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He joined the Territorial Army as a squaddie in 1964 and was commissioned as an officer whilst at Cambridge, before going on to command the 2nd battalion Wessex regiment in the mid-80s.
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Chapman was one of the early pioneers of the American airborne concept, commanding the experimental 88th Airborne Infantry Battalion in late 1941 when he was a lieutenant colonel, before going on to take command of the 13th Airborne Division.
Edmund Allenby, 6th Dragoons, who started the war as the commander of the Cavalry Division, went on to command the Cavalry Corps, then V Corps, the Third Army, and the Egyptian Expeditionary Force.
The only officers to command the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front were both cavalrymen, while the original commander of the British Cavalry Division went on to command the Egyptian Expeditionary Force during the Palestine Campaign, and another cavalryman became the Chief of the Imperial General Staff.
Carl Schurz would go on to command a division, fighting at the Second Battle of Bull Run, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and elsewhere.
He went on to command the Navy's first nuclear-powered surface ship, the cruiser Long Beach, from 1959 to 1963.
Pol Pot, the overall leader, went on to command a rebel army that inflicted civil war on the country until the mid 1990s.
Turner went on to command other boats and, indeed, was torpedoed once again, and again survived, retiring in 1919 to a village near Dartmoor.
Sperrle went on to command all air forces in North Africa during General Erwin Rommel's operations with the Afrika Korps there.
He studied aeronautics in the early 1960's at an Israeli university and went on to command a strategic air base during the 1967 war.
The tablet goes on to command the use of plaited palm fibre, waterproofed with bitumen, before the construction of cabins for the people and wild animals.
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