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Kenneth Bastyan
Major General Kenneth Cecil Orville Bastyan (10 December 1906 – 21 March 1975) was a senior British Army officer. Biography Born in Frimley Green and educated at Bedford School, Kenneth Bastyan was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Corps of Signals in 1926. During the Second World War he served in India, Iraq and Burma Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai .... He served in British Malaya, Malaya during the Malayan Emergency, between 1951 and 1953. He was Chief Signals Officer for Far Eastern Land Forces (British Army) between 1953 and 1954, Deputy Signal Officer-in-Chief at the War Office between 1954 and 1957, and Chief Signal Officer to the British Army of the Rhine and the Northern Army Group between 1957 and 1960. Major General Bastyan was invested ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frimley Green
Frimley Green is a large village and ward of in the Borough of Surrey Heath in Surrey, England, approximately southwest of central London. It is south of the town of Frimley. Lakeside Country Club was the national venue for the BDO international darts competition. It was played yearly in the village between 1986 and 2019. The nearest railway stations are Frimley on the line between Ascot and Aldershot, Farnborough North on the North Downs Line and Farnborough (Main) on the South West Main Line. Geography Soil, elevation and boundaries The land slopes down from Deepcut, partly on the Chobham Ridges to the east, to the River Blackwater which is preceded by the lakes and small woods in the south-west of the ward which form the boundary with Hampshire. Most of the woods and lakes are sectioned off by the Ascot to Guildford Line, the only railway within its bounds, which at the next station south merges into the Alton Line from London to Alton, Hampshire then becomes pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
