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Johnson Gideon Beharry
Colour Sergeant Johnson Gideon Beharry, (born 26 July 1979) is a British Army soldier who, on 18 March 2005, was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration for valour in the British and Commonwealth armed forces, for saving members of his unit, the 1st Battalion Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, from ambushes on 1 May and again on 11 June 2004 at Al-Amarah, Iraq. He sustained serious head injuries in the latter engagement. Beharry was formally invested with the Victoria Cross by Queen Elizabeth II on 27 April 2005. Personal life Beharry was born in Grenada, and has four brothers and three sisters. Beharry is of Dougla ( African and Indian) descent. His surname is the anglicised depiction of Bihari, originating from a region of India indentured labourers were brought from to the Caribbean. He moved to the United Kingdom in 1999. He is divorced from his first wife Lynthia Beharry, who is also from Grenada. Beharry said, in an official statement released th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bihari (other)
Bihari often refers to: * of Bihar, a state in central eastern India Bihari may also refer to: Populations and languages *Biharis, people of Bihar * Bihari languages, a language family * Languages of Bihar, the languages spoken in Bihar *Bihari diaspora *Bihari Mauritians *Bihari Muslims *Bihari Rajput Culture and art of Bihar *Bihari Culture * Bihari Music * Bihari Cuisine * Bihari Cinema *Bihari Painting People *Bihari Lal (1595–1663), Hindi poet known for the ''Satasaī'' *Bihari brothers, American music industry entrepreneurs *János Bihari (1764–1824/1827?), Hungarian Romani violinist *Lal Bihari (born 1955), founder of the Association of the Dead *Mukut Bihari, Indian politician *S. H. Bihari (died 1987), Indian songwriter and poet *Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018), Prime Minister of India *Binod Bihari Verma (1937–2003), Maithili scholar noted for his work on Panjis See also *Bihar (other) *Johnson Beharry VC, British Army soldier of the Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afro-Grenadians
Afro-Grenadians or Black Grenadians are Grenadian people of largely African descent. This term is not generally recognised by Grenadians or indeed Caribbeans. They usually refer to themselves simply as Black or possibly Black Caribbean. The term was first coined by an African Americans history professor, John Henrik Clarke (1915–1998), in his piece entitled ''A Note on Racism in History''. The term may also refer to a Grenadian of African ancestry. Social interpretations of race are mutable rather than deterministic and neither physical appearance nor ancestry are used straightforwardly to determine whether a person is considered a Black Grenadian. According to the 2012 Census, 82% of Grenada's population is Black, 13% is mixed European and black and 2% is of Indian origin. (Europeans are less than 1% of the population.) History On 17 March 1649, a French expedition of 203 men from Martinique, led by Jacques Dyel du Parquet who had been the Governor of Martinique on behalf o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iraq Medal BAR
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and Kuwait to the southeast, Saudi Arabia to the south, Jordan to the southwest and Syria to the west. The capital and largest city is Baghdad. Iraq is home to diverse ethnic groups including Iraqi Arabs, Kurds, Turkmens, Assyrians, Armenians, Yazidis, Mandaeans, Persians and Shabakis with similarly diverse geography and wildlife. The vast majority of the country's 44 million residents are Muslims – the notable other faiths are Christianity, Yazidism, Mandaeism, Yarsanism and Zoroastrianism. The official languages of Iraq are Arabic and Kurdish; others also recognised in specific regions are Neo-Aramaic, Turkish and Armenian. Starting as early as the 6th millennium BC, the fertile alluvial plains between Iraq's Tigris and Euphrate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
