Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Ranks of the Imperial Japanese Army were the rank insignia of the Imperial Japanese Army, used from its creation in 1868, until its dissolution in 1945 following the Surrender of Japan in World War II.
In September 1914, by request of the Imperial Japanese Army, the Japanese Red Cross Society put together three squads, each composed of one surgeon and twenty nurses, which were dispatched to Europe on a five-month assignment. The teams left Japan between October and December 1914 and were assigned to Petrograd, Paris, and Southampton. The ...
Parade uniform of Japanese military attaché, Major General Onodera Makoto, 1930s. Resembling the Imperial German Army M1842/M1856 dunkelblau uniform, the Meiji 19 1886 version tunic was the dark blue, single-breasted, had a low standing collar and no pockets.
Royal Romanian Army [37] [38] [i] General de corp de armată: General de divizie: General de brigadă: Colonel: Locotenent-colonel: Maior: Căpitan: Locotenent: Sublocotenent: Rank group General / flag officers Senior officers Junior officers Imperial Russian Army [j] [39] [40] Генерал-фельдмаршал General-fel'dmarshal ...
The Imperial Japanese Army (IJA; Japanese: 大日本帝国陸軍, Hepburn: Dai-Nippon Teikoku Rikugun, "Army of the Greater Japanese Empire") was the principal ground force of the Empire of Japan.
The onset of the First World War in Europe eventually showed how far German–Japanese relations had truly deteriorated. On 7 August 1914, only three days after Britain declared war on the German Empire, the Japanese government received an official request from the British government for assistance in destroying the German raiders of the Kaiserliche Marine in and around Chinese waters.
The Victory Medal (Japanese: 戦捷記章) was a commemorative military medal of Japan awarded to mark service during the First World War.Established by Imperial Edict #406 on 17 September 1920, it was one of the series of Victory Medals created and awarded by the victorious allies after the First World War.
The Japanese honours system is a system implemented for rewarding awards to Japanese and non-Japanese persons for their achievements and service to Japan. The Emperor is the head of the honors system in Japan. Established during the 1870s shortly after the Meiji Restoration, it was modelled on European systems of orders and decorations.