He received a brevet promotion to lieutenant colonel in the regular army for his actions at Antietam and was promoted in March 1863 to major general of volunteers, to rank from November 29, 1862.

He was wounded in the neck on the second day of Gettysburg and received a brevet promotion to colonel in the regular army for his service.

Another Abergavenny born soldier, Thomas Monaghan received his VC for defending his colonel during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

Among notable recipients below flag rank are: X-1 test pilot Chuck Yeager and X-15 test pilot Robert M. White, who both received the DSM as U. S. Air Force majors ; Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson, the U-2 pilot shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis ; director Frank Capra, decorated in 1945 as an Army colonel ; actor James Stewart, decorated in 1945 as an Army Air Forces colonel ( later Air Force Brigadier General ); Col. Wendell Fertig, who led Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines ; Col. ( later Major General ) John K. Singlaub, who led partisan forces in the Korean War ; and Maj. Maude C. Davison, who led the " Angels of Bataan and Corregidor " during their imprisonment by the Japanese, and Colonel William S. Taylor, Program Manager Multiple Launch Rocket System.

For his service in the Meuse-Argonne Operations, Patton received the Distinguished Service Cross and the Distinguished Service Medal, and was brevetted full colonel.

By his senior year, LeMay was listed on the ROTC rolls as a " cadet lieutenant colonel " but had not actually received an appointment in the regular United States military.

He received a promotion to lieutenant colonel and was appointed chief of military intelligence by Omar Torrijos.

From 1946 to 1951, Choi received promotions to first lieutenant, captain, major, lieutenant colonel, colonel, and then brigadier general.

He received brevet promotions for his staff leadership and gallantry in three battles: Monterrey ( to captain ), National Bridge ( major ), and Chapultepec ( lieutenant colonel ).

In 1789 he received Prussia's highest military order, the Pour le Mérite, and in 1794 he became colonel of the Red Hussars.

On July 1, 1920, Mitchell was promoted to the permanent rank of colonel, Signal Corps, but also received a recess appointment ( as did Menoher ) to become Assistant Chief of Air Service with the rank of brigadier general.

By the end of the war he received a promotion to colonel, the Distinguished Service Cross and two Purple Hearts ( the full text of his Medal of Honor citation can be found further below ).

Officers such as George S. Patton were permanent captains at the start of the war and received temporary promotions to colonel.

On his return to Sweden, however, Sprengtporten was received with the greatest distinction and made a lieutenant-general and colonel of the guards.

From 1922 to 1928 the British rank title used was that of colonel-commandant, with one crown and three ' pips ', a rank which, although reflecting its modern role in the British Army as a senior colonel rather than a junior general, was not well received and was replaced with brigadier after six years.

He immediately received an appointment as a colonel, and successfully concluded the Siege of Portsmouth in September 1642 ; later in the year he commanded the forces that captured Farnham, Winchester and other key locations in the south-west of England.

Hunt, chief of the artillery of the Army of the Potomac, and he received a brevet promotion to lieutenant colonel on July 1.

In 1793-95, the Honourable Samuel Smith, a colonel in the Queen's Rangers, received land grants of, extending from today's Kipling Avenue to Etobicoke Creek, and north to Bloor Street.

A brigade of Virginians under a relatively unknown colonel from the Virginia Military Institute, Thomas J. Jackson, stood their ground and Jackson received his famous nickname, " Stonewall Jackson ".

He received an appointment as brevet colonel to rank from March 13, 1865, preliminary to his appointment as a brevet brigadier general of volunteers.

During his early career, Canby served in the Second Seminole War in Florida and saw combat during the Mexican-American War, where he received three brevet promotions, including to major for Contreras and Churubusco, and lieutenant colonel for Belén Gates.

Douglas actually received salutes from military personnel inasmuch as he was wearing the uniform of a U. S. Marine Corps colonel.

He was appointed to the Distinguished Service Order in 1906 and was Commandant with the temporary rank of lieutenant colonel from 1908 onwards.

Hobby achieved the rank of colonel and received the Distinguished Service Medal for efforts during the war.

He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and finished the war a lieutenant colonel.

For his services in Siberia, Eichelberger was awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal, and was promoted to lieutenant colonel on 28 March 1919.

Born in Charleston, South Carolina, he won a Distinguished Service Cross for his service as a Marine in Korea, eventually retiring with the rank of colonel.

He returned to the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters in June 1915, was promoted to lieutenant colonel in July 1918, and seconded to the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service in July 1921.

On July 30, 1920, he was transferred and promoted to the permanent rank of colonel, Air Service, with date of rank from July 1, placing him first in seniority among all Air Service branch officers.

In 1930 he also became Chief of the Field Service Section, Air Corps Materiel Division, and was promoted to lieutenant colonel on February 1, 1931.

* Paddy Mayne ( 1915-1955 ), British Army lieutenant colonel and founder of the elite Special Air Service, solicitor and Irish rugby union international

Mrs. McGibbon served as Chancellor of the universities of Toronto and Guelph, Chairman of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, honorary colonel of 25 ( Toronto ) Service Battalion and was a Director of Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall.

By 1917 he was a colonel with the United States Army Signal Corps and Assistant Chief of the Air Service.

* Charles Beckwith, US Army colonel who was an early exchange officer with the British Special Air Service ( SAS ), and created the Delta Force ( 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta ) based on the SAS.

The Air Service shall consist of one Chief of Air Service with the rank of major-general, one assistant with the rank of brigadier-general, 1, 514 officers in grades from colonel to second lieutenant, inclusive, and 16, 000 enlisted men, including not to exceed 2, 500 flying cadets ... — Section 13a, Public Law 242, 41 Stat.

He served the Aviation Section, U. S. Signal Corps and the Air Service, attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel.

At the invitation of George Marshall, he moved to Washington, D. C. to serve on the President's Advisory Committee for Selective Service, and was promoted to colonel in 1940.

He ended his military career with the rank of colonel in the Service of the Middlesex Regiment Volunteers.

While teaching at the Army General Staff Command College ( 1961 – 1964 ), Figueiredo was promoted to colonel and appointed the department head in the National Information Service.

He was posted to India where he was put in charge of troop entertainment and, by July 1944, he was a colonel commanding the administration of the Entertainments National Service Association ( ENSA ) for India and Southeast Asia.

In the outbreak of the First World War, Sir Victor requested for active duty in the Western Front, but was posted in 1915 as a colonel and Director of Surgery of the British Army Medical Service in Egypt, in the Dardanelles Campaign.