Arthur St. John Adcock - Lance Corporal Cobber, Cicely Fox Smith, Edgar Wallace, Ethel Campbell, Henry Newbolt, Jessie Pope and Sylvia Hobday.
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Merchant's Walk is a open-air shopping center with retailers, restaurants, and a movie theater originally built in 1976 and since expanded and twice renovated, once in the early 1990s and again in 2008–2011. The East Cobber newspaper called the center the "heart" of the East Cobb community."Merchant's Walk makes changes" , East Cobber, 2012-01-19 Tenants include Cook's Warehouse, Kohl's, Stein Mart, PetsMart, ULTA Beauty, Old Navy, Whole Foods Market, Marlow's Tavern, and SEED Kitchen & Bar, as well as a movie theater. The center is located at the intersection of Johnson Ferry and Roswell Roads.
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After the dogfight, he came back with five holes in his fuselage.Holmes 1999, p. 18. Flying Officer E. J. "Cobber" Kain, a New Zealander, was responsible for 73 Squadron's first victory on 8 November 1939 while stationed at Rouvres.Burns 1992, pp. 56–57.
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The committee tried to persuade workers to help the Soviet forces, but was not able to muster much support from the populace, therefore its effect was marginal at best. After the Soviet victory in Budapest, he changed his name from Csermanek to Kádár, literally meaning "cobber" or "barrel-maker".Gough 2006, p. 25.
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As far as operations overseas went, it was assumed New Zealand would be embedded within Britain's Royal Air Force. In Europe, this was the case. During the 1930s New Zealanders joined the RAF through RAF scholarships and short service commissions, like the first RAF ace of WWII, 'Cobber' Kain. In the opening years of World War II, the RNZAF produced many pilots for the RAF, including fighter pilots.
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Retrieved: 29 September 2010. On 18 May 1940, air combat continued from dawn to dusk; Hurricane pilots claimed 57 German aircraft and 20 probables (Luftwaffe records show 39 aircraft lost). The following day, 1 and 73 Squadrons claimed eleven German aircraft (three by "Cobber" Kain and three by Paul Richey). On these two days Hurricanes suffered heavier losses, with 68 Hurricanes shot down or forced to crash-land due to combat damage.
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At the time the first prototype of the S5000 was being made by a Gillion Group subsidiary, MTN Tooling in Bentleigh under an agreement with a new company Ted had formed in 2006, Pritchard Power Systems Ltd. This company eventually became Uniflow Power Ltd that has proceeded to secure wide-ranging global patents over aspects of the core technology that Ted designed. Uniflow has developed the S5000 to the point that it is being demonstrated as a pre- commercial prototype known as the 'Cobber'.
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Harold Rush's grave marker in Walker's Ridge Cemetery Amongst the graves is that of 23-year-old Trooper Harold Rush of the 10th Australian Light Horse regiment. Rush was in the third wave of troops to charge Turkish trenches at the battle of the Nek on 7 August 1915. Seeing that previous two waves had been slaughtered, just before his wave attacked he turned to a fellow soldier and said "Goodbye Cobber, God bless you". His parents had these last words recorded on his grave marker.
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They were met at the railway station by a large crowd who rushed "to get a sight of Private Jackson, and cheer after cheer was given for the returned hero". The two soldiers were officially welcomed in front of the Post Office. The Deputy Mayor spoke of Hay's reflected glory when reports stated that Jackson was from "Gunbar, near Hay". Camden replied on Jackson's behalf, and spoke of his comrade's selfless courage: "Bill was not looking for a VC that night, he was looking for a cobber".
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If the pilot resorted to emergency boost, he had to report this on landing and it had to be noted in the engine log book.Report by P/O John Bushell, 151 Squadron 18 May 1940.Retrieved: 6 April 2008 In 1939, the RAF had taken on about 500 of this later design to form the backbone of the fighter squadrons during the Battle of France and into the Battle of Britain. The first RAF ace of the war, a young New Zealander known as "Cobber" Kain, flew a Hurricane with No. 73 Squadron.
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Landing near a French unit, he was driven back to Rouvres in the evening. The shooting down of the two Bf 109s in this action made him the RAF's first flying ace of the Second World War. He remained relatively anonymous to the British public, his identity continuing to be simply Cobber when his exploits were reported. The wounds from his latest encounter meant that he was off flying duties for a few days and during his convalescence, the citation for his DFC was published in the London Gazette.
