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The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies - 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [25]; The Death or Glory Boys - 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later 17th/21st Lancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers [1] [3] (from the regimental badge, which was a death's head (skull), with a scroll bearing the motto "or Glory")
Mike Calvert, British Second World War leader of Special Forces formations [79] Mike Hoare, British officer and mercenary leader [80] "Magoo" – Tod D. Wolters, US Air Force General and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe "Majoren" (Norwegian, "The Major") – Hans Reidar Holtermann, Norwegian World War II military leader
The German, [24] the French and the British Commonwealth armies used the name "Tommy" for British soldiers. "Tommy" is derived from the name "Tommy Atkins" which had been used as a generic name for a soldier for many years (and had been used as an example name on British Army registration forms). The precise origin is the subject of some debate ...
Military Provost Staff (MPS) [34] Military Provost Guard Service (MPGS) [35] Royal Corps of Army Music - 14 + 20 bands [36] Royal Army Chaplains' Department - approx. 150 [37] Small Arms School Corps [38] Royal Army Physical Training Corps [39] General Service Corps; Royal Army Medical Service - 9 + 15 units [40] Royal Army Veterinary Corps - 2 ...
A publicity photograph of "Tommy Atkins", a soldier of the 51st Division, seated with a large doll in his arms, taken during the German offensive in Lys, 13 April 1918. Tommy Atkins or Thomas Atkins has been used as a generic name for a common British soldier for many years. The origin of the term is a subject of debate, but it is known to have ...
This is a list of people who have held 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 British military force since the Acts of Union 1707.
Director Information and Army Chief Information Officer: Royal Signals: 1 March 2024 [10] Jonathan Edward Alexander Chestnutt: Deputy Chief of Staff Headquarters Field Army Master General of Logistics: Royal Logistic Corps: CBE: 22 April 2024 [39] Philip A. J. McNee: Surgeon-General of the United Kingdom Armed Forces: Royal Army Medical Corps ...
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, ... These names do not affect a soldier's pay or role. [231] Reserve forces