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Lieutenant general (abbreviated LTGEN and pronounced 'lef-tenant general') is the second-highest active rank of the Australian Army. It was created as a direct equivalent of the British military rank of lieutenant general , and is considered a three-star rank .
The following is a list of Australians who have attained general officer rank within the Australian Army; that is, officers who have held the rank of field marshal (five-star rank), general (four-star rank), lieutenant general (three-star rank), major general (two-star rank) or brigadier general (one-star rank).
Lieutenant (Abbreviated: LT) – O2. [5] Second Lieutenant (Abbreviated: 2LT) – O1. The rank of second lieutenant has been phased out of the Australian Army, with officer recruits now graduating from the Royal Military College, Duntroon with the rank of lieutenant. [6] [7]
The Australian Defence Force's (ADF) ranks of officers and enlisted personnel in each of its three service branches of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), the Australian Army, and the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) inherited their rank structures from their British counterparts. The insignia used to identify these ranks are also generally ...
First lieutenant: Second lieutenant Australian Army [2. Field marshal: General: Lieutenant general: ... Second lieutenant: Rank group General / flag officers
Lieutenant General Morshead with General Douglas MacArthur on Labuan in June 1945 Morshead handed over command of New Guinea Force to Lieutenant General Stanley Savige on 6 May 1944, and returned to Australia, where he remained the commander of the Second Army.
Lieutenant General Sir Alwyn Ragnar Garrett, KBE, CB (12 February 1900 – 4 November 1977) was a senior commander in the Australian Army.He served as Chief of the General Staff (CGS) from 1958 to 1960.
Stuart joined the Australian Army as a recruit in 1987 and initially served as a signalman, before being accepted for officer training. [1] Graduating from the Royal Military College, Duntroon in 1990, [2] [3] he was commissioned an officer in the Royal Australian Infantry Corps and appointed a platoon commander in the 2nd/4th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment. [4]