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2nd Lieutenant G W Hunt Northampton 1913
He received his commission from the 3rd Militia Battalion in June 1901. Served in South Africa War from 23/09/1901 to 26/05/1902 as Lieutenant receiving the Queen’s medal with clasps for Cape Colony. Then back to England until Nov 1912 when he took a draft of 74 Other Ranks embarking at Southampton on Troopship “Dongola” to join the 2nd Battalion at Malta serving there until June 1913 . Promoted to Captain on 28th March 1912.
At the outbreak of WW1 he was with 1st Battalion at Blackdown, near Aldershot. On 5th August he went to the Barracks at Northampton to collect a draft of about 260 reservists rejoining the 1st Battalion, leaving by train the next morning. Going to France on 13th Aug with 1st Battalion A Company and was wounded at the Aisne on 16th Sept. He returned to France with the 2nd Battalion on Feb 25th 1915. He lead an attack against German trenches at the Battle of Aubers Ridge and although badly wounded he carried on and was killed 9th May 1915. The 2nd Battalion had 426 casualties that day. Eldest son of George Eden Hunt of Wadenhoe House Wadenhoe. Born 1881 he died aged 33 leaving a wife and a son & daughter.
His name is on Panel 7 of Plooegsteert Memorial.
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Location of collection: Northampton Museum & Art Gallery www.northampton.gov.uk/museums
Part of: Northamptonshire Regiment Collection
Reference number:M0000491
One of Nova Scotia's two Cape George's, this one looks out over Bras d'Or Lake at the north entrance to St. Peter's Inlet. Though beautiful it may be, the road to get there isn't all that welcoming.
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Lake George is a popular tourist destination at the doorstep of Adirondack State Park in New York. I came primarily to visit my family, who live 15 minutes from Lake George, but while they were at work, I went to Lake George to take pics of the waterfront and visit Fort William Henry. Next time I hope to get on one of the cruise boats that tour the lake.
Kay Zeller, daughter of George Anthony Zeller III and Imogene Faye Zeller nee Clark at the First United Methodist Church in Washburn, Woodford County County, Illinois in February 1962.
George Gurnett (c. 1792 – November 17, 1861) was a Canadian journalist and city of Toronto politician. He was also a member of the Orange Order in Canada.
Born in Sussex, England, he emigrated in the 1820s to Virginia. He later moved to Ancaster in Upper Canada, where he founded his first local paper, The Gore Gazette, and finally to York in 1829, where he founded the Tory paper The Courier of Upper Canada.[1] He sold The Courier in 1837.
When York was incorporated in May 1834 as the city of Toronto, Gurnett was elected to the city council as the representative for St. George's Ward. During his 17 years on the city council he served as mayor four times, in 1837, 1848, 1849, and 1850.[2] Due to his long service on council and his years as mayor he is often considered to be one of the founders of the city of Toronto.
Gurnett held many positions while on Council. In 1837 he was appointed as the city's first Tory mayor, as magistrate of the Home District, and district clerk of the peace.[3] He held positions on committees that dealt with harbour and wharves, gas and waterworks, and education. He was chairman of the board of health during the 1847 typhus epidemic [4]
Gurnett resigned from the city council at the end of 1850, after having been appointed the first police magistrate of Toronto. He served in this post until his death in 1861.[5]
Gurnett’s first wife died in 1835. In 1841 he married Catherine Darby of Trafalgar. He had eight children, six of whom died in infancy. When he died in 1861 he was survived by his second wife and two daughters
Fort George is situated on top of Citadel Hill (which is probably only named such because of the fort, but there you go). Staffed by (rather) enthusiastic volunteers, it was amusing to see kilts having only just left Scotland. There were various reenactments going on in the fort, including someone who looked about 12 giving a musket firing demonstration. Tourists got involved in the loading of the cannons up on the fortifications.
I stood back and watched in amusement as overweight Americans ran around taking orders from more 12 year olds.
Still, it was a nice fort and some interesting history in the onsite museum, if presented a little dull - who has things in glass cabinets anymore? These people need to visit the Imperial War Museum in London.
Anyway - I digress. Sam and I wandered around the fort for the morning, before heading down town to get to the railway station for our journey to Quebec City.
George R. Crook (September 8, 1828 – March 21, 1890) was a career United States Army officer, most noted for his distinguished service during the American Civil War and the Indian Wars. During the 1880s, the Apache nicknamed Crook Nantan Lupan, which means "Grey Wolf."
Crook was born to Thomas and Elizabeth Matthews Crook on a farm near Taylorsville, Ohio (near Dayton). Nominated to the United States Military Academy by Congressman Robert Schenck, he graduated in 1852, ranking near the bottom of his class.
