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In the Royal Australian Navy, the rank of vice admiral is held by the Chief of Navy and, when the positions are held by navy officers, by the Vice Chief of the Defence Force, the Chief of Joint Operations, and / or the Chief of Capability Development Group.
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* 1966 – Vietnam War: the Battle of Long Tan ensues after a patrol from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment clashes with a Viet Cong force in Phuoc Tuy province.
The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ); Royal Navy aircraft carrier and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer are sunk off the island's east coast.
The Australian Defence Force Academy ( ADFA ) and the Royal Military College, Duntroon ( RMC ) are in the suburb of Campbell in Canberra's inner northeast.
* Australian Bird Count, a project of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union
Royal Australian Air Force | RAAF General Dynamics F-111 | F-111 performing a Fuel dumping # Dump-and-burn | dump-and-burn Fuel dumping | fuel dump at the Australian International Airshow
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Although he still wore a standard British officer's cap on arrival in the desert, he briefly wore an Australian broad-brimmed hat before switching to wearing the black beret ( with the badge of the Royal Tank Regiment next to the British General Officer's badge ) for which he became notable.
* Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes British / Australian social and benevolent organisation.
Defence is the responsibility of Australia, and the territory is visited regularly by the Royal Australian Navy.
* Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
The 1974 Australian America's Cup Challenger was named " Southern Cross " KA 4 representing the Royal Perth Yacht Club and was defeated 4-0 sailing off Newport Rhode Island by " Courageous " US26 sailing for the New York Yacht Club.
Ramsden tasked the Australian 9th Division with 44th Royal Tank Regiment under command with the Tel el Eisa objective and the South African 1st Division with eight supporting tanks, Tel el Makh Khad.
At first light on 11 July, the Australian 2 / 24th Battalion supported by tanks from 44th Royal Tank Regiment attacked the western end of Tel el Eisa hill ( Point 24 ).
In the early hours of 17 July, the Australian 24th Brigade — supported by 44th Royal Tank Regiment (" RTR ") and strong fighter cover from the air — assaulted Miteirya ridge ( known as " Ruin ridge " to the Australians ).
The governor also traditionally serves as Honorary and Regimental Colonel in the Royal New South Wales Regiment and as Honorary Air Commodore of No. 22 ( City of Sydney ) Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force.
It is also the official march of several Commonwealth navies including the Royal Canadian Navy, the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal New Zealand Navy.
Within a short time the beach and the water off shore were being searched by a large contingent of police, Royal Australian Navy divers, Royal Australian Air Force helicopters, Army personnel from nearby Point Nepean and local volunteers.
Royal and Navy
* is the name of two ships of the Royal Navy
* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
* 1810 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.
* 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
Marc Isambard Brunel ( father of Isambard Kingdom Brunel ), with the help of Henry Maudslay and others, designed 22 types of machine tools to make the parts for the blocks used by the Royal Navy.
He was pressed into the Royal Navy, and after leaving the service became involved in the Atlantic slave trade.
* 1945 – World War II: The Captain class frigate HMS Goodall K479 is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet becoming the last ship of the Royal Navy sunk in the European theatre of World War II.
* Adrian Johns ( born 1951 ), English governor of Gibraltar and former senior officer in the Royal Navy
* 1913 – Completion of the Royal Navy battlecruiser.
* HMS Adder, any of seven ships of the Royal Navy
* HMS Ajax, several ships of the Royal Navy
*, a British Royal Navy ship.
* 1914 – World War I: the Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
* 1918 – World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.
In the 2000s, " Absalon " was adopted as the name for a class of Royal Danish Navy vessels, and the lead vessel of the class.
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*, a prestigious ship name in the British Royal Navy, often the name of the Fleet Flagship, has been given to five ships
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After the First World War Montgomery commanded the 17th Battalion the Royal Fusiliers, a battalion in the British Army of the Rhine, before reverting to his substantive rank of captain ( brevet major ) in November 1919.
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The Royal Netherlands Navy also used the rank of commandeur from the end of the 16th century for a variety of temporary positions, until it became a conventional permanent rank in 1955.
The Royal Netherlands Air Force has adopted the English spelling of commodore for an equivalent rank.
This was the first time in Royal Naval history that a father and son had both attained such high rank.
* Mountain Leader, a rank within the British Royal Marines
It was the first rank and file system beginning a proper organizational history for the Royal Nepalese Army.
During the Second World War he served with the Royal Artillery and then at Bletchley Park, reaching the rank of captain.
* Senior Aircraftsman, British Royal Air Force rank
* Senior Aircraftman, a rank in the Royal Air Force
* Senior Assistant Commissioner, a rank in the Singapore Police Force and Royal Malaysia Police
On 27 February 1858 the University received its Royal Charter from Queen Victoria, giving degrees conferred by the university rank and recognition equal to those given by universities in the UK.
* Warrant Officer of the Navy, the most senior non commissioned officer rank in the Royal Australian Navy ( RAN )
* Royal Warrant of Precedence, British monarchy protocol to determine nobility / gentry order of rank
He would eventually rise to the rank of Vice Admiral in the Royal Navy.
The rank was first used in the ( then ) English Royal Navy and is today used in many other countries, including the Commonwealth nations, and the United States.
Warrant officer is a rank between flight sergeant and pilot officer in the Royal Air Force.
The Royal Australian Navy rank of Warrant Officer ( WO ) is the Navy's only rank appointed by warrant and is equivalent to the Army's WO1 ( the equivalent of the Army's WO2 rank is a Chief Petty Officer ).
The Royal Australian Air Force rank of Warrant Officer ( WOFF ) is the Air Force's only rank appointed by warrant and is equivalent to both the Army's WO1 and the Navy's WO ( the equivalent of the Army's WO2 is a Flight Sergeant ).
He was uneducated and from a working class background, but was able to rise to rank of Master in the British Royal Navy.
To complicate matters, the style His Royal Highness, a prefix normally accompanying the title of a dynastic prince, of royal or imperial rank, that is, can be awarded separately ( as a compromise or consolation prize, in some sense ).
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