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Tommy Macpherson

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Colonel Sir Ronald Thomas Stewart Macpherson & Two Bars, (4 October 1920 – 6 November 2014) was a highly decorated Scottish British Army officer during and after the Second World War. [1]

94 relations: Accolade, Acqui Terme, Apollonia, Cyrenaica, Armistice of Cassibile, Aurillac, Axis powers, Barnton, Edinburgh, Bretenoux, British Army, Brive-la-Gaillarde, Bydgoszcz, Cahors, Carabinieri, Cargilfield Preparatory School, Chiusaforte, Clan Macpherson, Colonel (United Kingdom), Conservative Democratic Alliance, Cournil, Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France), Deputy Lieutenant, Derna, Libya, Duns Castle, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Academy, Erwin Rommel, Eurochambres, Feldwebel, Fettes College, Field hockey, Figeac, Folding kayak, French Resistance, Gavi, Piedmont, Gdynia, Genoa, Gordon Highlanders, Greater London, High Sheriff of Greater London, Highland Society of London, Ian Macpherson, 1st Baron Strathcarron, Jeffrey Archer, Knight Bachelor, Legion of Honour, Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom), London Scottish (regiment), Malcolm Rifkind, Maurs, Medal bar, Milice, ..., Military Cross, Milton Hall, Montalbo, Montauban, National Coal Board, New Year Honours, Newtonmore, Niall Macpherson, 1st Baron Drumalbyn, No. 11 (Scottish) Commando, Officers' Training Corps, Operation Dragoon, Operation Flipper, Operation Jedburgh, Order of the British Empire, Orders, decorations, and medals of the Holy See, Phil Macpherson, Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Preparatory school (United Kingdom), Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, Royal Caledonian Ball, Royal Company of Archers, Rugby union, Souillac, Lot, Spittal an der Drau, St Columba's Church, London, Stalag I-B, Stalag XVIII-A, Stalag XX-A, Star of Bethlehem, Tarvisio, Territorial Decoration, The National Archives (United Kingdom), Tobruk, Toruń, Trinity College, Oxford, Tulle, Udine, Universiade, World War II, Worshipful Company of Dyers, 1947 International University Games, 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich, 56th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom). Expand index (44 more) »

Accolade

The accolade (also known as dubbing or adoubement) (benedictio militis) was the central act in the rite of passage ceremonies conferring knighthood in the Middle Ages.

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Acqui Terme

Acqui Terme (Äich) is a city and comune of Piedmont, northern Italy, in the province of Alessandria.

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Apollonia, Cyrenaica

Apollonia (Ἀπολλωνία) in Cyrenaica (modern Libya) was founded by Greek colonists and became a significant commercial centre in the southern Mediterranean.

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Armistice of Cassibile

The Armistice of Cassibile was an armistice signed on 3 September 1943 by Walter Bedell Smith and Giuseppe Castellano, and made public on 8 September, between the Kingdom of Italy and the Allies during World War II.

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Aurillac

Aurillac (Orlhac) is a commune, capital of the Cantal department, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of south-central France,.

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Axis powers

The Axis powers (Achsenmächte; Potenze dell'Asse; 枢軸国 Sūjikukoku), also known as the Axis and the Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, were the nations that fought in World War II against the Allied forces.

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Barnton, Edinburgh

Barnton is an affluent district of Edinburgh, Scotland, located in the north-west of the city, between Cramond and Corstorphine Hill and west of Davidsons Mains.

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Bretenoux

Bretenoux is a commune in the Lot department in southwestern France.

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of British Armed Forces.

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Brive-la-Gaillarde

Brive-la-Gaillarde (Limousin dialect of Occitan language: Briva la Galharda) is a commune of France.

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Bydgoszcz

Bydgoszcz (Bromberg; Bydgostia) is a city in northern Poland, on the Brda and Vistula rivers.

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Cahors

Cahors (Caors) is the capital of the Lot department in south-western France.

