Event class: war, army, returned, service, served, discharged, wounded, military, world war i, france

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Bernard MeninskyHe was naturalised as a British Citizen in 1918 but had a nervous breakdown and was discharged from service after six months as a Ministry of Information war artist.
Ry?ichi TamuraHe was drafted into the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1943, and although he did not see combat, the fact that many of his friends died in the war left him psychologically scarred.
?or?e Markovi? KoderNext month he got a permanent job as a fighting instructor in the Artillery School in Belgrade, and in 1859 he applied for Serbian citizenship.
Hans AlbersIn 1915 Albers was drafted to serve in the German Army in World War I, but was wounded early on.
James Crawford (playwright)In January, 1945, he was discharged from the navy with a pension as he was suffering from a duodenal ulcer.
Emmet Dalton Dalton joined the British Army in 1915 for the duration of the Great War.
David Hamer (footballer) In December 1899, Hamer was recalled to active service and was sent to South Africa where he saw action in the Boer War.
Wylie McKissockIn 1939, at the outbreak of World War II, McKissock tried unsuccessfully to join the army as a neurosurgeon and instead was appointed to the neurosurgical unit at Leavesden Emergency Hospital.
George F. HopkinsonHe was awarded the Military Cross for meritous actions during the retreat of the British Army during early 1918 ; after the end of the conflict he gained a degree in civil engineering and travelled Europe, before rejoining the Army in the mid-1920s and working his way up to the rank of Major.
Eugenio CecconiIn 1866, he volunteered with other Tuscan artists to fight in the wars of Italian Independence.
Victor FyodorovOn 21 August 1914, he volunteered for the French Foreign Legion, and served with them until wounded and invalided from infantry service.
Roland PenroseIn August 1918, as a conscientious objector, he joined the Friends' Ambulance Unit, serving from September 1918 with the British Red Cross in Italy.
Rowland BourkeHe returned to the UK on the outbreak of World War I, and after initially being rejected due to poor eyesight, he enlisted in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in 1916.
James Stuart MacDonaldWith the rank of Private he served at Gallipoli where, on 26 April 1915, he was wounded in the abdomen and was classified unfit for active service.
Edmund Hall (Australian politician)On 5 August 1918, he enlisted and was appointed Second Lieutenant with the First Australian Imperial Force, on account of his 7 years' earlier service with the Rifles in Geraldton.
Matthew OramWhen New Zealand declared war against Germany in 1914, Oram sold his law practice and joined the army.
Harry Palmer (actor)However, Palmer was accepted to the Red Cross ambulance corps and went overseas in early 1918.
John Meredith (general)In 1899 he volunteered for South Africa, serving as a medical officer in the Citizen's Bushmen's Contingent.
Wolfgang WagnerDuring the Polish campaign he was severely wounded in the arm, and he was discharged as medically unfit in June 1940 (Hitler visited him in the hospital).
Charles PingleAfter serving as an alderman in Medicine Hat, in 1915, Pingle enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and was stationed in France, where he served for about 5 months before returning to Canada.
Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of AthloneFollowing the cessation of hostilities in Europe in 1918, Athlone retired from the army and took up posts in the civilian world, continuing at Middlesex Hospital.
Thelma Coyne LongIn May 1941, during the Second World War, Long joined the Red Cross as a transport driver and worked in Melbourne, Australia.
Charles Read (RAAF officer)By the time Australia declared war on 3 September 1939, Read had been promoted to flying officer ; he later recalled a flurry of activity on the day, but with little real purpose :'' After all, we were pretty remote from Europe''.
Emil GrunzweigHe served as a reserve officer in the War of Attrition, the Yom Kippur War, and the 1982 Lebanon War After his discharge from the army, he settled at Revivim, where he worked in the orchards.
Jeff Struecker After his enlisted service ended in April 2000, As Chaplain, Struecker served multiple tours in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom in Iraq.
Turgun AlimatovAfter one year in the Second World War, In August 1942 he was wounded in the leg and evacuated to a hospital in Siberia, and then back to Tashkent.
