The current defence minister is a retired Major General, Alfred Paolo Conteh.

The current chief of the defence staff is Robert Yira Koroma, who was appointed by president Ernest Bai Koroma in August 2010 to replace Major General Alfred Nelson Williams, who was placed on terminal leave.

Major General Alfred Nelson-Williams is currently the Chief of the Defence Staff.

Alfred Dreyfus was reinstated into the French Army with his prior rank of Major, and made a Chevalier of the French Légion d ' honneur in July 1906.

The subsequent commanders of Camp Bidwell during the month of August, Captain Alfred Morton and then Major Ambrose E. Hooker-are absent in early correspondence from Captain Starr asking for guidance with the increasing number of Konkow ' prisoners of war '.

* Alfred K. Flowers, U. S. Air Force Major General

The Union Army returned in January, this time under Major General Alfred Terry.

German tank crews and other members of the Schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 101, such as Alfred Bahlo, Hans Dollinger, Hans Höflinger and Doctor Rabe, along with Allied tankers such as Captain Boardman, Trooper Ekins and Major Radley-Walters have all stated in interviews ( as well as other media such as letters ) that the Tiger tanks came under tank attack only and do not mention any air attacks.

Former trustees include retired Major General and author Franklin M. Davis, Jr, Theodore Dreier, an engineer and educator who was one of the founders of Black Mountain College, and Alfred L. Jenkins, a career diplomat who served as chairman of MIU but left after three years.

Alfred Manuel " Billy " Martin, Jr. ( May 16, 1928 – December 25, 1989 ) was an American Major League Baseball second baseman and manager.

Upon taking command of the Baltische Landeswehr, Major Alfred Fletcher, with the backing of the Baltic German land barons, began dismissing native Latvian elements and replacing them with Baltic Germans and Reichsdeutsch troops.

Hartmann was assigned to III ./ JG 52, led by Gruppenkommandeur Major Hubertus von Bonin, and placed under the experienced Oberfeldwebel Edmund " Paule " Roßmann, although he also flew with such experienced pilots as Alfred Grislawski, Hans Dammers and Josef Zwernemann.

When the expert on Japan, Professor Edwin O. Reischauer, heard this terrible news, he rushed into the office of his chief, Major Alfred MacCormack, in a department of the Army Intelligence Service.

* Alfred Howe Terry ( 1827 – 1890 )— Civil War Union Army Major General.

In fact, Clark and his chief of staff Major General Alfred Gruenther remained unconvinced of the “ military necessity ”.

At the start of the battle, Taylor had approximately 9, 000 troops consisting of Brigadier General Alfred Mouton's Louisiana / Texas infantry division, Major General John G. Walker's Texas infantry division, Brigadier General Thomas Green's Texas Cavalry Division, and Colonel William G. Vincent's Louisiana cavalry brigade.

Other members of the peace commission were Lieutenant General William T. Sherman, commander of the Military Division of the Missouri ; Major General William S. Harney ( retired ), who had taken part in earlier conflicts with the Cheyenne and Sioux along the Platte River ; Brigadier General Alfred H. Terry, commander of the Military Department of Dakota ; Senator John B. Henderson of Missouri, Chairman of the Senate Indian Appropriations Committee, who had introduced the bill that created the peace commission ; Colonel Samuel F. Tappan, formerly of the First Colorado Volunteer Cavalry and a peace advocate who had led the U. S. Army's investigation of the Sand Creek massacre ; Major General John B. Sanborn, formerly commander of the Upper Arkansas District, who had previously helped to negotiate the Little Arkansas Treaty of 1865.

After Major Georges Picquart's exile to Tunisia others took up the cause of the Alfred Dreyfus.

Percy Toplis the The Monocled Mutineer, founder of Pakistan Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Planters mascot Mr. Peanut, Batman series antagonist Oswald Cobblepot ( also known as The Penguin ), Portuguese President António de Spínola, filmmakers Fritz Lang and Erich Von Stroheim, prominent 19th century Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz, Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov, actor Conrad Veidt, Dadaists Tristan Tzara and Raoul Hausmann, esotericist Julius Evola, French collaborationist politician Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, criminal Percy Toplis, Poet laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson, singer Richard Tauber, diplomat Christopher Ewart-Biggs ( a smoked-glass monocle, to disguise his glass eye ), Major Johnnie Cradock, actors Ralph Lynn and George Arliss, Karl Marx and Milburn Pennybags.

Graves also starred in the British made ITC series Court Martial playing U. S. Army Lawyer Major Frank Whittaker ( one of the series two American Leads starring opposite Bradford Dillman's Captain David Young ) as well as guest roles in such series as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Cimarron City, Route 66 and The Invaders ,( episode ; ' Moonshot ') In 1967, Graves was recruited by Desilu Studios to replace Steven Hill as the lead actor on Mission: Impossible.

