Most of his service military.military_service on Bougainville Island as AQMG with the Second Australian Army Corps , serving under Lt. General Stanley Savige .

From that time the Australian Army came into being under the command of Major General Sir Edward Hutton , and all of the colonial forces , including those then on active service military.military_service South Africa , transferred into the Australian Army .

After the Liberation of France , the Tirailleurs were removed from service military.military_service Europe and replaced with white soldiers on the order of Charles de Gaulle , a process known as `` blanchiment . ''

In July 1940 , after the defeat of the French armies and the consequent armistice with Germany , British prime minister Winston Churchill asked the Free French government-in-exile ( headed by General Charles de Gaulle ) to set up a secret service military.military_service in occupied France to counter the threat of a German operation code-named Operation Sea Lion , the expected cross-channel invasion of Britain .

Growing up primarily at Langley Field , Virginia , Olds virtually made daily contact with the small group of officers who would lead the US Army Air Forces in World War II ( one neighbor was Major Carl Spaatz , destined to become the first Chief of Staff of the USAF ) , and as a result was imbued with an unusually strong dedication to the air service military.military_service and conversely , with a low tolerance for officers who did not exhibit the same .

The 1st New Jersey Regiment , which was known as part of the famed `` Jersey Blues , '' was authorized on October 9 , 1775 by the Continental Congress to be raised for service military.military_service the Continental Army under the command of Colonel William Alexander ( American general ) , better known as Lord Stirling for his ( unsuccessful ) claims to that Scottish title .

It commemorates Major General Benedict Arnold 's service military.military_service the Battles of Saratoga in the Continental Army , but contrives not to name him .

The 2nd Canadian Regiment , also known as Congress ' Own or Hazen 's Regiment , was authorized on January 20 , 1776 , as an Extra Continental regiment and raised in the province of Quebec for service military.military_service the Continental Army under the command of Colonel Moses Hazen .

The 2nd New Jersey Regiment was raised , on 9 October 1775 , at Trenton , New Jersey , for service military.military_service the Continental Army under the command of Colonel William Maxwell .

Pulaski 's Legion was raised on March 28 , 1778 at Baltimore , Maryland under the command of Kazimierz Pułaski for service military.military_service the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War .

The 4th North Carolina Regiment was raised on January 16 , 1776 at Wilmington , North Carolina for service military.military_service the Continental Army under the command of Thomas Polk .

Military service military.military_service beckoned , and in August 1784 he was commissioned a captain in the United States Army to serve on the Ohio Valley frontier under Colonel Josiah Harmar .

In the Royal New Zealand Air Force , the rank did not come into use until 1943 when Leonard Isitt was appointed Chief of the Air Staff in succession to a British air commodore who had been on loan service military.military_service

Among the more notable Civil War personalities from Mobile were Rear Admiral Raphael Semmes ( an antebellum attorney in Mobile following his U.S. Navy service military.military_service and Brig . Gen. Zachariah C. Deas ( a Mobile merchant and cotton broker whose brigade fought at the Battle of Chickamauga , where they routed the Union division of Philip H. Sheridan and killed Brig . Gen. William H. Lytle ) .

Lewis Golding Arnold ( January 15 , 1817 – September 22 , 1871 ) was a career U.S. Army officer and a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War , primarily noted for his service military.military_service Florida .

Gabriel René Paul ( March 22 , 1813 – May 5 , 1886 ) was a career officer in the United States Army most noted for his service military.military_service a Union Army general in the American Civil War .

Marcellus Monroe Crocker ( February 6 , 1830 – August 26 , 1865 ) was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War most noted for his service military.military_service the Western Theater .

Colonel Thomas Cass ( 1821 – July 12 , 1862 ) founded and was commander of the 9th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry of the Union Army , which saw extensive service military.military_service the American Civil War .

Thomas Hamlin Hubbard ( December 20 , 1838 – May 19 , 1915 ) was a Union Army colonel from Maine during the Civil War who was awarded the honorary grade of brevet brigadier general , United States Volunteers , for meritorious service military.military_service

John Caldwell Tidball ( January 25 , 1825 – May 15 , 1906 ) was a career military officer , noted for his service military.military_service the horse artillery in the cavalry in the Union Army during the American Civil War .

Thomas Edward Greenfield Ransom served as a brevet major general in the Union Army during American Civil War and died in service military.military_service October 29 , 1864 .

Abraham Duquesne , marquis du Bouchet ( c. 1610 – February 2 , 1688 ) was a French naval officer , who also saw service military.military_service an admiral in the Swedish navy .

John Porter Lucas ( January 14 , 1890 – December 24 , 1949 ) was a senior officer of the United States Army , with the rank of major general , who saw service military.military_service World War I and World War II .

The timing of the family 's return came primarily as the result of a personal request by General H. H. ( `` Hap '' ) Arnold , the chief of the United States Army Air Corps in which Lindbergh was a colonel in the reserves , for him to accept a temporary call-up to active duty to help evaluate that service military.military_service readiness for a potential war .

He continued to be the naval chief of the Greeks until the former Royal Navy officer Thomas Cochrane entered their service military.military_service 1827 .

