Suchergebnisse
Suchergebnisse:
Field marshal (or field-marshal, abbreviated as FM) is the second most senior military rank, ordinarily senior to the general officer ranks, but junior to the rank of Generalissimo. Usually, it is the highest rank in an army (in countries without the rank of Generalissimo), and as such, few persons are ever appointed to it. It is ...
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).
Name And Style [a]Regiment [b]BornPromotion Date [19]194413 June 2014 [8]193816 June 2012 [7]Welsh Guards, Royal Navy, and Royal Air ...194816 June 2012 [7]193515 March 1994 [163]- none
- O-11
Field Marshal. The highest rank in the British Army since 1736. The rank of Field Marshal has become an honorary rank, the last active officer to be promoted to the rank was in 1994.
This is a list of the officers who have held the army rank of field marshal or marshal. It does not include air force marshals.
Field marshal is the highest rank in the British Army. Throughout the 20th century, it was reserved for army and army group commanders in wartime, and retiring Chiefs of the General Staff. Peacetime promotions to the rank of field marshal have now been discontinued. General. Insignia: Crossed baton and sabre beneath a star and crown.
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig commanded the British Army when it achieved arguably its greatest victories, those over the Germans on the Western Front during the First World War (1914-18). Under Haig, the British Empire engaged the main enemy in the main theatre of war and defeated it.
Field Marshal William Slim is best known for commanding the Fourteenth Army in Burma during the Second World War (1939-45). He inherited a disastrous situation which, with pragmatic skill and quiet charisma, he turned to ultimate victory.
