Victoria's Cross (42 page)

Roberts, Lady
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Roberts, Lord
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family of
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Roosevelt, Franklin D.
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Royal Air Force (RAF)
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249 Squadron
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44 (Rhodesia) Squadron
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97 Squadron
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Bomber Command
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Coastal Command
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Medical Service
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RAF Shipdham
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VCs awarded to personnel of
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Volunteer Reserve
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Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF)
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Royal Army Corps
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Royal Australian Naval Reserve
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HMAS
Armidale
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Royal Flying Corps (RFC)
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60 Squadron
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85 Squadron
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Royal Navy
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Chester
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HMS
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HMS
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HMS
Pargust
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Mediterranean Fleet
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Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR)
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Thrasher
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Royal Red Cross
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Royal Victory Hospital
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Rudellat, Yvonne

service in SOE F Section
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Ruggles-Brise, General
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Russell, Lord John

Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
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Russell, William Howard
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Russian Empire
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Sandhurst, Lord

Under-Secretary of State at War Office
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Sansom, Odette
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awarded GC (1946)
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objections to
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media depictions of
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Sardinia
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Saturday Review
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Schmid, Sergeant Olaf

death of (2009)
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gazetted posthumous GC
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Schofield, Captain Harry Norton
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Scobell, Captain George Treweeke

support for establishment of ‘Order of Merit' (1854)
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Scot, Major A. J. L. (Scott)
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Seagrim, Hugh Paul
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awarded DSO
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awarded GC
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Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–80)
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Battle of Kandahar (1880)
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Battle of Killa Kazi (1879)
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Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848–9)
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Battle of Gujrat (1849)
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Second Opium War (1856–60)
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Second World War (1939–45)
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Battle of El Alamein (1942)
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belligerents of
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Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
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Blitz, The (1940–1)
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casualties of
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Colditz Prison
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Dachau concentration camp
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Dambuster Raid (1943)
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DCMs awarded for actions during
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Dieppe Raid (1942)
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Dunkirk Evacuation (1940)
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Hero of the Soviet Union awarded for actions during
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Normandy Landings (D-Day/Operation Neptune)(1944)
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Operation Source (1943)
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Pacific Theatre
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Ravensbrück concentration camp
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Resistance activity in
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service of women in
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Tehran Conference (1943)
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VCs awarded for actions during
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Selborne, Lord

Minister of Economic Warfare
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self-sacrifice
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Seven Years' War (1756–63)

Battle of Quebec (1759)
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Sheean, Teddy

case for retrospective awarding of VC
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Sherwood DFC, Squadron Leader J. S.

recommended for VC
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Shout, Captain Alfred John

medals awarded to
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Silver Stars
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Simonds, Lieutenant General Guy
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directive on military honours and awards (1943)
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GOC of 2nd Canadian Infantry Division
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Simpson, Lieutenant
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Simpson, Warrant Officer Ray

awarded DCM
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recommended for VC (1967)
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Sinclair, Sir Archibald

Secretary of State for Air
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Singapore
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Skene, Lieutenant Colonel Charles
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Smith, F. E.
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Smith-Dorrien, General Sir Horace
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Smyth, John

President of VC Association
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Sotheby's

VCs sold at
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South Africa
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Bloemfontein
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Cape Town
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Colenso
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Estcourt
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Ladysmith
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Natal
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Pretoria
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South African War (Second Anglo-Boer War) (1899–1902)
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Battle of Colenso (1899)
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Battle of Spion Kop (1900)
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Black Week (1899)
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casualties of
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VCs awarded for actions during
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South Georgia
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Southborough, Lord
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Soviet Union (USSR)
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Red Army
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Special Honours Committee
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Special Operations Executive (SOE)
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arguments over eligibility of personnel for VC receipt
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F Section
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service of women in
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Spectator
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Spence, Private Edward

posthumous awarding of VC
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Stalin, Josef
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Stamfordham, Lord

Private Secretary to George V
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Stanlack, Private William

awarded VC
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Stannus, Lieutenant General Henry James
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criticisms of VC
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Curiosities of the Victoria Cross
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My Reasons for Leaving the British Army
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Stewart, Donald
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St Helier, Lady Mary
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Stirling, Major
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Stokes, Kerry
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Sudan
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Sun, The
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Sunday Pictorial
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Swanton, Warrant Officer
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Swift, Jonathan

Gulliver's Travels
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Switzerland
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Sydenham, Lord
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Sylvester, Henry Thomas
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awarded VC
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Szabo, Violette

campaign for posthumous awarding of VC to
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death of
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posthumous awarding of GC
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service in SOE
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Taliban
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Taylor, Edward
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Taylor, Elizabeth

family of
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Taylor, John
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death of
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family of
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Tenko
(TV Series)
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Territorial Army
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Thangal
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Thatcher, Margaret
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Third Anglo-Burmese War (1885)
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Third Reich (1933–45)
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Abwehr
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Gestapo
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Luftwaffe
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Schutzstaffel
(SS)
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Waffen-SS

Liebstandarte Adolf Hitler regiment
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Thomas, Lance-Corporal Justin

awarded CGC
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Thompson, Private Alexander
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Thomson, Lieutenant Colonel Robert

Commander of 2nd Rifles Battle Group
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Tikendrajit
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Times, The
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Tinsley's Magazine
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Toomey, T. E.

Victoria Cross and How Won
(1889)
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Trant, Lieutenant General Sir Richard

Land Deputy Commander in Falklands
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Trenchard, Air Marshal Sir Hugh
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Trinity College, Dublin
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Tulloch, Colonel Alex
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Tunisia

Tunis
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Turkey
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Turner, Margot

death of (1993)
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media depictions of
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military career of
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United Kingdom (UK)
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Air Ministry
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Colonial Office
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Foreign Office
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government of
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Lanarkshire Hamilton
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London
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military budget of
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Ministry of Defence (MoD)
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Examination of the Standards of Australian Citations for the Award of the Victoria Cross
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Women in the Armed Forces
(2002)
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Northern Ireland
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Belfast
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Office of Public Information
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Parliament
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House of Commons
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House of Lords
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Poor Law
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Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
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Secret Intelligence Service (SIS/MI6)
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Southampton
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Treasury
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War Office
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Westminster Abbey Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
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Whitehall
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United States of America (USA)
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