Pierre WidmerWhen France declared war on Germany in September 1939, Widmer was called back to the Army.
Eug?ne LantiIn 1914 he was mobilised in the First World War and served as an ambulance driver.
Augusto TuratiAn irredentist and advocate of Italy entering World War I, he volunteered for the front in 1915.
Michael P. O'Connor (writer)A German gas attack in March 1918 ended his active career, and after the war he returned as part of an exhumation unit to re-inter battlefield dead in military cemeteries.
Edith PrettyIn 1926, Edith married her long term suitor, Frank Pretty, an Ipswich man who had been a Major in the Territorial Army's Suffolk Regiment during the First World War and who continued to serve the Suffolk Regiment after the war, also working in the family business of clothing manufacture.
Valentina SerovaWhile it's true that Serova, working as a hospital volunteer, met Rokossovski several times while he was recovering from a wound from a shell fragment in early 1942, there is no evidence that they were lovers.
Norman Frederick HastingsHe enlisted in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force at the outbreak of World War I, and served with distinction before dying of wounds after the attack on Chunuk Bair, Gallipoli, in August 1915.
Vikenty VeresaevIn 1904, at the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, he joined the army as a doctor.
Len Smith Smith enlisted in the AIF during World War II and served in Palestine, Egypt and Syria before returning home in 1942.
Arthur BagotAt the outbreak of the Second World War, Bagot enlisted in the Citizens Military Force on 25 April 1942.
Herman Poto?nikIn 1919 he was pensioned off from the Austrian military with the rank of Captain because of tuberculosis that he got during the war.
Eric Harold NevilleNeville did not join the army when the First World War erupted in the summer of 1914.
Barney DansonHe joined The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada in 1939 as the Second World War broke out, rose to the rank of Lieutenant and served until he was severely wounded in the Battle of Normandy, and lost an eye.
L?on WerthDuring the First World War, in 1914 he was assigned to the front, where he would fight for 15 months before being wounded.
Karl WahlHe served in the First World War as a paramedic but was wounded in 1915.
Donald Alastair CameronIn 1933, he married Rhoda Florence McLean and they then settled at Ipswich, where he practised until the Second World War, in which he served as a Colonel in the Australian Army Medical Corps in the Mediterranean and Middle East Theatre and New Guinea.
Harold BarrowcloughIn 1915, partway through his law degree, he volunteered for service abroad with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and fought on the Western Front.
John GallishawIn March, 1915, he asked for and got a discharge, and on April 3 enlisted in the First Newfoundland regiment which was about to cross the Atlantic and join up with the British army.
Hans KirschsteinHe served in France and Galicia ; in the latter assignment, he contracted malaria in 1915.
Donald HankeyAfter what he later remembered as `` the two most miserable years of my life'' at Woolwich Academy, Hankey received his commission as a second lieutenant, joined the Royal Garrison Artillery and was ultimately stationed in Mauritius until serious ill-health led to his return to England on extended sick leave at the end of 1906.
Len MurraySix days later he was badly wounded and in October 1944 he was invalided out of the Army with the rank of Lieutenant.
W. E. B. Du Bois As the United States prepared to enter World War I in 1917, Du Bois' colleague in the NAACP, Joel Spingarn, established a camp to train African Americans to serve as officers in the United States military.
William Roberts (painter) When the Second World War broke out, in September 1939, Roberts was too old for combat service.
Peter CasserlyIn 1917, he was working as a fireman for the West Australian Railways when he saw an advertisement by the Australian army for experienced railwaymen to serve in France, and he enlisted on Saint Patrick's Day.
Colin Rankin A major when the South African War broke out, Rankin volunteered for service and on 13 January 1900 sailed with the Second Queensland Contingent.
Ernest RichmondAfter suffering an injury to his hand from a grenade, he was appointed Architect to the War Graves Service, France, 1917 -- 18.
Sandy Smith (British Army officer) Following the Second World War he served in Palestine before being demobilised from the Army in 1946.
