After the fall of Toulon and the British evacuation he was advanced to commander and appointed to command the sloop, succeeding Commander George Cockburn, who had been appointed to command.
He was promoted to honorary wing commander in October 1941, and two months later succeeded Commander Rupert Long as Director of COIC.
Walker was succeeded as commander of the Eighth Army by Matthew B. Ridgway.
After a year as governor-general of the Sudan, Kitchener entered the South African War (Boer War) in December 1899 as chief of staff to Field Marshal Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts, whom he succeeded as commander in chief in November 1900.
Harding was seriously wounded (January 1943), but he returned to the fighting in the Italian campaign as chief of staff under General Sir Harold Alexander (March 1944), whom Harding succeeded as commander of the British forces in the Mediterranean theatre after the war.
He began with the rank of lieutenant general and the job of deputy to Gen. Paul D. Harkins, whom he succeeded as commander later in the year, gaining promotion to full, four-star general.
Nieland was succeeded as commander of U-67 by Oberleutnant zur See Helmuth von Rabenau in December 1917.
Northcott was succeeded as commander by Major General Horace Robertson, an officer with a distinguished combat record in the desert.
Christian was succeeded as commander in the West Indies by Rear-Admiral Henry Harvey, who had arrived in late June, and Christian returned to England in October aboard.
The first to succeed was Commander Cleland Davis of the U.S. Navy, who in 1912 developed a gun with a single chamber and two opposite barrels.
The former commander in chief in India, Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck, then succeeded Wavell as commander in the Middle East.
