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3 giorni fa · The Royal Air Force ( RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. [5] It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the first independent air force in the world, by merging the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). [6]
2 giorni fa · 2023 New Year Honours. The 2023 New Year Honours are appointments by some of the 15 Commonwealth realms to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by citizens of those countries. The New Year Honours are awarded as part of the New Year celebrations at the start of January and those for 2023 were announced on 30 December 2022.
1 giorno fa · Major-General Timothy John Bevis (1963—), Royal Marines, Director Operations and Planning Division, International Military Staff, NATO HQ; Brigadier William Patrick Bewley (1937– 2024), Commandant, Central Ordnance Depot, Bicester; Major-General Horatio Berney-Ficklin (1892—1961), GOC 55th (West Lancashire) Infantry Division
3 giorni fa · World War II. 2000–present. v. t. e. At the start of 1939, the British Army was, as it traditionally always had been, a small volunteer professional army. At the beginning of the Second World War on 1 September 1939, the British Army was small in comparison with those of its enemies, as it had been at the beginning of the First World War in 1914.
14 mag 2024 · No. 14361121 Sergeant Roy Fell, Royal Army Medical Corps. No. 4533848 Sergeant Francis Goldsmith, The York and Lancaster Regiment. No. 7597491 Staff-Sergeant William Albert Sydney Goodenough, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. No. S/14678083 Staff-Sergeant Augustus Dale Greenlee, Royal Army Service Corps.
3 giorni fa · Ranks and insignia, similar to the Royal Air Force but adapted to suit the origins of the Chilean Air Force, are worn on shoulder collars and cuffs. General officers have the Condor eagle in their shoulder collars while officer cadets have a unique symbol, that of the Air Force Academy "Captain Manuel Ávalos Prado", on their shoulder collars.
3 giorni fa · The East India Company ( EIC) [a] was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. [4] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia ), and later with East Asia. The company gained control of large parts of the Indian ...
