Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Major Arthur Alexander Greenwood (8 March 1920 – 7 November 2012) was a British Army officer.Greenwood was born in Corby Glen, Lincolnshire and educated at Oakham School. He enlisted in the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment and was commissioned as a second lieutenant on 10 June 1939, before serving in the Second World War in Norway and Iceland. He served as aide-de-camp to General Claude Auchinleck in India during the Second World War. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1945, with seniority from 8 September 1942. Following the war he served in the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve in the Intelligence Corps, and was promoted to captain on 7 April 1959. Greenwood later became a member of the executive committee which surrounded General Sir Walter Colyear Walker, and tasked itself with creating a contingency plan for the British Army to takeover British Government if the communist threat perceived in Britain at the time ever got out of hand.In 1980 he emigrated to Canada, and became a Canadian citizen in 1983."@en }
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- Alex_Greenwood_(British_Army_officer) abstract "Major Arthur Alexander Greenwood (8 March 1920 – 7 November 2012) was a British Army officer.Greenwood was born in Corby Glen, Lincolnshire and educated at Oakham School. He enlisted in the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment and was commissioned as a second lieutenant on 10 June 1939, before serving in the Second World War in Norway and Iceland. He served as aide-de-camp to General Claude Auchinleck in India during the Second World War. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1945, with seniority from 8 September 1942. Following the war he served in the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve in the Intelligence Corps, and was promoted to captain on 7 April 1959. Greenwood later became a member of the executive committee which surrounded General Sir Walter Colyear Walker, and tasked itself with creating a contingency plan for the British Army to takeover British Government if the communist threat perceived in Britain at the time ever got out of hand.In 1980 he emigrated to Canada, and became a Canadian citizen in 1983.".
- Q17505789 abstract "Major Arthur Alexander Greenwood (8 March 1920 – 7 November 2012) was a British Army officer.Greenwood was born in Corby Glen, Lincolnshire and educated at Oakham School. He enlisted in the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment and was commissioned as a second lieutenant on 10 June 1939, before serving in the Second World War in Norway and Iceland. He served as aide-de-camp to General Claude Auchinleck in India during the Second World War. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1945, with seniority from 8 September 1942. Following the war he served in the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve in the Intelligence Corps, and was promoted to captain on 7 April 1959. Greenwood later became a member of the executive committee which surrounded General Sir Walter Colyear Walker, and tasked itself with creating a contingency plan for the British Army to takeover British Government if the communist threat perceived in Britain at the time ever got out of hand.In 1980 he emigrated to Canada, and became a Canadian citizen in 1983.".