havelock

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(hăv'lŏk', -lək) pronunciation
n.
A cloth covering for a cap, having a flap to cover and protect the back of the neck.

[After Sir Henry Havelock (1795-1857), British soldier.]


The civilian community outside the main gate of MCAS Cherry Point, NC. Also a cloth hanging from the back of a cap or hat to protect the neck (a la the French Foreign Legion). Once part of the U. S. Navy uniform hat it now exists only on the female dress hat in a much smaller form.

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  • Hats - havelock: cloth cap with flap hanging down back of neck as sun shield


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People

  • Havelock-Allan Baronets, holders of the Baronetcy
  • Sir Henry Havelock, (1795–1857), British general, active in India
  • Lieutenant General Sir Henry Havelock-Allan, 1st Baronet (1830–1897), British General, MP for Sunderland 1874–1881 and Durham South East 1885–1892 and 1895–1897 (son of Sir Henry Havelock)
  • Sir Henry Havelock-Allan, 2nd Baronet (1872–1953), British Liberal Party politician, MP for Bishop Auckland 1910–1918
  • Sir Henry Havelock-Allan, 3rd Baronet (1899–1975)
  • Sir Anthony Havelock-Allan, 4th Baronet (1904–2003), British film producer
  • Sir (Anthony) Mark David Havelock-Allan, 5th Baronet (born 1951—see Havelock-Allan Baronets), English Circuit Judge
  • Sir Arthur Havelock, Governor of Tasmania, 1901–1904
  • Eric A. Havelock (1903–1988), British (later Canadian and American) scholar
  • Jon Havelock, Alberta politician
  • Gary Havelock, 1992 World Individual Speedway champion
  • John E. Havelock (born 1932), Attorney General for the state of Alaska from 1970 to 1973
  • Havelock Ellis (1859–1939), a British physician and psychologist, writer, and social reformer who studied human sexuality

Places

Australia

  • Havelock, Victoria, a small town north of Maryborough

Canada

India

  • Havelock Island, the largest of the islands in Ritchie's Archipelago, Andaman Islands

New Zealand

Sri Lanka

Swaziland

United States

Literature

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