Event class: command, division, battalion, promoted, commander, st, brigade, nd, regiment, rd

Events with high posterior probability

John Hawkesworth (British Army officer)	In May 1944 Hawkesworth spent a month in temporary command of 1st Infantry Division in the Anzio beachhead when the regular commander Major-General William Penney fell ill.
Terence Battersby	Later in 1940, he was promoted to Acting Brigadier and in November 1940 he was placed as the commanding officer of the 216th Independent Infantry Brigade (Home), a Home Defence brigade which formed part of the Northumberland County Division.
Larry E. Smedley	He was assigned duty as a rifleman and squad radio man with Company D, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division, and was promoted to Corporal on September 1, 1967.
Reuben Henry Tucker III	On 6 December 1942, Major General Matthew B. Ridgway, Commanding General of the 82nd Airborne Division, selected Lieutenant Colonel Tucker to command the 504th.
Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard	On his arrival in South Africa, Trenchard rejoined the Royal Scots Fusiliers and in July 1900 he was ordered to raise and train a mounted company within the 2nd Battalion.
Helmuth Raithel	With the creation of the 1st'' Gebirgs'' Division in April 1938 he was appointed as the adjutant of the 99th Gebirgsjäger Regiment.
Robert E. Cushman, Jr.	Upon his transfer from the Pennsylvania, he joined the 9th Marine Regiment at San Diego as a battalion executive officer in May 1942 and was promoted to major that same month.
Samuel L. Howard	He was returned to the U. S. and assumed duties with the First Battalion, Seventh Marines, until August 1934, at which time he was again transferred to Marine Corps Headquarters.
William R. Peers	In January 1967, as a major general, he was named the 32nd commanding officer of the 4th Infantry Division ('' The Ivy Division'').
Robert T. Frederick	After a period of occupation duty, the 45th Infantry Division prepared to return to the United States and Major General Frederick relinquished command in September 1945.
Robert Appleby Bartram (British Army officer)	He remained in command of part of his old Regiment, the 79th (Scottish Horse) Medium Regiment of Royal Artillery until 1940.
Leland D. Crawford	Upon completion of his training, he was assigned to the 1st Marine Division in Korea, where he served as a rifleman and artillery man until July 1953.
Roscoe Robinson, Jr.	After graduating he served in the Korean War in 1952 as a platoon leader and rifle company commander.
Harlon Block	He arrived at New Caledonia on November 15, 1943, where he served as a member of Headquarters and Service Company, 1st Marine Parachute Regiment, I Marine Amphibious Corps.
Michael D. Healy	Meanwhile, in August, 1964, Healy assumed command of the 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment (Geronimo), 101st Airborne Division.
William B. Steele	In August 1967, Steele took command of the 5th Infantry Battalion (Mechanized) in Vietnam and later completed his Vietnam tour as Chief Of Staff of the 9th Infantry Division (Forward).
Jimmy D. Ross	In 1978, General Ross transferred to Germany, where he commanded the 4th Transportation Brigade and 2nd Support Command, VII Corps.
Emil Wawrzinek	After he had recovered from his injuries, he went to Germany for a short leave, then had to report at the Sennelager training grounds in March 1942, where the 3rd (light half-track) company for the reconnaissance battalion was formed under SS-Hauptsturmführer Gustav Knittel and Wawrzinek was to lead the 1st platoon.
Sydney Herring	On 26 June 1918 he became commander of the 13th Infantry Brigade and was promoted to colonel and temporary brigadier general on 30 June 1918.
Asada Nobuoki	Asada was promoted to major general on October 20, 1898 and given command of the IJA 5th Infantry Brigade.
George S. Patton	On September 30, 1920 he relinquished command of the 304th Tank Brigade and was reassigned to Fort Myer as commander of 3rd Squadron, 3rd Cavalry.
Stanis?aw Sosabowski	Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, in 1928 he was finally assigned to a front-line unit, the 75th Infantry Regiment, as commanding officer of a battalion.
Charles Coster	During May 1863, Coster's regiment joined the 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, under Col. Adolphus Buschbeck.
