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1735:(Supplement). 5 February 1965. p. 1361.
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255:Companion of the Distinguished Service Order
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1417:(Supplement). 25 January 1944. p. 520.
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1070:Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter
1000:Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
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1227:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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2928:Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
2709:Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd
2656:Chiefs of the Imperial General Staff
2050:Director of Staff Duties, War Office
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2229:Constable of the Tower of London
2018:Colonel of the 17th/21st Lancers
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373:Richard Amyatt Hull was born in
363:Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation
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886:end of World War II in Europe
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33:Richard Hull (disambiguation)
1251:UK public library membership
409:, a cavalry regiment of the
19:For the crime novelist, see
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2482:Chiefs of the General Staff
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2126:C-in-C Far East Land Forces
2077:GOC British Troops in Egypt
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1075:His interests included
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969:British Troops in Egypt
965:Middle East Land Forces
905:Lashmer "Bolo" Whistler
666:mentioned in despatches
531:1st Derbyshire Yeomanry
517:, Hull was promoted to
361:on the response to the
292:Sir Richard Amyatt Hull
259:Mentioned in Despatches
192:British Troops in Egypt
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471:6th Armoured Division
467:26th Armoured Brigade
435:Staff College, Quetta
417:on 7 May 1931 and to
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212:26th Armoured Brigade
207:1st Armoured Division
202:5th Infantry Division
135:Years of service
21:Richard Hull (author)
2684:Sir Archibald Murray
2331:Sir Charles Elworthy
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93:(1989-09-17)
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2537:George Wade
1837:"No. 48167"
1819:"No. 47659"
1801:"No. 45163"
1783:"No. 41398"
1765:"No. 44376"
1747:"No. 43712"
1729:"No. 43569"
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451:War Office
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138:1926–1967
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931:Postwar
925:Germany
862:Belgium
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547:Tunisia
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469:of the
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1103:Family
1097:Pinhoe
1093:cancer
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507:Allied
505:, the
375:Cosham
243:Awards
219:(1943)
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125:branch
105:Buried
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535:Tunis
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