* Post-World War I budget cuts have reduced United States Marine Corps aviation from almost 400 aviators to fewer then 50, prompting the Marine Corps first aviator, Major Alfred A. Cunningham, to write in the Marine Corps Gazette, " One of the greatest handicaps which Marine Corps Aviation must now overcome is a combination of doubt as to usefulness, lack of sympathy, and a feeling on the part of some line officers that aviators and aviation men are not real Marines.

After Godley departed with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in October 1914, Major General Alfred William Robin commanded the New Zealand Military Forces at home throughout the War as commandant, and was pivotal in ensuring the on-going provision of reinforcements and support to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

Reporting to him were two deputy chiefs of staff, Brigadier General Alfred Gruenther and Brigadier John Whiteley, and the Chief Administrative Officer ( CAO ), Major General Humfrey Gale.

In the foreground, Erzberger, Major General Detlof von Winterfeldt ( with helmet ), Alfred von Oberndorff and Ernst Vanselow.

Other authors who used the name were Major John Bernard Arbuthnot MVO, the column's founder, and William Hartston, the current author of its revived form.

Major General William Rupertus, USMC — commander of 1st Marine Division — predicted the island would be secured within four days.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia.

Beatty's other brothers were Charles Harold Longfield ( 1870 – 1917 ) who served with distinction in the South Africa wars before dying from complications after losing an arm in Flanders, Richard George ( 1882 – 1915 ) who died on active service in India, William Vandeleur Schruder ( 1873 – 1935 ) who became an army Major and Newmarket horse trainer, and one sister Kathleen Roma ( 1875 –).

Among notable recipients below flag rank are: X-1 test pilot Chuck Yeager and X-15 test pilot Robert M. White, who both received the DSM as U. S. Air Force majors ; Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson, the U-2 pilot shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis ; director Frank Capra, decorated in 1945 as an Army colonel ; actor James Stewart, decorated in 1945 as an Army Air Forces colonel ( later Air Force Brigadier General ); Col. Wendell Fertig, who led Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines ; Col. ( later Major General ) John K. Singlaub, who led partisan forces in the Korean War ; and Maj. Maude C. Davison, who led the " Angels of Bataan and Corregidor " during their imprisonment by the Japanese, and Colonel William S. Taylor, Program Manager Multiple Launch Rocket System.

* 1865 – Union forces under Major General William T. Sherman set the South Carolina State House on fire during the burning of Columbia.

Major architects to promote the change in direction from baroque were Colen Campbell, author of the influential book Vitruvius Britannicus ; Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and his protégé William Kent ; Isaac Ware ; Henry Flitcroft and the Venetian Giacomo Leoni, who spent most of his career in England.

After the defeat, Major resigned as the leader of the party, and was succeeded by William Hague.

Following his resignation as Prime Minister, Major briefly became Leader of the Opposition, and Shadow Foreign Secretary ( as Sir Malcolm Rifkind, who was Foreign Secretary prior to the election, had lost his seat ), and remained in this post until the election of William Hague as leader of the Conservative Party in June 1997.

Following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997, Major was appointed a special guardian to Princes William and Harry, with responsibility for legal and administrative matters.

In November 1849, Carson and Major William Grier found the camp of the Jicarilla Apaches who had captured Mrs. Ann White and her daughter.

The Brewers were born at the 1967 Major League Baseball winter meetings as the Seattle Pilots, owned by former Cleveland Indians owner William R. Daley and former Pacific Coast League president Dewey Soriano.

* William Scott Scudder, Major League Baseball pitcher.

** Members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army shoot and kill Major Michael Dillon-Lee and Private William Robert Davies of the British Army.

* September 19 – American Civil War – Battle of Iuka: Union troops under Major General William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by Major General Sterling Price at Iuka, Mississippi.

A smaller force of about 3, 000 led by Major General William Gatacre, was to push north toward the railway junction at Stormberg, to secure the Cape Midlands district from Boer raids and local rebellions by Boer inhabitants.

Major corporations in the 19th and early 20th centuries included the Baldwin Locomotive Works, William Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Building Company, and the Pennsylvania Railroad.

The Governor of New South Wales, William Bligh, was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston, working closely with John Macarthur, on 26 January 1808, 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded European settlement in Australia.

In 1737, planter William Byrd II commissioned Major William Mayo to lay out the original town grid.

Major General William Jenkins Worth ( 1794 – 1849 ) was second in command to General Zachary Taylor at the opening of the Mexican – American War in 1846.

General William S. Harney assumed command of the Department of Texas and ordered Major Ripley A. Arnold to find a new fort site near the West Fork and Clear Fork.

William Barracks, renamed barracks Major Sabbe after the First World War and named for the 1990 Arts Square, dates from 1824 – 1827, at the time of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.