Word: gallipoli
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...York City will speak in Sever 11 on the subject "Short Story Writing" Mr. Gallishaw brings to his audience besides an established ability as a writer a varied experience in other fields. For a time an assistant dean of Harvard College when the war broke out he went to Gallipoli as a member of a Newfound land regiment in the British Army Later in the war he fought with the American expeditionary force in France Mr. Gallishaw's wide and colorful back ground should combine with an acknowledged technical skill to make his lecture at 2 o'clock this afternoon...
...colors as drummer boy at the age of 14, served 21 years in the British and Australian armies. His campaigning carried him to the Occupation of Crete, 1898; the South African War, 1900-02; the Tibet Expedition, 1904-05; the North West Frontier Expedition, 1908-12; Australia; Egypt; Gallipoli; France...
...called El Fraile (the friar) ; previously the sheriff had futilely searched for them in the island jungles of what is now Corregidor. Today, El Fraile is but a stone turret for U. S. guns, is known as "the stationary battleship." But experts consider Corregidor to be as impregnable as Gallipoli or Gibraltar ; its heavy armaments have longer range than the guns of any existent warship. **The Bacon Bill provides for a separate government for the southern islands (where the Moros live) and strengthens the authority of the Governor General...
...veteran of both the Boer War and the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign of the World War, in the latter of which he was twice wounded. He was Chairman of the Labor Party in 1921, and Commander of the Royal Naval Voluntary Reserve in 1924. Since then he has served as Chancellor for Lancaster in the cabinet of Ramsay MacDonald...
...never been introduced, thus winning fame as "the first man to interview Parnell." He was 65 when he married Mr. Astor's wife (Ava Willing, Philadelphia). No children were born. One of the two fine sons of his earlier marriage was killed in Somaliland, one in Gallipoli. His title dies with...