Unknown Fiji Soldier - Soldiers and their units - Great War Forum
2003年10月2日 · The one at the back left with white hatband. If so, Norman Faddy, 2nd contingent. MC and bar. postwar commandant of Fiji Defence Force. These are the 3 Faddy brothers in WW1. Norman & Frank -on right - 2nd Fiji Contingent. and Herbert - front- AIF. This photo is taken probably in 1917, as Herbert didn't enlist till november 1916. So the other 2 ...
British school registers and rolls of honor - Great War Forum
2004年1月2日 · received disbursement from Fiji Day Fund . Military Cross 1918. STATHAM, William W H, son of Mr W H Statham of Epsom, has been posted as 2nd Lieutenant, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry. He left Fiji in June 1916 as sergeant in charge of …
Count Felix von Luckner and the Seeadler - Great War Forum
2004年12月24日 · Perhaps one of the most exciting merchant raiders ever was the Seeadler. A three-masted windjammer sailing up against the gallant might of the Royal Navy, the French Navy, and the US Navy. It was the last time a commissioned sailing ship was sent by a major government into harms way. The Seeadler...
Clarence Alvin Leembruggen MM, ISO ex Ceylon, Fiji
2003年10月5日 · >in WW1. He and his 2 brothers were soldiers in and from Fiji. They were >surveyors in Fiji > >Clarence Alvin Leembruggen was in the Royal Engineers, >Eugene Lancelot Leembruggen was in the 3rd Reinforcements of the Fiji >contingent, and then the KRRC, >and Peter Claude Wilmot Leembruggen was in the Fiji Local Force. >
Falkland Islands Volunteer Corps - Great War Forum
2006年5月6日 · In addition, the aid money used after the events of 1982. mean that the Falkland Islands have a fully fledged state of the art archive centre. In effect, the islands as a British colony were synonymous with the company-thus, a line to the company or to the archives might well be rewarding Edited 11 March , 2019 by Guest
Alan Wilson Morey - Air personnel and the war in the air - The …
2009年6月5日 · Alan Wilson Morey was one of the possible candidates for inclusion in my book Qaravi Na'i Tavi, about soldiers from Fiji in WW1. However the link to Fiji was too tenuous, so he was not included, but I still have some background information on him. He was born in Adelaide, South Australia, and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1914.
Caribbean Soldiers and Units - Great War Forum
2006年4月16日 · The BWIR had a total of 15,601 officers and other ranks from the various colonies. The largest contingent by far being Jamaica, then Trinidad. There were 229 from the Leeward Islands, which includes Antigua. The discrimination continued at the end of the war with demobilisation and mistreatment leading to a mutiny in Italy.
Sailors, navies and the war at sea - Great War Forum
2005年9月12日 · HMS CHANGUINOLA 5978 gross tons, built in 1912, 15.5 kts (Good for 14.5 kts)(Owners: Elders & Fyffes). Armament:6 x 6",
Zanzibar (Grave Island) Cemetery: HMS Pegasus - Great War Forum
2023年4月15日 · The capital is Zanzibar Town which is a short taxi ride from the port. Grave Island (also called Chapwani Island) is one of several very small coral islands located a short distance off the coast of Zanzibar and is accessible by privately hired water transport, a journey of 15 to 20 minutes (and usually means getting your feet wet).
S.S. Normandy - Sailors, navies and the war at sea - The Great War ...
2006年12月15日 · The steamship Normandy was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine 8 miles E by N of Cape La Hague on January 25th 1918. Fourteen men were killed. The captain was among the survivors. Lloyd's War Losses doesn't give much more. Normandy, Br., 618 tons, Sunk by sub, 8 miles N.N.W. of Cherbourg Breakwater, Southampton for Cherbourg, general …