William Alexander Brown MBE SI (13 December 1922 – 5 December 1984) was a British military officer based in British-ruled India. He is best known for...
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Brown, GCB, KH, PC (Ire) (3 July 1790 – 27 August 1865) was a British officer notable for commands in the Peninsular War and the Crimean War. Brown was...
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Cambridge William Brown (plant pathologist) (1888–1975), British mycologist and plant pathologist William Brown (psychologist) (1881–1952), British psychologist...
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General Sir William John Codrington, GCB (26 November 1804 – 6 August 1884) was a British Army officer and politician who served in the Crimean War. He...
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Brigadier-General John Forbes (5 September 1707 – 11 March 1759) was British Army officer. During the French and Indian War, he commanded the 1758 Forbes Expedition...
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Brigadier William Fraser, DSO, MC (5 July 1890 – 11 November 1964) was a younger son of Alexander Fraser, 19th Lord Saltoun and served as a British Army officer...
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Jackson, GCB, CBE, DSO, DL (21 March 1944 – 15 October 2024) was a British Army officer and one of its most high-profile generals since the Second World...
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refused to reveal the hiding place of his Boer employer. Australian Army officer J. F. Thomas, Taylor's defence attorney, managed to secure an acquittal...
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William Thornhill (1768 - 9 December 1851) was a British Army officer of the Peninsular War and the Waterloo Campaign. His nephew was the politician William...
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The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed...
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Simpson GCB (1792 – 18 April 1868) was a British Army officer of the 19th century. He commanded the British troops in the Crimea from June to November...
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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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The U.S. Army is headed by a civilian senior appointed civil servant, the secretary of the Army (SECARMY), and by a chief military officer, the chief...
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Jacob Jennings Brown (May 9, 1775 – February 24, 1828) was known for his victories as an American army officer in the War of 1812, where he reached the...
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Lieutenant Colonel William Hulme (10 May 1788 – 21 August 1855) was an officer of the 96th Regiment of Foot, British Army. William Browne Hulme was born...
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Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCVO, CIE, DSO, (13 September 1865 – 17 May 1951) was a British Army officer. He saw...
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regiments of the British Army is held by a warrant officer appointed by the British government. In the U.S. military, a warrant officer is a technically-focused...
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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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as a field officer. In 1751, he was appointed governor of the Limerick garrison, and deputy to Viscount Molesworth, commander of the army in Ireland....
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Surgeon General William George Nicholas Manley, VC CB (17 December 1831 – 16 November 1901) was a British Army officer, surgeon and a recipient of the...
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several years. But on October 19, 1781, the British Army's defeat at the Siege of Yorktown led the British to conclude that the war was unwinnable, forcing...
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William Brown (also known in Spanish as Guillermo Brown or Almirante Brown) (22 June 1777 – 3 March 1857) was an Irish sailor, merchant, and naval commander...
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The Army Reserve is the active-duty volunteer reserve force of the British Army. It is separate from the Regular Reserve whose members are ex-Regular...
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Lads' Army (known in later series as Bad Lads' Army, Bad Lads' Army: Officer Class and Bad Lads' Army: Extreme) was a reality game show that constitutes...
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Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Duncan MacDougall (1787 – 10 December 1862) was a British Army officer who fought in the Peninsular War and War of 1812. He rose to command...
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Red coat (military uniform) (redirect from Redcoat (British army))
tunic, is a military garment formerly much used by most regiments of the British Army, so customarily that the term became a common synecdoche for the soldiers...
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Sir Samuel Gibbs (1770–1815) was an English officer in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, rising to the rank of major-general...
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advocate. John George Brown was born and educated in Ennistymon, County Clare, Ireland. Brown was commissioned as a British Army officer in 1857 "without purchase"...
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Officer (T) William Albert Agate Boniface, P/J.12186. Chief Petty Officer Violet Brewer, WRINS. Chief Petty Officer Telegraphist Hubert Thomas Brown,...
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British Army during the First World War fought the largest and most costly war in its long history. Unlike the French and German Armies, the British Army...
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