Dudley Russell	5th Indian Division moved to Cairo in June 1941 and then Iraq in August, returning to Egypt in October more or less coincidental with Russell's promotion to brigadier and assuming command of Indian 4th Infantry Division's Indian 5th Infantry Brigade, part of XIII Corps in the newly created Eighth Army.
Theodore Leslie Futch	In December 1942, Futch was transferred to the XIII Corps under command of Major General Emil F. Reinhardt, where was appointed a Corps Artillery Commander.
William T. Clement	Following tours in Europe and at Quantico, Clement joined the 6th Marine Division in November 1944 as assistant division commander and took part in the Okinawa campaign.
Jack Jenkins (rugby player)	By 1911 he was promoted to the rank of major, and with the outbreak of the First World War, he was posted to France with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, commanding the 2nd Battalion of the Monmouthshire Regiment.
Joe N. Ballard	In 1982 he moved to another overseas theater as Commander of the 82d Engineer Battalion, 7th Engineer Brigade, in West Germany.
Earl Warren	Assigned to the 91st Division at Camp Lewis, Washington, 1st Lieutenant Earl Warren was discharged in 1918.
Henry A. Commiskey, Sr.	He joined the 1st Marine Division in December 1954, and served consecutively as a company commander, Assistant S-3 of the 1st Service Regiment, and Division Reenlistment Officer.
Douglas T. Jacobson	Following graduation from the 1st Basic Course at Quantico in June 1954, he served briefly as a detachment officer until transferred to the 3rd Marine Division, at Camp Pendleton.
Clancy Lyall	In 1955, Clancy was reassigned back to E Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division at Ft. Campbell, Kentucky.
Merlin German	In September 2004, German's unit was attached to 2nd Battalion, 11th Marines and became part of Weapons Platoon for convoy security.
Kenneth D. Bailey	At Quantico in June 1941, he joined the 5th Marine Regiment as a company commander.
Peter Inge, Baron Inge	he returned to the Battalion as a company commander in 1969 and was deployed to Northern Ireland.
Basil Coad	By August 1942 he was an acting lieutenant colonel in command of 43rd Division's Battle School.
Frederick Joseph Loftus-Tottenham	Having taken a parachute training course, he was appointed in October 1941 to raise and command 153 Gurkha Parachute Battalion, part of 50th Parachute Brigade.
Guy Simonds	In July 1940, he went on to be Commanding Officer of 1st Field Regiment Royal Canadian Artillery, his first command since leaving C battery.
Horace Robertson	In September 1920 he was posted to the staff of the 3rd Military District and then the 2nd Cavalry Division and the 3rd Division.
George E. Leach	After the war Leach remained in command of the 151st Field Artillery until November, 1921.
Keith L. Ware	Following this, Ware was assigned to command the 1st Infantry Division in March 1968.
Gustav Knittel	On 13 December 1944 he arrived at the divisional headquarters near Euskirchen where he asked Mohnke to grant Emil Wawrzinek the command of the 1st SS reconnaissance Battalion LSSAH.
Lawrence D. Peters	In May 1966, he joined Company D, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines, 3rd Marine Division in the Republic of Vietnam, and served consecutively as fire team leader, squad leader, and non-commissioned officer in charge of the Combined Action Company.
John W. Leonard	During the summer of 1942 Brigadier general Leonard was put in command of the newly activated 9th Armored Division at Fort Riley, Kansas.
Otto Heinze	In 1919 he became aide to the commander of the 1st Division and later was commander of the division himself.
William T. Clement	Less than a month after reporting for active duty in 1917, Clement sailed for Haiti where he joined the 2nd Marine Regiment and its operations against rebel bandits.
Kenneth Clift	He entered the war as a signaller in the 2/1st Battalion (part of the 16 Brigade, 6th Division) and was discharged as a Lieutenant in the 1st Australian Parachute Battalion in October 1945.
Ivan Kolev (general)	During World War I he served initially as commander of the 10th Infantry Division but was soon returned to the cavalry when on 8 May 1916 he received the command of the 1st Cavalry Division and a few days latter was made inspector general of the cavalry.
Jim Forbes (Australian politician)	He was stationed in Darwin in 1943, then assigned to the 2nd Mountain Battery.
