Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nice, dark, scowling Ernst Rüdiger Prinz von Starhemberg, ex-Vice Chancellor of Austria, ex-leader of the Austrian Heimwehr, exile, proposed to ask the French Government's permission to recruit an Austrian regiment for service in the French Army. The morale of Austrians who were now forced to fight in German ranks, he added hopefully, "must...
...Riviera, dusky, fortyish Prince Sisowath Moni-vong of Cambodia, small State of south Indo-China, enlisted in the French Army for the duration. Two U. S. aviators disputed priority in enlisting with French forces: Clifford H. de Roode, former pilot in the Lafayette Escadrille, now attached to the First Regiment of Foreign Infantry; and Steele Powers, a 27-year-old Atlanta, Ga. boy, who was accepted immediately, sent to the front, saw action within two weeks...
...German Foreign Ministry, in Poland; Captain Antoni Janusz, 42, winner last year of the James Gordon Bennett Balloon Race, in Poland; Dr. Florence Newsom, British Red Cross worker, in Poland, when her plane was shot down; Prince Oskar of Prussia, 24, Lieutenant of the 51st German Infantry Regiment, grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II, one of eight Princes of the ex-royal family in active service,*"while leading an attack by his company" in Poland...
...Französisches Gymnasium of Berlin, and in 1900, aged 19, became a lieutenant in the Royal Elizabeth Guard Grenadiers. The Grenadiers wore corsets and led a gay social life; Lieutenant Brauchitsch, whose nature was somewhat more vigorous, persuaded his father to get him transferred to an artillery regiment. By 1914 he had risen to the rank of captain. Throughout the four years of World War I he remained a General Staff officer, saw no fighting. In 1918 he shared the fate of thousands of other officers and was relegated to the reserve corps, his career apparently...
...reorganized the Reichswehr in 1919, Brauchitsch got an appointment as a major in Stettin. By 1922 he was head of artillery in the Defense Ministry, a key figure in Germany's miniature Army. He became a lieutenant colonel in 1925 and served a turn in a Prussian artillery regiment. In 1930 he was back in the Defense Ministry as director of military training, with the rank of colonel. His career seemed to lie in office work, and after serving briefly as chief of staff of the 6th Artillery Regiment he was given the routine assignment of inspecting the artillery...