| LC control no. | n 86121494 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Hoare, Mike |
| Variant(s) | Hoare, Michael, 1919-2020 Hoare, Thomas Michael Bernard, 1919-2020 |
| Birth date | 1919-03-17 |
| Death date | 2020-02-02 |
| Place of birth | Calcutta (India) |
| Place of death | Durban (South Africa) |
| Field of activity | Military art and science Adventure and adventurers |
| Profession or occupation | Soldiers Adventure and adventurers |
| Found in | His The Seychelles affairs, 1986: t.p. (Mike Hoare) jkt. (legendary mercenary) LC data base, 5-21-87 (hdg.: Hoare, Michael; usage: Mike Hoare) Wikipedia, 3 Sept. 2009 (Thomas Michael Hoare born 1920) viewed Feb. 6, 2020: under Mad Mike Hoare (Thomas Michael Hoare (17 March 1919-2 February 2020), known as Mad Mike Hoare, was an Irish mercenary leader and adventurer known for his military activities in Africa and attempt to conduct a coup d'état in the Seychelles) Washington post WWW site, viewed Feb. 6, 2020 (in obituary dated Feb. 5, 2020: Mike Hoare; served with the British army in India and Myanmar, also known as Burma, during World War II, worked as an accountant in peacetime London and decamped to apartheid South Africa in search of adventure. He organized safaris, embarked on motorcycle expeditions that spanned the continent and searched for a legendary lost city in the Kalahari Desert. Mr. Hoare, who was 100 when he died Feb. 2, eventually found his calling as a mercenary, leading two 1960s campaigns in Congo. Mr. Hoared died in Durban, South Africa. Thomas Michael Bernard Hoare was born in what was then Calcutta, in British colonial India, on March 17, 1919) |
| Associated language | eng |
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