Prince Harry Secondment to Australian Defence Force and leaving the Army
When did Harry leave the Army?
When did Prince Harry leave the Army?
On 17 March 2015, Kensington Palace announced that Prince Harry would leave the Armed Forces in June. Before then, he would spend four weeks throughout April and May at army barracks in Darwin, Perth and Sydney whilst seconded to the Australian Defence Force (ADF). After leaving the Army, while considering his future, he would return to work with the Ministry of Defence, supporting Case Officers in the Ministry of Defence's Recovery Capability Programme, working with both those who administer and receive physical and mental care within the London District area in a voluntary capacity.  On 6 April 2015, Prince Harry reported for duty to Australia's Chief of the Defence Force, Air Chief Marshal Mark Binskin at the Royal Military College, Duntroon in Canberra, Australia. Harry flew to Darwin later that day to start his month-long secondment to the ADF's 1st Brigade. His visit included detachments to NORFORCE as well as to an aviation unit. While in Perth, he trained with Special Air Service Regiment (SASR), participating in the SASR selection course, including a fitness test and a physical training session with SASR selection candidates. He also joined SASR members in Perth for live-fire shooting exercises with numerous Special Forces weapons at a variety of ranges and completed an insertion training exercise using a rigid-hull inflatable boat. In Sydney, he undertook urban operations training with the 2nd Commando Regiment. Training activities included remotely detonating an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) and rappelling from a building. He also spent time flying over Sydney as co-pilot of an Army Black Hawk and participated in counter-terrorism training in Sydney Harbour with Royal Australian Navy clearance divers.  Harry's attachment with the ADF ended on 8 May 2015, and on 19 June 2015 his career with the Army ended. CANNOTANSWER
Harry's attachment with the ADF ended on 8 May 2015, and on 19 June 2015 his career with the Army ended.
Harry Palmer (c.1889-1962) was a vaudeville actor in the 1910s who was the inspiration for the musical film For Me and My Gal.

Palmer was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1889. He grew up always wanted to act, and in 1909, at the age of 20, he made his vaudeville debut at the Palace Theater in Chicago.  Just a few years later, Palmer rose to stardom, acting in comedies and musicals by himself, until late 1916 when he teamed up with Joanne 'Jo' Hayden. Their act, "Palmer & Hayden", stayed together until they retired from show business in the 1920s.  In mid-1917, the two became engaged.

In September 1917, Hayden's good friend Danny Metcalf, who was supposed to finish medical school, was drafted into the U.S. Army, and was killed in action in World War I on September 29 of that year.  Shortly after, Palmer was also drafted into the Army, just before he and Hayden were going to play at The Palace in New York City.  Palmer did not want to go to war and purposely damaged his hand so he would not have to go to France.  Hayden was going to leave Palmer if he did not serve, so Palmer tried enlisting, but none of the armed services would accept him because of his hand. However, Palmer was accepted to the Red Cross ambulance corps and went overseas in early 1918. Hayden did not leave him or stop the engagement. Palmer saw action in France at Cantigny, the second Battle of Marne, Soissons, Saint-Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne.  Palmer was shot in the shoulder, but survived the war and was discharged from service in 1919.

Palmer and Hayden returned to vaudeville in 1919, and also got married that same year, but did not do many shows afterward. They retired from vaudeville in the early 1920s.

In 1942, Gene Kelly and Judy Garland player Palmer and Hayden in the MGM musical film For Me and My Gal, directed by Busby Berkeley. The story of the film closely followed the actual events surrounding Palmer's involvement in the First World War, although some details were changed for dramatic purposes, such as making "Danny" Hayden's brother dying in the war instead of a friend.  Danny's last name was also used for the character "Jimmy Metcalf", the rival for Hayden's affections.

Harry Palmer died in 1962, at the age of 73.

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Vaudeville performers The 2nd Maryland Cavalry Battalion, a.k.a. Gilmor's Partisan Rangers, was a Confederate unit in the American Civil War.

