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C. R. M. O'Brien
Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom), Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Richard Mackey O'Brien (13 December 1859 – 29 November 1935) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. O'Brien was the youngest son of John Terence Nicholls O'Brien, Sir Terence O'Brien, Governor of Heligoland and afterwards of Governor of Newfoundland, Newfoundland. He was educated at Felsted School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from which he was commissioned into the 30th Regiment of Foot (later the East Lancashire Regiment) in May 1878. On 3 September 1878, in company with five other Ensign (rank), ensigns of his regiment, he was returning from Gravesend, Kent, Gravesend to Woolwich following musketry training, but they missed their ferry, the SS Princess Alice (1865), SS ''Princess Alice'', by seconds. In Gallion's Reach the ''Princess Alice'' collided with the steamer SS Bywell Castle, SS ''Bywell Castle'' and sank with the loss of nearly 700 of her 800 passengers, one of the wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lieutenant Colonel (United Kingdom)
Lieutenant colonel (Lt Col), is a rank in the British Army and Royal Marines which is also used in many Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth countries. The rank is superior to Major (United Kingdom), major, and subordinate to Colonel (United Kingdom), colonel. The comparable Royal Navy rank is Commander (Royal Navy), commander, and the comparable rank in the Royal Air Force and many Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth air forces is Wing commander (rank), wing commander. The rank insignia in the British Army and Royal Marines, as well as many Commonwealth countries, is a crown above a Order of the Bath, four-pointed "Bath" star, also colloquially referred to as a British Army officer rank insignia, "pip". The crown has varied in the past with different monarchs; the current one being the Tudor Crown. Most other Commonwealth countries use the same insignia, or with the state emblem replacing the crown. In the modern British Armed forces, the established commander of a regiment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |