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 Science Fair Projects - John Cunningham, VC (Irish)
John Cunningham (October 22, 1890 - April 16, 1917) was an Irish 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 12 April 1917 at Bois-en-Hache, near Barlin, France, Corporal Cunningham was in command of a Lewis gun section which came under a very heavy enfilade fire.
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 On This Day... - Page 5 - IMO Discussion Board   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Pte Robert Morrow of the Royal Irish Fusiliers was awarded a VC for rescuing, under heavy fire, several men who had been buried in their trenches by the bombardment.
At Bois en Hache, France, Cpl John Cunningham of the Leinster Regt was in charge of a machine gun section, which was attacked by a group of 20 Germans.
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 John Cunningham, VC (Irish)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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Corporal Cunningham was in command of a Lewis gun (The lewis gun was a pre-wwi era british machine gun that continued to see service all the way through wwii....)
Irish Winners of the Victoria Cross[follow this hyperlink for a summary of this topic] (Richard Doherty & David Truesdale, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
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 John Cunningham, VC (Irish): bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
For details of Private John Cunningham, who won the VC in 1916, please see John Cunningham, VC (English) (John Cunningham, VC (English): more facts about this subject).
He was 26 years old, and a Corporal (Corporal: A noncommissioned officer in the army or airforce or marines) in the 2nd Bn., The Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, British Army (British Army: the british army is the land armed forces branch of the british military....
On 12 April 1917 at Bois-en-Hache, near Barlin, France (France: A republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe), Corporal Cunningham was in command of a Lewis gun (Lewis gun: the lewis gun was a pre-wwi era british machine gun that continued to see service...
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He then proceeded, under heavy fire, to attend a dhoolie-bearer, whose wound he had been directed to bind up, and while the regiment was advancing under the enemy's fire, he ran across the open ground to attend to another wounded man. In doing so he was himself severely wounded.
Acknowledged to be one of the two youngest winners of the VC (aged 15 years, 3 months), the other being FLINN, T.
During the same evening he saved the life of a quartermaster-sergeant by cutting off the head of the sepoy who had just bayoneted him He is also said to have twice saved the life of a major who was being attacked by sepoys.
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Above is nineteen year old Jack Cunningham with one of the boys from the Duc Duc Refugee Village.
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 John Cunningham, VC (Irish) -
John Cunningham, born in Hall Street, Thurles, County Tipperary (October 22, 1890 - April 16, 1917) was an Irish 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.
There is little doubt that the superb courage of this N.C.O. cleared up a most critical situation on the left flank of the attack.
Cunningham later died from the effects of his wounds near Barlin on April 16, 1917.
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Her column is in regards to Democratic Rep. John Murtha, when he called for the withdrawal of American troops in the middle of the war.
When Democratic Rep. John Murtha called for the withdrawal of American troops in the middle of the war, Republicans immediately leapt to action by calling Murtha a war hero, a patriot and a great American.
Cunningham never did something as insane as proposing that we withdraw troops in the middle of a war, but this week he did admit to taking bribes.
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 John Cunningham - TheBestLinks.com - United Kingdom, Washington, TheBestLinks.com:Disambiguation, Grammy, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
John Cunningham - TheBestLinks.com - United Kingdom, Washington, TheBestLinks.com:Disambiguation, Grammy,...
John Cunningham is the name of several prominent people, including:
This is a disambiguation page, i.e., a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
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The MPS Emerald Society pays homage and honour to all those Irish men of every persuasion who fought in the Great War between 1914 - 1918.
Listed below in a simple yet respectful list is a roll of honour for all those individuals who were awarded 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.
Maurice James Dease - 1914; Mons, Belgium, first VC of the war, awarded posthumously.
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Conor Murphy (Crannog Ireland) showed his sparking form in advance of the Irish road race championships when he soloed to a dominant victory in the Sean Nolan Meath Grand Prix today.
Murphy was part of a large breakaway group going onto the last of three laps and then forged ahead, reaching the line over a minute and a half clear.
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 Essequebo and Demerary Royal Gazette 1807 January 03
John Binning, he being duly authorized to receive and liquidate all accounts belonging to the said concern.
All Persons indebted to the Estate of the late John Cunningham, deceased, are desired to make payment; and those to whom that Estate are indebted are requested to render in their accounts to Peter McLagan or John W. Thomas, Executors, without delay, that the Boedel may be brought to a close as soon as possible.
Underwood, Johnson and Co. at their store in the New Town, a large assortment of dry goods, consisting of Irish linen, cotton shirting, plattillas, brittannias, Russia sheeting, German linen, marseilles, jeans, stockings, pullicat handkerchiefs, muslins, cambricks, and Gentlemen's hats; also Irish beef in tierces and barrels, pork in ditto, hams, cheese, porter, ale, andc.
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Counterpoint (1934/1937?) * piano Credo in Us, (music for the dance which was made by Merce Cunningham and Jean Erdman) 4 perc, 1942.
Fads and Fancies in the Academy (1940) piano and percussion Fifteen Domestic Minutes (1982) letters and radio Fifty-Eight (1992) brass and wind instruments First Chapter of Ecclesiastes (1932) piano First Construction (in Metal), 6 perc with assistant, 1939.
Indeterminacy (1959) voice, piano and tape Inlets (Improvisation II) (1977) conch shells, water, tape {Cunningham} In the name of the Holocaust, prepared pf, 1942.
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 NARA - ALIC - Compilation of Periodical Literature: 2003
Cunningham, Roger D. "'They Are as Proud of Their Uniform as Any Who Serve Virginia': African American Participation in the Virginia Volunteers, 1872-99".
McAleer, Margaret H. "In Defense of Civil Society: Irish Radicals in Philadelphia during the 1790's".
Cunningham, Roger D. "Black Artillerymen from the Civil War through World War I".
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 VC/St. Joe
But the CCL disbanded and left both VC and Kanty Prep out when it re-formed into the French Creek Valley Conference in the late 1970s.
VC was no threat during the CCL's final season in 1979, finishing dead last in the Eastern Division, but Kanty Prep, meanwhile, had risen to second place in 1978 and won the Eastern Division in 1979 -- the only season there were two divisions.
And what's more, VC was still a basketball power in those years.
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Credo in Us, (music for the dance which was made by Merce Cunningham and Jean Erdman) 4 perc, 1942.
Music Walk, "for 1 or more pianists, who also play radios and produce auxiliary sounds by singing of other means" pf (1 or more players), 1958; Henmar Press, 1960.
Sixteen Dances, fl, tpt, 4 perc, vn, vc, 1951.
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 List of Irish Victoria Cross recipients -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The following people are Irish recipients of the Victoria Cross.
John Barry - 1901; Monument Hill, South Africa
John Dunlay (or Dunley, or Dunlea) - 1857; Lucknow, India
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