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18-564: Lieutenant-General Sir Colin Muir Barber KBE , CB , DSO & Bar (27 June 1897 – 5 May 1964) was a senior British Army officer who fought in both World War I and World War II where he commanded the 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division during their actions across Northwest Europe , from August 1944 until Victory in Europe Day in May 1945. Barber was reputed to be

36-795: A vice-admiral in the Royal Navy and an air marshal in the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the air forces of many Commonwealth countries. The rank insignia for both the Army and the Royal Marines is a crown over a crossed sabre and baton. During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth II , the St Edward's Crown , commonly known as the Queen's Crown, was depicted. Before 1953, and again since the accession of King Charles III in 2022,

54-530: Is a senior rank in the British Army and the Royal Marines . It is the equivalent of a multinational three-star rank ; some British lieutenant generals sometimes wear three-star insignia, in addition to their standard insignia, when on multinational operations. Lieutenant general is a superior rank to major general , but subordinate to a (full) general . The rank has a NATO rank code of OF-8 , equivalent to

72-694: The 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division for the remainder of the campaign in north-west Europe until the end of World War II in Europe in May 1945. In this campaign, the 15th Division had the distinction to lead the three great river crossings of the Seine , the Rhine and the Elbe and Barber was awarded the bar to his DSO. On 13 November 1945, while acting as representative for the Commander-in-Chief British Army of

90-641: The Duchy of Lauenburg District (British zone), while the Lauenburgian municipalities of Dechow , Groß and Klein Thurow (now component parts of Roggendorf ) as well as Lassahn (now a component part of Zarrentin am Schaalsee ) were ceded to the adjacent Mecklenburgian district (Soviet zone). The redeployment was accomplished on 26 November, the respective occupational forces had to withdraw until 28 November to their new zonal territory. The British occupational forces provided all

108-780: The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders , continuing to serve in France and Belgium with the 1st Battalion until the end of the war. Barber continued to serve in the army during the interwar period 1919–1939, serving in India . He was promoted to captain on 31 January 1925 and mentioned in dispatches on 13 March for service in Waziristan . He then attended the Staff College, Quetta from 1929 to 1930, where he graduated with distinction. On his return to Britain, he had several staff appointments, mainly within

126-451: The Royal Air Force maintained the rank of lieutenant general. It was superseded by the rank of air marshal on the following day. Although Sir David Henderson was an RAF lieutenant general, the then RAF Chief-of-Staff Sir Hugh Trenchard never held this rank. Additionally, the retired Royal Navy admiral John de Mestre Hutchison held an honorary RAF commission in the rank of lieutenant general. The RAF lieutenant general rank insignia

144-538: The Tudor Crown , commonly known as the King's Crown, has been used. Ordinarily, lieutenant general is the rank held by the officer in command of an entire battlefield corps . The General Officer Commanding NATO's Allied Rapid Reaction Corps is a British lieutenant general. Historically, I Corps and II Corps were commanded by British lieutenant generals. Additionally, three lieutenant general appointments also exist within

162-647: The 4th Battalion, Cameron Highlanders, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) and mentioned in dispatches. From March 1941 Barber returned to the General Staff as a GSO1, until taking command, in October, of the 46th (Highland) Infantry Brigade , leading it through the Battle of Normandy in the summer of 1944. From 3 August 1944 Barber, when he was promoted to acting major-general , he commanded

180-706: The British Army's Scottish Command . In 1936, after a brief posting to Palestine during the early stages of the Arab revolt , he was promoted to major on 11 March 1937 and appointed to the General Staff as a General Staff Officer Grade 2 (GSO2). In 1940, during the Second World War , he was with the 51st (Highland) Infantry Division of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in France, where he commanded

198-787: The Rhine , Barber and the Soviet major-general Nikolay Grigoryevich Lyashchenko ( Russian : Николай Григорьевич Лященко ) signed the Barber Lyashchenko Agreement ( (in German) , also Gadebusch Agreement) in Gadebusch , redeploying some municipalities along the northern border between the Soviet and British zone of Allied-occupied Germany . Thus some eastern suburbs of Ratzeburg , such as Ziethen in Lauenburg , Mechow , Bäk and Römnitz became part of

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216-885: The extant British Army 's Headquarters. They are the Commander Field Army , the Commander Home Command and the Chief of Materiel (Land) in Defence Equipment and Support (double-hatted as the Quartermaster-General to the Forces ). Although the senior appointment in the Royal Marines , the Commandant General , has since 1996 held the lower rank of major general , prior to this date the Commandant General

234-484: The inhabitants of villages to be ceded to the Soviet zone to be evacuated, if they wished so, including all their chattels by vehicles provided by the British forces. All displaced people (usually formerly forced labourers under the prior Nazi rule) in these villages and other eventual foreigners – except of Soviet citizens among them – were obligatorily to be relocated, while Soviet displaced people would have to stay. After

252-573: The tallest officer in the British Army (at 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m)), and thus earned the ironic nickname "Tiny". Born in Birkenhead , Cheshire on 27 June 1897, the son of John Barber, Colin Barber was educated at Uppingham School . During World War I , he served with the British Army 's Liverpool Scottish in France and Belgium . On 29 March 1918, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant into

270-441: The war, Barber commanded Highland District between 1946 and 1949 when he became Director of Infantry & Military Training, War Office . Barber was promoted to lieutenant-general on 27 February 1952 and made General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) of Scottish Command and Governor of Edinburgh Castle . He retired from the army on 28 March 1955. Lieutenant-General Sir Colin Barber died on 5 May 1964. A memorial service

288-538: Was a lieutenant general or full general . However, given that a few more senior positions in the British Armed Forces are open to officers from different services, Royal Marines officers can and do reach the rank of lieutenant general, being posted to Joint Forces or Ministry of Defence postings. Examples include Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Fry , Lieutenant-General Sir James Dutton and Lieutenant-General Sir David Capewell . From 1 April 1918 to 31 July 1919,

306-558: Was held at Canongate Kirk (The Kirk of Holyroodhouse ) on 22 May 1964. There is a memorial plaque for Lieutenant-General Barber, as a commander in the 15th Scottish Infantry Division that liberated Tourville in June 1944. He was married twice, first, in 1929, to Mary Edith Nixon. The couple had a son and a daughter; Mary died in 1949. His second wife was Mrs Anthony Milburn. Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom) Lieutenant general ( Lt Gen ), formerly more commonly lieutenant-general ,

324-565: Was similar to the naval rank insignia for a vice-admiral , with a broad band of gold being worn on the cuff with two narrower bands above it. Unlike the naval insignia, the RAF lieutenant general insignia did not have an executive curl . Gadebusch The town is known for two notable monuments: the Stadtkirche (City Church), built in 1220, considered the oldest brick church in Mecklenburg, and

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