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  British IX Corps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The IX Corps was originally formed in England in 1915 in readiness to make a new landing at Suvla during the Battle of Gallipoli.
His handling of the corps during the August Offensive was a disaster and he was replaced only 9 days after the corps landed.
Following the British evacuation of Gallipoli, the corps was moved to France in 1916.
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 Battle of Sari Bair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Suvla landing was to be made by the British IX Corps, under the command of the aged Lieutenant-General who had retired in 1909 and had never commanded men in battle.
As the fighting developed, the landing was reinforced by the arrival of the British 53rd Division on August 9 followed by the 54th Division on August 10.
The command of IX Corps was given to Major-General, commander of the 29th Division until Lieutenant-General Julian Byng could travel from France to assume command.
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 Vaal Triangle Info Encylopedia - Battle_of_Sari_Bair   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Suvla landing was to be made by the British IX Corps, under the command of the aged Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Stopford who had retired in 1909 and had never commanded men in battle.
Three divisions defended the Asian shore of the Dardanelles and three divisions of the Turkish XVI Corps defended the Gulf of Saros north of Bulair at the neck of the peninsula.
The command of IX Corps was given to Major-General Beauvoir de Lisle, commander of the 29th Division until Lieutenant-General Julian Byng could travel from France to assume command.
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 British Army -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British military.
The British First Army was formed on 26 December, 1914 when the corps of the British Expeditionary Force were divided into the First Army under Lieutenant-General Sir Douglas Haig and the Second Army (Horace Smith-Dorrien).
The Fifth Army was created on 30 October 1916 by renaming the British Reserve Army of General Sir Hubert Gough and as such it fought the Battle of the Ancre which became the final British effort in the Battle of the Somme.
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 Savy British Cemetery
Savy British Cemetery is on the south-western outskirts of the village, on the west side of the road to Roupy.
The village and the wood were retaken on the 17th September 1918 by the 34th French Division, fighting on the right of the British IX Corps.
Savy British Cemetery was made in 1919, and the graves from the battlefields and small cemeteries in the neighbourhood were concentrated into it.
www.ww1cemeteries.com /ww1frenchextension/savy.htm   (331 words)

  
 British First Army biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The British First Army was formed to command the land forces of in Operation Torch, the assault landings in Morocco and Algeria on 8 November 1942, during World War II.
It eventually consisted of four corps, the American II Corps, British V Corps, British IX Corps and French XIX Corps.
By the time the British Eighth Army approached the Tunisian border, following its long pursuit of Rommel's forces after El Alamein, 1st Army was again ready to strike.
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 First World War.com - Battles - The Third Battle of the Aisne, 1918
At the time of the offensive the front line of the Chemin des Dames was held by four divisions of the British IX Corps, ironically sent from Flanders in early May in order to recuperate.
General Duchene, commander of the French Sixth Army, was responsible for the continued defence of the sector, and Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Hamilton Gordon, commander of IX Corps, was required to place himself under Duchene's direction.
Owing to the heavy concentration of primarily British troops in front-line trenches, casualties from the bombardment were severe; IX Corps itself was virtually wiped out.
www.firstworldwar.com /battles/aisne3.htm   (574 words)

  
 Pope Pius IX
The future Pope Pius IX was born Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti in Senagallia in the Papal States, the ninth child of a minor count in 1792.
Pius IX had instituted reforms in the government of the Papal States that were promising and in 1848 he established elected municipal government in Rome.
Ascribing to Pius IX a consistent and driving political philosophy or a political agenda separate from the Church, is to misunderstand the man. Even his loyalty to the Papal States was not a temporal matter.
www.catholiceducation.org /articles/persecution/pch0022.html   (11731 words)

  
 military corps patches history 1
A corps consists of a corps headquarters, corps troops, and such divisions as may be assigned to it.
Blue and white are the colors of corps' distinguishing flags, and the three points of the caltrop indicate the numerical designation of the corps.
The octagon represents the number of the corps, and the colors blue and white are those associated with corps' flags.
www.vetshome.com /military_corps_patches_history_1.htm   (778 words)

  
 BRITISH TANKS
British Tanks are one of the most hotly debated innovations of the Great War.
This came at a time in 1915 when the British Army was trying to get to grips with the changes caused by the advent of trench warfare and one major problems was the German machine guns which were causing heavy casualties and which were very difficult to destroy.
The tanks were allocated 20 to II Anzac corps 16 to XI Corps and 12 to X Corps, 24 tanks were held back to provide support in the second stage of the operation.
www.imperialservices.org.uk /british_tanks.htm   (5591 words)