James Craig, 1st Viscount CraigavonHe was seconded to the Imperial Yeomanry, becoming a lieutenant and then a captain, was taken prisoner in May 1900, but released by the Boers because of a perforated eardrum.
Stanley EvansHe served in France and Belgium during the First World War, and was discharged in 1919.
Mike JacksonHe spent nearly 45 years in the Army but called it'' a regret'' that he never fought in a conventional battle -- having been in a staff position in 1982 during the Falklands War and serving as a brigade commander in Northern Ireland during the Gulf War.
Andr?s Avelino C?ceres When war broke out between Peru and Ecuador in 1859, Cáceres was still ailing from his wound, but took part in the campaign.
Henry MoseleyHowever, World War I broke out in August 1914, and Moseley turned down this job offer to enlist in the Royal Engineers of the British Army instead.
Leonardus Benjamin MoerdaniIn 1951, the Indonesian Government began undertaking demobilization but Moerdani's brigade was deemed to have performed well enough for its soldiers to continue serving with ABRI.
Samuel Green (priest)After Lanchester returned to the parish at the end of 1915 Green volunteered to join the Army Chaplains' Department.
Geoffrey GilbertHe served with the Guards throughout the war, and was in poor health by the time he regained his professional freedom in 1946.
Edgar CrookshankIn 1882, Crookshank served as a doctor with the British armed forces sent to Egypt as a result of the Urabi Revolt ; he was decorated for his service at the Battle of Tel el-Kebir.
James Craig, 1st Viscount CraigavonIn June 1901 he was sent home suffering from dysentery, and by the time he was fit for service again the war was over.
Gottfried BennHe enlisted in 1914, spent a brief period on the Belgian front, and then served as a military doctor in Brussels.
Edwin "Pa" WatsonShortly after America's entry into the First World War in April 1917, Watson requested an active duty assignment with the American Expeditionary Force heading for the front in France.
Arthur RothsteinHis military assignment took him to the China-Burma-India theatre and he remained in China following his discharge from the military in 1945, working as chief photographer for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, documenting the Great Famine and the plight of displaced survivors of the Holocaust in the Hongkew ghetto of Shanghai.
Frank NewsamHe saw active service in Ireland and was wounded during the Easter Rising in 1916 ; during the First World War he served in Belgium, France, the Punjab and Afghanistan.
Arkadi MaslowAt the outbreak of World War I in 1914, he was first interned as a Russian citizen but voluntarily enlisted in the German army as interpreter, in which capacity he served in prisoner of war camps.
Monk Eastman After the United States entered World War I in 1917, the 42-year old Eastman decided to join the Army.
Nigel BruceHe served in France from 1914 as a lieutenant in the 10th Service Battalion - Somerset Light Infantry and the Honourable Artillery Company, but was severely wounded at Cambrai the following year, with eleven bullets in his left leg, and spent most of the remainder of the war in a wheelchair.
Michel MirowskiBy 1944 he was an officer in a Polish regiment and returned to Poland where, as the war ended, he registered as a medical student at the University of Gdańsk.''
Bill Lancaster (aviator)He remained in Britain after the war and joined the Royal Air Force, marrying Annie Maude Besant in 1919 and serving in India during the 1920s.
Jean MoulinHe enlisted in the French Army on the 17th April 1918, and was posted in the 2nd Engineer Regiment, but before he could join the battle lines after concentrated training, the armistice was called.
Albert LondresWhen war broke out in 1914, Londres, unfit for military service due to ill health and a weak constitution, became military correspondent for the newspaper at the Ministry of War.
Barnett Freedman At the outbreak of the Second World War, Freedman was appointed a full-time salaried war artist by the War Artists' Advisory Committee and sent to France in April 1940 to record the work of the British Expeditionary Force.
Wilhelm MurrDuring the First World War he served on all fronts, advanced to the rank of Vize - Feldwebel (Staff Sergeant) and spent the end of the war in 1918 injured in a military hospital in Cottbus.