Douglas T. Jacobson	Upon completion of the school in April 1958, he was assigned duties as a supply officer with Sub Unit # 1, Headquarters Company, Headquarters Battalion, Marine Corps Base, at Camp Lejeune.
Bennett Landreneau	In October 1978, after commanding the 2225th Engineer Company, Company C, 527th Engineer Battalion, and Company A, 527th Engineer Battalion, he transitioned to staff duties in Operations (S-3).
Hellmuth Becker	In October, he was given command of the division, until in March 1944, he assumed command of the 16th SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment, 16th SS Panzergrenadier Division Reichsführer-SS in Italy and was promoted to Oberführer (Senior Leader/brigadier general).
A. M. S. Elsmie	He returned to regimental duty in January 1912 and in December 1912 he was promoted brevet lieutenant-colonel and the following year he took command of his regiment.
Carlton W. Kent	In June 1992, he transferred to 4th Marine Regiment for duty.
Winston Churchill	After spending some time as a Major with the 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel, commanding the 6th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers (part of the 9th (Scottish) Division), on 1 January 1916.
Henry Hugh Tudor	Tudor served on the Western Front from December 1914 to the Armistice, rising from the rank of Captain in charge of an artillery battery to the rank of Major General and the command of the 9th (Scottish) Division.
Stuart Clarence Graham	On 1 January 1967 Graham was appointed Commander 1st Australian Task Force (1 ATF) which was based in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, taking over from Brigadier David Jackson.
William F. McKee	In October 1941, he returned to the United States for assignment to the 71st Coast Artillery at Fort Story, Virginia, as battalion commander and regimental adjutant of the First Battalion.
Douglas T. Jacobson	There, he served as assistant warehouse officer and officer in charge, Subsistence Branch and Storage Division until April 1962, when he was assigned as Commanding Officer, H&S Company, 2d Pioneer Battalion, 2d Marine Division, Camp Lejeune.
Charles Brand (general)	On 16 May 1915, Brand took over temporary command of the 3rd Infantry Battalion.
Mikhail Zasulich	He was promoted to Major General in 1894 and made commander of the 1st Brigade of the 9th Infantry Division, followed by the 1st Brigade of the 2nd Grenadier Division.
Hans Collani	Assigned to the'' Leibstandarte SS'' Adolf Hitler'' Regiment he served in the 1st Company from March 1933 and was promoted to Hauptsturmführer (Captain) in October 1933.
David Thul	In April 2005, he was promoted to Sergeant, E-5, and in fall 2005, Thul was mobilized for deployment to Iraq along with the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 34th Infantry Division (Red Bulls) where he served as an infantry team leader.
Don Holleder	In 1967, Holleder, now a major, requested to be sent to Vietnam, where he became the Operations Officer for 1st Brigade of the 1st Infantry Division.
Stanley G. Benner	Ordered to the field on May 8, 1942, Sgt. Benner joined Company'' A'', 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, and, after traveling by rail to San Diego, Calif., sailed for the South Pacific in late May.
Thomas Kincaid-Smith	In 1918, Kincaid-Smith was transferred to command of a reception camp as a temporary major.
Mehmet Arif ?enerim	On his release he delegated to the command of the 24th Regiment which was stationed in Nusaybin on 1 June 1919, then he delegated to the command of the 14th Regiment which was stationed in Mardin on 1 December 1919.
Howard Kippenberger	By 1936, he was a lieutenant-colonel, commanding the 1st Battalion of the Canterbury Regiment.
Frank Hassett	In 1951, Hassett was appointed to command the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment in Korea, where he led the unit through some of the toughest fighting of the war.
Ichinohe Hyoe	In 1897, Ichinohe was promoted to colonel and was given command of the 4th Guards Regiment.
Ian Freeland	On 15 February 1954 he was promoted substantive lieutenant-colonel, and given command of 2n Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
Robert H. Scales	Beginning in 1982, he was a field artillery battalion commander in Korea.
Peter S. Connor	He was promoted to private first class upon graduation from Recruit Training in April 1952, and transferred to the West Coast, where he joined the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Training Regiment.
