Giffard Martel
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Lieutenant-General Sir Giffard Le Quesne Martel, was a British Army officer who served in both the First and Second World Wars. Familiarly known as "Q Martel" or just "Q", he was a pioneering British
Martel in 1941
A young Lt Martel (furthest right), October 1914.
After a tank demonstration near Frensham, Surrey; Martel, Władysław Sikorski (Prime Minister of the Polish Government-in-Exile and C-in-C of the Polish Armed Forces), Winston Churchill, General Charles de Gaulle (C-in-C of the Free French Forces) and Willoughby Norrie (GOC 1st Armoured Division), February 1941.
Charles Inglis (engineer)
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Sir Charles Edward Inglis was a British civil engineer. The son of a medical doctor, he was educated at Cheltenham College and won a scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, where he would later forg
1926 portrait
A surviving Inglis Bridge (Mark II) over the River Monnow
The modern Cambridge University Engineering Department is sited on the former Scroope House, acquired for the university by Inglis in 1924.
Telford Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers like that awarded to Inglis in 1924