When the Civil War broke out, Crook accepted a commission as Colonel of Ohio's 36th regiment and led it on duty in western Virginia. He was in command of the 3rd Brigade in the District of the Kanawha where he was wounded in a small fight at Lewisburg, VA. Crook returned to command of his regiment during the Northern Virginia Campaign. He and his regiment were part of John Pope's headquarters escort at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
Crook led his brigade at the battle of South Mountain and near Burnside's Bridge at the battle of Antietam. He was promoted to the rank of brigadier general on September 7, 1862. During these early battles he developed a lifelong friendship with one of his subordinates, Col. Rutherford B. Hayes of the 23rd Ohio Infantry.
Crook successfully campaigned against the Snake Indians in the 1864-68 Snake War, where he won nationwide recognition. Crook had fought Indians in Oregon before the Civil War. He was assigned to the Pacific Northwest to us new tactics in this war, which had been waged for several years. Crook arrived in Boise City to take command on December 11, 1866. The general noticed that the Northern Paiute used the fall, winter and spring seasons to gather food, so he adopted the tactic recommended by a predecessor George B. Currey: to attack during the winter.[9] Crook had his cavalry approach the Paiute on foot in attack at their winter camp.
Crook served against the Sioux during the Great Sioux War of 1876-77. He fought the Lakota at the Battle of the Rosebud. On 28 May 1876, Brigadier General George Crook assumed direct command of the Bighorn and Yellowstone Expedition at Fort Fetterman. Crook had gathered a strong force from his Department of the Platte. Leaving Fort Fetterman on 29 May, the 1,051-man column consisted of 15 companies from the 2d and 3d Cavalry, 5 companies from the 4th and 9th Infantry, 250 mules, and 106 wagons. On 14 June, the column was joined by 261 Shoshone and Crow allies. Based on intelligence reports, Crook ordered his entire force to prepare for a quick march. Each man was to carry only 1 blanket, 100 rounds of ammunition, and 4 days' rations. The wagon train would be left at Goose Creek, and the infantry would be mounted on the pack mules. On 17 June, Crook's column set out at 0600, marching northward along the south fork of Rosebud Creek. The Crow and Shoshone scouts were particularly apprehensive. Although the column had not yet encountered any sign of Indians, the scouts seemed to sense their presence. The soldiers, particularly the mule-riding infantry, seemed fatigued from the early start and the previous day's 35-mile march. Accordingly, Crook stopped to rest his men and animals at 0800. Although he was deep in hostile territory, Crook made no special dispositions for defense. His troops halted in their marching order. The Cavalry battalions led the column, followed by the battalion of mule-borne foot soldiers, and a provisional company of civilian miners and packers brought up the rear.
The Crow and Shoshone scouts remained alert while the soldiers rested. Several minutes later, the soldiers heard the sound of intermittent gunfire coming from the bluffs to the north. As the intensity of fire increased, a scout rushed into the camp shouting, "Lakota, Lakota!" The Battle of the Rosebud was on. By 0830, the Sioux and Cheyenne had hotly engaged Crook's Indian allies on the high ground north of the main body. Heavily outnumbered, the Crow and Shoshone scouts fell back toward the camp, but their fighting withdrawal gave Crook time to deploy his forces. Rapidly firing soldiers drove off the attackers but used up much of the ammunition meant for use later in the campaign. Low on ammunition and with numerous wounded, the General returned to his post. Historians debate whether Crook's pressing on could have prevented the killing of the five companies of the 7th Cavalry Regiment led by George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Crook commanded the Department of the Platte from 1875 to 1882, with headquarters at Fort Omaha in North Omaha, Nebraska. During this period, in 1879, he spoke on behalf of the Ponca tribe and Native American rights during the trial of Standing Bear v. Crook, in which the federal judge affirmed that Standing Bear had some of the rights of US citizens. That same year his home, now called the General Crook House, was completed.
Curious George, who until yesterday was without a bellybutton, sports his newly installed "bling-button" navel.
SSherborne School, UK, Book of Remembrance for former pupils who died in the First World War, 1914-1918.
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Details: Oliver George Norman Stacke (1894-1915), born 28 August 1894 at Tunbridge Wells, Kent, son of Henry Aloysius Stacke (Barrister-at-Law) of 20 Devonshire Terrace, London, formerly of 25 Cleveland Gardens, Hyde Park, London.
Attended Sherborne Preparatory School.
Attended Sherborne School (The Green) January 1909-December 1912; 6th form; Bowen History Prize 1911; Shooting VIII team 1912; House Prefect.
Attended Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
WW1, Lieutenant in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 2nd Bn. Wounded and taken prisoner at Le Cateau on 26 August 1914 but escaped and rejoined his regiment in England. Went to the Front again in February 1915. Killed in action at Festubert, France, on 15 May 1915.
Commemorated at:
Le Touret Memorial, Panel 16 and 17 www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1562462/STACKE,%20OLI...
Sherborne Preparatory School Roll of Honour www.flickr.com/photos/sherborneschoolarchives/28163613991...
Sherborne School: War Memorial Staircase; Book of Remembrance; The Green roll of honour.
Littleton C. Powys, The Joy of It (London, Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1937), p.196: ‘O.G. Stacke, with his curly red hair and intellectual outlook upon life, who early in the War was taken prisoner, made good his escape and went to the front again, only to meet his end.’
