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The Commando Memorial is a Category A listed monument in Lochaber, Scotland, dedicated to the men of the original British Commando Forces raised during...14 KB (1,223 words) - 11:26, 17 June 2024
commando and a commando unit, the unit is occasionally capitalized. The term commando originally derives from Latin commendare, to recommend, via the...46 KB (5,698 words) - 07:08, 13 July 2024
The Commandos, also known as the British Commandos, were formed during the Second World War in June 1940, following a request from Winston Churchill, for...66 KB (7,829 words) - 11:20, 17 June 2024
from Spean Bridge (site of the striking Commando Memorial) to Achnacarry. In August 2001, Achnacarry served as the site of the International Gathering of...13 KB (1,376 words) - 22:06, 29 May 2024
engagement of the Jacobite Rising of 1745. The Commando Memorial, dedicated to the men of the original British Commandos raised during Second World War, is located...4 KB (269 words) - 08:24, 4 May 2024- The name commando has been applied to a variety of Australian special forces and light infantry units that have been formed since 1941–42. The first Australian...25 KB (2,881 words) - 09:07, 18 May 2024
Commando Regiment, Royal Artillery is the Commando-trained unit of the British Army's Royal Artillery, based in Plymouth. The regiment is under the operational...11 KB (977 words) - 00:35, 4 May 2024- The Commando Basic Training Centre was a British Army training establishment primarily for the training of British Commandos during the Second World War...9 KB (842 words) - 02:30, 3 June 2024
Tom Hunter (VC) (category Royal Navy recipients of the Victoria Cross)– Memorial to Thomas Hunter (pictured) Royal Marines Museum, Eastney – Personal display in medal room and also named on 43 Commando memorial in the museum's...12 KB (1,244 words) - 06:58, 16 July 2024
Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife (redirect from Sykes-Fairbairn Commando Knife)Battalion. A solid gold F-S fighting knife is part of the commandos' memorial at Westminster Abbey. The first batch of 50 F-S fighting knives was produced...17 KB (1,987 words) - 15:15, 30 June 2024- Scott Sutherland (category Alumni of the Edinburgh College of Art)for the Commando Memorial in Spean Bridge. He was Head of Sculpture at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art Scott Sutherland was born in 1910, the son...13 KB (1,555 words) - 11:49, 23 April 2024
A82 road (category Infobox road instances in the United Kingdom)Coe, the Ballachulish Bridge, Ben Nevis, the Commando Memorial, Loch Ness, and Urquhart Castle. Along with the A9 and the A90 it is one of the three...58 KB (5,670 words) - 07:50, 27 January 2024- within 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines, the principal Commando formation, under the Operational Command of the Fleet Commander. Tasked as a Commando amphibious...28 KB (2,964 words) - 09:40, 20 February 2024
Geoffrey Appleyard (category British Army Commandos officers)who served in the Commandos and Special Air Service during the Second World War. Appleyard was born in Bramley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, the son of John Ernest...12 KB (1,117 words) - 11:27, 14 May 2024
Checkmate was the codename for a raid on shipping at Haugesund, Norway in April 1943 during the Second World War by British Commandos. The raiding party...10 KB (1,203 words) - 09:08, 26 May 2024
No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando was a commando unit of the British Army during the Second World War, recruited largely from non-British personnel from...34 KB (4,163 words) - 09:09, 16 July 2024- The Commando Order (German: Kommandobefehl) was issued by the OKW, the high command of the German Armed Forces, on 18 October 1942. This order stated that...33 KB (4,076 words) - 03:06, 3 July 2024
- The Commandos formed during the Second World War, following an order from the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in June 1940 for a force that could...31 KB (3,629 words) - 15:33, 27 October 2023
- Anders Lassen (category British Army Commandos officers)to the United Kingdom shortly after the start of the Second World War where he joined the British Commandos in 1940, serving with No. 62 Commando (also...15 KB (1,563 words) - 21:13, 15 June 2024
Beinn Bhàn (Arkaig) (category Mountains and hills of the Northwest Highlands)the view from the Commando Memorial at Spean Bridge, where its long NW ridge is well seen rising from Glen Mallie to the summit ridge overlooking the...6 KB (698 words) - 03:35, 8 April 2022
- this came the Caffre commandoes and the Caffre war! Of the same, or a kindred race with the Hottentots, are the Bosjesmen, or Bushmen, and the Griquas;
- expedition or enterprise" from the United States against a country with which the United States is not (officially) at war. The commando raids were combined with
- (Arajs Commando), over 36,000 at Odessa by Romanian forces, 19,000 at the Ninth Fort of Kaunas, and 40,000 (up to 100,000 by 1944) at Paneriai by the German