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<b>Colonel commandant</b> is a military title used in the <a href="Armed_forces" class="mw-redirect" title="Armed forces">armed forces</a> of some <a href="English-speaking_countries" class="mw-redirect" title="English-speaking countries">English-speaking countries</a>. The title, not a substantive <a href="Military_rank" title="Military rank">military rank</a>, could denote a senior <a href="Colonel" title="Colonel">colonel</a> with authority over fellow colonels. Today, the holder often has an honorary role outside the <a href="Command_structure" class="mw-redirect" title="Command structure">executive military structure</a>, such as advocacy for the troops.

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<p>Until 1882, William Acland Douglas, who served in the 50th Regiment, was colonel-commandant of the military forces in <a href="Victoria_(Australia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Victoria (Australia)">Victoria</a>.

</p><p>Australian formations, such as the <a href="Royal_Australian_Corps_of_Military_Police" title="Royal Australian Corps of Military Police">Royal Australian Corps of Military Police</a> and the <a href="Royal_Australian_Regiment" title="Royal Australian Regiment">Royal Australian Regiment</a> (RAR), have a colonel commandant, a retired soldier whose role is to act as advocate for the troops' interests. This requires visits to wherever the corps or regiment is deployed.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</h2></div>

<p>In the <a href="Bangladesh_Army" title="Bangladesh Army">Bangladesh Army</a>, the post of colonel commandant is an honorary post held by the most senior serving member of a corps or regiment. He is usually a general officer in the rank of lieutenant general or major general. The post is found in all corps and regiments of the army.

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<p>The Canadian Armed Forces widely uses colonels commandant as honorary appointments to act as advocates for members and to advise on relevant policy matters. In reserve regiments there has usually been an honorary colonel and an honorary lieutenant-colonel, while in the Regular Force, the title used is colonel commandant or colonel of the regiment. Many units also have a colonel-in-chief who is often a member of the Royal Family, frequently with a name connection to the regiment. Example: The Queen's York Rangers (First American Regiment) having the Queen and later the Duke of York, as Colonel-in-Chief. In the artillery, the monarch holds this role with the appellation "Captain-General". All of these "honoraries" are in head-of-family roles, approachable in varying degrees by anyone in the "regimental family".

</p><p>The colonel commandant of the <a href="Royal_Canadian_Armoured_Corps" title="Royal Canadian Armoured Corps">Royal Canadian Armoured Corps</a>, is an appointment given by the <a href="Governor_General_of_Canada" title="Governor General of Canada">Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada</a> to a distinguished retired armoured forces officer. The appointment is for three years, during which the incumbent is on the <a href="Canadian_Forces" class="mw-redirect" title="Canadian Forces">Canadian Forces</a>' <a href="Military_reserve_force" title="Military reserve force">reserve list</a> as the senior officer of the corps. He is responsible for advising the army commander on matters pertaining to the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps. A colonel commandant travels widely to canvass the views of all ranks in the corps and frequently attends military policy conferences, ceremonies and unit celebrations. He is an <i><a href="Ex_officio" class="mw-redirect" title="Ex officio">ex officio</a></i> member of the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps Association's executive committee.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>In 2001, the <a href="Royal_Canadian_Medical_Service" title="Royal Canadian Medical Service">Canadian Forces Medical Branch</a> canvassed past and present members for nominations to the role of colonel commandant. The role is ceremonial but the colonel commandant acts as a link between the Canadian Forces Medical Branch and the wider civilian medical community. The position is not restricted to former senior medical officers; consideration is given to medical practitioners who are "particularly prominent and well respected within the world of civilian medicine."<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="India">India</h2></div>

<p>In India colonel commandant is an honorary 'non-substantive' post, and is usually held by general officers mostly major generals or lieutenant generals. They are elected through secret ballot. Usually the officer would have been once part of the regiment, and in this role he represents the regiment and its men at the higher level of military hierarchy. This is especially in matters related to troop welfare. In photographs where the officer is portrayed as the 'colonel commandant', the rank insignia of a <a href="Colonel" title="Colonel">colonel</a> affixed on a maroon/vine red background is used.

</p><p>In the National Cadet Corps, which is closely connected to Indian universities the vice chancellor of the university is given the honorary rank of 'colonel commandant'. Vice chancellors are eligible to wear the NCC khakhi uniform and wear the insignia, even though they would not have any military experience. In NCC this appointment is purely ceremonial.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Pakistan">Pakistan</h2></div>

<p>In the <a href="Pakistan_Army" title="Pakistan Army">Pakistan Army</a> the post of colonel commandant is an honorary post held by the most senior serving member of a corps or regiments. They are usually <a href="General_officer" title="General officer">general officers</a> in the rank of <a href="Major_general" title="Major general">major general</a> or <a href="Lieutenant_general_(Pakistan)" title="Lieutenant general (Pakistan)">lieutenant general</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The post is found in all corps and regiments of the army.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sri_Lanka">Sri Lanka</h2></div>