History
The unit was founded and commanded by Colonel Harry Gilmor.  Gilmor was a member of the Towson Guards (a.k.a. Baltimore Horse Guards), when the Civil War started.  Due to his political views, he was taken prisoner by the U.S. Federal government and imprisoned at Fort McHenry.  After he was released, he went to the Shenandoah Valley to join the Confederate Army.  He served as a scout for Colonel Turner Ashby, General J. E. B. Stuart's predecessor.  Gilmor joined as a Private, but was quickly promoted to Sergeant Major.  In March, 1862, he had raised his own company, which was attached to the 12th Virginia Cavalry. 
Gilmor served with General Stonewall Jackson at McDowell County, West Virginia in May 1862. Gilmor's Cavalry Company spent the next three months scouting, serving as couriers and harassing enemy camps and trains. In September 1862, Harry Gilmor was with General Jackson when he crossed the Potomac River into Maryland.  While in Maryland, Gilmor went on "French leave", to see his family in Towson, Maryland, just north of Baltimore. While en route to his family home, Glen Ellen Plantation, Gilmor was taken prisoner by Union Forces. 
 
Sometime later, Harry Gilmor was back with Confederate Forces as part of a prisoner exchange.  He was serving under General JEB Stuart at the Battle of Kelly's Ford in March 1863. Shortly after the battle, Harry Gilmor petitioned to raise his own cavalry regiment. He organized several companies of mostly Marylanders into a unit that called themselves "The Band".  
Occasionally, Gilmor's Battalion fought alongside other units such as McNeill's Rangers, and the 1st Maryland Cavalry, CSA. During the Confederate campaign into Maryland in June 1863, Harry Gilmor was temporarily placed in command of the 1st Maryland Cavalry, after its commander was wounded in combat. After the Maryland Campaign, the Confederate Army returned to Virginia. During this time, Gilmor had 6 full companies of rangers operating in the Shenandoah Valley.  They conducted mainly guerrilla-type operations against Union wagon trains, railroads, telegraph lines, depots, bridges and encampments.

In June 1864,  Gilmor's Battalion was designated as the 2nd Maryland Cavalry.  The 1st & 2nd Maryland Cavalry units became involved in almost daily skirmishes with Union General Sheridan's cavalry. In one of these battles, Colonel Gilmor was seriously wounded, and did not return to action until October. In February 1865, the 2nd Maryland went into West Virginia to forage for supplies, and to meet up with McNeill's Rangers. In the process, Colonel Harry Gilmor was captured on February 4, 1865, and taken to Fort Warren, Massachusetts.

See also
Maryland Civil War Confederate Units
Lists of American Civil War Regiments by State

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Units and formations of the Confederate States Army from Maryland
1862 establishments in Maryland
1865 disestablishments in Maryland
Military units and formations disestablished in 1865 Three's a Crowd is a 1927 American comedy film directed by Harry Langdon and written by James Langdon and Robert Eddy. The film stars Harry Langdon, Gladys McConnell, Cornelius Keefe and Arthur Thalasso. The film was released on August 28, 1927, by First National Pictures.

Plot
Harry, a mover's boy, watches his boss play proudly with his son, then retrieves a rag doll from the garbage.

Gladys, exasperated by her husband's intemperance, leaves him. Harry finds her slumped on the snowy ground and comes to her aid by hosting her in his modest attic. Then he realizes that the woman is about to give birth to a child, and immediately summons an army of midwives and doctors, who, after the birth, congratulate him, believing him to be the father.

Harry sees his desire for family magically fulfilled, and busily takes care of the woman and the child. A palmist assures him that the child's father will never come looking for his wife and baby.

The father, now repentant, instead, goes to look for them and finds them, looking out, on a stormy night, at the window of the attic.

Gladys, however, has grown fond of Harry, and, in the boxing match organized between the two men, she encourages and supports him, because she wants to stay with him, together with the child.

But this is only Harry's dream. In reality, husband and wife make peace, and, deeply grateful to Harry, greet him with a handshake (the palm of which Harry then looks dejected) and leave with their son.

That same night, when the elements have subsided, Harry leaves the house, and - after seeing the lost rag doll abandoned along the street - goes to the fortune teller's window brandishing a brick. Then he renounces the useless revenge, and drops the brick ...

Cast      
Harry Langdon as Harry 
Gladys McConnell as Gladys 
Cornelius Keefe as The Husband
Arthur Thalasso as Harry's Boss

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1927 films
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English-language films
American comedy films
1927 comedy films
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American silent feature films
American black-and-white films