Arthur Currie
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General Sir Arthur William Currie was a senior officer of the Canadian Army who fought during World War I. He had the unique distinction of starting his military career on the very bottom rung as a pr
Currie in 1917
The farm homestead of Arthur Currie (1919)
Officers of the 5th Regiment at Macaulay Point in 1909. Currie is seated on the bench, third from left.
Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Currie in Highland dress of the 50th Regiment
Starship Troopers
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Starship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. Written in a few weeks in reaction to the US suspending nuclear tests, the story was first published as a t
Arthur Currie
…the local branch of the Royal Canadian Legion bears his name, and a statue has been raised to him. Robert A. Heinlein, in his science fiction novel Starship Troopers, named one of the basic training facilities "Camp Arthur Currie". In 2006 Canada honoured Currie as one of fourteen Canadians in the Valiants Memorial…
First edition hardcover
The cover of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (November 1959), illustrating Starship Soldier
Robert Heinlein in 1976
A real-life concept of powered armor, an idea popularized by Starship Troopers