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Alastair Morrison (British Army officer)

Index Alastair Morrison (British Army officer)

Major Alastair McLeod Morrison MC (2 March 1924 – 2 April 2007) was a British Army soldier of the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards who won the Military Cross in Holland in 1944. [1]

12 relations: British Army, England, Gold Beach, Haileybury and Imperial Service College, Major (United Kingdom), Military Cross, Normandy landings, Operation Market Garden, Sandilands, Lincolnshire, The Daily Telegraph, World War II, 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards.

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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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Gold Beach

Gold, commonly known as Gold Beach, was the code name for one of the five areas of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944, during the Second World War.

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Haileybury and Imperial Service College

Haileybury is an independent school near Hertford in England.

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Major (United Kingdom)

Major (Maj) is a military rank which is used by both the British Army and Royal Marines.

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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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Normandy landings

The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.

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Operation Market Garden

Operation Market Garden (17–25 September 1944) was an unsuccessful Allied military operation planned, and predominantly led, by the British.

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Sandilands, Lincolnshire

Sandilands (previously known as Sutton le Marsh) is a neighbourhood of Sutton on Sea, in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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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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4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards

The 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards was a cavalry regiment of the British Army formed in 1922.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair_Morrison_(British_Army_officer)

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