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  D'Arcy Collection: "Catalina!" by Bill Perring. Published by D'arcy Collection.
It was to be christened 'The Cruickshank Centre' in honour of John Cruickshank, the only surviving V.C holder from Coastal Command and the man I had been invited to meet to discuss the possibilities of a commemorative painting.
John, along with his friend and former wireless operator, John Appleton, was there for the unveiling, but after only the briefest of introductions it was into flying suits and off to board one of the station’s Nimrods.
John Appleton now lives in Australia, but I met him several times during his stay in London where he told me that, following the attack on the submarine, they had radioed to base, giving their situation and requesting that assistance should be standing by.
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 Alexander Bain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alexander Bain (June 11, 1818 - September 18, 1903) was a Scottish philosopher and educationalist.
In 1836 he entered Marischal College, and came under the influence of John Cruickshank, professor of mathematics, Thomas Clark, professor of chemistry, and William Knight, professor of natural philosophy.
This was the beginning of his connection with John Stuart Mill, which led to a lifelong friendship.
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 John Alexander Cruickshank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Alexander Cruickshank VC is a Scottish 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.
On 17/18 July 1944 Flying Officer Cruickshank, on anti-submarine patrol in the North Atlantic, was attacking a U-boat in a hail of flak shells when one burst inside the aircraft, causing a great deal of damage.
Cruickshank said in a interview after the ceremony: 'When they told me that I was to get the VC it was unbelieveable.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Alexander_Cruickshank   (282 words)

  
 John 1756
John Dunbrack was born (c.1756) in Scotland and arrived in Halifax as a young man with his parents, and a sister.
John was a carpenter by trade and an early settler of Nova Scotia.
In 1786 John petitioned the Crown for and was granted five hundred acres of land abutting and to the south of the 5,000 acre tract of land granted to Captain Martin Meagher for his service to the Crown, later to be named "Meagher's Grant".
www.dumbreck.co.uk /john1756.htm   (649 words)

  
 List of Victoria Cross recipients by Name - C - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Charles Campbell — 1941; Sidi Rezegh, Libya
John Worthy Chaplin — 1860; Taku Forts, China
John Rouse Merriott Chard — 1879; Rorke's Drift, South Africa
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 LearnThis.Info Encyclopedia articles beginning with 'Jo'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, 1st Baron Acton
John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden
John II Stanley of the Isle of Man
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 HOW THE STALWART SETTLERS CAME TO STALWART
John Crawford was born in County Donegal, Ireland, in 1832.
Alexander McWilliams was born in 1827 and died in 1919.
John bought a half of the Kinghorn homestead, but as Robert Kinghorn had built his house on the half that John McEvers wanted, they ran their line on a diagonal, northwest and southeast, and Kinghorn kept the north half and McEvers had the south half which he wanted, and everybody was happy.
www.electricscotland.com /history/world/bios/stalwart_settlers.htm   (14712 words)

  
 St. Vincent and the Grenadines Genealogy Research - Death Records   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
John AUDAIN died at age 56 on May 13, 1864 at 2, Pembridge-gardens, Notting-hill, of Richmond Hill Estate, in the island of St. Vincent.
John BROWN, born 1773, son of Samuel BROWN, surgeon of the 42nd Regiment, died in St. Vincent in Sept. 1796.
John RECKLESS died on the 14th of September last, at the Island of St. Vincent, West Indies, aged 29, eldest son of Mr.
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 Caught on the Surface
Flight Lieutenant John Alexander Cruickshank VC n 17th July 1944, Cruickshank was pilot of a Coastal Command Catalina.
Cruickshank received severe wounds to his chest and legs but giving no indication of his injury he pressed home his attack, sinking U-347 with six depth charges.
With his aircraft badly damaged, Cruickshank turned for home but his wounds were so great that he lapsed in and out of consciousness, barely able to nurse his aircraft home.
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 Lexington, Michigan History
Alexander Cruickshank to organize a civic improvement branch of the Atheneum, and after returning from several state federation meetings, she would urge upon the society to take up the work which at that time was comparatively new for women’s organizations.
Cruickshank was instrumental in urging the women of the town to attend.
John Beach, son of the late Judge Watson Beach, graduated from the Lexington High School in 1888 and from the University of Michigan in 1896.
www.usgennet.org /usa/mi/county/sanilac/lexington_michigan_history.htm   (13562 words)

