As a 22-year-old platoon commander in the 1st Battalion Irish Guards, he served in the British Expeditionary Force ( BEF ) in 1914.

Upon completion of The Basic School at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, in October 1967, he was ordered to the Republic of Vietnam, where he served as a platoon and company commander with Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines.

He served as an infantry platoon leader and company commander in the Phillipines during the Philippine – American War and several other guerrilla uprisings.

He served briefly in the desert campaign as a platoon commander with the Rifle Brigade during World War II.

* Jemadars and subedars normally served as platoon commanders and company 2ICs, but were junior to all British officers, while the subedar major was the Commanding Officer's advisor on the men and their welfare.

On 1 January 1938, Bäke was transferred to Panzer-Abteilung 65, where he served as platoon leader of the Abt's light column.

He started his career with the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where he served as a rifle and scout platoon leader.

He also served as the battalion's 106mm recoilless rifle platoon commander.

Prince Joachim served as a platoon commander of a tank squadron from 1989 to 1990.

After graduating from Yale, Wilson served for three years in the Marine Corps as an infantry officer, eventually becoming a platoon leader.

He served in Vietnam as an Airborne Ranger reconnaissance platoon sergeant and earned two Bronze Stars ( with " V " devices for valor ) and a Purple Heart.

He served in every level of unit command from platoon to division.

Shalikashvili served in various Field Artillery and Air Defense Artillery positions as a platoon leader, forward observer, instructor, and student, in various staff positions, and as a company commander.

He was a platoon leader and served as executive officer of the 2nd Airborne Battle Group, 187th Airborne Infantry Regiment at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

References in Crystal Soldier and Crystal Dragon suggest that the Yxtrang are the descendants of a group of " X Strain " and " Y Strain " genetically-engineered soldiers who served in a platoon with Jela and accompanied the human migration to the new universe.

Upon graduation he served as a lieutenant and a tank platoon leader in the United States Army in 1960-1961.

* B Specials – part-time, usually on duty for one evening per week and serving under their own command structure, and unpaid, although they had a generous system of allowances ( which were reduced following the reorganisation of the USC a few years later ), served wherever the RIC served and manned Mobile Groups of platoon size.

She has served in a variety of leadership positions including section leader, platoon leader, and brigade flight-standardization officer.

In 1984, he was assigned to the 25th Infantry Division ( Light ), Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, where he served as a platoon leader, aviation company operations officer, and an assault helicopter battalion operations officer.

In 1961, he graduated from the Royal Canadian School of Infantry and served briefly with Canadian Guards in Germany and later as a platoon officer, quartermaster, adjutant, company commander and Deputy commander of 2 Royal New Brunswick Regiment ( NS ).

James served in the United States Marine Corps from 1987 to 1993 and fought in Operation Desert Storm in 1991, where he was a platoon Sergeant in command of thirty-three Marines.

During World War II, he served as an infantry regiment reconnaissance platoon leader in both North Africa and Italy.

He was promoted to Second Lieutenant in 1935 and served as a platoon leader, battalion and regimental adjutant and company commander in Panzer Regiments 1 and 35.

At different times he served as glee-club and choir leader and as organist.

In 394 Alaric served as a leader of foederati under Theodosius I in the campaign which crushed the usurper Eugenius.

Ealdred, besides his episcopal duties, served Edward the Confessor, the King of England, as a diplomat and as a military leader.

Aagesen was educated for the law at Christiania ( now Oslo ) and Copenhagen, and interrupted his studies in 1848 to take part in the First Schleswig War, in which he served as the leader of a reserve battalion.

The second president was another member of the Union of Demicratic Forces-Petar Stoyanov and served until 2002, when the leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party-Georgi Parvanov began to replace him, he won two mandates and served until 2011, when Rosen Plevneliev of the right-oriented GERB was elected for a five-year mandate.

Attlee served as acting leader for nine months from December 1933, after Lansbury fractured his thigh in an accident.

Having served as prime minister for six years and 92 days, his reign as prime minister was the longest unbroken reign of any Labour leader until Tony Blair more than 50 years later.

The princeps senatus served as the leader of the Senate and was chosen to serve a five year term by each pair of Censors every five years.

Charles Martel () ( 23 August 686 – 22 October 741 ), also known as Charles the Hammer, was a Frankish military and political leader, who served as Mayor of the Palace under the Merovingian kings and ruled de facto during an interregnum ( 737 – 43 ) at the end of his life, using the title Duke and Prince of the Franks.

While Deng never held office as the head of state, head of government or General Secretary of the Communist Party of China ( the highest position in Communist China ), he nonetheless served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 to 1992.

EPLF leader Afewerki became the head of the PGE, and the EPLF Central Committee served as its legislative body.

It was named after Arthur Griffith who was the founder and third leader of Sinn Féin and also served as President of Dáil Éireann.

Most political actors perceived Duvalier — a medical doctor who had served as a rural administrator of a United States-funded anti-yaws campaign before entering the cabinet under Estimé — as an honest and fairly unassuming leader without a strong ideological motivation or program.

* John of Ford ( ca. 1140 – 1214 ), English religious leader who, from 1191 until his death, served as abbot of Dorset Cistercian monastery Forde Abbey ; ally of King John

In 1997, when Gingrich was embroiled in a House ethics controversy, Kemp served as an intermediary between Dole and Gingrich to save the Republican Party leader.

Prince was a Japanese politician in the Empire of Japan who served as the 34th, 38th and 39th Prime Minister of Japan and founder / leader of the Taisei Yokusankai.

Page remained dominant in the party until 1939 and briefly served as an interim Prime Minister between the death of Joseph Lyons and the election of Robert Menzies as his successor, but Page's refusal to serve under Menzies led to his resignation as leader.

Another famous leader of Ethiopia with Oromo descent was Ras Makonnen Woldemikael Gudessa, the governor of Harar who served as the top general in the First Italo – Ethiopian War, playing a key role at the Battle of Adwa.

Forde served for eight days until Ben Chifley was elected leader.

Two former prime ministers — Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott and Sir Mackenzie Bowell — served in the 1890s while members of the Senate ; both, in their roles as Government Leader in the Senate, succeeded prime ministers who died in office ( John A. Macdonald in 1891 and John Sparrow David Thompson in 1894 ), a convention that has since evolved toward the appointment of an interim leader in such a scenario.

Clement Attlee, the leader of the Labour Party, served as Deputy Prime Minister.

Scotland's author and theorist Hugh Blair served as a key leader of this movement during the late 18th century.

Civil rights leader Julian Bond soon joined Dees and Levin and served as president of the board between 1971 and 1979.

He was the founder of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party and served as its leader from 1983 to 1999, during which time he stood in numerous parliamentary elections.