Colonel
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| Gender | Male |
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| Nato code | OF-5 |
| Next higher rank | Brigadier |
| Next lower rank | Lieutenant colonel |
| Equivalent rank | Captain |
| Group captain | |
| Date of birth | January 1,1825 |
| Died | London |
| United Kingdom | |
| 1910 | |
| London | |
| United Kingdom | |
| Parents | George Thomas Colomb |
| Mary Bradley King | |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 1038422 |
Colonel Life story
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The procession in fullMounted Metropolitan Police • Royal Canadian Mounted Police • Bands of The Rifles and Brigade of Gurkhas • Representatives of the George Cross from Malta, the Royal Ulster Constabulary and the UK National Health Service Representative detachments of Commonwealth forces: Territorial Air Force of New Zealand • Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment • The Corps of Royal New Zealand Engineers • Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps • Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery • Royal New Zealand Navy • Royal Australian Air Force Reserve • Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps • Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps • Royal Australian Infantry Corps • Royal Australian Engineers • Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery • Royal Australian Navy • The Canadian Armed Forces Legal Branch • The Royal Canadian Air Force (Reserve) • The Calgary Highlanders • The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada • The 48th Highlanders of Canada • The North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment • The Royal New Brunswick Regiment • Le Regiment de Ia Chaudière • The Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders (Princess Louise s) • The Canadian Grenadier Guards • Governor General s Foot Guards • Royal 22e Regiment • The King s Own Calgary Regiment (RCAC) The Governor General s Horse Guards • The Royal Canadian Engineers • The Canadian Armed Forces Military Engineering Branch • The Royal Regiment of Canadian ArtilleryRepresentatives of the Royal Air Force: 603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force • Royal Auxiliary Air Force • Royal Air Force Marham • The Combined Bands of the Royal Air Force • Royal Air Force College, Cranwell • Royal Air Force RegimentRepresentatives of the Army: The Honourable Artillery Company • Adjutant General s Corps • British Army Bands Sandhurst and Colchester • The Queen s Gurkha Engineers • The Royal Welsh • The Duke of Lancaster s Regiment • The Royal Regiment of Scotland • Welsh Guards • Irish Guards • Scots Guards • Coldstream Guards • Grenadier Guards • Bands of the Irish Guards and Welsh Guards • Corps of Royal Engineers • Royal Regiment of Artillery • Royal Tank Regiment • The Royal Lancers • The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys)Representatives of the Royal Navy: Royal Navy • Royal Marines • The Combined Bands of the Royal MarinesDefence advisers and staff of Her Majesty s realms: Jamaica • New Zealand • Australia • CanadaRepresentative Colonels of Commonwealth forces of which Her Majesty was Colonel-in-ChiefChaplains of the armed forces: Principal Church of Scotland & Free Church Chaplain Royal Air Force • Principal Roman Catholic Chaplain Royal Air Force • Chaplain-in-Chief Royal Air Force • Deputy Chaplain General (Army) • Principal Roman Catholic Chaplain (Army) • Chaplain General (Army) • Principal Church of Scotland and Free Churches Chaplain (Royal Navy) • Principal Roman Catholic Chaplain (Royal Navy) • Chaplain of the FleetRepresentatives of forces of which the Queen was air commodore-in-chief • Representative Colonels Commandant, Colonels and Honorary Colonels of Her Majesty s Regiments and Corps • Commandant General, Royal Marines • Representatives of Her Majesty s ships • Commander Strategic Command • Vice Chief of the Defence Staff • Chief of the Air Staff • Chief of the General Staff • Chief of the Naval Staff • Chief of the Defence Staff • Drum Horse and State Trumpeter • 1st Division of the Sovereign s Escort • ADC to the Major General Commanding the Household Division • Brigade Major Household Division • Major General Commanding the Household Division • Combined Bands of the Scots Guards and