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Carabinieri

The Carabinieri (formally Arma dei Carabinieri, "Carabinieri Force" or previously Corpo dei Carabinieri Reali, "Royal Carabinieri Corps") is the fourth Italian military force charged with police duties under the authority of the Ministry of Defense.

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Cargilfield Preparatory School

Cargilfield Preparatory School is a private co-educational prep school in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Chiusaforte

Chiusaforte (Kluže, Klausen, Sclûse.) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Udine in the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

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Clan Macpherson

Clan Macpherson is a Highland Scottish clan and is a member of the Chattan Confederation.

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Colonel (United Kingdom)

Colonel (Col) is a rank of the British Army and Royal Marines, ranking below brigadier, and above lieutenant colonel.

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Conservative Democratic Alliance

The Conservative Democratic Alliance (CDA) was a political pressure group from the United Kingdom.

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Cournil

Bernard Cournil was a French vehicle maker who progressed from improving other people’s vehicles to manufacturing his own during the late 1950s.

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Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France)

The Croix de guerre 1939–1945 (War Cross 1939–1945) is a French military decoration, a version of the Croix de guerre created on September 26, 1939, to honour people who fought with the Allies against the Axis forces at any time during World War II.

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Deputy Lieutenant

In the United Kingdom, a Deputy Lieutenant is a Crown appointment and one of several deputies to the Lord Lieutenant of a lieutenancy area: an English ceremonial county, Welsh preserved county, Scottish lieutenancy area, or Northern Irish county borough or county.

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Derna, Libya

Derna (درنة) is a port city in eastern Libya.

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Duns Castle

Duns Castle, Duns, Berwickshire is a historic house in Scotland, the oldest part of which, the massive Norman Keep or Pele Tower, dates from 1320.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Edinburgh Academy

The Edinburgh Academy is an independent school which was opened in 1824.

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Erwin Rommel

Erwin Rommel (15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944) was a German general and military theorist.

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Eurochambres

Eurochambres is the Association of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

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Feldwebel

Feldwebel (Fw or F), literally "field usher", is a non-commissioned officer (NCO) rank in several countries.

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Fettes College

Fettes College is a private coeducational independent boarding and day school in Edinburgh, Scotland, with over two-thirds of its pupils in residence on campus.

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Field hockey

Field hockey is a team game of the hockey family.

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Figeac

Figeac (Fijac) is a commune in the Lot department in south-western France.

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Folding kayak

A folding kayak is a direct descendant of the original Inuit kayak made of animal skins stretched over frames made from wood and bones.

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French Resistance

The French Resistance (La Résistance) was the collection of French movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during the Second World War.

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Gavi, Piedmont

Gavi is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southeast of Turin and about southeast of Alessandria.

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Gdynia

Gdynia (Gdingen, Gdiniô) is a city in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland and a seaport of Gdańsk Bay on the south coast of the Baltic Sea.

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Genoa

Genoa (Genova,; Zêna; English, historically, and Genua) is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy.

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Gordon Highlanders

The Gordon Highlanders was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that existed for 113 years, from 1881 until 1994, when it was amalgamated with the Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons) to form the Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons).

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Greater London

Greater London is a region of England which forms the administrative boundaries of London, as well as a county for the purposes of the lieutenancies.

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High Sheriff of Greater London

The office of High sheriff, as the monarch's representative in a county, is over 1000 years old, with its establishment before the Norman Conquest.

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Highland Society of London

The Highland Society of London is a charity registered in England and Wales, with "the view of establishing and supporting schools in the Highlands and in the Northern parts of Great Britain, for relieving distressed Highlanders at a distance from their native homes, for preserving the antiquities and rescuing from oblivion the valuable remains of Celtic literature, and for promoting the improvement and general welfare of the Northern parts of Great Britain".

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Ian Macpherson, 1st Baron Strathcarron

(James) Ian Stewart Macpherson, 1st Baron Strathcarron, (14 May 1880 – 14 August 1937), known as Sir Ian Macpherson, Baronet, between 1933 and 1936, was a British lawyer and Liberal politician.

