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 servicemilitary.military_serviceSouth Africa , transferred into the Australian Army .
After the Liberation of France , the Tirailleurs were removed from servicemilitary.military_serviceEurope 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 servicemilitary.military_servicein 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 servicemilitary.military_serviceand 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 servicemilitary.military_servicethe 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 servicemilitary.military_servicethe 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 servicemilitary.military_servicethe 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 servicemilitary.military_servicethe 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 servicemilitary.military_servicethe Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War .
The 4th North Carolina Regiment was raised on January 16 , 1776 at Wilmington , North Carolina for servicemilitary.military_servicethe Continental Army under the command of Thomas Polk .
Military servicemilitary.military_servicebeckoned , 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 servicemilitary.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 servicemilitary.military_serviceand 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 servicemilitary.military_serviceFlorida .
Gabriel René Paul ( March 22 , 1813 – May 5 , 1886 ) was a career officer in the United States Army most noted for his servicemilitary.military_servicea 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 servicemilitary.military_servicethe 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 servicemilitary.military_servicethe 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 servicemilitary.military_service
John Caldwell Tidball ( January 25 , 1825 – May 15 , 1906 ) was a career military officer , noted for his servicemilitary.military_servicethe 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 servicemilitary.military_serviceOctober 29 , 1864 .
Abraham Duquesne , marquis du Bouchet ( c. 1610 – February 2 , 1688 ) was a French naval officer , who also saw servicemilitary.military_servicean 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 servicemilitary.military_serviceWorld 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 servicemilitary.military_servicereadiness for a potential war .
He continued to be the naval chief of the Greeks until the former Royal Navy officer Thomas Cochrane entered their servicemilitary.military_service1827 .
USS `` Abner Read '' ( DD-526 ) was a `` Fletcher '' -class destroyer in the servicemilitary.military_servicethe United States Navy , named after Lieutenant Commander Abner Read .
William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse received the award posthumously for servicemilitary.military_servicethe 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 servicemilitary.military_servicechasing 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 servicemilitary.military_servicethe British Army under the command of James Inglis Hamilton .
Each year the JWV holds a memorial servicemilitary.military_serviceArlington 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 servicemilitary.military_servicethe 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 servicemilitary.military_servicethe 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 servicemilitary.military_serviceceremonial duties .
Colonel Sir John Rowland Smyth ( 1806 — 14 May 1873 ) was a British Army officer who saw servicemilitary.military_serviceIndia .
He is known for his servicemilitary.military_servicethe 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 servicemilitary.military_servicethe Admiralty as a supporter of Earl St Vincent and later as MP for Portsmouth .
This effectively ended his Confederate States Army field servicemilitary.military_servicealthough 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 servicemilitary.military_servicethe 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 servicemilitary.military_servicethe 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 servicemilitary.military_serviceLord 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 servicemilitary.military_servicethe 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 servicemilitary.military_servicehonor 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 servicemilitary.military_servicethe Siege of Port Hudson on the Mississippi .
She was seized at New Orleans , Louisiana by Brigadier General Mansfield Lovell , CSA , in mid-January 1862 `` for the public servicemilitary.military_service''
After the Civil War , former Confederate officer Elijah V. White purchased it and made many improvements to the servicemilitary.military_service
Beginning servicemilitary.military_servicethe 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 servicemilitary.military_servicethe 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 servicemilitary.military_servicethe 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 servicemilitary.military_service