Robert V. Maraist	In July 1943, Maraist was transferred to the newly formed 16th Armored Division at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas to retake command of its Combat Command Group.
Tim Cross	In 1990, Cross returned again to Germany to take command of 1 Ordnance Battalion, in which he had previously been adjutant and a company commander, and, in a double-hatted post, was appointed Commander Supply, 1st Armoured Division.
James A. Graham	He first served as Commanding Officer of Company H, until January 1967, then became Commanding Officer of Company F.
Alan Shapley	Lieutenant Colonel Shapley assumed a similar post with I Marine Amphibious Corps in October 1942, and that same month he sailed with the 1st Corps for the Pacific area.
Troy H. Middleton	In late July 1918, Middleton, promoted to Major on 7 June, moved his First Battalion in to support the 167th Regiment of the 42nd Division.
Tian Songyao	In 1918, Tian was promoted to command the Beijing Government's 41st Brigade of the 21st Division.
Mike Osborn	Later in April 1944 he joined the staff of the 2nd British Army Headquarters, where he would serve under the command of Selwyn Lloyd.
Roderick R. Allen	On October 14, 1941 Allen was promoted again, to the rank of Colonel and was appointed a commanding officer of the 32nd Armor Regiment.
Anthony Stack	In 2006 he was promoted to the rank of Colonel and assumed command of the brigade.
Eric L. Haney	After his promotion to Command Sergeant Major, the rank he held until his retirement in 1990, Haney left Delta and joined the 193rd Infantry Brigade (Panama).
Thomas Leonard Harrold	Harrold briefly served as deputy commander of I Corps in 1951, but was soon transferred to commander of the 1st Cavalry Division.
Charles Henry Pepys Harington	Promoted to lieutenant colonel, he took command of the 1st Battalion, Manchester Regiment, in March 1944.
Lawrence H. Livingston	In late 1966, he was transferred to the 1st Marine Division in the Republic of Vietnam, where he served as a squad leader, platoon sergeant, platoon commander and company gunnery sergeant.
Gustav Gihr	On 16 March 1936 Gihr was transferred again to the army and became commander of the 1st Battalion of infantry regiment 109.
John Plumptre Carr Glyn	He next saw active service, in 1874, as a major in the 2nd Battalion of the Rifle Brigade, under Colonel Sir Garnet Wolseley during the Third Anglo-Ashanti War.
Harold Gonsalves	He was promoted to private first class in March 1944 and with his battalion became part of the 22nd Marine Regiment two months later.
Henry Arthur Goddard	Goddard finally made it Anzac on 6 September 1915, taking over command of the 17th Infantry Battalion.
Ralph Ignatowski	In 1944, after'' boot'' camp training, he was assigned to the 3rd Platoon of E Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Division.
Maraden Panggabean	In 1959, Panggabean became Battalion Commander before being transferred to TT II/Sriwijaya as Resort Commander.
Robert W. Cone	He assumed command of the 1st Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment in October 1994.
G?nter Weiler	In 1998, during this assignment, he deployed overseas with SFOR in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he served as commander of the Multinational Brigade Centre in Rajlovac.
Michael Lippert	On 15 November 1931, Lippert was commissioned an SS second lieutenant with the SS Group South, 2nd Company, III Battalion, 31st Death's Head Regiment.
James A. Graham	In January 1965, he was transferred to the 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines, 2nd Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and served consecutively as a platoon commander of Company I, Executive Officer of Headquarters and Service Company, and Commanding Officer of Company M. During this period, Lt Graham participated in the Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic expedition to protect the lives of Americans during the uprising there from April until June 1965.
Leonard T. Schroeder	On D-Day, June 6, 1944, Schroeder was a 25-year old captain in command of the 219 men of Company F of the 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division.
Thomas J. McHugh	Promoted to Sergeant in March 1942, McHugh joined Company C, 1st Battalion 1st Marines and that June sailed aboard the from San Francisco for World War II.
John Evelyn Duigan	In late 1915 he was promoted to major and appointed commander of the recently formed New Zealand Tunnelling Company.
William Garnett Braithwaite	In December 1915 Braithwaite was promoted temporary brigadier-general and placed in command of the New Zealand (Rifle) Brigade.