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Jeffrey Archer

Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare (born 15 April 1940) is an English novelist and politician.

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Knight Bachelor

The dignity of Knight Bachelor is the most basic and lowest rank of a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not as a member of one of the organised orders of chivalry; it is a part of the British honours system.

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Legion of Honour

The Legion of Honour, with its full name National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits, established in 1802 by Napoléon Bonaparte and retained by all the divergent governments and regimes later holding power in France, up to the present.

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Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)

Lieutenant colonel (Lt Col), is a rank in the British Army and Royal Marines which is also used in many Commonwealth countries.

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London Scottish (regiment)

The London Scottish was a Volunteer infantry regiment of the British Army.

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Malcolm Rifkind

Sir Malcolm Leslie Rifkind (born 21 June 1946) is a British politician who served in various roles as a cabinet minister under Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major, including Secretary of State for Scotland (1986–1990), Defence Secretary (1992–1995), and Foreign Secretary (1995–1997).

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Maurs

Maurs is a commune in the Cantal department in south-central France.

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Medal bar

A medal bar or medal clasp is a thin metal bar attached to the ribbon of a military decoration, civil decoration, or other medal.

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Milice

The Milice française (French Militia), generally called the Milice, was a political paramilitary organization created on 30 January 1943 by the Vichy regime (with German aid) to help fight against the French Resistance during World War II.

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Military Cross

The Military Cross (MC) is the third-level military decoration awarded to officers and (since 1993) other ranks of the British Armed Forces, and used to be awarded to officers of other Commonwealth countries.

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Milton Hall

Milton Hall, near Peterborough, is the largest private house in Cambridgeshire, England.

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Montalbo

Montalbo is a municipality in the province of Cuenca, part of the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha, in the country of Spain.

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Montauban

Montauban (Montalban) is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Occitanie region in southern France.

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National Coal Board

The National Coal Board (NCB) was the statutory corporation created to run the nationalised coal mining industry in the United Kingdom.

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New Year Honours

The New Year Honours is a part of the British honours system, with New Year's Day, 1 January, being marked by naming new members of orders of chivalry and recipients of other official honours.

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Newtonmore

Newtonmore (Scottish Gaelic: Baile Ùr an t-Slèibh) is a village in the Highland council area of Scotland.

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Niall Macpherson, 1st Baron Drumalbyn

Niall Malcolm Stewart Macpherson, 1st Baron Drumalbyn, KBE, PC (3 August 1908 – 11 October 1987) was a Scottish Tory and National Liberal politician.

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No. 11 (Scottish) Commando

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Officers' Training Corps

The Officers' Training Corps (OTC), more fully called the University Officers' Training Corps (UOTC), are military leadership training units similar to a university club but operated by the British Army.

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Operation Dragoon

Operation Dragoon (initially Operation Anvil) was the code name for the Allied invasion of Southern France on 15August 1944.

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Operation Flipper

Operation Flipper (also called the Rommel Raid) was a British commando raid during the Second World War, carried out mainly by men from No. 11 (Scottish) Commando.

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Operation Jedburgh

Operation Jedburgh was a clandestine operation during World War II, in which personnel of the British Special Operations Executive, the U.S. Office of Strategic Services, the Free French Bureau Central de Renseignements et d'Action ("Intelligence and operations central bureau") and the Dutch and Belgian Armies were dropped by parachute into occupied France, the Netherlands and Belgium to conduct sabotage and guerrilla warfare, and to lead the local resistance forces in actions against the Germans.

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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.

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Orders, decorations, and medals of the Holy See

The orders, decorations, and medals of the Holy See include titles, chivalric orders, distinctions and medals honoured by the Holy See, with the Pope as the fount of honour, for deeds and merits of their recipients to the benefit of the Holy See, the Catholic Church, or their respective communities, societies, nations and the world at large.

