In 1951 it publicly played the " Colonel Bogey March " of which no known recordings exist.

There were also a number of musical items in the show, using Dudley Moore's music, most famously an arrangement of the Colonel Bogey March which resists Moore's repeated attempts to bring it to an end.

Since at that time service personnel were not encouraged to have professional lives outside the armed forces, Ricketts published " Colonel Bogey " and his other compositions under the pseudonym Kenneth Alford.

The name " Colonel Bogey " began in the later 19th century as the imaginary " standard opponent " of the Colonel Bogey scoring system, and by Edwardian times the Colonel had been adopted by the golfing world as the presiding spirit of the course.

Edwardian golfers on both sides of the Atlantic often played matches against " Colonel Bogey ".

" Colonel Bogey " is the authorized march of The King's Own Calgary Regiment ( RCAC ) of the Canadian Forces.

" A foul " raspberry tart " noise was substituted for " bollocks ," and Coward paid royalties to the " Colonel Bogey March " music publisher for use of this melodic quotation.

Because the tune is so identified with the film, many people now incorrectly refer to the " Colonel Bogey March " as " The River Kwai March ".

Because the film concerned prisoners of war being held under inhumane conditions by the Japanese, there was a minor diplomatic flap in May 1980 when the " Colonel Bogey March " was played during a visit to Canada by Japanese prime minister Masayoshi Ōhira.

When Lean rose to accept his award, the orchestra played " The Colonel Bogey March " ... and a camera cut to show Candy's reaction.

* The real Colonel Bogey from Music & Vision Daily

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") and singing a version of the " Colonel Bogey March " from The Bridge on the River Kwai.

*" Colonel Bogey "-Kenneth J. Alford

* Interior Troops Colonel Tahir Aliyev ( February – March 1992 )

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

By March 1963 however, after the visit of Colonel Michael Greene of the United States Army, and the resulting ' Greene Plan ,' the pattern of bilaterally agreed military assistance to various Congolese military components, instead of a single unified effort, was already taking shape.

The battalion played an important role in Colonel Jacques Duchesne's offensive in March 1885 that captured the key Chinese positions of La Table and Fort Bamboo and disengaged Keelung.

Thus in March 1979 Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who kept absolute power ( until his overthrow in 2011 referred to as " Guide of the Revolution "), after ten years as combined Head of State and Head of government of the Libyan Jamahiriya (" state of the masses "), styled Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, formally transferred both qualities to the General secretaries of the General People's Congress ( comparable to a Speaker ) respectively to a Prime Minister, in political reality both were his creatures.

When the news of Ribbentrop's remarks was leaked to the Polish press despite Colonel Beck's order to the censors on 27 March, it caused anti-German riots in Poland with the local N. S. D. A. P headquarters in the ethnically mixed town of Lininco destroyed by a mob.

On 28 March, Colonel Beck told Moltke that if any attempt to change the status of Danzig unilaterally would be regarded by Poland as a casus belli.

Following the March 30, 1854 battle of Cieneguilla, Lieutenant Colonel Philip St. George Cooke of the Second Regiment of Dragoons organized an expedition to pursue the Jicarilla.

The Duke at the time, the founder and colonel of the regiment, was the Duchess of Richmond's father, and he saw no active service overseas during the Napoleonic Wars ; his son and the Duchess's brother, the Marquis of Huntly ( later the 5th Duke ) was a distinguished general, but also missed the Waterloo campaign ; the senior representative of the family at the battle was in fact the Duchess's own twenty-three-year-old son, the Earl of March, who would eventually become the 5th Duke's heir in 1836, and who served as a major and an aide de camp to the Duke of Wellington ; another branch of the family was represented by another ADC, Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon, aged twenty-eight or twenty-nine, the brother of the Earl of Aberdeen ; in reality, both were young men similar in age and duty to Lord Hay.

* March 31 – British expedition to Tibet – Battle of Guru: British troops under Colonel Francis Younghusband defeat ill-equipped Tibetan troops.

* March 25 – British prime minister Tony Blair visits Libyan leader Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi, in return for the dismantling of Libya's weapons of mass destruction programme in December 2003 ( the first time a major western leader had visited the nation in several decades ).

