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1 day ago · The Royal Air Force ( RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. [5] It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the first independent air force in the world, by merging the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). [6]
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3 days ago · The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force. As of 1 January 2024, the British Army comprises 75,166 regular full-time personnel, 4,062 Gurkhas, 26,244 volunteer reserve ...
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2 days ago · Deputy Commander, British Forces Cyprus Chief of Staff, British Forces Cyprus: Royal Artillery: CBE: 30 June 2020: Elizabeth Jane Faithfull-Davies: Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers: CBE: 30 June 2020: Charles R. P. Ginn: Head of Plans, Army Command: Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment Mercian Regiment: 30 June 2020: Andrew D ...
3 days ago · The armed forces were greatly expanded and reorganised—the war marked the founding of the Royal Air Force. The highly controversial introduction, in January 1916, of conscription for the first time in British history followed the raising of one of the largest all-volunteer armies in history, known as Kitchener's Army , of more than 2,000,000 men.
2 days ago · Lieutenant-General Martin Bricknell (1963— ), Surgeon General of the British Armed Forces; Brigadier John William Bridge CBE, Royal Engineers; Brigadier the Honourable Geoffrey Bridgeman (1898-1974), Royal Army Medical Corps; Major-General Robert Bridgeman, 2nd Viscount Bridgeman (1896-1982), deputy adjutant-general to the War Office
5 days ago · The Entente, or the Allies, were an international military coalition of countries led by France, the United Kingdom, Russia, the United States, Italy, and Japan against the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria in World War I (1914–1918). By the end of the first decade of the 20th century, the major ...
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2 days ago · In 1986, the Goldwater–Nichols Act mandated that operational control of the services follows a chain of command from the president to the secretary of defense directly to the unified combatant commanders, who have control of all armed forces units in their geographic or function area of responsibility, thus the secretaries of the military departments (and their respective service chiefs ...
