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Michael Allmand, the Glossary

Michael Allmand VC (22 August 1923 – 24 June 1944) was an English Second World War recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.^[1]

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Burials at Taukkyan War Cemetery
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Ampleforth College

Ampleforth College is a co-educational fee-charging boarding and day school in the English public school tradition. Michael Allmand and Ampleforth College are People educated at Ampleforth College.

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Arthur John Allmand

Major Arthur John Allmand KSG MC FRS FRIC (7 January 1885 – 4 August 1951) was an English chemist, professor of King's College London and Knight of the Roman Catholic Order of St. Gregory the Great. Michael Allmand and Arthur John Allmand are English Roman Catholics.

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Auxiliary Territorial Service

The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS; often pronounced as an acronym) was the women's branch of the British Army during the Second World War.

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Battalion

A battalion is a military unit, typically consisting of up to one thousand soldiers commanded by a lieutenant colonel and subdivided into a number of companies, each typically commanded by a major or a captain.

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Battle of Mogaung

The Battle of Mogaung was a series of engagements that was fought in the Burma Campaign of World War II between 6 and 26 June 1944 at the Burmese town of Mogaung.

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Birth name

A birth name is the name given to a person upon birth.

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Bletchley Park

Bletchley Park is an English country house and estate in Bletchley, Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire), that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War.

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British Indian Army

The Indian Army during British rule, also referred to as the British Indian Army, was the main military force of the British Indian Empire until 1947.

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British rule in Burma

The British colonial rule in Burma lasted from 1824 to 1948, from the successive three Anglo-Burmese wars through the creation of Burma as a province of British India to the establishment of an independently administered colony, and finally independence.

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Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace is a royal residence in London, and the administrative headquarters of the monarch of the United Kingdom.

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Burma Star

The Burma Star is a military campaign medal, instituted by the United Kingdom in May 1945 for award to British and Commonwealth forces who served in the Burma Campaign from 1941 to 1945, during the Second World War.

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Captain (armed forces)

The army rank of captain (from the French capitaine) is a commissioned officer rank historically corresponding to the command of a company of soldiers.

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Cassell (publisher)

Cassell is a British book publishing house, founded in 1848 by John Cassell (1817–1865), which became in the 1890s an international publishing group company.

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Cheshire

Cheshire is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Chindit Memorial

The Chindit Memorial is a war memorial in London, England, that commemorates the Chindit special forces, which served in Burma under Major General Orde Wingate in the Second World War.

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Chindits

The Chindits, officially known as Long Range Penetration Groups, were special operations units of the British and Indian armies which saw action in 1943–1944 during the Burma Campaign of World War II.

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Christopher Allmand

Christopher Thomas Allmand FSA (18 April 1936 – 16 November 2022) was an English historian, who specialised in the Late Middle Ages in England and France. Michael Allmand and Christopher Allmand are People educated at Ampleforth College.

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Combined Cadet Force

The Combined Cadet Force (CCF) is a youth organisation in the United Kingdom, sponsored by the Ministry of Defence (MOD), which operates in schools, sub divided into Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Army and Royal Air Force sections.

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Company (military unit)

A company is a military unit, typically consisting of 100–250 soldiers and usually commanded by a major or a captain.

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Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke (12 January 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher who spent most of his career in Great Britain.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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George VI

George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952.

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GHQ India

General Headquarters, India was the headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief, India, who commanded the British military forces in India, including the British Indian Army, after the Kitchener Reforms of 1903.

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Golders Green

Golders Green is an area in the London Borough of Barnet in England.

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Granta

Granta is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom whose mission centres on its "belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story's supreme ability to describe, illuminate and make real." In 2007, The Observer stated: "In its blend of memoirs and photojournalism, and in its championing of contemporary realist fiction, Granta has its face pressed firmly against the window, determined to witness the world." Granta has published twenty-seven laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Gurkha

The Gurkhas or Gorkhas, with the endonym Gorkhali (Nepali: गोर्खाली), are soldiers native to the Indian subcontinent, chiefly residing within Nepal and some parts of North India.

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Hampshire

Hampshire (abbreviated to Hants.) is a ceremonial county in South East England.

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Hampstead Garden Suburb

Hampstead Garden Suburb is an elevated suburb of London, north of Hampstead, west of Highgate and east of Golders Green.

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Headline Publishing Group

Headline Publishing Group is a British publishing brand and former company.

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History

History (derived) is the systematic study and documentation of the human past.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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Hopin, Kachin State

Hopin (ဟိုပင်မြို့; ဝဵင်းႁူဝ်ပၢင်ႇ; also Hobin) is a town in Mohnyin Township, Kachin State, in north-east Myanmar.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian Armoured Corps

The Indian Armoured Corps was a unit of the British Empire's Indian Army.

