A brigade under the command of Major General Stanislaw Sosabowski, created in Scotland, with the exclusive mission to drop into occupied Poland in order to help liberate the country. The British government, however, pressurised the Poles into allowing the unit to be used in the western theatre of war, which eventually saw it being sent into action in support of the British 1st Airborne Division at the Battle of Arnhem in 1944.
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1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade
{Beneath the Polish coat of arms and beside the emblem of the Polish undergro...
William George Field was born c.1884 the son of George and Mary Field, his birth being registered in the 1st quarter of 1884 in the Camberwell Registration District, Surrey (now Greater London). He...
A major, but ultimately unsuccessful, uprising in India against the rule of the British East India Company. Also known as the Sepoy Mutiny.
Chairman, Central Markets Committee, Corporation of London, 1995.
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