enlisted as a drummer boy in Company C, 1st Minnesota Heavy Artillery Regiment on October 10, 1864, becoming the company's drummer. However ...
Also killed was Staff Sgt. William Jerome Rivers, 46, who was buried Tuesday following a church service in Carrollton. The military awarded all three soldiers promotions in rank after their deaths.