During the South African War (1899 1902) he rose to assistant chief commandant of the Free State forces and became a resourceful and daring guerrilla leader.
He served as commander of the American Legion and as detachment commander and state commandant of the Marine Corps League.
Gen. Aleksandr Kulikov, appointed commandant of Moscow for the state of emergency, warned the forces holding the White House, as the Parliament complex is called, that if they did not surrender their arms, "they will be eliminated," Itar-Tass reported.
He was state commandant of the Victorian Squadron of the Air Training Corps from 1950, and commandant of No. 21 (City of Melbourne) Squadron from 1961, before retiring in 1969 with the rank of wing commander.
Military controls were established, with garrisons under Libyan commandants serving to quell local insurrections, so that the structure of the state became more feudalistic.
Gen. William A. Cugno, adjutant general of the state Military Department, placed the insignia of rank on the new commandant at a ceremony at the horse guard headquarters.
Used to work as: Commandant of the Marine Corps, among other commands.
He served as Colonel Commandant for the Australian Corps of Signals in Southern Command from June 1958 to June 1963, and was Colonel Commandant of the corps from September 1959 to December 1960.
"To be part of this historical unit and to represent the state at the inaugural, how much better does it get?" asked Steven deFriesse, commandant of the Second Company Governor's Horse Guard and one of many troopers preparing for the trip.
The rank of a commandant depends upon the size and importance of his command: in the British Army a colonel commandant is the senior officer of a regiment; in the French Army a commandant is the commanding officer of a battalion, a rank equivalent to major; and the commandant of the United States Marine Corps is a four-star general.
