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Field Marshal Richard Michael Power Carver, Baron Carver, GCB, CBE, DSO & Bar, MC (24 April 1915 – 9 December 2001) was a senior British Army officer. Lord Carver served as the Chief of the General Staff (CGS), the professional head of the British Army, and then as the Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS), the professional head of the British ...
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. George White (British Army officer) William II of the Netherlands. Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh. Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh. Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet. Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley. Evelyn Wood (British Army officer) Alexander ...
The Chief of the General Staff ( CGS) is the professional head of the Army, with responsibility for developing and generating military capability from an integrated Army (Regular and Reserve) and for maintaining the fighting effectiveness, efficiency and morale of the Service. The CGS reports to the Chief of the Defence Staff ( CDS) and, as a ...
Field Marshal (FM) has been the highest rank in the British Army since 1736. A five-star rank with NATO code OF-10, it is equivalent to an Admiral of the Fleet in the Royal Navy or a Marshal of the Royal Air Force in the Royal Air Force (RAF). A Field Marshal's insignia consists of two crossed batons surrounded by yellow leaves below St Edward's Crown. Like Marshals of the RAF and Admirals of ...
Field Marshal John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford GCB, GCH, PC (Ire) (1772 – 3 June 1860) was a British Army officer and politician. After serving as a junior officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and Irish Rebellion of 1798, he became Commanding Officer of the Grenadier Battalion of the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards during the disastrous ...
The first break in rotational order was precipitated by the death of Marshal of the RAF Sir Andrew Humphrey. From the creation of the post until 1997, the Chief of the Defence Staff was appointed to the highest rank in the respective branch of the British armed forces to which he belonged, being an admiral of the Fleet , a field marshal or marshal of the Royal Air Force , ( NATO rank code OF-10 ).