  
 An Indian Wife on her Muscle - The History of Jefferson County, Iowa 1879
Many of the settlers who came to the country and made claims in 1836-37-38, had no means, except, perhaps, a yoke of cattle, or a pair of horses and a wagon, in which they hauled their earthly possessions.
When he came to his claim, on the 17th of June, 1836, his earthly possessions were carried on horseback from the home of some of his wife's relatives, near Lowell, in the southeast part of Henry County.
Cruickshank, to be certain that his money would be 'land-office money' when he got home, paid a premium of three per cent, in New York, to get the bills of a city bank that was a Government-deposit bank.
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 Aberdeenshire - Genealogy, Surnames, Family and Local History.
Elizabeth remarried John FIDDES in Aberdeen in 1835.
John Blaikie's grandfather had, we believe, fled north to Aberdeen from the border country in the wake of the 'events' of 1715.
Alexander is shown as MacDonald on the 1881 census, McDonald on the 1891 & 1901, and M'Donald on his wedding cert.
www.curiousfox.com /history_S/aberdeenshire.lasso   (2904 words)

  
 MyMother'sFamilyTree   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
John W. Cruickshank was the owner of the Northfield Coal Company, purchased in 1934.
Cruickshank's death in 1950, Gretchen continued to run the business until 1961 when she sold it.
In the photograph, rear beginning on the left, Mary Cruickshank, daughter of James and Mary Smith about 13 years old, Mary Smith Cruickshank, the mother, Jessie Cruickshank, eldest daughter and James Alexander Cruickshank, the father.
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 Scots and Scots Descendants - M-McC
In later years, John MacArthur, who died in 1978, was called the "accessible billionaire," conducting business in a MacArthur tartan jacket in the coffee shop of a hotel he owned near Palm Beach.
From their descent from Alexander, eldest son of Angus Mor, Lord of the isles and Kintyre in 1284, the grandson of Somerled, thane of Argyle, the MacAllisters claim to be the representatives after McDonnell of Glengary, of the Ancient Lords of the Islaes as heirs male of Donald, grandson of Somerled.
John McArthur was an active member of the Illinois Saint Andrew Society and served three terms as president, 1869, 1870 and 1871.
www.chicago-scots.org /clubs/History/Names-Ma-McC.htm   (12346 words)

  
 THE SCIENTIST (CONTENTS PAGE + FULL ISSUE FOLLOW THIS SHORT MESSAGE) *********************
John M. Clymer is vice president of Americans for Medical Progress, an Arlington, Va.-based nonprofit organization whose mission is to educate the public, the media, and policymakers about biomedical research.
Following is Science Watch's report, written for the newsletter by John Emsley, who is a science writer in residence at the department of chemistry, Imperial College, London.
Their publications are, for the most part, short communications in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, which attests to the continuing dominance of this primary journal.
www.skepticfiles.org /science/tsc8n5.htm   (15511 words)

  
 Johnston, John, 1836-1904
There are also letters of John and Ethelinda Johnston to and from their children, Hilda and John T. Johnston.
The diaries of John, Ethelinda, John T., and Hilda Johnston are primarily concerning their various European trips.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: John Johnston, the son of George and Margaret Mitchell Johnston, was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on June 8, 1836.
www.uwm.edu /Libraries/arch/findaids/mssbl.htm   (542 words)

  
 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN DAY
JOHN HENRY (2) MYERS, December 08, 1806, St. Paul's, Halifax.
JOHN MOSHER, December 09, 1870, St.Georges CofE, Halifax.
ALEXANDER JENNEX, July 10, 1880, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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 Project Constant Endeavour :: John Cruickshanks VC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Project Constant Endeavour :: John Cruickshanks VC 'Hats off to Coastal Command who, day and night, whatever the weather, fly the oceans on the allotted duties.
When a U-boat was sighted on the surface, Flying Officer Cruickshank at once turned to the attack.
Flying Officer Cruickshank was born in Aberdeen in 1920 and his home is in Edinburgh, where his parents live and where he was educated.
www.projectconstantendeavour.com /index.php?id=22   (743 words)

