Bolling Field was officially opened 1 July 1918 and was named in honor of the first high-ranking air service officer killed in World War I, Colonel Raynal C. Bolling.

Colonel Raynal C. Bolling Memorial, Greenwich, Connecticut

Colonel Raynal Cawthorne Bolling ( Raynal pronounced as in " canal ") ( September 1, 1877-March 26, 1918 ) was the first high-ranking U. S. officer to be killed in combat in World War I.

* Colonel Raynal C. Bolling Papers at the Greenwich Historical Society

* U. S. Army Colonel Raynal Bolling leads the Bolling Mission to Europe to examine the practicality of constructing British and French fighters in the United States.

Colonel Robert Bolling ( December 26, 1646 – July 17, 1709 ) was a wealthy early American settler planter and merchant.

On November 28, 1867, he married Mary Tabb Bolling, a descendant of Colonel Robert Bolling and Bolling's second wife Anne Stith.

Colonel Robert Bolling, Confederate Major General William Mahone, his wife Otelia, and many of their kinfolk, and Confederate Brigadier General David A. Weisiger are interred there, as is actor Joseph Cotten, a native of Petersburg.

On January 24 Paul Bang-Jensen, accompanied by Adolf Berle, was met by Dragoslav Protitch and Colonel Frank Begley, former Police Chief of Farmington, Conn., and now head of U.N. special police.

Lieutenant Colonel James P. Brownlow, who commanded the First Brigade of Thomas' First Cavalry Division, was ordered across one of these fords.

Chauncey Depew, one-time runner-up for the Republican Presidential nomination, was attending a convention at Saratoga, where he was scheduled to nominate Colonel Theodore Roosevelt for Governor of New York when he noticed that the temporary chairman was a man he had never met.

In September 1822 two companies of infantry arrived at the mouth of the St. Peter's River, the head of navigation on the Mississippi, and began construction of Fort St. Anthony which, upon completion, was renamed in honor of its commander, Colonel Josiah Snelling.

For example, it was a battalion of the 7th Cavalry under Colonel George Armstrong Custer that had been wiped out at the Battle of The Little Big Horn.

From there, his body was taken to the home of Colonel William Inge, which had been his headquarters in Corinth.

The site of the colony's capital was surveyed and laid out by Colonel William Light, the first Surveyor-General of South Australia, through the design made by the architect George Strickland Kingston.

As it was believed that in a colony of free settlers there would be little crime, no provision was made for a gaol in Colonel Light's 1837 plan.

Alexander I or Aleksandar Obrenović ( Cyrillic: Александар Обреновић ; 14 August 1876 – 11 June 1903 ) was king of Serbia from 1889 to 1903 when he and his wife, Queen Draga, were assassinated by a group of Army officers, led by Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević

After a promotion in the militia in 1841, Johnson was often locally referred to as " Colonel ".

Carnegie's education and passion for reading was given a great boost by Colonel James Anderson, who opened his personal library of 400 volumes to working boys each Saturday night.

By March 1932, Capp was drawing Colonel Gilfeather, a single-panel, AP-owned property created in 1930 by Dick Dorgan.

Colonel Kari Renko, an engineer at the Finnish Air Force, was quoted by Helsingin Sanomat as saying about this failure, " The problem involves the rocket engines which have been in use for decades " and that Finland first was told of the problems by the Americans about two years ago.

Colonel Zerbo also encountered resistance from trade unions and was overthrown two years later on November 7, 1982, by Major Dr. Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo and the Council of Popular Salvation ( CSP ).

Montgomery came to the conclusion that the conflict could not be won without harsh measures, and that self-government was the only feasible solution ; in 1923, after the establishment of the Irish Free State and during the Irish Civil War, Montgomery wrote to Colonel Arthur Percival of the Essex Regiment:

Marlborough's anxiety was finally allayed when, just past noon, Colonel Cadogan reported that Eugene's Prussian and Danish infantry were in place – the order for the general advance was given.

The accomplished French officer, Colonel de la Colonie, standing on the plain nearby remembered – " this village was the opening of the engagement, and the fighting there was almost as murderous as the rest of the battle put together.

