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  Charles Groves Wright Anderson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Groves Wright Anderson was born on 12 February 1897 at Cape Town, South Africa.
Anderson was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and assigned to the 2/19th Battalion, part of the Australian 8th Division, deployed to Malaya in 1941.
Charles Anderson entered politics in 1949 standing for the seat of Hume as a representitive of the Country Party.
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 Wright
Shannon Wright Shannon Wright is a singer-songwriter from piano, and vocals.
Wright, Wyoming Wright is a town located in 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,347.
Wright Township, Minnesota Wright Township is a township located in 2000 census, the township had a total population of...
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 Anderson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anderson is a Scandinavian and Scottish surname meaning "son of Anders/Andrew".
The Anderson turn is a maneuver used to bring a ship or boat back to a point it previously passed through.
Anderson crater on the Moon, a formation with the eponym John August Anderson.
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 Anderson County, Part 1
ANDERSON County is situated in the second tier of counties west from Missouri, fifty miles south from the Kansas River, and seventy miles north from the Indian Territory.
In the winter of 1854-1855 a number of Germans from St. Louis located south of Greeley, and made some improvements, but in the spring of 1855, they left the Territory never to return, and their claims were soon taken by other new settlers.
When Gov. Reeder, on November 8, 1854, appointed the first election, the territory, now Anderson County, was made a part of the Fifth District, and the election was ordered held at the house of Henry Sherman, near what is known as Dutch Henry's crossing, on the Pottawatomie, just across the line in Franklin County.
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 Encyclopedia: Anderson
Tim Anderson, a member of the Ananda Marga sect, was jailed for the 13 February 1978 bombing of the Sydney Hilton hotel in an episode known as the Hilton Bombing.
Wendell Anderson Wendell Richard Wendy Anderson (born February 1, 1933) was the 33rd Governor of Minnesota, from January 4, 1971 to December 29, 1976.
Judge Cassandra Anderson, created by writer John Wagner and artist Brian Bolland in 1980, is a fictional character that started as a supporting character in the comic strip Judge Dredd of 2000 AD and eventually rose in prominence and became the star of her own strip.
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 Lieutenant Colonel Charles Groves Wright Anderson, VC, MC
Charles Anderson was born at Cape Town, South Africa, on 12 February 1897.
Anderson was promoted to lieutenant colonel on 1 August 1941 and took command of his battalion.
Anderson and his wife had four children, all of whom were born in Australia.
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 Anderson
Anderson, Anna (died 1984), alleged daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
Anderson, Dominis G (D.G. Anderson) (born 1930), U.S. politician from Hawaii
Anderson, Ian (born 1947), Scottish musician (Jethro Tull)
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 Charles Anderson
Anderson was taken into captivity on 15 February 1942, when the British forces in Singapore surrendered.
Charles Anderson in Canberra after being elected as a member of the Federal Parliament in 1949.
Charles Anderson died in 1988 and was given a military funeral in Canberra.
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 Lieutenant Colonel Charles Groves Wright Anderson, VC, MC
ANDERSON, in command of a small Force, was sent to restore a vital position and to assist a Brigade.
Anderson was ordered to destroy his equipment and make his way back as best he could round the enemy position.
Anderson regained his seat as Member for Hume in the House of Representatives in the general election.
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Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond and Lennox
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 People's Voice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Lieutenant Colonel Charles Groves Wright Anderson VC MC was born in South Africa and moved to Australia in 1934 when he purchased a grazing property near Crowther, New South Wales.
Charles Anderson served in the Citizen Military Forces and then on 1 July 1940 he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force.
He delayed their withdrawal until the recovery of the decimated Indian unit and by the next morning, 20 January, both the 2/29 and 2/19th were involved in heavy fighting and had to break through an enemy cordon.
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 Black Walnuts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Small natural groves frequently found in mixed forests on moist alluvial soils have been heavily logged.
Wright (54) has pointed out that species that can cross within a genus usually have distinct (often adjacent) ranges, while species that occupy the same sites in the same regions develop barriers to hybridization.
Masters, Charles J. The controlled pollination techniques and analysis of intraspecific hybrids for fl walnut.
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 Encyclopedia: Charles Groves Wright Anderson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Flag of the Commonwealth of Nations The Commonwealth of Nations is a voluntary association of independent sovereign states, most of which were once governed by the United Kingdom and are its former colonies.
