Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany Biography where was he born? Edward Plunkett grew up at the family properties, Who were his parents? John William Plunkett, 17th Baron of Dunsany (1853-1899), and his wife, Ernle Elizabeth Louisa Did he have children? I don't know. anything else interesting? His mother was a cousin of Sir Richard Burton, Did he come from a good family? Edward Plunkett (Dunsany), known en famille as "Eddie," was the first son of John William Plunkett, 17th Baron of Dunsany ( did he have any siblings? a younger brother, Did he go to school? I don't know.
Did he join the military?
Did Edward Plunkett join the military?
Edward Plunkett (Dunsany), known en famille as "Eddie," was the first son of John William Plunkett, 17th Baron of Dunsany (1853-1899), and his wife, Ernle Elizabeth Louisa Maria Grosvenor Ernle-Erle-Drax, nee Ernle Elizabeth Louisa Maria Grosvenor Burton (1855-1916).  From a historically wealthy and famous family, Lord Dunsany was related to many well-known Irish figures. He was a kinsman of the Catholic Saint Oliver Plunkett, the martyred Archbishop of Armagh, whose ring and crozier head are still held by the Dunsany family. He was also related to the prominent Anglo-Irish unionist, and later nationalist / Home Rule politician Sir Horace Plunkett, and George Count Plunkett, Papal Count and Republican politician, father of Joseph Plunkett, executed for his part in the 1916 Rising.  His mother was a cousin of Sir Richard Burton, and he inherited from her considerable height, being 6' 4". The Countess of Fingall, wife of Dunsany's cousin, the Earl of Fingall, wrote a best-selling account of the life of the aristocracy in Ireland in the late 19th century and early 20th century, called Seventy Years Young.  Plunkett's only grown sibling, a younger brother, from whom he was estranged from around 1916, for reasons not fully clear but connected to his mother's will, was the noted British naval officer Sir Reginald Drax. Another, younger, brother died in infancy.  Edward Plunkett grew up at the family properties, most notably Dunstall Priory in Shoreham, Kent, and Dunsany Castle in County Meath, but also family homes such as in London. His schooling was at Cheam, Eton College and finally the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, which he entered in 1896. CANNOTANSWER
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The Shanxi clique () was one of several military factions that split off from the Beiyang Army during China's warlord era.

Though a close associate of Duan Qirui, Shanxi's military governor, Yan Xishan, did not join Duan's Anhui clique.  He kept his province neutral from the various civil wars the nation was facing, although he would fight troops from other cliques if they encroached upon the provincial boundaries.  In 1927, faced with the overwhelming forces of the National Revolutionary Army, the Fengtian clique issued an ultimatum to Yan to join their side.  Yan joined the NRA instead, and drove Fengtian armies from Beijing.  As a reward, the Kuomintang allowed the Shanxi clique to expand all the way to the sea at Hebei and Shandong.  Displeased with the dictatorship of Chiang Kai-shek, the Shanxi clique together with several other cliques launched the Central Plains War but was defeated.  The clique was significantly weakened by the Japanese invasion which occupied most of their base province.  After the war, Yan was unable to defend his province, which fell to the Communists in 1949.

See also
Warlord Era
List of warlords and military cliques in the Warlord Era
History of the Republic of China

References

Warlord cliques in Republican China Tanja Kreil (born 1977) is a German electrician notable for filing a lawsuit against the Bundeswehr (Germany's armed forces) with European Court of Justice that forced the German military to allow women to join the armed forces.

Following the 2000 ruling, the German government changed a law that banned women from serving, and by 2001 the first female volunteers joined. However, Tanja Kreil did not join the armed forces after winning the lawsuit.

Women had been allowed to serve as officers (MDs) or enlisted personnel in the medical corps since 1975, and as musicians in the music corps since 1991.

Germany never had conscription for women (for men it existed until 2011).

See also 
 Conscription in Germany

References
 Tanja Kreil v Bundesrepublik Deutschland, C-285/98
'Deutsche Welle' article on the fifth anniversary of the court ruling

German military law
1977 births
Living people Below is the list of World War I flying aces from New Zealand. While New Zealand did not have its own military air service during World War I, many New Zealanders did join Australian or British military aviation to fight in the war. Some of New Zealand's first class of aces continued to serve post-war, whether in the Royal Air Force or the Royal New Zealand Air Force; some served in World War II. Several earned advanced rank in the process.

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New Zealand
World War I flying aces
New Zealand aviators