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See also:COLONEL (derived either from See also:Lat. See also:column, Fr. colonne, column, or Lat. See also:corona, a See also:crown) , the See also:superior officer of a See also:regiment of See also:infantry or See also:cavalry.; also an officer of corresponding See also:rank in the See also:general See also:army See also:list. The colonelcy of a regiment formerly implied a proprietary, right in it. Whether the colonel commanded it directly in the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field or not, he always superintended its See also:finance and interior See also:economy, and the emoluments of the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, in the 18th See also:century, were often the only See also:form of pay See also:drawn by general See also:officers. The general officers of the 17th and 18th centuries were invariably colonels of regiments, and in this See also:case the active command was exercised by the See also:lieutenant-colonels. At the See also:present See also:day, See also:British general officers are often, though not always, given the colonelcy of a regiment, which has become almost purely an honorary office. The See also:sovereign, See also:foreign sovereigns, royal princes and others, hold honorary colonelcies, as colonels-in-See also:chief or honorary colonels of many regiments. In other armies, the regiment being a fighting unit, the colonel is its active See also:commander ; in See also:Great See also:Britain the lieutenant-colonel commands in the field the See also:battalion of infantry and the regiment of cavalry. Colonels are actively employed in the army at large in See also:staff appointments, See also:brigade commands, &c. extra-regimentally. Colonel-general, a rank formerly used in many armies, still survives in the See also:German service, a colonel-general (General-Oberst) ranking between a general of infantry, cavalry or See also:artillery, and a general field See also:marshal (General-Feldmarschall). Colonels-general are usually given the honorary rank of general field marshal.
End of Article: COLONEL (derived either from Lat. column, Fr. colonne, column, or Lat. corona, a crown)
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