• 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    best-known of a number of honorary colonelcies conferred by United States governors. A Kentucky Colonel Commission (the certificate) is awarded in the name of...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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 ambassador of the United Kingdom to Iran is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and in charge...
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  • The Kingdom is a 2007 action thriller film directed by Peter Berg and starring Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, and Jennifer Garner. The film is set in Saudi...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • Russians in the United Kingdom are Russians, or the persons born in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union or the Russian Federation, who are or were citizens...
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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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    United Kingdom in 1920, the 1920 Iraqi revolt resulted in the scrapping of the original mandate plan in favour of a formally sovereign Iraqi kingdom,...
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    Rosemary Shand, later Parker Bowles, 17 July 1947) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms as the wife of King Charles III...
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  • Charles III The Regimental Colonels were: 1922: Maj-Gen. Hon. Sir Cecil Edward Bingham (from 2nd Life Guards; Joint Colonel) 1922: F.M. Sir Edmund Henry...
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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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    Colonel Timothy Thomas Cyril Collins OBE (born 30 April 1960) is a retired Northern Irish military officer in the British Army. He is best known for his...
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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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    fast-food chains to expand internationally, opening outlets in Canada, the United Kingdom, Mexico and Jamaica by the mid-1960s. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s...
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