Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/March 2015/Articles


 * Exhumation of Richard III of England (Prioryman) : One of Britain's most controversial monarchs was thrust into the news again recently with the discovery of his remains on the site of the former Greyfriars Church in Leicester. Nominator Prioryman's successful FAC in February allowed him to bring the article to the main page on 26 March, to coincide with Richard's reburial at Leicester Cathedral.
 * James B. Weaver (Coemgenus) : James Weaver was a general in the American Civil War but first and foremost a politician. In nominator Coemgenus' words, "From Republican to Greenback to Populist to Democrat, Weaver moved around the political parties of Gilded Age America, always in support of a fair shake for farmers and laborers. Or, that's how he'd tell it. Opponents might call him a chronic office-seeker and grabber of Indian lands."


 * Trinity (nuclear test) (Hawkeye7) : The world's first explosion of a nuclear weapon should need little introduction to most members of this project, and paved the way for the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki later in 1945. Hawkeye took the article though GAN and ACR prior to its successful FAC nomination, and hopes to see it on main page in time for the 70th anniversary of the test on 16 July.


 * William of Wrotham (Ealdgyth) : This article is about an English cleric and royal administrator who was known, perhaps unfairly, as one of King John's "evil counsellors". He was also closely involved in naval affairs. Ealdgyth brought the article to GAN back in 2010, and ACR a few months ago, on the way to achieving its Featured status.

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 * Bill Denny (Australian politician) (Peacemaker67) : Peacemaker's first appearance on this month's list covers a left-wing Australian politician who served as the Attorney-General of the state of South Australia before World War I, and as a junior officer in the light horse and artillery during the war. He was re-elected while still serving overseas in 1918 and served in various ministries during the periods his party was in power until he lost his seat in the 1933 state election.


 * Stanley Price Weir (Peacemaker67) : Peacemaker's second appearance provides a biography of a South Australian public servant and citizen soldier who commanded the 10th Battalion during heavy fighting in Gallipoli and France during 1915 and 1916. After returning to Australia Weir remained active in the Citizens Military Forces until 1921, and served in several senior public service roles with varying levels of success.


 * SMS Dresden (1907) (Parsecboy) : The German light cruiser SMS Dresden had a short, but remarkably busy career. She was deployed several times to the Americas and Mediterranean in the years before World War I. Following the commencement of hostilities she attacked British shipping off South America before joining the German East Asia Squadron at Easter Island. The sole survivor of the German ships involved in the Battle of the Falkland Islands, Dresden was scuttled at the remote Más a Tierra in the Pacific on 14 March 1915.