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  2. Evacuation of La Romana's division - Wikipedia

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    Lobo arrived on Keats's flagship HMS Superb on 5 August, and with the aid of an officer named Frabreques who had escaped to the British fleet, a plan was formulated and secret communication opened with La Romana proposing a means by which, with his limited resources, Keats could safely remove, accommodate and feed some ten thousand men. The ...

  3. List of military diving units - Wikipedia

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    Naval Diving and Mine Warfare Headquarters – New Command for the elite Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) divers. The same task once belongs to KD Duyong which now functioning as full-time diving school. [6] Grup Gerak Khas – Malaysian Army special force, there is Combat Swimmer Course as an advance training option for the members of GGK.

  4. Jock Lewes - Wikipedia

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    Lewes was first commissioned to the British Army's General List as a university candidate on 5 July 1935, while a student at Oxford. [11] At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was briefly transferred to a Territorial Army unit, the 1st Battalion, Tower Hamlets Rifles, Rifle Brigade on 2 September 1939 before joining the Welsh Guards on 28 ...

  5. Military diving - Wikipedia

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    Military diving is an occupation that has risks and responsibilities beyond those of other professional diving. Research and development in military diving equipment and procedures often eventually contributes to recreational and technical diving practice. [1] Military diving development was influenced by the development of submarine technology ...

  6. Social background of officers and other ranks in the British ...

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    The early modern British Army consisted of two distinct components that were kept separate in peacetime and at home. "The Army" in a limited sense, included infantry and cavalry, and was politically subordinate to the War Office, and under the military command of the Commander-in-Chief of the Forces at the Horse Guards.

  7. Army and Navy Club - Wikipedia

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    The Army and Navy Club in London is a private members' club founded in 1837 for British Army and Royal Navy Officers, it also known informally as The Rag. [1] The Club offers Military membership to anyone who holds or has held a Commission in the British Armed Forces or in Commonwealth Forces, the club also now accepts applications for Non Military membership.

  8. Special Investigation Branch - Wikipedia

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    Special Investigation Branch (SIB) was the name given to the detective branches of all three British military police arms: the Royal Navy Police, Royal Military Police and Royal Air Force Police. It was most closely associated with the Royal Military Police, which had the largest SIB.

  9. Lobo (DC Comics) - Wikipedia

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    Lobo is the last of his kind, having killed most of his species with a scorpion-like creature. It is later revealed that some Czarnians survived: Lobo's teacher and former military officer Miss Tribb, and the population of a city that Brainiac stole centuries prior. The cover of The Omega Men #3 (June 1983), the first appearance of Lobo