General Sir Charles Patrick Ralph Palmer, KCVO, KBE (29 April 1933 – 23 November 1999) was a senior British Army officer. He served as Commander-in-Chief...
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player Pat Palmer (boxer) (1914–1988), English boxer Patrick Palmer (British Army officer) (1933–1999), British Army general Patrick Palmer (politician)...
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Michael Palmer (British Army officer) (1928–2017), British Army major general Patrick Palmer (British Army officer) (1933–1999), British Army general...
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This is a list of serving senior officers of the British Army. It includes currently serving generals, lieutenant generals, major generals, and brigadiers...
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Church of St. Nicholas in Compton, Surrey. Lindsay was a major in the British army when he was appointed an equerry to The Queen in October 1983. He was...
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intelligence officer. For convenience, the novels are also often referred to as the "Harry Palmer" novels. Michael Caine played Harry Palmer in three films...
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general officer rank or the rank of brigadier (together now recognized as starred officers) in the British Army, Royal Marines, British Indian Army or other...
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Field Marshal Sir Patrick Grant, GCB, GCMG (11 September 1804 – 28 March 1895) was a senior Indian Army officer. He fought at the Battle of Maharajpore...
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George, 3rd Earl of Cromartie. His elder brother was Sir Patrick Murray, 6th Baronet. An army surgeon, who knew Murray in Dublin in 1825 described his...
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Major-General George Anson CB (13 October 1797 – 27 May 1857) was a British military officer and Whig politician from the Anson family. Anson was the second...
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the British Sector in Berlin and in 1983 he was appointed Military Secretary. He went on to be Adjutant General in 1986 retiring from the British Army in...
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Lieutenant-General Sir Roger William Henry Palmer, 5th Baronet (1832–1910) was a senior officer in the British Army and the Anglo-Irish Conservative MP for...
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Major-General Ian Helstrip Baker CBE (26 November 1927 – 28 July 2005) was a British Army officer who became Assistant Chief of the General Staff. Educated at St Peter's...
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Bryan Akehurst, KCB, CBE (12 February 1930 – 20 February 2007) was a British Army officer who rose to be Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe. Educated at...
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generals in the British Army since the Acts of Union 1707. The rank of general (or full general to distinguish it from the lower general officer ranks) is the...
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Charles John Waters, GCB, CBE (born 2 September 1935) is a retired British Army officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, Land Forces from 1990 to 1993....
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Neville Mitchell, CB, CBE, DSO (1904 – 15 September 1954) was a British Army officer who commanded the 6th Armoured Division from 1953 until his death...
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dancer Patrick Brasca, Canadian–Taiwanese singer Patrick Cargill, British actor Pat Condell, English stand-up comedian Pat Corley, American actor Patrick Dempsey...
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trip to Britain would be worth the effort, and certainly secured Palmer's popularity among British and European fans, not just American ones. Palmer was greatly...
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List of Sharpe series characters (redirect from Patrick Harper (fiction))
Salamanca. Lieutenant Ayers was a British Army Provost officer, military police responsible for military discipline among British troops in Portugal and Spain...
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Development in Vietnam. Jennifer Larby. Executive Officer, British Legion Kenya. For services to the British and Commonwealth ex-services community in Kenya...
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A Prize of Arms (category Use British English from June 2016)
Fowler Patrick Magee as Regimental Sergeant Major Hicks John Westbrook as Captain Stafford Jack May as Medical Officer Frank Gatliff as Major Palmer Michael...
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originated as a street-ballad about British Army Private Patrick McCaffrey, executed in 1862 for the "fragging" of two officers. It is particularly popular in...
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Peter Inge, Baron Inge (category Green Howards officers)
July 2022) was a senior British Army officer. He was the Chief of the General Staff, the professional head of the British Army, from 1992 to 1994 and then...
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military officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1780. He is best known for his many years of service with the British Army in India...
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(1830–1909) was a Union Army major general. General Howard may also refer to: Charles Howard (British Army officer) (c. 1696–1765), British Army general Charles...
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Frank Nelson KCMG (5 August 1883 – 11 August 1966) was a British civil servant, intelligence officer and politician. Nelson was born at Bentham, near Brockworth...
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Staff College, Camberley (redirect from British Army Staff College)
was a staff college for the British Army and the presidency armies of British India (later merged to form the Indian Army). It had its origins in the...
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Charles James Napier (category British Army generals)
August 1853) was an officer and veteran of the British Army's Peninsular and 1812 campaigns, and later a major general of the Bombay Army, during which period...
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intended for a British foot patrol but had been triggered accidentally. In the follow-up operation a British Army bomb disposal officer was killed when...
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