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John Hill (Indian Army Officer)
Major-General John Hill CB DSO (14 January 1866 – 8 January 1935) was a senior British Indian Army officer during the First World War. Biography Born in Bangalore on 14 January 1866, John Hill was educated at Bedford School and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in 1887, subsequently transferring to the 15th Ludhiana Sikhs. He served in Burma and India during the Chin Lushai Expedition, between 1889 and 1890, the Second Miranzai Expedition, in 1891, the Chitral Expedition, in 1895, and the Tirah campaign, between 1897 and 1898. During the First World War he saw action in the Gallipoli campaign in 1915. He became General Officer Commanding (GOC) 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division in September 1917 and saw action again, initially in the Sinai and Palestine campaign and then, from April 1918, on the Western Front before handing over his command in September 1918. Hill was appointed Aide-de-cam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangalore
Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most populous urban agglomeration in India, as well as the largest city in South India, and the 27th largest city in the world. Located on the Deccan Plateau, at a height of over above sea level, Bangalore has a pleasant climate throughout the year, with its parks and green spaces earning it the reputation as the "Garden City" of India. Its elevation is the highest among the major cities of India. An aerospace, heavy engineering and electronics hub since the 1960s, Bangalore is widely regarded as the "Silicon Valley of India" because of its role as the nation's leading information technology (IT) exporter.——— In the Ease of Living Index 2020 (published by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs), it was ranked the most livable Indian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People Educated At Bedford School
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1935 Deaths
Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * January 12 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to successfully complete a solo flight from Hawaii to California, a distance of 2,408 miles. * January 13 – A plebiscite in the Territory of the Saar Basin shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Germany. * January 24 – The first canned beer is sold in Richmond, Virginia, United States, by Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company. February * February 6 – Parker Brothers begins selling the board game Monopoly in the United States. * February 13 – Richard Hauptmann is convicted and sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. in the United States. * February 15 – The discovery and clinical development of Prontosil, the first broadly effective antibiotic, is published in a se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1866 Births
Events January–March * January 1 ** Fisk University, a historically black university, is established in Nashville, Tennessee. ** The last issue of the abolitionist magazine '' The Liberator'' is published. * January 6 – Ottoman troops clash with supporters of Maronite leader Youssef Bey Karam, at St. Doumit in Lebanon; the Ottomans are defeated. * January 12 ** The ''Royal Aeronautical Society'' is formed as ''The Aeronautical Society of Great Britain'' in London, the world's oldest such society. ** British auxiliary steamer sinks in a storm in the Bay of Biscay, on passage from the Thames to Australia, with the loss of 244 people, and only 19 survivors. * January 18 – Wesley College, Melbourne, is established. * January 26 – Volcanic eruption in the Santorini caldera begins. * February 7 – Battle of Abtao: A Spanish naval squadron fights a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet, at the island of Abtao, in the Chiloé Archipelago of southern Chile. * February 13 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Marshall (British Army Officer)
Major-General Francis James Marshall (20 August 1876 – 22 May 1942) was a British Army officer. Military career Marshall was commissioned into the Seaforth Highlanders on 28 September 1895. He became commander of 150th (York and Durham) Brigade in June 1918 and General Officer Commanding 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division in September 1918 on the Western Front during the First World War. He went on to be Director of Military Training at the War Office in 1920, commander of the 11th Infantry Brigade in October 1923 and General Officer Commanding 54th (East Anglian) Infantry Division in September 1930 before retiring in September 1934. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1918 New Year Honours The 1918 New Year Honours were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire. The appointments were published in ''The London Gazette'' and ''The Times'' in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilfrid Smith (British Army Officer)
Major-general (United Kingdom), Major-General Wilfrid Edward Bownas Smith (March 1867 – May 1942) was a senior British Army officer. Military career Smith transferred from the Militia (United Kingdom), Militia (the 3rd Brigade, Eastern Division, Royal Artillery, formerly the Suffolk Artillery Militia) into the South Wales Borderers on 9 May 1888. He saw action with the British expedition to Tibet in 1903 and then became a brigade major in India in 1905 and a Deputy Assistant Adjutant General in India in 1908. He went on to be commanding officer of the 1st Battalion the Lincolnshire Regiment in 1914 and was deployed to France with the British Expeditionary Force (World War I), British Expeditionary Force at the start of the World War I, First World War. He became General Officer Commanding 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division in Egypt in June 1916 and saw action with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, Middle Eastern theatre before retir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abattoir Hill
Abattoir Hill, pronounced in Hebrew as Giv'at Bet Hamitbahayim ( he, גבעת בית המטבחיים), is an archaeological site in Tel Aviv, Israel, located near the southern bank of the Yarkon River. The site is a natural hill made of Kurkar,_a_local_type_of_haron_Horowitz._''The_Quaternary_of__...,_a_local_type_of_sandstone._In_1930_ancient_burials_and_tools_were_discovered_upon_the_construction_of_an_haron_Horowitz._''The_Quaternary_of__...,_a_local_type_of_sandstone._In_1930_ancient_burials_and_tools_were_discovered_upon_the_construction_of_an_Slaughterhouse">abattoir_on_top_of_the_hill,_hence_its_name._Between_1950_and_1953,_Israeli_archaeologist_Jacob_Kaplan_studied_the_site,_ahead_of_the_construction_of_new_residential_units_and_streets_on_it._He_discovered_the_remains_of_burials_and_small_settlements_spanning_from_the_haron_Horowitz._''The_Quaternary_of__...,_a_local_type_of_sandstone._In_1930_ancient_burials_and_tools_were_discovered_upon_the_construction_of_an_Slaughterhou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel. Located on the Israeli coastal plain, Israeli Mediterranean coastline and with a population of , it is the Economy of Israel, economic and Technology of Israel, technological center of the country. If East Jerusalem is considered part of Israel, Tel Aviv is the country's second most populous city after Jerusalem; if not, Tel Aviv is the most populous city ahead of West Jerusalem. Tel Aviv is governed by the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality, headed by Mayor Ron Huldai, and is home to many List of diplomatic missions in Israel, foreign embassies. It is a Global city, beta+ world city and is ranked 57th in the 2022 Global Financial Centres Index. Tel Aviv has the List of cities by GDP, third- or fourth-largest e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order Of The British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established on 4 June 1917 by King George V and comprises five classes across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two of which make the recipient either a knight if male or dame if female. There is also the related British Empire Medal, whose recipients are affiliated with, but not members of, the order. Recommendations for appointments to the Order of the British Empire were originally made on the nomination of the United Kingdom, the self-governing Dominions of the Empire (later Commonwealth) and the Viceroy of India. Nominations continue today from Commonwealth countries that participate in recommending British honours. Most Commonwealth countries ceased recommendations for appointments to the Order of the British Empire when they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George V
George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until Death and state funeral of George V, his death in 1936. Born during the reign of his grandmother Queen Victoria, George was the second son of Edward VII, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, and was third in the line of succession to the British throne behind his father and his elder brother, Prince Albert Victor. From 1877 to 1892, George served in the Royal Navy, until the unexpected death of his elder brother in early 1892 put him directly in line for the throne. On Victoria's death in 1901, George's father ascended the throne as Edward VII, and George was created Prince of Wales. He became King-Emperor, king-emperor on his father's death in 1910. George's reign saw the rise of socialism, communism, fascism, Irish republicanism, and the Indian independence movement, all of which radically changed the poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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