* March 1 – Tuscarora War: Colonel James Moore's Carolina militia lays siege to the Tuscaroran stronghold of Fort Neoheroka, located a few miles up Contentnea Creek from Fort Hancock.

* March 20 – Tuscarora War: Colonel James Moore's Carolina militia launches a major offensive against Fort Neoheroka.

After surprising Colonel Frank Johnson and his troops at the Battle of San Patricio, Urrea's forces defeated a small Texan force at the Battle of Agua Dulce on March 2, 1836.

On March 9, 1803, Henry Dearborn, the Secretary of War wrote to Colonel Jean Hamtramck, the commandant of Detroit, instructing him to have an officer and six men survey the route from Detroit to Chicago, and to make a preliminary investigation of the situation at Chicago.

In the late evening of 3 March, Lieutenant Colonel Blaber received notice from Brigadier General Gregory Trebon, commander of TF 11, that two SEAL teams commanded by Lieutenant Commander Vic Hyder were to be inserted into the Shahi-Kot Valley.

The programme began on 22 March 1944, overseen by Colonel R. M. McLeod, and became fully operational by 6 April ).

`` But when it comes to war, the Colonel knows what it is and Jeff doesn't.

* 1982 – Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altıkat is shot and killed in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada's capital.

* 1967 – Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 ( Russian: Союз 1, Union 1 ) is a manned spaceflight, Launched into orbit carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov.

" The official name is Philotic Parallax Instantaneous Communicator ," explains Colonel Graff in Ender's Game, " but somebody dredged the name ansible out of an old book somewhere.

* 1873 – American Indian Wars: while protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Sioux near the Tongue River ; only one man on each side is killed.

The fortified site described below, originally identified as Abae by Colonel William Leake in the 19th century, is much more likely to be that of the Sanctuary of Artemis at Hyampolis.

Colonel Linebarger is buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Section 35, Grave Number 4712.

The Claim House ( Davenport, Iowa ) | Claim House was constructed by George L. Davenport, son of Colonel George Davenport, in 1832 or 1833 and is believed to be the oldest structure in the city.

There are many variations, and one of them is the Four Rules introduced by Colonel Jeff Cooper, which are:

: The successful resistance in the Great Siege is attributed to several factors: the improvement in fortifications by Colonel ( later Mayor General Sir ) William Green in 1769 ; the British naval supremacy, which translated into support of the Navy ; the competent command by General George Augustus Elliot ; and an appropriately sized garrison.

Colonel Inestroza later stated that deporting Zelaya did not comply with the court order: " In the moment that we took him out of the country, in the way that he was taken out, there is a crime.

Rudyard Kipling, who wrote a history of the Irish Guards, in which his own son fought and was killed, noted that, " it is undeniable that Colonel Alexander had the gift of handling the men on the lines to which they most readily responded ... His subordinates loved him, even when he fell upon them blisteringly for their shortcomings ; and his men were all his own.

He was named for his mother's maternal grandfather, Colonel John Quincy, after whom Quincy, Massachusetts, is named.

Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.

* 1789 – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, is named by acclamation Colonel General of the new National Guard of Paris.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal on 24 September 2009, the day after his address to the UN General Assembly in New York, Colonel Gaddafi said: " As a case, the Lockerbie question: I would say it's come to an end, legally, politically, financially, it is all over.

This approach is presumed to have been employed in the case of Dan Rather over a story that he ran on 60 Minutes in the month prior to the 2004 election that attempted to impugn the military record of George W. Bush by relying on allegedly fake documents that were provided by Bill Burkett, a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the Texas Army National Guard.

Also, there is no rank higher than ' Colonel ' in either branch of the Monegasque military.

* 1915 – The poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.

* 1754 – French and Indian War: in the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under 22-year-old Lieutenant Colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.

Village legend tells of the notorious Colonel John " Blackbeard " Mohune who is buried in the family crypt under the church.

The commander of this corporation, Colonel Nohman, is the primary antagonist.

Her paternal great-grandfather, Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Tilghman Moore, owned the house which is now Stonewall Jackson's Headquarters Museum.

* 1764 – Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.

* In the 2008 film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, it is indicated that Indiana Jones worked for the OSS, attaining the rank of Colonel.