Coldstream Guards Pursuivants and Heralds of Arms of Scotland: March • Linlithgow • Ormond • Rothesay • Falkland • Unicorn • Carrick • Marchmont Pursuivants and Heralds of Arms of England: Portcullis • Rouge Dragon • Norfolk • Windsor • York • Bluemantle • Wales • Maltravers • Chester • RichmondKings of Arms: Norroy and Ulster King of Arms • Lord Lyon King of Arms • Clarenceux King of Arms • Lady Usher of the Black Rod • Garter King of ArmsThe Earl Marshal • Bands of the Scots Guards and Coldstream Guards • Captain, the King s Body Guard of the Yeoman of the Guard • Captain general, the King s Body Guard for Scotland (Royal Company of Archers) (Gold Stick for Scotland) • Captain, His Majesty s Body Guard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms Royal Household; Vice Chamberlain of the Household • Comptroller of the Household • Treasurer of the Household • Queen s Gurkha Orderly Officer (x2) • Royal Waterman (x2) • Director of the Royal Collection • Comptroller Lord Chamberlain s Office • Master of the Household • Keeper of the Privy Purse • Private secretary to the Queen • Master of the Horse • Lord Steward • Her Majesty s Page (x2) • Her Majesty s Palace StewardBehind the gun carriage: Escort Party of the Household CavalryRoyal Family: The Earl of Wessex and Forfar • The Duke of York • The Princess Royal • The King • Peter Phillips • The Duke of Sussex • The Prince of Wales • Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence • The Duke of Gloucester • The Earl of SnowdonRoyal Car 1: The Queen Consort • The Princess of WalesRoyal Car 2: The Duchess of Sussex • The Countess of Wessex and ForfarField officer in Brigade Waiting • Silver Stick in Waiting • Colonel Coldstream Guards • Gold Stick in Waiting • Adjutant in Brigade Waiting • Silver Stick Adjutant • Crown EquerryHousehold of the King: Master of the Household • Equerry • Principal Private Secretary • TreasurerSecond division of the Sovereign s escortRepresentatives of Civilian Services: Merchant Navy • Royal Fleet Auxiliary • The Maritime Coastguard Agency • Police Services • Fire and Rescue Services • His Majesty s Prison Services • Ambulance Service • British Red Cross • St John Ambulance • Royal Voluntary Service • Cadet forcesRear: Mounted Metropolitan PoliceOnce the procession reaches Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner, at about 13:00 BST, the coffin will be transferred to the new State Hearse for its final journey to Windsor Castle...
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World War Two soldier massacre anniversary marked
On 27 May 1940, 97 British soldiers ran out of bullets and surrendered to the Germans, expecting to be treated as prisoners of war. Instead their Dog Tags were removed, and they were lined up and machine-gunned. Amazingly, two men survived - and lived to see the SS Colonel who ordered The Shooting brought to justice.
The 2Nd Battalion was among those ordered to Hold Back The German advance across France for as long as possible, to enable the evacuation of nearly 340,000 Allied soldiers from The Beaches of Dunkirk.
They fought with little rest or food for 17 days, alongside men from, resisting tank charges and repelling oncoming forces from a farm at Le Paradis in northern France.
Finally on 27 May, they ran out of ammunition.
Pte Bill O'Callaghan, who had served with the Norfolks since 1932, was among them.
He told his son, Dennis O'Callaghan: " Maj Ryder said it looks like this is The End lads, let's all go out en masse and surrender.
" We hung out the White Flag as The First comrades walked out-of-house and we were shortly after marched to a nearby field.
" I saw two machine-guns and asked an officer: 'Are they going to shoot us all?' And He Said : 'No, they can't do that, we're covered by the Geneva Convention. '
" But I Heard The Shout 'fire!' and dived to the ground thinking 'good God, this can't be happening'. "
As he lay there with Three Bullets in his tunic, and a third in his left arm, comrades who cried out were bayonetted and shot by the SS soldiers.
So Pte O'Callaghan faked death and, exhausted by days of fighting and probably in shock, fell asleep for several hours.
His son, 75, said: " The Next thing Father knew, it was dark and raining, and he was being shaken awake by Pooley, who'd heard his snores. "
Pte Bert Pooley was The Second miracle survivor.
