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Anybody, dead or alive, travelling into France requires a passport. In 1974, The Egyptian government had to issue a passport to Pharaoh, Ramesses II to transport his body to France for restoration. Eerily, his body also received full military honours when it arrived at the Paris airport.

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When the mummy of Pharaoh Ramesses II needed to be moved to Paris for restoration, it was issued an Egyptian passport that listed his occupation as "King (deceased)". The mummy was received with the full military honours usually accorded to royalty.

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1. In 1974 when the mummy of Ramesses the Great needed to be sent to Paris for preservation, he was issued an Egyptian passport that listed his occupation as "King (deceased)." He was received at Le Bourget Airport with the full military honours befitting a king.

2. In 1974 the mummy of Ramesses II, regarded as the greatest pharaoh, was send to Paris. He was given a passport on which his occupation was listed as ”King(deceased)” and was received with full military honours, on a red carpet, like any other visiting head of state.

3. Before escaping prison, Winston Churchill left a letter of apology on his bed. The letter began: "I have the honour to inform you that as I do not consider that your Government have any right to detain me as a military prisoner, I have decided to escape from your custody."

4. When Manfred von Richthofen (The Red Baron) was shot down during WW1, Australian and British troops took his body and buried him with full military honours.

5. Pine Street in Winnipeg, Canada, later renamed Valour Road due to three neighbors all from the same block winning the Victoria Cross, the U.K.'s highest military honour

6. The burial ceremony of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey, 1920. Amongst the special guests that attended the ceremony were 100 recipients of the Victoria Cross (the highest military honour in the British Empire) and 100 women whose husbands and all their sons had died fighting in WWI.

7. About Gregor Macgregor who convinced hundreds to invest in government bonds and land in Poyais, the South American country he ruled, only for them to later realise that he was no prince and worse, there was no such country. He was hailed as a hero and died with military honours in Venezuela.

8. The first black military aviator, Eugene Bullard, fled the U.S. to France after his father's near lynching. Awarded France's highest Legion of Honour medal, he tried to join U.S. forces but was denied as a black man. Returning to the U.S. he lived out his life in relative obscurity and poverty.

9. In 1999 a number children born in Kosovo were given the names Toni, Bler or Tonibler in honour of Tony Blair, the UK's then Prime Minister, for his support of the NATO military campaign in the region.

10. The 2nd Battalion Devonshire Regiment, who in 1918 were left to stand and fight at Bois de Buttes, allowing French and English troops to retreat and regroup. 552 lost their lives 40-80 survived, earning the regiment the Croix de Guerre - France's highest military honour.

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A Mexican general named Santa Anna got his leg shattered by a cannon. The leg required amputation and was given military burial with honours.