The 2nd AIF was formed, from 1939 onwards, to fight overseas: most army units were Militia (reserve) units and under Australian law at the time, Militia troops...
Bold textBATTLE FOR MALAYA During the early morning hours of December 7th/8th 1941, before the first bombs started falling on the United States Pacific base at Pearl Harbour (time zone differences), the War in the Pacific commenced with the invasion of the British colony of Malaya.
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 The Kentucky Post
Charles L. Adams, 64, of Lexington, formerly of Corinth, died Sunday at Hospice Care Center, Lexington.
Charles Warren Bennett, 83, of DeLand, Fla., formerly of Covington, died Friday at Alliance Center for Health Care, DeLand.
Survivors include sons, Donald Gosney of Independence, Ernest Gosney of Piner, Richard Gosney of Fort Wright and Michael Gosney of Boone County; a sister, Charlotte Schneider of Middletown, Ohio; nine grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.
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 World War 2 Awards.com - ANDERSON, Charles Groves Wright, MC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
During the operations in Malaya from the 18th to 22nd January 1942, Lieutenant-colonel Anderson, in command of a small force, was sent to restore a vital position and to assist a brigade.
On the 19th of January, Lieutenant-colonel Anderson was ordered to destroy his equipment and make his way back as best as he could round the enemy position.
Lieutenant Colonel Anderson’s Victoria Cross is publicly displayed at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, Australia.
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 Charles Groves Wright Anderson
Charles Groves Wright Anderson VC MC was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
He was 44 years old, and a Lieutenant Colonel in the 2/19th Bn., (N.S.W.), Australian Military Forces during the Second World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
ANDERSON C.G.W. This page has been migrated from the Victoria Cross Reference with permission.
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 Genealogy Books - BigTreeBooks.com
In 1898, The Port Tobacco Times and Charles County Advertiser merged with the La Plata Crescent, providing county democrats with a steady and vigorous expression of their business and social views and tendencies for another 93 years.
Dozens of knowledgeable volunteers contributed information on a variety of topics, including agriculture and the tobacco industry, transportation and the Potomac, towns and villages, religion and churches, government, Black history, education, sociality, legend and folklore, and genealogy.
The area known today as Charles County lies along a wide curve of the Potomac River, just south of Washington, D.C., and across the river from George Washingtons boyhood home in Virginia.
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 Anderson VC, MC
Lieutenant Colonel (LtCol) Charles Groves Wright Anderson VC MC, 2/19th Infantry Battalion.
LtCol Anderson was awarded the Victoria Cross for action in Malaya during 18 and 22 January 1942.
He was again surrounded and suffered heavy casualties, and although he attempted to fight his way back through eight miles of enemy-occupied territory this proved impossible, and he had to destroy his equipment and work his way around the enemy.
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 Introduction
With the exception of small islands (it now appears that Australia may have been occupied by 100,000 BP), large deserts, high mountain ranges, and glaciated areas, by the end of the Pleistocene in the Old World there were few landscapes where one could be sure to find "nature" without humans in it.
She uses the term "garden hunting" to describe how fallow fields would have attracted deer and other forest margin species, and how groves of fruit trees would have encouraged the growth of populations of favored small mammals, such as agoutis.
Anderson, R.C. 1990 The historic role of fire in the North American grassland.
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 NOTES FROM THE FUNERAL BOOK OF CHARLIE LYNCH
Charles C. Lynch,62 of Cahokia died of cancer at 8:00 a.m.
Burial will be in the Odd Fellows Cemetery at Percy, Ill. Friends may call at the Kassly Funeral Home in E. St.Louis, after 5 p.m.Friday.
Survivors include his wife, Marie, daughter Helen Pearl Thurwalker, son Charles Lynch, Jr., brother Amos Lynch, two sisters, Mrs.
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E. Parrish of the Gilliam Co. in 1844 called it the 'extreme south branch of Nimehaw River.'' Their campsite of June 1-2 was in a hickory grove about one mile beyond the crossing, probably on what is presently known as Illinois Creek, a tributary of the main river.
''Encamped at the Sapling Grove." May 6: Under way hefore dawn, they "stopped for breakfast at the Round Grove.~, Anderson was a member of William L. Sublette's pack train to the Rocky Mountains; they followed Sublette's Trace, crossing to the north side of Kansas River at Kansa Mission and Agency northwest of present Lawrence.