<p>In the <a href="Sri_Lanka_Army" title="Sri Lanka Army">Sri Lankan Army</a> the post of colonel commandant is an honorary post held by the most senior serving member of a corps, he/she is usually a <a href="General_officer" title="General officer">general officer</a> or a <a href="Brigadier" title="Brigadier">brigadier</a>. The post is found in all corps of the army as well as the <a href="Mechanized_Infantry_Regiment" title="Mechanized Infantry Regiment">Mechanized Infantry Regiment</a> and the <a href="Sri_Lanka_National_Guard" title="Sri Lanka National Guard">Sri Lanka National Guard</a>. It is similar in function to that of <a href="Colonel_(United_Kingdom)" title="Colonel (United Kingdom)">colonel of the regiment</a> found in multi-battalion infantry regiments.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="United_Kingdom">United Kingdom</h2></div>

<p>In the <a href="British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a>, the term <i>colonel-commandant</i> goes back at least to the <a href="American_War_of_Independence" class="mw-redirect" title="American War of Independence">American War of Independence</a>, when it denoted an officer in command of a regiment.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>In 1921, the Army abolished the appointment of <a href="Brigadier-general" class="mw-redirect" title="Brigadier-general">brigadier-general</a> and replaced it with the new appointments of colonel-commandant and colonel on the staff:<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Colonels-commandant commanded brigades, depots or training establishments, while colonels on the staff held administrative appointments. Like brigadier-general, both of the new appointments were temporary, the holder reverting to his substantive rank (usually colonel) at the end of his appointment. They were both abolished from 1 June 1928, replaced by the appointment of <a href="Brigadier" title="Brigadier">brigadier</a> (though the rank insignia – a crown over three "pips" or stars – remained the same).<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="British_Indian_Army" title="British Indian Army">Indian Army</a> used the same appointments.

</p><p>In the <a href="Royal_Marines" title="Royal Marines">Royal Marines</a>, the appointments of colonel commandant and colonel & 2nd commandant dated back to 1755, when fifty companies of marines were raised in three divisions: each division had a colonel commandant and a colonel & 2nd commandant. From 1755 until the end of the Napoleonic era, the appointment of colonel & 2nd commandant was usually held by a <a href="Lieutenant_colonel_(United_Kingdom)" title="Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)">lieutenant-colonel</a>, <a href="Colonel_(United_Kingdom)" title="Colonel (United Kingdom)">colonel</a>, or <a href="Major_general_(United_Kingdom)" title="Major general (United Kingdom)">major-general</a>, while the appointment of colonel commandant was held by a colonel or above, but only very rarely by a <a href="General_(United_Kingdom)" title="General (United Kingdom)">full general</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Royal Marines adopted the appointment of brigadier-general to be held by its colonels commandant (then five in number) in 1913,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and dispensed with it again in 1921. Like the Army, the Royal Marines adopted the appointment of brigadier in 1928, but the ranks of colonel commandant and colonel 2nd commandant persisted at least as far as <a href="World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 1957, however, they had been abolished and replaced with brigadier (now a rank instead of an appointment, as in the Army) and colonel.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>The title of colonel-commandant is now used as an honorary or ceremonial title relating to a military corps. For example, <a href="Richard_Dannatt%2C_Baron_Dannatt" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Dannatt, Baron Dannatt">General Sir Richard Dannatt</a> was Colonel-Commandant of the <a href="Army_Air_Corps_(United_Kingdom)" title="Army Air Corps (United Kingdom)">Army Air Corps</a> as well as his full-time role as <a href="Chief_of_the_General_Staff_(United_Kingdom)" title="Chief of the General Staff (United Kingdom)">Chief of the General Staff</a><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while Brigadier Jane Arigho, a retired Director of <a href="Army_Nursing_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Army Nursing Service">Army Nursing Services</a> and Lieutenant-Colonel <a href="Carol_Kefford" title="Carol Kefford">Carol Kefford</a>, also a retired QARANC officer, are the Colonel-Commandants of <a href="Queen_Alexandra's_Royal_Army_Nursing_Corps" title="Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps">Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="United_States">United States</h2></div>

<p>In 1779, Hungarian-born Colonel Commandant <a href="Michael_Kovats" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael Kovats">Michael Kovats</a> died leading the <a href="Continental_Army" title="Continental Army">Continental Army</a> cavalry against British troops at <a href="Charleston%2C_South_Carolina" title="Charleston, South Carolina">Charleston</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>The highest-ranking officer of the <a href="United_States_Marine_Corps" title="United States Marine Corps">United States Marine Corps</a> was formerly titled Colonel Commandant:<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the title now is simply <a href="Commandant_of_the_United_States_Marine_Corps" title="Commandant of the United States Marine Corps">Commandant</a>. Colonel-Commandant was also used for <a href="Lloyd_J._Beall" title="Lloyd J. Beall">Lloyd J. Beall</a>, the commanding officer of the short-lived <a href="Confederate_States_Marine_Corps" title="Confederate States Marine Corps">Confederate States Marine Corps</a> during the <a href="American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>.

</p><p>At the <a href="Alamo" class="mw-redirect" title="Alamo">Alamo</a>, <a href="William_B._Travis" title="William B. Travis">William B. Travis</a> was given the position of lieutenant colonel commandant.

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