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Cobber Kain, wearing his flying helmet and standing in the cockpit of his Hawker Hurricane On 10 May 1940, the German forces launched the blitzkrieg through the Low countries and France. No. 73 Squadron was immediately involved, as several Hurricanes were scrambled to deal with a number of German bombers. At around 6:00am Kain engaged and shot down a Dornier Do 215, one of nine that he sighted near Metz. He encountered another seven on his return to Rouvres but had exhausted his ammunition in the earlier action.
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On 7 June 1940, "Cobber" Kain, the first RAF ace of the war, got word that he was to return to England for "rest leave" at an Operational Training Unit. On leaving his airfield, he put on an impromptu aerobatic display and was killed when his Hurricane crashed after completing a loop and attempting some low altitude "flick" rolls.Burns 1992, pp. 165–167. Initial engagements with the Luftwaffe had showed the Hurricane to be a tight- turning and steady platform, but the Watts two-bladed propeller was clearly unsuitable.
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His body was one of the few identified, and he is buried in Walker's Ridge Cemetery. His epitaph famously reads: "His last words, Goodbye Cobber, God bless you". On 25 November 1915, shortly before the decision to completely withdraw from the peninsula, Godley was temporarily promoted to lieutenant general and appointed corps commander. After the evacuation (he left the day before the rest of his troops), in recognition of his services at Gallipoli, he was made Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, second highest of the seven British orders of chivalry.
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He gained his wings on 25 June 1937 and went onto RAF Ternhill a few months later for advanced training on fighters, flying the Hawker Fury. By this time, he was becoming proficient in aerobatics but he had also been disciplined for performing stunts at too low a height. In November 1937, with his training completed, Kain was posted to No. 73 Fighter Squadron, then equipped with the Gloster Gladiator biplane fighter and based at RAF Digby. It was while serving with the squadron that he became known as Cobber, New Zealand slang for a friend.
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His Hurricane was a wreck and he had to be flown back to Rouvres by a Bristol Blenheim in the evening. The encounter was reported by the BBC in its main radio bulletin later that day; Kain was not named and only referred to as a New Zealander. A few days later he completed a media interview, in which he was identified as Cobber, for BBC radio which was broadcast on 9 March 1940. However, reporters from the United States were not as restricted and knowledge of his identity was becoming known in his home country.
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According to author Tim Lycett, Cyril Longmore, the author of the Australian 44th Battalion's official history, recorded the term being used by members of the battalion in a manner synonymous with the word "cobber" during their time digging trenches while training on Salisbury Plain in late 1916 as the 3rd Division prepared to deploy to the Western Front and from Longmore's book and letters he published later, Lycett has asserted that the term possibly gained prominence following a speech from the 11th Brigade's commander, Brigadier James Cannan, about the digging "prowess" of the 44th Battalion, many of whom had worked in the Western Australian goldfields prior to enlisting.
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At least 78 became aces. New Zealanders in the RNZAF and RAF included pilots such as the first RAF ace of WW2, Flying Officer Cobber Kain, Alan Deere, whose Nine Lives was one of the first post war accounts of combat, and leaders such as World War I ace, Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, who commanded 11 Group, responsible for the defence of London in the Battle of Britain, the air defence of Malta and in the closing stages of the war, the RAF in South East Asia. Through accident or design, several RAF units came to be mostly manned by RNZAF pilots (for example No. 243 Squadron RAF in Singapore, No. 258 Squadron RAF in the UK and several Wildcat and Hellcat units of the FAA – leading some texts to claim these types of aircraft were used by the RNZAF). Hurricane night fighter pilots of 486 squadron at Wittering in 1942 The Royal Air Force deliberately set aside certain squadrons for pilots from particular countries.
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In New Zealand's North Island, near the fictional coastal town of Harpoon and more remote than the actual spa resort of Rotorua, the thermal springs area of Wai-ata-tapu dominated by Rangi's Peak, an extinct volcano, is home to the Maori 'reservation' community, presided over by the distinguished senior Te Rarawa chief and former MP, Rua Te Kahu, and the failing neighbouring spa Hostel, incompetently run for the last 12 years by Colonel and Mrs Claire, retired Anglo-Indians, kindly, vaguely snobbish and shabby genteel. Also resident at the Wai-ata-tapu Hostel are the Claire's adult daughter Barbara and son Simon, Mrs Claire's brother Dr James Ackrington (an irascible, distinguished, retired medical consultant), Simon's 'cobber' Herbert Smith (an alcoholic 'remittance man' acting as general handyman) and Maurice Questing (a pushing businessman owed money by Colonel Claire and generally unpopular with everyone). It is 1942, the advancing Japanese have bombed Darwin and recently sunk SS Hippolyte two miles out of Harpoon. Dr Ackrington writes to visiting CID espionage investigator Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn voicing his suspicion that Questing is a spy.
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