John Ormsby Evelyn Vandeleur, DSO and Bar (14 November 1903 – 4 August 1988), usually known as Joe Vandeleur from his initials, was an Anglo-Irish British...
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Armoured Battalion Irish Guards, he served under his cousin Brigadier Joe Vandeleur (their grandfathers were brothers) in the breakout of XXX Corps during...
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Ennis and Carlow John Ormsby Vandeleur (MP for Granard) (1767–1822), Irish politician, MP for Granard 1790–1798 Joe Vandeleur (1903–1988), British Army officer...
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Has Landed Colonel Kurt Steiner John Sturges 1977 A Bridge Too Far Joe Vandeleur Richard Attenborough 1978 Silver Bears Doc Fletcher Ivan Passer The...
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into the Netherlands. This bridge was nicknamed Joe's Bridge in honour of Lieutenant Colonel Joe Vandeleur of the 2nd Battalion, Irish Guards who captured...
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Colonel Crofton Moore Vandeleur (1809 – 8 November 1881) was an Irish landowner and Conservative Party politician from Kilrush in County Clare. He sat...
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known as "Joe's Bridge", after Lieutenant–Colonel Joe Vandeleur, or possibly because the Royal Engineers troop who repaired it was known as "Joe's Troop"...
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cartoonist Hamid Mirza (1918–1988), Heir Presumptive of the Qajar dynasty Joe Vandeleur (1903–1988), DSO and Bar, British Army officer in World War II, served...
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George Commey Mills-Odoi, 72, Ghanaian judge and Attorney General. Joe Vandeleur, 84, Indian-born Anglo-Irish British Army officer. Harry Lee Waterfield...
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reached the border with the Netherlands, the Irish Guards under Joe Vandeleur seizing "Joe's Bridge", a bridge over the Meuse-Escault canal in a surprise...
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