He first entered the war zone on 26 June 1917, and was promoted to temporary lieutenant on 10 June 1918, and to acting captain on 22 March 1918, when he took command of a tank section, he retained the rank when he became second-in-command of a tank company on 19 October 1918, and relinquished it on 7 January 1919.

Abercromby's second-in-command, Brigadier General George Howe, had been killed when his column encountered a French reconnaissance troop.

For the rest of 1642 and part of the 1643 campaigns, Thomas Francis ommanded Piedmontese forces fighting alongside the French under Henri II d ' Orléans, duc de Longueville against the Spanish, generally along the Piedmont / Milan border ; when Longueville was recalled home, he succeeded him as allied commander-in-chief, with Henri de la Tour d ' Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne as his second-in-command.

For the rest of 1642 and part of the 1643 campaigns, Thomas commanded Piedmontese forces fighting alongside the French under Henri II d ' Orléans, duc de Longueville against the Spanish, generally along the Piedmont / Milan border ; when Longueville was recalled home, Thomas succeeded him as allied commander-in-chief, with Turenne as his second-in-command.

The battalion second-in-command was killed when his tank was hit in front of Whitelaw's eyes and Whitelaw succeeded to this position, holding it, with the rank of Major, throughout the advance through the Netherlands into Germany and until the end of the war.

Alexander formally made him his second-in-command when he appointed him Chiliarch of the empire, and made him part of the royal family when he gave him as his bride Drypetis, sister to his own second wife, Stateira, both daughters of Darius III of Persia.

Initially Marshal Humières commanded French forces in this theatre but in 1689, while the French concentrated on the Rhine, it produced little more than a stand-off – the most significant engagement occurred when William's second-in-command, the Prince of Waldeck, defeated Humières in a skirmish at the Battle of Walcourt on 25 August.

Brigadier General George Howe, Abercromby's second-in-command, had been killed when his column encountered a French reconnaissance troop.

A subsequent attempt to transfer Surak's katra to Syrran's second-in-command, T ' Pau, fails when Surak chooses to remain merged with Jonathan Archer.

He served as second-in-command to Winston Churchill when Churchill commanded the 6th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers in the Ploegsteert Wood sector of the Western Front in 1916, after Churchill had resigned as First Lord of the Admiralty.

In May 2006, Timms was promoted to the Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, the Chancellor's second-in-command with responsibility for department budget issues, a post in which he remained until 28 June 2007, when he was dropped from the cabinet by new Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

He had been second-in-command to Thomas Livingstone Mitchell in 1846 when the Barcoo river was discovered.

Was romantic rivals with Elixer for Wallflower ; when Wallflower died, Wither fled the school and became Selene's second-in-command.

In their final confrontation, Angel defeats Axtius when unarmed despite Axtius wielding a powerful mystical weapon, taunting the Brachen by saying that he would have been ashamed of Doyle's very human act of sacrifice and redemption, Axtius subsequently being incinerated by his former second-in-command for his failure.

Then, when financial setbacks forced him to come out of retirement in the 1870s, he worked as second-in-command when his friend and younger colleague John McArthur, Jr. won the competition for Philadelphia City Hall.

X-Force joined the fray, and when Shatterstar realized the error of his ways, his second-in-command, the Scheduler, betrayed him.

Chris Pettit was Fuld's second-in-command for two decades until November 26, 1996, when he resigned as President and board member.

In his absence, command of the fleet fell to his second-in-command, Commander Ivanova, despite her junior rank when compared to other officers in the rebel fleet.

Acting as second-in-command of the 45th Royal Fusiliers, he earned a bar to his DSO in August, when his attack in the Gorodok operation along the Dvina netted 400 Bolshevik prisoners.

Some have ludicrously asserted that there exists the theoretical concept of a third-in-command whereby the so-called " third-in-command " assumes the duties of the absent second-in-command, excepting, of course, when the first-in-command is not absent.

The colonel was then given the title of second-in-command or deputy commander and this command hierarchy continued until 1980 when a number of constitutional changes brought it to an end.

Despite this, the business floundered until 1902 when Col. Matt Winn of Louisville put together a syndicate of businessmen to acquire the facility.