Heinz DrosselDrafted in November 1939, Drossel served in the Battle of France before serving on the Eastern Front for the rest of the war.
Frederick GalleghanHis second wound eventually led to his repatriation to Australia and a subsequent discharge on medical grounds from the AIF in March 1919.
Peter Martin (footballer)He died from his war wounds at the Caulfield Military Hospital (No. 5 Australian General Hospital) on 25 March 1918.
George Francis Robert Henderson After a few months service in India, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant and returned to England, and in 1882 he went on active service to Egypt, fighting in the battles of Kassassin and Tel el-Kebir.
Norman Thomas GilroyIn 1914 his parents refused permission for him to enlist in the Australian Army, but he was allowed to volunteer for the transport service as a telegraphist.
George Long (bishop) Long joined the First Australian Imperial Force on 16 November 1917 as an Anglican chaplain.
Yelena BonnerServing as a nurse during World War II, Bonner was wounded twice, and in 1946 was honorably discharged as a disabled veteran.
Sir Walter Barttelot, 3rd Baronet With the outbreak of the First World War, Barttelot initially served in France with the 4th (Reserve) Battalion Coldstream Guards, from 12 August 1914, where he was wounded at the Battle of the Aisne and also awarded the French Croix de guerre.
Anastasios DalipisOn the outbreak of the First Balkan War in 1912, at the age of 16, presenting false documents due to his young age, he volunteered in the Greek army and participated as a soldier in the Battle of Bizani.
Konrad KnoppDuring the First World War he was an officer and was wounded at the beginning of the war, which resulted in his discharge from the army ; by the autumn of 1914 he was teaching at Berlin University.
Isaac SchlossbachIn 1930 at the age of 38, Lieutenant Commander Schlossbach was forced to retire from the Navy on a medical discharge when he lost his eye.
John Masefield When World War I began, though old enough to be exempted from military service, Masefield joined the staff of a British hospital for French soldiers, Hôpital Temporaire d'Arc-en-Barrois, Haute-Marne, France, serving briefly in 1915 as a hospital orderly, later publishing his own account of his experiences.
Hans CarossaIn 1918 Carossa's unit was transferred back to northern France where he suffered a shoulder wound which ended his military career.
Ashraf RashidHe served in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and participated in the conflict as a capatin, during which he was permanently injured on the right cheek.
Martin MutschmannDuring World War I he served on the Western Front until 1916, when he was discharged for medical reasons.
Yamamoto YaekoWhen the Russo-Japanese War broke out in 1904, she joined the army again and served as a volunteer nurse at Imperial Japanese Army hospital in Osaka for two months.
Vincenzo RagusaHe studied drawing and ivory - carving under Salvatore Lo Forte ; however, his career was interrupted by military service during the Unification of Italy, and he served in the Expedition of the Thousand in 1860 under the command of Nino Bixio.
Buddy EbsenIn 1941, with the start of U. S. involvement in World War II, Ebsen applied several times for an officer's commission in the Navy, but was repeatedly turned down.
Louis KahanHe enlisted in the French Foreign Legion in 1939 and was sent to Algeria, North Africa as a war artist, although he had never received any formal art training.
Etheridge KnightHe served as a medic in the Korean War until he was discharged from service in 1951, after suffering from a shrapnel wound and tremendous psychological trauma.
Thomas Shaw (World War I veteran)He first enlisted as a rifleman at 15 in 1914 and went into battle, but was sent home after his brother, a military policeman, met him by chance while in France.
Joseph RothIn 1916, Roth quit his university course and volunteered to serve in the Imperial Habsburg army fighting on the Eastern Front in the First World War,'' though possibly only as an army journalist or censor.''
Michael John Wise During the second world war Wise served in the British Army in Europe and the Middle East, reaching the rank of Major in 1944.
Barney RuditskyAt the age of 18, Ruditsky enlisted in the United States Army and saw active service during the 1916 U. S. expedition into Mexico and on the Western Front during the First World War.