After a brief pause, Marlborough ’ s equerry, Colonel Bringfield ( or Bingfield ), led up another of the Duke ’ s spare horses ; but while assisting him onto his mount, the unfortunate Bringfield was hit by an errant cannonball that sheared off his head.

Colonel Charles de Gaulle was a known advocate of concentration of armor and airplanes.

Proposed designs prepared by Bailey, Banks, and Biddle and the Office of the Quartermaster General were provided to Assistant Chief of Staff ( G1 ) ( Colonel Heard ) by the QMG on January 5, 1942.

While Colonel Andrew Goodpaster held this position, he tended to eclipse the Special Assistant for National Security.

However, during his tenure as Chief of the General Staff ( 1985 – 89 ) General Sir Nigel Bagnall directed that British Military Doctrine was to be prepared, and tasked Colonel ( later General ) Timothy Granville-Chapman ( an artillery officer who had been his Military Assistant in Headquarters 1st British Corps ) to prepare it.

In December 1921, still a brevet lieutenant colonel, he became an Assistant Adjutant General ( AAG ) at the War Office and in July 1923 was once again working as a GSO1, having been promoted full Colonel in July 1922, effective June 1921.

Clifford quietly sought allies and was assisted in his effort by the so-called " 8: 30 Group "-Nitze, Warnke, Phil G. Goulding ( Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs ), George Elsey, and Air Force Colonel Robert E. Pursely.

He joined the Union army at the outbreak of the civil war and was commissioned as an artillery officer and became Assistant Inspector General on the staff of Ulysses S. Grant with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

Colonel Tom Reid and Senior Administrative Assistant Lois Boyle.

A six-man Alsos Mission team set out to secure them, led by Pash and the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2, at ETOUSA, Colonel G. Bryan Conrad.

Lieutenant Colonel R. E. Evans, Royal Engineers, Assistant Director Army Postal Service Middle East Force ( MEF ), proposed that a lightweight self-sealing letter card that weighed only 1 / 10 oz be adopted by the British Army for air mail purposes.

McFarlane was appointed by President Gerald Ford as his Special Assistant for National Security Affairs while a Lieutenant Colonel and was the Navy Distinguished Service Medal in 1976.

It assembled at the War Office and the Committee consisted of: · Lieutenant Colonel John Lowther du Plat Taylor, · Major CE Webber RE ( a RE telegraphist, who had experience of working with the GPO ), · Captain AC Hamilton RE ( Secretary ), · Major WF Butler RA ( Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General ), · Mr RS Culey ( GPO ) and · Henry Mellersh ( an Assistance Army Postmaster during the Crimean War ).

Vincent sent his Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Lieutenant Colonel John Harvey, to reconnoitre the American position.

* Colonel Eli McNulty coins Samantha Liston in E-Ring when she is in the running to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and a General is trying to put a stop to it.

In 1917 he became Assistant Director of Trench Warfare with the rank of Colonel.

In March 1940 on promotion to full Colonel he became Assistant Commandant of the Staff College Quetta.

On 11 July Brigadier General Lowell English, Assistant Division Commander of the 3rd Marine Division met with General Truong, commanding General of the ARVN 1st Division and Colonel Sherman, commander of the 4th Marines at the 1st Division HQ in Huế to plan the operation.

The A and Q staff were headed by a Colonel AQ was head of the combined " A " and " Q " staffs, and assisted by an AA & QMG ( Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General, rank Lieutenant Colonel ).

He was assisted by the Deputy Assistant Adjutant General ( DAAG, rank Lieutenant Colonel ).

Major General Richard K. Sutherland became Chief of Staff ; Brigadier General Richard J. Marshall, Deputy Chief of Staff ; Colonel Charles P. Stivers, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-1 ; Colonel Charles A. Willoughby, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2 ; Brigadier General Stephen J. Chamberlin, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-3 ; Colonel Lester J. Whitlock, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-4 ; Brigadier General Spencer B. Akin, Signal Officer ; Brigadier General Hugh J. Casey, Engineer Officer ; Brigadier General William F. Marquat, Antiaircraft Officer ; Colonel Burdette M. Fitch, Adjutant General ; and Colonel LeGrande A. Diller, Public Relations Officer.