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The Boys' Brigade emblem on a stained glass window in a parish church. It features the anchor and the motto, "Sure and Stedfast". The object of the Boys Brigade is "the advancement of Christ's kingdom among Boys and the promotion of habits of Obedience, Reverence, Discipline, Self-respect and all that tends towards a true Christian manliness."
The 442nd Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the United States Army.The regiment including the 100th Infantry Battalion is best known as the most decorated in U.S. military history, [4] and as a fighting unit composed almost entirely of second-generation American soldiers of Japanese ancestry who fought in World War II.
The Ritchie Boys, part of the U.S. Military Intelligence Service (MIS) at the War Department, were an organization of soldiers in World War II with sizable numbers of German and Austrian recruits who were used primarily for interrogation of prisoners on the front lines and counter-intelligence in Europe.
The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies – 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [26]; The Death or Glory Boys – 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later 17th/21st Lancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers [1] [3] (from the regimental badge, which was a death's head (skull), with a scroll bearing the motto "or Glory")
The Boys' Brigade; Founded: 4 October 1883 [1]: Founder: William Alexander Smith [1]: Founded at: Glasgow, United Kingdom [1]: Focus: The Object of The Boys' Brigade is: "The advancement of Christ’s kingdom among Boys and the promotion of habits of Obedience, Reverence, Discipline, Self-respect and all that tends towards a true Christian manliness."
This is a list of formations of the United States Army during the World War II.Many of these formations still exist today, though many by different designations. Included are formations that were placed on rolls, but never organized, as well as "phantom" formations used in the Allied Operation Quicksilver deception of 1944—these are marked accordingly.
Religion in Scouting and Guiding is an aspect of the Scout method which has been practiced differently and given different interpretations over the years. [2] In contrast to the Christian-only Boys' Brigade which was started two decades earlier, Baden-Powell founded the Scout movement as a youth organization (with boys as 'Scouts' and girls as 'Guides') which was independent of any single ...
From 1936 until 1945, it was the sole official boys' youth organisation in Germany and it was partially a paramilitary organisation. It was composed of the Hitler Youth proper for male youths aged 14 to 18, and the German Youngsters in the Hitler Youth ( Deutsches Jungvolk in der Hitler Jugend or "DJ", also "DJV") for younger boys aged 10 to 14.