How it came to sprout and grow by itself, or to survive the destruction of storm or fire that over''helmed its companions, if it ever had any, leaving no trace of them whatever, is a question history or science can probably never solve....Leave two carriages with two men to die of cholera.
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 NCCU School of Law - So Far School History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
After Groves resigned in 1981, the Law School continued to make great strides under the leadership of deans Charles E. Daye (1981-1985), Thomas M. Ringer (1985-1986), Louis Westerfield (1986-1990), Mary E. Wright (1990-1994) and Percy R. Luney, Jr.
Businessman Franklin R. Anderson and his wife, former NCCU Law School faculty member Susie R. Powell, donated $667,000 to augment $333,000 from the state legislature to provide the $1 million needed for the chair, named for the former NAACP lawyer and civil rights activist.
The chair is intended for a professor with a distinguished record of teaching, research and publications, and public service in the areas of constitutional and civil rights law.
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 Naples Daily News: Features   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Ada Bedall was a Quaker, raised in Greene County, N.Y. Her father bought a citrus grove in Estero and had a young man hired to manage the grove, Keitte Leitner.
Groves would be purchased by those living in the north and then managed by someone living here.
A couple of our volunteers who have been on the sick list are Ralph Wright, a Friday volunteer, who is doing very well; and Barb Pulley, a Saturday volunteer, who is improving.
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 John Veale (British Composer) by David Wright: MusicWeb(UK)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
This article, or any part of it, must not be reproduced in part or in whole in any way whatsoever without prior written consent of the author.
Yet the immediacy does not render the music banal; it might be restricted in its range due to the lack of tension that would evolve from a more ingenious development of the musical argument.
Veale's work was conducted by Charles Groves and it was the first work he conducted at the Royal Festival Hall.
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 The News Examiner - Community
Terry M. and Jean Martin to Charles B. and Denece L. Ferebee, tract, Belotes Bend Rd., 29.07 ac, 1st district, $344,000.
Danny T. Groves to Jesse R. and Stephanie D. Williamson, lot 6, Paigewood Sub., 16th district, $96,000.
Ralph W. Simonton MD to Charles and Pam Givens, lot 1, Smith and Haynes Add.
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 22 January 1942   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
: Lt-Col Charles Groves Wright Anderson (1897-1988), Australian Military Forces, led a force which from 18-22 January destroyed ten tanks and covered 15 miles of enemy territory.
At sunset the men are roped or wired together in groups and led into the jungle where they are shot with machine guns, doused with petrol and set alight.
Only Lieutenant Ben Charles Hackney and VX523333 Reginald Arthur Wharton survive, feigning death despite repeated brutalities by the Japanese.
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 AUSTRALIAN PRISONERS of WAR - World War 2
NX 12595 ANDERSON, Charles Groves Wright, VC, MC (12 Feb 1897 - 11 Nov 1988) Member for HUME, NSW 1949-51 and 1955-61 (Country Party).
NX 56071 ANDERSON, Sir Kenneth McColl, KBE (11 Oct 1909 - 29 Mar 1985) Senator for New South Wales 1953-75 (Liberal Party) Military Service: World War 2; Enlisted 2 July 1940; Lieutenant, 8 Division Signals; Prisoner of War Malaya; Discharged 10 Oct 1945; Awarded KBE 1957.
QX42367 (Q9290) PIZZEY, Jack Charles Allan - (2 Feb 1911 - 1 Aug 1968) Premier of Queensland 17 Jan 1968 - 1 Aug 1968 (Deceased) Military Service: Captain; 2/5 Field Regiment RAA; Enlisted 15 July 1940 and Discharged 25 Jan 1945.
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 UIUC Digital Gateway to Cultural Heritage Materials   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Subject/Description: Anderson, Charles Groves Wright, 1887-1988 -- Portraits.
Charles Carty Salmon, Speaker of the House of Representatives 1909-1910] [picture] /
Subject/Description: Salmon, C. Carty (Charles Carty), 1861-1917 -- Portraits.
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 Society Genealogy Surnames C   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Carrico - Descendants of Peter Carrico (b.abt.1744) from Charles, Maryland; died after 1803 in Preston, Virginia; married Elizabeth (Catherine).
Clifford - Family history with special reference to the decendents of Charles and Jane (Gordon) Clifford.
Cookenmaster - Family history of Michael Jon Cookenmaster including surnames Aitken, Anderson, Baker, Blair, Bechthold, Foster, Gentry, Ling, McDonough, Owen, Vance, Whiteside and Woodster.
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