Edward Thomas - Military

Military

  • Major Edward Thomas (1915–1999), World War II Military Cross receiver and temporary Brigadier
  • Edward Lloyd Thomas (1825–1898), Confederate American Civil War general
  • Edward Thomas (British Army soldier) (fl. 1914–23), who fired the first shot of the British Army in World War I

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Famous quotes containing the word military:

    “The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.”
    —Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)

    “The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)