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Military Word Of The Day

FST

field surgical team

Today in Military History

August 18

1917:

VC won by A/Major Okill Massey Learmouth MC, 2nd Battalion, CEF, Hill 70, France (posthumous)

1917:

VC won by Sgt Frederick Hobson, 20th Battalion, CEF, Hill 70, France (posthumous)

1944:

VC won by Major David Vivian Currie, 29th Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment (The South Alberta Regiment), St. Lambert-sur-Dives, France

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