• of colonel pre-dates the establishment of the United Kingdom. In the mid-17th century, the regiments of the New Model Army were commanded by colonels. The...
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  • colonel (United Kingdom) Lieutenant colonel (United States) Bangladesh Army (Lieutenant Colonel) Belgian Army (Luitenant-kolonel Lieutenant-colonel)...
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    In the United States Army, Marine Corps, Air Force and Space Force, lieutenant colonel is a field-grade officer rank, just above the rank of major and...
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  • Events from the year 2024 in the United Kingdom. Monarch – Charles III Prime Minister – Rishi Sunak (Conservative) 1 January Figures show the annual number...
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    In the United Kingdom, military conscription has existed for two periods in modern times. The first was from 1916 to 1920, and the second from 1939 to...
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  • refer to: Colonel (Canada)#Honorary ranks and appointments Colonel commandant § United Kingdom Colonel (United Kingdom)#Honorary Colonel Colonel (U.S. honorary...
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    including Celtic and Anglo-Saxon paganism. Religious affiliations of United Kingdom citizens are recorded by regular surveys, the four major ones being...
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    The 2001 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 7 June 2001, four years after the previous election on 1 May 1997, to elect 659 members to...
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  • British Army and the Royal Marines. Brigadier is the superior rank to colonel, and subordinate to major-general. It corresponds to the rank of brigadier...
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  • instead of Woody Harrelson's Colonel, but still." In June 2022, it was reported that Disney and 20th Century planned for Kingdom to be the first of a new...
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    Armed Forces are the military forces responsible for the defence of the United Kingdom, its Overseas Territories and the Crown Dependencies. They also promote...
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  • Commonwealth and the United States, and Generaloberst was a rank above full General, but below Generalfeldmarschall. The rank of colonel general also exists...
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  • Marines. The rank is superior to captain and subordinate to lieutenant colonel. The insignia for a major is a crown. The equivalent rank in the Royal...
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    King of the United Kingdom and his wife, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Their fifteen children include George IV of the United Kingdom, William IV...
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    Company, at Raglan Barracks, Newport Category:Intelligence Corps officers United Kingdom portal "Major General Sir Charles William Wilson, 1836-1905". Palestine...
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    The 1945 United Kingdom general election was a national election held on Thursday 5 July 1945, but polling in some constituencies was delayed by some days...
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    The article lists the records of prime ministers of the United Kingdom since 1721. The prime minister with the longest single term was Robert Walpole,...
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    Augustus Frederick; 12 August 1762 – 26 June 1830) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 29 January 1820...
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  • Events from the year 1904 in the United Kingdom. Monarch – Edward VII Prime Minister – Arthur Balfour (Coalition) 1 January – Number plates are introduced...
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    United Kingdom and the United States have ranged from military opponents to close allies since 1776. The Thirteen Colonies seceded from the Kingdom of...
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    Lieutenant-Colonel A.E. (2004) [1st. pub. HMSO 1968]. Victory in the West, Volume II: The Defeat of Germany. History of the Second World War United Kingdom Military...
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    people or Polish Britons, are ethnic Poles who are citizens of the United Kingdom. The term includes people born in the UK who are of Polish descent and...
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  • The Regimental Colonels were: 1922: Major General The Hon. Sir Cecil Edward Bingham GCVO KCMG CB (from 2nd Life Guards; Joint Colonel) 1922: Field Marshal...
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    Colonel-in-Chief of the Kaffrarian Rifles United Kingdom 1942 – 1952: Colonel of the Grenadier Guards 1947 – 2006: Colonel-in-Chief of the Argyll and Sutherland...
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    The 3rd (United Kingdom) Division, also known as The Iron Division, is a regular army division of the British Army. It was created in 1809 by Arthur Wellesley...
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    from Mountbatten in October 1943. The Commando units formed in the United Kingdom were: No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, No. 5, No. 6, No. 7, No. 8 (Guards)...
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  • Events from the year 2021 in the United Kingdom. Monarch – Elizabeth II Prime Minister – Boris Johnson (Conservative) 2 January – COVID-19 in the UK: A...
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    The Acts of Union 1800 unified Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with George as its king. He was concurrently...
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