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    Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces was a senior officer in the British Army during the First and Second World Wars. The role of the appointment was firstly...
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    Commander-in-Chief of the Forces, later Commander-in-Chief, British Army, or just Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C), was (intermittently) the title of the professional...
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    Head of the Armed Forces is the position of the sovereign of the United Kingdom as commander-in-chief of the British Armed Forces. Supreme military authority...
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    France in 1793. The Scottish District was commanded by the Commander-in-Chief, Scotland. In January 1876 a ‘Mobilization Scheme for the forces in Great...
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  • of the Home Forces) 1 August 1914: Sir John French On the outbreak of the First World War the post was redesignated Commander-in-Chief, Home Army. 1...
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    of Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet, and allotted a rear-admiral to serve under him as commander of the Home Squadron. "... the nucleus of the Home Fleet...
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    John French, 1st Earl of Ypres (category Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George)
    resignation. French was appointed Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces for 1916–1918. He then became Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1918, a position he held through...
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    The Commander of the Indonesian National Armed Forces (Indonesian: Panglima Tentara Nasional Indonesia, known as Panglima TNI) is the professional head...
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  • Naval Home Command administered training and garrison functions for the Royal Navy from 1969 to 2012. Its commander was Commander-in-Chief, Naval Home Command...
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    Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (category Chiefs of the Imperial General Staff)
    which he was more suited: Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces, responsible for anti-invasion defences and for commanding the Army in the event of German landings...
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    machine-guns were abandoned. As units arrived in Britain they reverted to the authority of the Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces. After 1918, the prospect of war seemed...
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    which in turn is headed by the Chief of Defence Forces. The commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Army is considered the most powerful position in the Thai...
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    Miles Dempsey (category Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath)
    Army in August 1947. In 1950, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces. This was a "shadow" appointment, one that would only become active in the...
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    government ministers and senior army officials, including the Commander in Chief Home Forces, General Walter Kirke, believed that the threat of invasion...
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    Taunton Stop Line (category Buildings and structures in Somerset)
    leadership of General Sir Edmund Ironside, the newly appointed Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces. The Taunton Stop Line ran north–south for nearly 50 miles...
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  • The Home Defence Executive (H.D.E.) was formed on 10 May 1940 under General Sir Edmund Ironside, Commander-in-chief Home Forces, to organise the defence...
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  • of Commander-in-Chief Home Army. This was a retitling of the post of Inspector-General of the Home Forces and did not imply command over all forces based...
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    The Commander-in-Chief Fleet (CINCFLEET) was the admiral responsible for the operations of the ships, submarines and aircraft of the British Royal Navy...
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    The Commander-in-Chief, The Nore, was an operational commander of the Royal Navy. His subordinate units, establishments, and staff were sometimes informally...
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    The Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, was a senior commander of the Royal Navy for hundreds of years. The commanders-in-chief were based at premises in High...
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    The Commander, Naval Air Forces (a.k.a. COMNAVAIRFOR, and CNAF; and dual-hatted as Commander, Naval Air Force, Pacific, and COMNAVAIRPAC) is the aviation...
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  • 1915 following the appointment of Sir John French as Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces. "No. 28965". The London Gazette. 6 November 1914. p. 9017. "The British...
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  • Commander-in-Chief, Ireland, was title of the commander of the British forces in Ireland before 1922. Until the Act of Union in 1800, the position involved...
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    John French – Commander-in-Chief of the BEF (1914–1915) and Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces (1915–1918) Douglas Haig – Commander-in-Chief of the British...
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    the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces is the chief commanding...
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    officers of the British Army. See also Commander in Chief of the Forces, Chief of the General Staff, and Chief of the Imperial General Staff. See article...
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    Station and the previous "Voksenkollens Hospits" building, in Kolsås. The first Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir Patrick Brind, transferred command of AFNORTH...
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    Armed Forces (GAF) is the state military organisation of Ghana, consisting of the Army (GA), Navy (GN), and Ghana Air Force. The Commander-in-Chief of the...
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    15th (Scottish) Infantry Division (category Infantry divisions of the British Army in World War II)
    Borders, south of Edinburgh, to start training. In October 1939, the Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces, General Walter Kirke, was tasked with drawing up...
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    Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (category Chiefs of the Imperial General Staff)
    in 1929. He held various divisional and corps level commands before the Second World War and became C-in-C Home Forces in 1940. He then became Chief of...
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