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Phil Macpherson

George Philip Stewart Macpherson CBE (16 October 1903 – 2 March 1981) also known as GPS Macpherson was a Scottish rugby union footballer who played for Scotland in 26 tests between 1922 and 1932.

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) is an interdisciplinary undergraduate/post-graduate degree which combines study from three disciplines.

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Preparatory school (United Kingdom)

A preparatory school (or, shortened: prep school) in the United Kingdom is a selective, fee-charging independent primary school that caters primarily for children up to approximately the age of 13.

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Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma

Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma (Michel Marie Xavier Waldemar Georg Robert Karl Eymar; born 4 March 1926, Paris, France) is a decorated former soldier, racing car driver, French businessman and dynast of the deposed sovereign ducal House of Bourbon-Parma.

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Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders

The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders or 79th (The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment of Foot was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1793.

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Royal Caledonian Ball

The Royal Caledonian Ball is a ball held annually in London for the benefit of Scottish charities.

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Royal Company of Archers

The Royal Company of Archers is a ceremonial unit that serves as the Sovereign's Bodyguard in Scotland, a role it has performed since 1822 and the reign of King George IV, when the company provided a personal bodyguard to the King on his visit to Scotland.

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Rugby union

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Souillac, Lot

Souillac is a commune in the Lot department in south-western France, on the river Dordogne.

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Spittal an der Drau

Spittal an der Drau is a town in the western part of the Austrian federal state of Carinthia.

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St Columba's Church, London

St Columba's Church is one of the two London congregations of the Church of Scotland.

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Stalag I-B

Stalag I-B Hohenstein was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp located west of Hohenstein, East Prussia (now Olsztynek, Poland).

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Stalag XVIII-A

Stalag XVIII-A was a World War II German Army (Wehrmacht) prisoner-of-war camp located to the south of the town of Wolfsberg, in the southern Austrian state of Carinthia, then a part of Nazi Germany.

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Stalag XX-A

Stalag XX-A was a German World War II prisoner of war camp located in Thorn/Toruń, Poland.

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Star of Bethlehem

The Star of Bethlehem, or Christmas Star, appears only in the nativity story of the Gospel of Matthew, where "wise men from the East" (Magi) are inspired by the star to travel to Jerusalem.

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Tarvisio

Tarvisio (German and Tarvis, Trbiž) is a comune (town) in the Province of Udine, the northeastern part of the autonomous Friuli Venezia Giulia region in Italy.

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Territorial Decoration

The Territorial Decoration (TD) was a military medal of the United Kingdom awarded for long service in the Territorial Force and its successor, the Territorial Army.

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The National Archives (United Kingdom)

The National Archives (TNA) is a non-ministerial government department.

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Tobruk

Tobruk or Tubruq (Αντίπυργος) (طبرق Ṭubruq; also transliterated as Tóbruch, Tobruch, Tobruck and Tubruk) is a port city on Libya's eastern Mediterranean coast, near the border of Egypt.

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Toruń

Toruń (Thorn) is a city in northern Poland, on the Vistula River.

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Trinity College, Oxford

Trinity College (full name: The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in the University of Oxford, of the foundation of Sir Thomas Pope (Knight)) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

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Tulle

Tulle is a commune in central France.

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Udine

Udine (Udin, Weiden in Friaul, Utinum, Videm) is a city and comune in northeastern Italy, in the middle of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, between the Adriatic Sea and the Alps (Alpi Carniche).

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Universiade

The Universiade is an international multi-sport event, organized for university athletes by the International University Sports Federation (FISU).

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Worshipful Company of Dyers

The Worshipful Company of Dyers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London.

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1947 International University Games

The 1947 International University Games were organised by the Confederation Internationale des Etudiants (CIE) and held in Paris, France.

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2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich

The 2nd SS Panzer Division "Das Reich" (2. SS-Panzerdivision "Das Reich".) was one of 38 divisions of the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II.

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56th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)

The 56th Infantry Brigade was an infantry brigade of the British Army that saw active service in both World War I and World War II.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Macpherson

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