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Jorģis Zemitāns List of Brothers in Arms characters James Martin Child HMS Phoenix (1911) Neil Ritchie
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When First world war started in 1914 he was promoted to captain and together with whole regiment deployed to front. Together with XX Army corps he fought in East Prussia. In January 1915 whole XX Army corps was destroyed in the Augustów forest's and Zemitāns was taken Prisoner of War in February 1915 He spent reminder of war in the German POW camps and was released from captivity in December 1918. 
Private First Class Dean "Friar" Winchell. Winchell joined the 101st Airborne Division when World War II started. He was assigned to 2nd Squad's Assault-team. Winchell rarely speaks. Though laid back, he can be authoritative when the situation demands it. 
James Martin Child, son of Constance Octavio and Tylney Harris Child of Leytonstone, England, was born on 20 October 1893. The youthful Child moved to Canada, worked in a bank, and was a prospector for minerals. He was still in Canada when the First World War started. 
At the beginning of the First World War, "Phoenix" was part of the First Destroyer Flotilla operating in the North Sea. She and her sisters were attached to the Grand Fleet as soon as the war started. 
Military career. World War I. Following Lancing and Sandhurst, Ritchie's military career started in 1914 when he was commissioned as an officer in the Black Watch. During the First World War he served in France, where he won the Distinguished Service Order in 1917, and in the Mesopotamian campaign where he won the Military Cross in 1918, for "a fine example of coolness, courage and utter disregard of danger". 