USS `` Abner Read '' ( DD-526 ) was a `` Fletcher '' -class destroyer in the service military.military_service the United States Navy , named after Lieutenant Commander Abner Read .

William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse received the award posthumously for service military.military_service the Royal Flying Corps in 1915 , while William Edward Sanders , commanding , received the award for actions at sea in 1917 while serving in the Royal Navy Reserve .

Their first service military.military_service chasing Confederate General John Hunt Morgan , who made incursions into southern Indiana and Ohio on Morgan 's Raid .

The 113th Regiment of Foot , known as the Royal Highlanders , was authorized on 17 October 1761 , and raised in Great Britain for service military.military_service the British Army under the command of James Inglis Hamilton .

Each year the JWV holds a memorial service military.military_service Arlington National Cemetery commemorating Orde Wingate , a major general in the British Army and Zionist .

Lieutenant-General Robert Ballard Long ( 4 April 1771 – 2 March 1825 ) was an officer of the British and Hanoverian Armies who despite extensive service military.military_service the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars never managed to achieve high command due to his abrasive manner with his superiors and his alleged tactical ineptitude .

Hugh Clifford intended to follow his father Henry Hugh Clifford , a distinguished British Army general , into the military but later decided to join the civil service military.military_service the Straits Settlements , with the assistance of his relative Sir Frederick Weld , the then Governor of the Straits Settlements and also the British High Commissioner in Malaya .

In May 2009 , William Windsor ( known as Billy ) , a goat mascot of the British Army 's Royal Welsh regiment , retired to the zoo after eight years ' distinguished service military.military_service ceremonial duties .

Colonel Sir John Rowland Smyth ( 1806 — 14 May 1873 ) was a British Army officer who saw service military.military_service India .

He is known for his service military.military_service the British South Africa Company and to the British Army in colonial Africa , and for teaching woodcraft to Robert Baden-Powell in Rhodesia .

Admiral John Markham , ( 13 June 1761 – 13 February 1827 ) was a Royal Navy officer of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who is best known for his service military.military_service the Admiralty as a supporter of Earl St Vincent and later as MP for Portsmouth .

This effectively ended his Confederate States Army field service military.military_service although his service record shows an assignment to General Joseph E. Johnston 's command on February 25 , 1865 .

The first reason was that many of the practicalities were commanded elsewhere : the Wehrmacht and the SS managed the military and security aspects , Fritz Sauckel as Reich Director of Labour had control over manpower and working areas , Hermann Göring and Albert Speer had total management of economic aspects in the territories and the Reich postal service military.military_service the Eastern territories ' postal services .

The first reason was that many of the practicalities were commanded elsewhere : the Wehrmacht and the SS managed the military and security aspects , Fritz Saukel ( Reich Director of Labour ) had control over manpower and working areas , Hermann Göring and Albert Speer had total management of economic aspects in the territories and the Reich postal service military.military_service the East territories ' postal services .

He joined the Royal Navy at a young age and in 1790 was promoted to lieutenant , joining HMS `` Victory '' in 1793 for Mediterranean service military.military_service Lord Hood during the French Revolutionary Wars .

CSS `` Shenandoah , formerly `` Sea King '' , was an iron-framed , teak-planked , full-rigged ship , with auxiliary steam power , captained by Confederate States Navy Lieutenant Commander James Waddell , a North Carolinian with twenty years of prior service military.military_service the United States Navy .

He saved the coup de grâce for Senator Wade Hampton III , a South Carolina College graduate and Confederate General during the Civil War , who `` invoked Confederate service military.military_service honor as a barrier to Tillmanism . ''

Franklin Kitchell Gardner ( January 29 , 1823 – April 29 , 1873 ) was a Confederate general in the American Civil War , noted for his service military.military_service the Siege of Port Hudson on the Mississippi .

Stand Watie , the leader of the Ridge Party , raised a regiment for Confederate service military.military_service 1861 .

She was seized at New Orleans , Louisiana by Brigadier General Mansfield Lovell , CSA , in mid-January 1862 `` for the public service military.military_service ''

After the Civil War , former Confederate officer Elijah V. White purchased it and made many improvements to the service military.military_service

Beginning service military.military_service the Confederate States Army as a private , he rose to the rank of major , serving on the staff of Brig . Gen. Benjamin McCulloch , then as assistant adjutant general on Gen. Henry E. McCulloch 's staff .

His service military.military_service the Civil War was significant , but was eclipsed in prominence by the contributions made by his famous son in law , J.E.B . Stuart , to the Confederate States Army .

Johnson saw service military.military_service the Seven Days Battles in 1862 , part of the Peninsula Campaign , a series of six major battles over the seven days from June 25 to July 1 , 1862 , near Richmond , Virginia , in which Confederate General Robert E. Lee drove the invading Union Army of the Potomac , commanded by Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan , away from Richmond and into a retreat down the Virginia Peninsula .

Colonel Patrick T. Moore of the 1st Virginia Infantry , later a Confederate brigadier general , received a severe head wound in the skirmish and was incapacitated for further field service military.military_service