3 days ago by Meghan Casserly

[1]Image via Wikipedia (and not in the way you think) “Women: stop making start-ups about fashion, shopping and babies,” wrote Venturebeat [2]’s Jolie O’Dell [3] on Twitter a few months back. “At least for the next few years. You’re embarrassing me.” Ouch. This tweet heard ‘round the lady blogospher ...

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5 days ago by Priories Historical Society

A PLAQUE honouring the bravery of aWorksop war hero will be replaced after it was stolen last week. The brass plaque, which honours VictoriaCross medal-winner William Henry Johnson, was fixed to a stone in WorksopMemorial Park. Police believe the plaque, worth £10 inscrap value, was taken between 4p ...

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6 days ago by RM1SS ret

JOHN BERNARD MACKEY Corporal, 2nd/3rd Australian Pioneer Battalion, Australian Military Forces Born: 16 May 1922, Leichhardt, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Died: 12 May 1945, Tarakan Island, Borneo Citation: For most conspicuous bravery in the face of strong enemy resistance in the attack on th ...

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13 days ago by RM1SS ret

KENNETH MUIR Major, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) Born: 6 March 1912, Chester, Cheshire Died: 23 September 1950, near Kumch'on, South Korea Citation: On 23rd September, 1950, "B" and "C" Companies of the 1st Battalion, The Argyll and Sutherlands [ sic] Highlanders, attack ...

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13 days ago by NCrissieB

Today in history, greetings, and social banter here. (More) Stamford Raffles landed in Singapore today (1819). Also, President Andrew Jackson used federal troops to suppress a labor dispute (1834), Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” was published in the New York Evening Mirror (1835), Queen Victoria esta ...

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14 days ago by Patrick Shrier

The 1879 Battle of Rorke’s Drift is one of the most celebrated, and smallest battles in British history. It occurred in 18179 during the Zulu War in South Africa at the Mission and Supply Station of Rorke’s Drift. During the … Continue reading →

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16 days ago by oldsaltbooks

X-craft versus Tirpitz : the mystery of the missing X5 Alf R. Jacobsen ; translated from the Norwegian by J. Basil Cowlishaw World War 1939-1945 Naval operations Submarine Stroud : Sutton, 2006 Hardcover. 287 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and ...

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18 days ago by gaban

Why British? Except for World War 2 most medals are named on rim so they are very easy to identify. There are hundreds of different regiments and of course different ranks for medals from 1799 to the present day. Lots of very good replicas of British Military Medals and replacement medals are sold t ...

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20 days ago by cavalrytales

Sorry - couldn’t resist using musical notes again and a line from Catatonia’s International Velvet. Neither of which have anything much to do with this post. And neither does the cavalry, except in the loosest possible sense. Because today is the anniversary of the battles of Isandlwana and Rorke’s ...

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20 days ago by Andrew Petcher

Zulu has to be one of my favourite ever movies because it was one of the first grown up films that I was ever taken to see at the cinema. As I have explained elsewhere dad was fond of anything military or heroic and stories don’t come much more heroic or military than this. These are the facts: On 2 ...

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