The tradition originated in 1883 when New York socialite E. Berry Wall presented roses to ladies at a post-Derby party that was attended by Churchill Downs founder and president, Col. M. Lewis Clark.

" Similarly, Louie Kemp, in his article for Jewish Journal, wrote: " You might remember him as Don Vito Corleone, Stanley Kowalski or the eerie Col. Walter E. Kurtz in " Apocalypse Now ," but I remember Marlon Brando as a mensch and a personal friend of the Jewish people when they needed it most.

Fighting broke out again in June 1997 when Lissouba engaged militias loyal to former President Col. Denis Sassou Nguesso of the Congolese Labor Party ( PCT ) in Brazzaville, accusing the former president of an attempted coup.

The redrawing of the provincial borders would see a return of Cortina d ' Ampezzo, Livinallongo del Col di Lana and Colle Santa Lucia to South Tyrol, to which they have traditionally belonged when they were still a part of the County of Tyrol or the Bishopric of Brixen.

The Col de Largentière historically linked Lyon with Italy ; it offered an easy route between Piedmont and the outlying valley of Barcelonnette, which came into Savoyard possession when Amadeus or his heir transferred it from the County of Provence to the County of Nice.

M. L .' She became Lady Mary Trefusis when she married Lt .- Col. Henry W. Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis in 1905.

On June 29, 1875, Col. William R. Shafter, accompanied by eighty-one men and officers, tracked the Comanche Indians into county lands, when Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie conducted a campaign to drive them from the area.

The First Battle of Adobe Walls took place in 1864 when General James H. Carleton sent Col. Christopher ( Kit ) Carson into the area to avenge for repeated Indian attacks.

* 1886 The city of Plainview has its beginnings when sheep rancher Zachery Taylor Maxwell moves his family and 2, 000 sheep from Floyd County to the site of two hackberry groves on the old military trail established by Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie.

Col. Return J. Meigs, who was to become the county's namesake, operated an Indian agency across the river in Rhea County until 1817, when the agency moved east to the area that is now Meigs County.

It was named for John Stokes, an American Revolutionary War captain severely wounded when British Colonel Banastre Tarleton's cavalry practically destroyed Col. Abraham Buford's Virginia regiment in the Waxhaws region in 1780.

Madison was the site of a battle in the American Civil War on March 16, 1864, when Col. Josiah Patterson's 5th Alabama Cavalry, supported by Col. James H. Stuart's cavalry battalion and a section of horse artillery, drove Col. Adam G. Gorgas's 13th Illinois Infantry Regiment from the city.

The community was established by Col. Walter H. Otey in 1848 and was known as Walnut Ridge until 1852 when it became known as Marianna.

The new airfield was dedicated on 31 May 1935 and named in honor of Lt Col Horace Meek Hickam, a distinguished aviation pioneer who was killed in an aircraft accident the previous November 5 when his Curtiss A-12 Shrike, 33-250, hit an obstruction during night landing practice on the unlighted field at Fort Crockett in Galveston, Texas and overturned.

This was quickly repealed when then Col. James A. Garfield marched his brigade on the city of Paintsville.

On 21 August 1954 the 407th SFW Vice Commander, Col. Einar Axel Malmstrom, died when his T-33 Shooting Star trainer crashed approximately one mile west of the Great Falls Municipal Airport.

General Washington visited the County in June 1783, when Mrs. Washington and Governor and Mrs. Clinton were entertained in this house by Col. Hardenburgh.

The town was first called by the name of Huntington in 1835 when the first post office, operated by Col. H. R. S.

Lt. Col. Doolittle stated in his after-action report that an operational level of training was reached despite several days when flying was not possible because of rain and fog.

A famous victory for the Plains Nations was the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876, when Col. George Armstrong Custer and two hundred plus members of the 7th Cavalry were killed by a force consisting of Native Americans from the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho nations.

In October 1914, when the Government was faced with open rebellion by Lt Col Manie Maritz and others in the Maritz Rebellion, Government forces under the command of Botha and Smuts were able to put down the rebellion without it ever seriously threatening to ignite into a Third Boer War.