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The British Army is listed according to an order of precedence for the purposes of parading. This is the order in which the various corps of the army parade, from right to left, with the unit at the extreme right being highest. Under ordinary circumstances, the Household Cavalry parades at the extreme right of the line.
Knight/Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire KBE/DBE; Knight Bachelor [note 3] Companion of the Order of the Bath CB; Companion of the Order of the Star of India [note 1] CSI; Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George CMG; Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire [note 1] CIE; Commander of the Royal Victorian Order CVO ...
Within the same Order, precedence is accorded to that individual who received the honour earlier. Not all orders have the same number of ranks. The Order of Merit, the Order of the Companions of Honour, the Distinguished Service Order and the Imperial Service Order are slightly different, being single-rank honours, and have been placed at ...
The order of precedence in the United Kingdom is the sequential hierarchy for Peers of the Realm, officers of state, senior members of the clergy, holders of the various Orders of Chivalry, and is mostly determined, but not limited to, birth order, place in the line of succession, or distance from the reigning monarch.
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) CBE: 24 August 1917 [8] [9] 4 June 1917 – present [8] [9] Level 2A Decoration (Order) Companion of the Distinguished Service Order: DSO: 9 November 1886 [10] 1885 – present [11] From October 1993 awarded for leadership only. Replaced for gallantry in October 1993 by the ...
The Army Order stated, "Officers holding the temporary rank of brigadier will have precedence of, and command over all other colonels. Among them- selves they will take precedence according to their permanent rank. They will wear the same dress (including rank badges) as at present prescribed for colonels commandant and colonels on the staff." [3]
The British Army has frequently been the subject of amalgamation and re-organisation throughout its history. The general rule for establishing the order of precedence is the date of creation of the regiment and its subsequent unbroken service. [1] Disbanded regiments automatically lost precedence.
A peer derives his precedence from his highest-ranking title; peeresses derive their precedence in the same way, whether they hold their highest-ranking title in their own right or by marriage. The ranks in the tables refer to peers rather than titles: if exceptions are named for a rank, these do not include peers of a higher rank (or any peers ...