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Citation: As Commanding Officer of detachments from the 5th, 13th, 23d Companies and the marine and sailor detachment from the U.S.S. Connecticut, Maj.

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The Exercise force consisted of a Company of the Royal Canadian Regiment, with supporting detachments from the Signal, Medical and Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Corps, totalling in all, 240 men.

Exercise Sweetbriar 1950

When public trials were happening she had taken her place in the detachments from the Youth League who surrounded the courts from morning to night, chanting at intervals ‘Death to the traitors!

Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949

Other conscripts, in detachments, tramped by on foot with bags and banners.

Fighting France 1915

The men worked all night in detachments, watch and watch.

Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest Pauline Elizabeth 1902

The robins are getting quite numerous; they seem to come in detachments, or possibly they only pass from one neighborhood to another in flocks.

Rural Hours 1887

The men come down in detachments to a kind of rough quay just behind the governor's house; there they embark in big, deep boats, which are rowed gradually alongside the Khedivial steamers by a couple of men who have only sticks by the way of oars.

Three Months in the Soudan 1885

With men like his scattered about in detachments over large extents of country, it was most important to keep up discipline and obedience to orders.

Three Months in the Soudan 1885

Villeroy, with his detachments from the French Flemish army, was completely bewildered by Marlborough's movements, and, unable to divine where it was that the

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

The Birkenhead, a war steamer used as a transport, was on her way to Algoa Bay with about 630 persons on board, 132 being her own crew, the rest detachments from the 12th, 74th, and 91st Regiments, and the wives and children of the soldiers.

A Book of Golden Deeds 1864