  
 British VIII Corps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The British VIII Corps was an army corps formation that existed during World War I and World War II.
After the evacuation of Gallipoli, the corps was reformed in France in March 1916, once again under the command of Hunter-Weston.
The corps was disbanded in June 1918 when Hunter-Weston moved to the XVIII Corps but this corps was then redesignated as the VIII Corps in July 1918.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/british_viii_corps   (272 words)

  
 PART IX
PART IX The greatest obstacle to the successful movement of an army during the Revolutionary War, either in campaign or on the field of battle, was the time required for the transmission of dispatches, intelligence, and orders.
No thought was given to the abandonment of the enterprise because of the British having recovered their naval superiority; instead it was the purpose of the French admiral to gain the shelter of the Chesapeake and fight for control of those waters.
The marquis's corps left Baltimore on the 19th of April; it was in Alexandria on the 23d and arrived at Richmond on the 29th.
www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/RevWar/Yorktown/AWC-Ytn-09.htm   (4412 words)

  
 The Scot in British North America - Chapter IX Addendaand Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In a work of the present character and extent, it was almost impossible, while pursuing the slight thread of historical continuity which we have tried to keep in view, to avoid the omission of names of many who are entitled to a notice in these pages.
In 1858 this corps had the honour of participating in the great military celebration held in New York in connection with the laying of the first Atlantic Cable.
The Montreal Field Battery is the only British military organization that has carried the Union Jack through the streets of New York since the evacuation of the British, a century ago.
www.electricscotland.com /history/canada/scot/chapter41.htm   (9399 words)

  
 www.operations.mod.uk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence can confirm that a British soldier from the 1st Battalion the Coldstream Guards died as a result of injuries sustained from a roadside bomb at approximately 2320 hrs local time in Basra, Iraq, on Tuesday 18 October 2005.
A British soldier was killed, and two injured, in an improvised explosive device attack on British vehicles in Basrah on the morning of Monday 28 June 2004.
A British soldier was killed in an incident involving light armoured vehicles of D Squadron, The Blues and Royals, on Friday 28 March 2003.
www.operations.mod.uk /telic/casualties.htm   (3823 words)

  
 Australian Military Units
The Hindenburg Line was a formidable series of defences constructed by the German Army in northern France in late 1916 to which they had withdrawn in early 1917.
After their spring offensive of 1918, the Germans incorporated the old British trenches facing the Hindenburg Line into their network of defences; these became the Hindenburg "outpost line".
The Australian Corps attacked the defences in the centre of the outpost line, supported in the north by III British Corps and in the south by IX British Corps.
www.awm.gov.au /units/event_135.asp   (156 words)

  
 52489 Lance Corporal Alexander Erskine, Royal Engineers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The British losses in this battle were heavy and six of the attacking divisions had to be relieved during the next few days.
This objective was an important one to both sides, as the Germans had massed the greater part of their artillery on the plateau, and its capture was vital to the British operations on either flank of the front line.
Assuming that he was born in Auchterderran, the 1881 British Census shows two possible families living there at that time with young boys between 7 and 17 years of age.
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 Jaguar Mk. IX
IX model was even more powerful and had many features that were ahead of their time in a production car.
IX cost about 2/5 of the price of a Rolls, and one contemporary ad stated that "the Mk.
IX is the most expensive of all Jaguars, but only $6200".
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 10 April 1943
The British 8th Army enters Sfax and continues north to La Hencha.
The British IX Corps breaks out of Fondouk Pass to late to cut off the retreat of the Axis forces.
During the night of 9/10 April Northwest African Air Force Wellingtons bomb troops and transport on roads in the area surrounding Enfidaville.
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 CHAPTER IX
On 3 September 1943, the British Eighth Army crossed the Strait of Messina to Reggio and moved steadily eastward and northward, eventually joining the British X Corps, which had landed with the Fifth U.S. Army at Salerno.
Following the Italian surrender on 8 September, a British airborne division landed unopposed at Brindisi, and within a short period, the whole of Region II, comprising the compartments of Calabria, Lucania, and most of Apulia, was firmly in Allied hands.
The dissimilarity between U.S. and British policies on staff assignments in the Allied Control Commission created unusual and difficult situations; for example, if a British lieutenant were assigned to a position calling for a lieutenant colonel, he immediately would be promoted to, and receive the pay and allowances of, that grade.
history.amedd.army.mil /booksdocs/wwii/civilaffairs/chapter9.htm   (18954 words)

