However, his military career was cut short at the age of 23 when his platoon's helicopter, a CH-46 Sea Knight, crashed during a NATO exercise over the Greek island of Crete.

In appreciation of these military endeavours he was made a Knight of the Garter in 1388.

Britomart figures in Edmund Spenser's knightly epic The Faerie Queene, where she is an allegorical figure of the virgin Knight of Chastity, representing English virtue — in particular, English military power — through a folk etymology that associated Brit -, as in Briton, with Martis, here thought of as " of Mars ", the Roman war god.

" It should be noted that Rudy H. Leverett was the Great-grandson of Major Amos McLemore, whom Newton Knight and his band killed while McLemore was engaged in the duty of capturing and returning the Jones County deserters to Confederate military duty.

After demonstrating his military prowess on the field during the Battle of Towton, he won the admiration of Edward IV of England who made him Constable of Norwich Castle, High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk ( 1461 ), Treasurer of the Royal Household ( 1468 ) and a Knight of the Garter ( 1471 ).

The military theme in these paintings may possibly be a reference to Lord Burlington's status as a Knight of the Order of the Garter or his position as head of the ' Gentlemen Pensioners ' ( symbolic bodyguards to the King ).

Starting at the end of 16th century in the Holy Roman Empire, France, Poland and Denmark, many Knight academies were established to prepare the aristocratic youth for state and military service.

* Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in 1988, awarded in recognition for an " outstanding and invaluable " contribution to military cooperation between the UK and the US, particularly during the Falklands War of 1982.

His elder brother, the Prince Regent ( later King George IV ), appointed the Duke of Kent a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in the military division on 2 January 1815 and a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order ( military division ) on 12 August 1815.

He probably was knighted for military bravery and, like a Knight Bachelor of England or samurai in Japan, was initially a retainer in a wealthy, noble household and had rooms in that castle before beginning his travels.

File: CBEwithMilitaryRibbon. jpg | neck badge as worn by Commanders ( CBE ), Knight Commanders ( KBE ) and Dame Commanders ( DBE ) with military ribbon

The insignia of a Knight Grand Cross of the military division of the order.

A stall made vacant by the death of a military Knight Grand Cross is offered to the next most senior uninstalled military GCB, and similarly for vacancies among civil GCBs.

On 4 July 1843, Napier was appointed Knight Grand Cross in the military division of the Order of the Bath, in recognition of his leading the victories at Miani and Hyderabad.

In 1946 Maduro was posthumously awarded the medal of Knight 4th-class of the Military Order of William, the highest and oldest military decoration in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, for the valor he had demonstrated in the Battle of the Netherlands against German troops.

Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, 2nd Marquis of Estella, 22nd Count of Sobremonte, Knight of Calatrava ( January 8, 1870 – March 16, 1930 ) was a Spanish dictator, aristocrat, and a military official who was appointed Prime Minister by the King and who for seven years ( 1923 – 1930 ) was a dictator, ending the turno system of alternating parties.

For his bravery against the enemy he received both the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd Classes, the Bavarian Military Merit Order Knight 1st Class, the Knight's Cross of the Military Order of Max Joseph, Bavaria's highest military decoration, and decorations from several other German states.

Born Tadeusz Wladyslaw Konopka to a Polish-American family in Terryville, Connecticut, Knight dropped out of high school to enlist for military service in World War II.

# Knight, originally a military honour, but increasingly awarded to civilians as a reward for service to the Crown

The regulations of the order suggest classes to be conferred according to military rank thus: Army Captains and Navy Lieutenants: Knight ; Majors and Lieutenant-Commanders: Officer ; Lieutenant Colonels and Commanders: Commander ; Colonels, Brigadiers, Navy Captains and Rear Admirals ( US RADM, Commodore / US RDML being a virtually non-existing rank in the Portuguese Navy ): Grand Officer ; Major Generals, Lieutenant Generals, Generals, Vice-Admirals and Admirals: Grand Cross.

The lowest of the ranks conferred by these orders is Chevalier, meaning Knight.

Knight was now barely reachable by his staff, and employees were routinely assaulted as punishment for not following orders.

Prior to 1996 New Zealanders received appointments to various British orders, such as the Order of the Bath, the Order of St Michael and St George, the Order of the British Empire, or the Order of the Companions of Honour, as well as the distinction of Knight Bachelor.

In the first story arc, Sins of the Father, Jack apparently finds an enemy in Shade when he kidnaps his father, retired Starman Ted Knight on the orders of the senile Mist, who wishes for a final showdown.

She doesn't return his feelings but has him become her Knight of Darkness and orders him to kill Hayate and attack the other Leafe Knights.

The money was collected instead by the local priest or bishop, the dean of the local church, the local baron, and a sergeant of the king, as well as, notably, a Knight Templar and a Knight Hospitaller, whose orders were especially concerned with the defense of the Holy Land.

He was a Knight of the Swedish Royal Order of the Seraphim and had the Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog and other foreign orders.

Madcap, despite his chaotic nature, obeyed orders, guarding Misty Knight and Colleen Wing.

As one of their first orders of business, they abducted Dennis Knight on the January 11 episode of Raw Is War and took him to " He ".

This issue was related to Knight's installation of trading software and resulted in Knight sending numerous erroneous orders in NYSE-listed securities into the market.

Members of the allied Protestant orders are usually referred to as a Knight of St. John or as a Johanniter.

He was made a " Knight of the Indian Empire " by Queen Victoria, a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire by Edward VII ( 1902 ), and a Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India by George V ( 1912 ).

He was the 996th Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in Spain, the 104th Grand Cross of the Order of the Tower and Sword in 1861 and the 775th Knight of the Order of the Garter in 1881.

* 1, 072nd Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in Spain in 1886

* 815th Knight of the Order of the Garter in 1902

* Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George ( Honorary GCMG )-1891

* Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath ( Honorary GCB )-1892

* Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order ( Honorary GCVO )-1900

* Knight of the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky of Russia-1908

* Knight of the Order of Saint Stanislaus ( Imperial House of Romanov ) of Russia-1908

* Knight of the Order of the Royal House of Chakri of Siam-1908

He was made the 756th Knight of the Order of the Garter in 1867 and the 127th Grand Cross of the Order of the Tower and Sword.

* Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India ( GCSI ) – 1885

* Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath ( GCB )- 1893

He was the 831st Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in Austria.