George Clarke & Lois McClure host The National Apprenticeship Awards 2018 - The country's top employers, apprentices and individuals have been recognised at the 15th National Apprenticeship Awards to celebrate excellence in apprenticeships. At Old Billinsgate, London, 28/11/2018 - Simon Johns & Ellie Merridale - www.indigowildstudio.com
I am debating on cutting her Wendy Weekender hair into a shorter bob like this <3 and then I realized I kinda love this on my Little Baby Vamp :D What a cutie!
British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rt Hon George Osborne MP gave a speech on 'UK and India: A New Economic Partnership' at an event co hosted by the British Deputy High Commission, UK Trade and Investment and Indian Bankers Association in Mumbai on 28 July 2010. Follow us on twitter.com/ukinindia.
I've always been a fan of George Takei. I really only knew of him through Star Trek and guest appearances on shows here and there, along with a few brief interviews of his. Even in character, he has always come across as a great guy. At this con I took the time to sit in on most of his panel discussion. Wow, did he blow me away.
He is very open about his life. He discussed the recent law in California which will allow him to marry his partner of 30 plus years (I think that is the right amount of time) and the upcoming vote that will be on the ballot to change the California constitution to amend that law. He is such a well spoken man and a fantastic spokesman for equal rights, not only for the gay and lesbian community, but for all people.
He also spoke about his early life and being sent, with his family, to an internment camp. At five his family was rounded up and shipped out after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and how he, as a young boy initially thought it was great fun to be able to sleep where the horses did.
He has lived a fascinating life and is such a fantastic speaker. As much as I respected him, his sense of humor (see him in Season 1 of Psyche) and his drive and passion, after hearing him speak that respect has increased. I'm glad I took the time to catch at least part of his panel.
Generations of the Procter family lived at Lower Burnt Hill Farm for most of the 19th Century.
Lower Burnt Hill was a small hill farm with about 26 acres situated right at the top of Harden Clough above Kelbrook in the furthest corner of Thornton-in-Craven parish, near to the old road between Skipton & Colne. The highest point of the land met the old Lancashire boundary on top of Burnt Hill close to the turnpike at Hainslack which was known as Howshaw Bar.
The 1861 Lower Burnt Hill census shows George Procter 36 Farmer of 26 acres and drainer, Ann 34 Farmer’s wife (giving Trawden as a birthplace) Samuel 16 drainer, John 15 drainer, Benjamin 11 carter, Sarah 8 scholar, James 4 scholar, Henry 6 scholar, Elizabeth A. 2, George 1 (George Procter was born in 1860).
Dobbies cocktail garden in George Street during the Edinburgh Festival August 2015. The bench seats have books in them.
The street has been undergoing a year-long trial, due to end on September 6th, during a dedicated cycle lane and a one-way system for general traffic and buses was introduced.
During the August festival period further disruption has been caused by closing part of the street to all traffic to create an ‘event space’ run by Universal Arts outside the New Town Theatre. This area largely provides bars and eating opportunities.
Although councillors claim they have had a lot of positive feedback, these initiatives are not universally popular and there is plenty of support locally for removing the alfresco dining and restoring the street to its former glory.
August 2021 update: Councillors are set to make George Street pedestrian only. Bus stops will be sited at either end and car parking will reduced to blue badge holders and loading access for businesses. These plans are part of Edinburgh City Council’splans to make the city centre car-free by 2030.
www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-geo...
www.edinburgh.gov.uk/blog/newsblog/post/874/festival-traf...
www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/george-stre...
Latest plans (2023): www.edinburgh.gov.uk/georgestreet/
I did not really even know who George Ezra was, but I volunteered to accompany Flo and Audrey into DC last night for his concert at the Lincoln Theatre. I was pleasantly surprised with some good music and an entertaining evening.
This photo was taken by Andrew Ogilvie in 1969 of George surfing the Pump House in Durban. The Bluff looms in the background.
Day 72 [3-12-2016]
Final adventure. Today marks my final adventure before my Sunday departure back to college to finish off my second semester. In a group consisting of Me, Scott, Teddy, George, Paul, Alex, and Sean, we traveled to the cape to adventure through an abandoned air force base. It was such a beautiful day to explore and the scenery was magnificent. This whole day was beautiful and a perfect way to end my spring break. I love all of my friends so much. It is always hard to say goodbye.
Can't wait to see what the next day brings!
5.14.George Lucas生日乔治·卢卡斯（George Lucas）是美国的电影导演、制片人和编剧，其最著名的是史诗式作品《星球大战》系列（导演）和《夺宝奇兵》系列（编剧）。他的作品《星球大战》在美国人的心目中拥有崇高的地位，曾经打破美国本土以及世界上多项票房纪录。2005年，卢卡斯获得美国电影学会颁发的AFI终身成就奖。乔治·卢卡斯与弗朗西斯·福特·科波拉、马丁·斯科塞斯、史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格合称好莱坞80年代四大导演。 来自http://dd.mu/==i5d
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