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Indian Army during World War II

The Indian Army during World War II, a British force also referred to as the British Indian Army, began the war, in 1939, numbering just under 200,000 men.

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John Bunting (sculptor)

John Joseph Bunting (3 August 1927 – 19 November 2002) was a British sculptor and teacher. Michael Allmand and John Bunting (sculptor) are People educated at Ampleforth College.

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John Lucas (British Army officer)

John George Anderson Lucas MC (25 April 1921 – 24 May 2013) was a British Army officer of the Second World War who won the Military Cross in 1944 for his actions attacking Japanese machine gun posts while serving with the Chindits (6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles) in Burma.

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Joseph Stilwell

Joseph Warren "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell (March 19, 1883 – October 12, 1946) was a United States Army general who served in the China Burma India Theater during World War II.

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King's College London

King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England.

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Kukri

The kukri or khukuri (खुकुरी) is a type of short sword with a distinct recurve in its blade that originated in the Indian subcontinent.

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List of Brigade of Gurkhas recipients of the Victoria Cross

The Victoria Cross (VC) is a military decoration bestowed on members of the British or Commonwealth armed forces for acts of valour or gallantry performed in the face of the enemy.

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List of Second World War Victoria Cross recipients

The Victoria Cross (VC) is a military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of armed forces of some Commonwealth countries and previous British Empire territories.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Malpas, Cheshire

Malpas is a market town and a civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

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Memorial Gates, London

The Memorial Gates are a war memorial located at the Hyde Park Corner end of Constitution Hill in London.

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Mike Calvert

Brigadier James Michael Calvert, (6 March 1913 – 26 November 1998) was a British Army officer who was involved in special operations in Burma during the Second World War.

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Military Cross

The Military Cross (MC) is the third-level (second-level until 1993) military decoration awarded to officers and (since 1993) other ranks of the British Armed Forces, and formerly awarded to officers of other Commonwealth countries.

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Military Medal

The Military Medal (MM) was a military decoration awarded to personnel of the British Army and other arms of the armed forces, and to personnel of other Commonwealth countries, below commissioned rank, for bravery in battle on land.

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Mogaung

Mogaung (မိုးကောင်း; (Shan: မိူင်းၵွင်း) is a town in Kachin State, Myanmar. It is situated on the Mandalay-Myitkyina railway line.

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Multilingualism

Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers.

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Myitkyina

Myitkyina ((Eng; mitchinar) Jinghpaw: Myitkyina) is the capital city of Kachin State in Myanmar (Burma), located from Yangon, and from Mandalay.

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Normans

The Normans (Norman: Normaunds; Normands; Nortmanni/Normanni) were a population arising in the medieval Duchy of Normandy from the intermingling between Norse Viking settlers and locals of West Francia.

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North York Moors

The North York Moors is an upland area in north-eastern Yorkshire, England.

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North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire is a ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber and North East regions of England.

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Officer (armed forces)

An officer is a person who holds a position of authority as a member of an armed force or uniformed service.

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Order of St. Gregory the Great

The Pontifical Equestrian Order of St.

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Oriel College, Oxford

Oriel College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in Oxford, England.

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Osprey Publishing

Osprey Publishing is a British publishing company specializing in military history based in Oxford.

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Platoon

A platoon is a military unit typically composed of two to four squads, sections, or patrols.

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Saint-Lô

Saint-Lô (Sant Lo) is a commune in northwest France, the capital of the Manche department in the region of Normandy.

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Taukkyan War Cemetery

The Taukkyan War Cemetery (ထောက်ကြံ့ စစ်သင်္ချိုင်း) is a cemetery for Allied soldiers from the British Commonwealth who died in battle in Burma during the Second World War.

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The Gurkha Museum

The Gurkha Museum commemorates the service of Gurkha soldiers to the British Crown, a relationship that has endured since 1815.

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The History Press

The History Press is a British publishing company specialising in the publication of titles devoted to local and specialist history.

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The London Gazette

The London Gazette is one of the official journals of record or government gazettes of the Government of the United Kingdom, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are required to be published.

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Tul Bahadur Pun

Tul Bahadur Pun VC (Nepali: तुल बहादुर पुन; 23 March 192320 April 2011) was a Nepalese Gurkha recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.

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Victoria Cross

The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest and most prestigious decoration of the British decorations system.

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War Medal 1939–1945

The War Medal 1939–1945 is a campaign medal which was instituted by the United Kingdom on 16 August 1945, for award to citizens of the British Commonwealth who had served full-time in the Armed Forces or the Merchant Navy for at least 28 days between 3 September 1939 and 2 September 1945.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Allmand

Also known as Allmand, Michael, M. Allmand.

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See also

Burials at Taukkyan War Cemetery

Indian Army personnel killed in World War II

Indian World War II recipients of the Victoria Cross

Military personnel from the London Borough of Barnet

People from Golders Green

References