  
 James Pheonix
According to John Campbell, James Pheonix was "a piccolo player in the Police drum and fife band and he composed the march Ellisum." Writing on the 30th anniversary of the founding of the choir, John Fredericks described James Alexander Pheonix's founding of the choir and its achievements as "The Success of a Great Thought."
In addition to founding the choir, James Alexander Pheonix started the Police Scholarship Fund which enabled children of policemen and women to pursue higher education in Guyana and overseas.
James Alexander Pheonix is a Guyanese cultural hero.
www.guyfolkfest.org /celebrating6.htm   (559 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Alexander Bain Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Alexander Bain was a Scottish philosopher and educationalist.
He was born in Aberdeen, and went to school there, but took up the profession of a weaver, hence the punning description of him as Weevir,...
His autobiography, published in 1904, contains a full list of his works, and also the history of the last thirteen years of his life by WL Davidson of Aberdeen University, who further contributed to Mind (April 1904) a review of Bain's services to philosophy.
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C: 24 Aug 1791 Father: Alexander GRANT Wick, Caithness, Scotland Mother: Margaret Smith Alexander GRANT (M)...................
C: 1 Oct 1792 Father: John GRANT Latheron, Caithness, Scotland Alexr GRANT OR MILLER (M).............
C: 11 Aug 1803 Father: John GRANT Latheron, Caithness, Scotland Alexr GRANT OR ROSS (M)...............
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Cruickshank: Births & baptisms, Orkney International Genealogical Index (R) - 1994 Edition - Version 3.06 30 DEC 1997 HOLDING FILE ENTRIES Page 1 =========================================================================================================================== Names (Sex) Event Date/Place --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alexander CRUICKSHANK (M).............
C: 23 Jan 1825 Father: James CRUICKSHANK South Ronaldsay, Orkney, Scotland Mother: Isabel BROWN Alexander CRUICKSHANK (M).............
CRUICKSHANKS Stromness, Orkney, Scotland Mother: Bella IRVINE Ann CRUICKSHANKS (F)..................
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 Consolidated PBY Catalina Flying Boat
Sir John has flown over 70 different aircraft types and in the early fifties made the first single-engined jet flight to South Africa from the UK.
John A Cruickshank VC joined the Territorial Army in April 1939 and was mobilized for active service at the outbreak of World War II.
He joined the RAF as a clerk in 1940 and remustered Aircrew in May 1941 and by June was on his way to the US Naval Air Service Station, Pesacola, Florida as a member of the first group of students under the TOWER scheme.
www.aviationprints.co.uk /catalina.htm   (1974 words)

  
 Robin Hood
The series was set in the Nottingham area in the last years of the twelfth century when noble King Richard the Lionheart was away on crusades in the Holy Land and evil Prince John schemed to usurp the throne.
Alexander Gauge, who played Friar Tuck, was a well-known English character actor who first appeared on the New York stage in 1945.
Rufus Cruickshank, a Scots actor, replaced Archie Duncan as Little John for about ten episodes of the series after an accident on the set.
www.whirligig-tv.co.uk /tv/children/robinhood/robinhood.htm   (1055 words)

  
 BAIN, ALEXANDER (1818-1903) - Online Information article about BAIN, ALEXANDER (1818-1903)
ALEXANDER (1818-1903), Scottish philosopher and educationalist, was See also:
This was the beginning of his connexion with John See also:
James Mill, and accompanying it John Stuart Mill: a See also:
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 Haverford College Libraries - Special Collections - British Friends' Letters, 1650-1985
ALS London, 3 mo. 6, 1770 letter to John Pemberton concerning the visit of Rachel Wilson and other "public friends" to London (Esther Tuke, Katherine Peyton, Edward Higginson, Joseph Procter, Mary Ridgeway, and others).
ALS to the Duchess of Sutherland in which Fry expresses sorrow at her inability to attend the "great antislavery meeting", but offers an invitation to the ladies of Sutherland's society to attend the Ladies Prison Committee the following week.
ALS of John Barclay, Croyden, 4 mo. 29, 1830 to Charles Palmer re: "Diary of Alexander Jaffray" (from the Roberts Coll.)
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 WW2 VC Holders
Flying Officer Cruickshank was struck in seventy-two places, receiving two serious wounds in the lungs and ten - penetrating wounds in the lower limbs.
When the medical officer went on board, Flying Officer Cruickshank collapsed and he had to foe given a blood transfusion before he could be removed to hospital.
Squadron Leader Nettleton was the leader of one of two formations of six Lancaster heavy bombers detailed to deliver a low-level attack in daylight on the diesel engine factory at Augsburg in Southern Germany on April 17th, 1942.
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 Cruickshank
These are the Cruickshank family names we are currently researching.
We have traced some of our Cruickshank roots to Scotland, America and Canada.
John W. Shaffer and Wilhelmina Beatty or Garman)
www.alba-gen.co.uk /cruickshank.htm   (122 words)

  
 South Australians in the Boer War - 5th Contingent
ALEXANDER Alexander Trooper Invalided to Australia arriving 11/2/1902 ARNOTT Archibald Sandy Lance-Corporal....
LANGLEY Edgar John Flynn Lieutenant Previously served in 2nd Contingent; Mentioned in despatches in 'London Gazette' 2/7/1901; D.S.O.; Queen's Medal with 5 clasps; King's Medal with 2 clasps; Promoted to Captain in 8th Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse LEANE Frederick Thomas Sergeant-Major....
WATT John Alexander Captain Commanded "D" squadron; Mentioned in despatches in 'London Gazette' 15/11/1901; D.S.O.; Queen's Medal with 4 clasps WEBSTER Albert Charles Trooper Invalided to Australia arriving 31/1/1902 WEINERLEIN Ernest Henry Leonard Trooper....
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 John Alexander Cruickshank   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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John Alexander Cruickshank is a Scottish 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.
One member of the crew was killed and two wounded, and although he too had been hit - it was later found that he had 12 wounds - Flying Officer Cruickshank went in again, releasing his depth charges, which straddled the U-boat perfectly, and it sank.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/john_alexander_cruickshank   (305 words)

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