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    Rear Admiral Desmond William Piers, CM DSC CD (June 12, 1913 – November 1, 2005) was a rear-admiral in the Royal Canadian Navy. Born in Halifax and long-time...
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  • driver Piers Crosby (1590–1646), Irish soldier Piers Dixon (1928–2017), British Conservative politician Piers Dutton (died 1545), the lord Pier Gerlofs...
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    Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond, 1st Earl of Ossory (c. 1467 – 1539) also known as Red Piers (Irish Piers Ruadh), was from the Polestown branch of the...
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  • surname Piers, one in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia, now extinct, and one in the Baronetage of Ireland, extant as of 2018[update]. The Piers Baronetcy...
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    13th Earl of Desmond, and secondly Mary Bourke, daughter of Richard Burke, 4th Earl of Clanricarde by his wife Frances Walsingham Piers of Grantstown...
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  • 1961) 1913 – Jean Victor Allard, Canadian general (d. 1996) 1913 – Desmond Piers, Canadian admiral (d. 2005) 1914 – William Lundigan, American actor...
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  • military commander and Marshal of the People's Liberation Army "Debby" – Desmond Piers, Canadian admiral "Deke" (or "Deak") – William Parsons, American naval...
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    Olympic Gold Medal Winner and 2016 World Junior Curling Champion). Desmond Piers: (1913-2005) naval officer, retired to Chester Donald Hebb: (1904-1985)...
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    the time. She and the rest of the task group, under the command of Desmond Piers were hidden nearby to wait for the German submarine. U-536, which had...
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  • Pickersgill (1915–1944) – SOE agent, executed by the Nazis Rear Admiral Desmond Piers CM DSC CD ScDMil (hc) (1913–2005) – war hero George Lawrence Price (1898–1918)...
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