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Besides three children, Shemin left behind numerous supporters who kept up the appeal for an upgrade. On June 2, 2015, his ...
Second Lieutenant Hugh Barr, from East Kilbride, was just 28 when he was killed during an attack on the German-occupied town ... unknown' British soldiers of WW1 to finally be named at a poignant ...
William Shemin was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor nearly 100 years after his heroic actions during WWI. (Congressional ... took a turn in which the last German offensive on the Western ...
"All this time the formidable artillery of the redoubts in the center of the enemy's line was working such fearful havoc in ...
That same month, the British decoded a telegram intercepted from the German foreign minister to ... standing armies, the U.S. military ranks were paltry by comparison. Warfare had changed, too.
"All this time the formidable artillery of the redoubts in the center of the enemy's line was working such fearful havoc in our ranks ... Napoleon's army. But it could just as easily have been a ...
A proposal to add five new names - including three German soldiers - follows a similar move by the city's New College in 1930, Merton and Magdalen Colleges in 1994 and University College in 2018.