  
 Brief histories of the British Corps
Formed in Gallipoli as the British Army Corps in May 1915, and designated VIII Corps in June 1915.
Had major responsibility for failure of northern sector of British offensive on the Somme, 1st July 1916, and was never again responsible for a major offensive.
Formed by the renumbering of the XV Corps which had itself been formed from the Indian Corps, January 1916.
www.1914-1918.net /corps_bats.htm   (836 words)

  
 British Affidavits 3
This MUST be signed by the person making the statement and countersigned by the interrogating officer at the end of the statement.
Prior to the outbreak of war in 1939 I was in practice at Wrekenton, Gateshead, 9.
On 13th September, 1945, I was released from the Camp and sailed from Nagasaki on an American destroyer, arriving home at Southampton on 5th November 1945.
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 Combat Support in Korea: PART V Medical Corps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Since IX Corps was in the center of Korea, the helicopters were also able to serve the other corps.
At that time IX Corps headquarters was at Chungju; the hospital was forty miles to the rear.
Instead of operating as a mobile army surgical hospital—that is, a small, sixty-bed hospital assigned to one division—we were called upon to care for the casualties from the 1st Marine Division, the 2d and 7th Infantry Divisions, and the 187th Regimental Combat Team.
www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/korea/22_1_5.htm   (3554 words)

  
 IX
In 1778 he was made a post captain with the British navy and had command of two ships, which included service in India.
Although he quarrelled with every governor, it was Macarthur's ability to convince the British government that Australian wool would be saleable to English mills that put Australia on the road to economic independence.
Thus, colonial practice differed from official colonial policy that considered the Aborigines to be British subjects, protected by the same British law and justice system as the colonists.
users.netconnect.com.au /~nacl/history/southland/9governors.htm   (7087 words)

  
 Peace Corps Belize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Peace Corps has been a part of the development of Belize for 40 years.
Peace Corps began to work in Belize when the country was still called British Honduras.
Over the years Peace Corps has responded to the needs of the Belizean people, developing new projects and sharing the technical skills needed to strengthen its role as a development partner with the Government of Belize.
usembassy.state.gov /belize/wwwhpeacecorpsbelize.html   (255 words)

  
 Charles D Gray
As one of the casualties of April 2nd he was originally buried in SAVY WOOD NORTH CEMETERY and later moved to SAVY BRITISH CEMETERY in 1920.
The stormers were violently assailed by machine gun fire along the entire front but they swept on purposefully and laid hold of the allotted positions, taking numerous prisoners.
The following were among the burial grounds from which British graves were removed to Savy British Cemetery:- DALLON GERMAN CEMETERY, North-West of the village of Dallon, containing the graves of 21 British soldiers who fell in March 1918.
www.kinnethmont.co.uk /soldiers/chas-gray.htm   (948 words)

  
 British Empire - Research Guide
Index for British Biographical Archive [microform]: a one-alphabet cumulation of 324 of the most important English-language biographical reference works originally published between 1601 and 1929, [Van Pelt Library Microtext: Microfiche 970] and British Biographical Archive.
Covers history of the British Isles, and of the British Empire and Commonwealth, from 55BC to the present.
Regiments: Regiments and Corps of the British Empire and Commonwealth, 1758-1993: a Critical Bibliography of their Published Histories.
gethelp.library.upenn.edu /guides/hist/britempire.html   (2980 words)

  
 List of military corps by number - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of military corps — List of military corps by number
This is a list of military corps arranged by ordinal number.
U.S. II Corps, World War II II Corps (ACW), American Civil War
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 UK Soldiers Casualties British Scottish Irish Welsh Australian Iraq War
August 23: 3 dead - Killed during an attack by gunmen on a British military ambulance in Basra.
They are the oldest and most senior regiment in the British Army.
A British pilot and his navigator were shot down in their RAF Tornado jet by an U.S. Patriot missile battery.
www.worldmessenger.20m.com /brits.html   (1999 words)

  
 Muche's Warbirds WWII British
It was assigned to 39 MU at RAF Colerne in June of that year and was placed in storage at the end of the war.
The plane was sold to Vickers-Armstrong in 1950 and was converted to the Tr.9 configuration for the Irish Air Corps.
It was flown as IAC 163 until 1968 when it then passed into private hands.
www.mucheswarbirds.com /WWIIBritish.html   (229 words)

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