Word: britisher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Colonel Reginald Vincent Kempenfeldt Applin, D.S.O., of the British Army, will address the members of Military Science 1 and 2 in the New Lecture Hall on next Monday evening, May 6, at 8 o'clock. Attendance will be compulsory, and the companies will fall in in their usual places at 7.45 to march to the lecture. The mid-week talk by Lieutenant Morize will be held as usual on Wednesday night...
Colonel Applin is a soldier of many years' experience, having entered the British North Borneo Service as a cadet in 1889. He was in the Syed and Mat Salleh Rebellion, and was later a captain of the Sixth Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, in the South African...
Since the opening of the present war he has been closely connected with the British Army in Flanders, and has lately been advanced to the rank of colonel. He has twice been mentioned in dispatches and has been honored with the Distinguished Service Order...
...wealth of the United States is greater than the combined wealth of Great Britain, France and Germany. The national debt of Great Britain is 192 per cent of the estimated yearly income of the British people; the debt of Germany is 246 per cent of the German people's income; the debt of France is 333 per cent of the yearly income of the people of France. Our debt is 17 1-2 per cent of our national income. In other words, if France should devote the entire yearly income of its people to paying off its national debt...
...British are not a phrase-making people and their stubborn defence of Ypres has not been illuminated by a slogan, like "They shall not pass," the battlecry at Verdun which set France aflame. But in a less spectacular way their struggle around the ancient Flanders town symbolizes the British tradition in the war as the struggle for the Douamont and Vaux fortresses and Dead Man's Hill symbolizes the tradition of the French. It was at Ypres in November, 1914, that the British regulars, the "Old Contemptibles" of the gallant first expeditionary force, stemmed the German attack...