Sentence examples for war victoria from inspiring English sources

US viewers would envisage a place in the iron grip of a monarch with presidential powers over law and war (Victoria and, from tomorrow, The Crown), who rules with the help of the aristocracy (Downton Abbey) and cerebral super-detectives (Sherlock).

Diana Wynyard and Clive Brook star as the handsome upper-crust London couple through whose lives we see the first third of the 20th century (Boer War, Victoria's death, Titanic, Great War, Roaring Twenties).

Twice during the war Victoria visited Romania, providing the country, where her sister Marie was now queen, with help.

However, many hold the opinion that Sheean's gallantry, devotion to duty and self-sacrifice were worthy of the Victoria Cross, with author Robert Macklin stating his "actions were in the highest tradition of the Australian military" and comparing them with those of Vietnam War Victoria Cross recipient Kevin Arthur Wheatley.

It was buried, like that of Emperor Hirohito, by efforts to stabilize Japan during the cold war, Mr. Victoria said.

Some descendants of recipients of World War One Victoria Crosses have recorded John McCrae's In Flanders Fields.

Upon re-forming, the battalion was placed under the command of one of the Australian Army's most decorated soldiers, Lieutenant Colonel Harry Murray, a World War I Victoria Cross recipient.

After a poor start he also took a shine to New Zealand's Bernard Freyberg, a general with 27 war wounds and a Victoria Cross, who was described by a contemporary as "a red-necked thug who ate two Germans for breakfast".

While researching his book Victoria at War, the military and social historian Michael McKernan came across the story of the service of commemoration outside Parliament House, Melbourne, on the first Sunday after the 11th.

Churches was repatriated to Australia in November 1944, where after three months leave he was posted to the staff of a prisoner of war camp in Murchison, Victoria as an interpreter.

In an exception to policy for the South Africa War 1899 1902, six posthumous Victoria Crosses, three to the officers and men mentioned in the notices in 1900 and 1901 and a further three, the first official posthumous awards, were granted on 8 August 1902.