He had a shattered leg, so was carried and dragged across a field by Pte O'Callaghan, who swerved to avoid a barn full of SS soldiers cooking a meal, until they found a pigsty.
They lived there for Three Days , eating raw potatoes and drinking Dirty Water from puddles, Mr O'Callaghan said.
" On The Fourth day a French woman Madame Creton discovered them and gave them their first food for days. "
Her family sheltered and treated The Wounds of The Men at personal Risk - the Germans had threatened to execute civilians helping Allied soldiers.
After about 10 days, they were transferred to a French hospital for treatment before being sent to German prisoner of war (POW) camps.
The Massacre of The Soldiers contravened the, a series of international treaties designed to protect prisoners of war.
But The Men had surrendered to Capt Fritz Knoechlein of the 3rd SS Division (Totenkopf), who ignored the treaties and ordered The Massacre .
Word got out about The Incident , and at least one German general attempted to hold to account to no avail.
However, The British authorities were also dismissive.
" Father saw B Company's commander Capt Alan Hallett in the French hospital and reported The Incident - He Said it was poppycock and told Pooley the same thing, " Mr O'Callaghan said.
Years later, that This Was because a massacre was " not a thing we had expected from the German Army of those days" but also " if this story was true, The Knowledge of it was a very dangerous thing".
Both soldiers resolved not to speak of it again until They Returned to Britain, a move which probably saved their lives.
In 1943, Pte Pooley was repatriated as a result of his injuries. He reported The Incident to disbelieving officers Once More .
Amateur historian John E Head, 72, said: " His mental anguish at This Was so horrendous, he wondered whether he dreamed it all. "
In an attempt to discover if it was an hallucination, he " used The Family savings" to return to France in 1946 and found other witnesses.
Meanwhile, Pte O'Callaghan also reported it on his return to Britain at The End of The War , having survived a 1,000 mile (1,609km) POW death march.
The case was taken up by who tracked Knoechlein - by now an SS Colonel - Down to a POW camp in Sheffield.
He was brought before A War crime trial in Germany in 1948, where he denied The Charge . Both Pte O'Callaghan and Pte Pooley travelled to Hamburg to be witnesses.
Mr Head, who researches, said for what were supposed to, The Battle of France had been bloody and at times humiliating.
" They incurred More Than 120 losses trying to cross a canal to the Norfolks, And Then Hitler issued a halt order so they had to withdraw, " He Said .
" Finally, they get across The Canal on 25 May, only to be driven back.
" And the Norfolks' sniping was so accurate, they killed About 12 of Knoechlein's guys and he was seen to hold up his hand in a rage and swear vengeance. "
Knoechlein was found guilty and executed in January 1949.
The bodies of 111 identified soldiers killed in The Massacre or fighting nearby, as well as four members of the RAF and another 40 unidentified bodies, lie in the War Cemetery in Le Paradis .
The Village , a hamlet in The Township of Lestrem near Lille, is commemorating The Massacre 's 80th anniversary on 27 and 28 May , delayed by two years due to the pandemic.
Stephane Gomanne, deputy mayor of Lestrem and in charge of the commemorations, said there had been a quiet ceremony in 2020.
He Said : " Every Year . . Together we Remember the Paradis massacre, Together we share a solemn moment and a moment of understanding. "
Mr O'Callaghan is attending the two-day event with his sister Heather Neave.
He Said it " felt special" to be there and it was " so well attended".
" It was very moving. I did get upset, especially in front of The Church reading my speech, reading my late father's actual words. It's a very moving place to be, " He Said .
Joséphine Weingaertner, a local resident in Lestrem who was involved in organising the commemorative events, said: " It's important for us to Remember - 97 soldiers were killed here by the SS, two survivors were hidden by local people and it's a tragic moment that belongs to our history.
" It's very important to be grateful to The Soldiers who lost their lives for our freedom. Every Year we have a commemoration to pass the duty of remembrance to Future Generations so that What Happened in Le Paradis will never be forgotten. "
Source of news: bbc.com
