* Colonel Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Career Highlights: he won the Individual Gold Medal setting a new Commonwealth Games Record, 192 targets out of 200, which still stands.

In recognition of his prodigious feats of exploration, regarding which Colonel Henry Yule commented that " his explorations have added a larger amount of important knowledge to the map of Asia than any other living man ", Nain Singh was presented with an inscribed gold chronometer by the Royal Geographic Society ( RGS ) in 1868.

V. P. Singh studied at Colonel Brown Cambridge School, Dehradun for five years, and entered local politics in Allahabad during the Nehru era.

Colonel Ranabir Singh Thapa, brother of Bhimsen Thapa, was to be the Sector Commander of Makawanpur-Hariharpur axis.

Colonel Ranabir Singh Thapa had been trying to lure the enemies to his selected killing area.

Nepalese Colonel Ujir Singh Thapa had deployed his 1200 troops in many defensive positions including Jit Gadhi, Nuwakot Gadhi and Kathe Gadhi.

He accordingly instructed Colonel Mawbey to leave a few men in a strong position for the occupation of the Doon and to carry his undivided army against Amar Singh's son, Colonel Ranajor Singh Thapa, who was with about 2300 elite of the Gurkha army, at Nahan.

( There had been other alleged attacks by Ananda Marga, namely on 15 September 1977 the military attaché at the Indian Embassy, Colonel Singh and his wife, were attacked in Canberra.

* 1926-1929: Colonel His Highness Shriman Rajrajeshwar Maharajadhiraj Sri Sir Hari Singh Indar Mahindar Bahadur, Sipar-i-Sultanat, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, KCIE, KCVO

* 1929-1933: Colonel His Highness Shriman Rajrajeshwar Maharajadhiraj Sri Sir Hari Singh Indar Mahindar Bahadur, Sipar-i-Sultanat, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, GCIE, KCVO

* 1933-1935: Colonel His Highness Shriman Rajrajeshwar Maharajadhiraj Sri Sir Hari Singh Indar Mahindar Bahadur, Sipar-i-Sultanat, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, GCSI, GCIE, KCVO

To date, there are six known awards of a first bar: Wing Commander Jag Mohan Nath ( 1962 and 1 September 1965 ), Major General Rajindar Singh ( 19 March 1948 and 6 September 1965 ), General Arun Shridhar Vaidya ( 16 September 1965 and 5 December 1971 ), Wing Commander Padmanabha Gautam ( 6 September 1965 and 5 December 1971 ), Colonel Chewang Rinchen ( July 1948 and 8 December 1971 ), and Brigadier Sant Singh ( 2 November 1965 and January 1972 ).

# The Height Of Valour – Colonel Udai Singh 1971 Indo-Pak war

Colonel Guizara Singh

A number of these prisoners were brought to India and tried by British courts for treason, including a number of high-ranking officers such as Colonel Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon.

An obelisk marks the grave of Colonel Canara, a European officer of the Sikh Artillery, who fell in 1848 defending his guns single-handed against the insurgents under Chattar Singh.

* Lieutenant Colonel Anant Singh Pathania, MC

* Lieutenant Colonel Inder Bal Singh Bawa

Abhijeet while Colonel Saurabh Singh Shekhawat, KC, SC, SM, VSM scaled the peak thrice ( 2001, 2003 & 2005 ) apart from scaling peaks in the French Alps and in Africa.

* Colonel Ashok Kumar Singh, An Ex Indian Army Officer.

* Amrish Puri as Colonel Dugraj Singh

* Colonel Magh Singh

Gérald-Libois writes that '.. the special meeting of the council of ministers took steps for the immediate Africanisation of the officer corps and .. named Victor Lundula, who was born in Kasai and was burgomaster of Jadotville, as Commander-in-Chief of the Armée Nationale Congolaise ( ANC ); Colonel Joseph-Désiré Mobutu as chief of staff ; and the Belgian, Colonel Henniquiau, as chief advisor to the ANC.

Scott was born in the North East Tyneside coastal town of South Shields, England, the son of Elizabeth and Colonel Francis Percy Scott.

Sharon Tate was born in Dallas, Texas, the eldest of three daughters, to Colonel Paul James Tate ( 1922 – 2005 ), a United States Army officer, and his wife, Doris Gwendolyn ( née Willett ; January 16, 1924 – July 10, 1992 ).

Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr., was born in Roswell, New Mexico, to Erma Louise Swope and Lt. Col. Henry John Deutschendorf, Sr., an Air Force Lieutenant Colonel ( who set three speed records in the B-58 Hustler bomber and earned a place in the Air Force Hall of Fame ).

Shepard was born in Derry, New Hampshire to Lieutenant Colonel Alan B. Shepard, Sr. and Renza ( née Emerson ) Shepard.

* World War II flying ace Colonel Gregory " Pappy " Boyington was born in Coeur d ' Alene on December 4, 1912, and was a member of the AVG ( Flying Tigers ) and later the commander of the famous Black Sheep Squadron.

* World War I ace Harvey Weir Cook was born and raised in Wilkinson ; Indianapolis International Airport's main terminal is named in Colonel H. Weir Cook's honor.

His paternal grandfather Colonel Timothy Dwight, was born October 19, 1694, and died April 30, 1771.

Bagration was born in 1765 to a Georgian prince of the Bagratid dynasty, Colonel Prince Ivan Alexandrovich Bagration ( 18 November 1730 – 9 October 1795 ), who was the eldest son of Alexander.

The Anglo-Irish were also represented among the senior officers of the British Army by men such as Field Marshal Lord Roberts, first honorary Colonel of the Irish Guards regiment, who spent most of his career in India ; Field Marshal Lord Gough who served under Wellington, himself a Wellesley born in Dublin to the Earl of Mornington, a prominent Anglo-Irish family in Dublin ; and in the 20th century Alan Brooke and Harold Alexander ( see also Irish military diaspora ).

his father, Thomas Brooke, was an English Judge Court of Appeal at Bareilly, British India ; his mother, Anna Maria, born in Hertfordshire, was the daughter of Scottish peer Colonel William Stuart, 9th Lord Blantyre, and his mistress Harriott Teasdale.

Mary Aline Mynors Farmar was born in Englefield Green, Surrey, the third child of Colonel Harold Mynors Farmer and his wife Violet nee Dalby.

Though for many years the most noted of American infidels, Colonel Ingersoll was born and reared in a devoutly Christian household.

James Peter Wolfe was born in the local vicarage on 2 January 1727 ( New Style or 22 December 1726 Old Style ) at Westerham, Kent, the older of two sons of Colonel ( later Lieutenant General ) Edward Wolfe, a veteran soldier of Irish origin, and the former Henrietta Thompson.

Lumsden was born aboard the East India Company ’ s ship Rose in the Bay of Bengal, the son of a British Army Colonel Thomas Lumsden, C. B.

Beckford was born in Jamaica the grandson of Colonel Peter Beckford.

Simberg was born at Hamina ( original Swedish Fredrikshamn ) in Finland, the son of Colonel Nicolai Simberg and Ebba Matilda Simberg ( born Widenius ).

Perrine was born in Galveston, Texas, the daughter of Winifred " Renee " ( née McGinley ), a dancer who appeared in Earl Carroll's Vanities, and Kenneth Perrine, a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army.

Lingen was born in Birmingham, where his father was in business, Lingen descended from the ancient Herefordshire family of Lingen, Lords of Lingen, Sutton and Stoke Edith, and the native Princes of Southern Powys, with Royalist traditions who included the noted cavalier Colonel, Sir Henry Lingen.

Colonel Bob Denard ( April 7, 1929 – October 13, 2007 ), born Gilbert Bourgeaud, was a French soldier and mercenary.

Colonel Saye Zerbo ( born 27 August 1932 ) was a President of Upper Volta ( now Burkina Faso ) from 25 November 1980 to 7 November 1982.

Hampton was born in Charleston, South Carolina, the eldest son of Wade Hampton II ( 1791 – 1858 ), known as " Colonel Wade Hampton ", one of the wealthiest planters in the South ( and the owner of the largest number of slaves ), an officer of dragoons in the War of 1812, and an aide to General Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans.

Although the king died in exile and most Libyans were born after his reign, during the 2011 Libyan civil war, many demonstrators opposing Colonel Gaddafi carried portraits of the king, especially in the traditional Sanussi stronghold of Cyrenaica.