The Royal Swedish Naval Staff College ( Swedish : Kungliga Sjökrigshögskolan , KSHS) was a Swedish Navy training establishment between 1898 and 1961, providing courses for naval officers. It was the home of the Swedish Navy's staff college , which provided advanced training for officers. It was located within the Stockholm garrison in Stockholm , Sweden.
17-509: The Royal Swedish Naval Staff College was established by regulations on 11 March 1898. According to regulations and teaching charters (23 October 1908 with amendments on 29 September 1911 and 29 June 1912) the Royal Swedish Naval Staff College had the purpose to educate naval officers and give them expanded knowledge in those subjects which were important to pursue the purpose of the maritime defense. The education
34-597: A junior officer . Literally meaning " subordinate ", subaltern is used to describe commissioned officers below the rank of captain and generally comprises the various grades of lieutenant . In the British Army , the senior subaltern rank was captain-lieutenant , obsolete since the 18th century. Before the Cardwell Reforms of the British Army in 1871, the ranks of cornet and ensign were
51-614: The American Revolutionary War period had ensign and sometimes subaltern ranks, with the subaltern rank below the ensign rank where they coexisted. In 1800, the United States Army 's cornet, ensign and subaltern ranks were replaced by second lieutenant. In 1862, the United States Navy began using the ensign rank, which began using a gold bar as insignia in 1922. Second lieutenants received
68-735: The Duchess of Kent held it from 1967 to 1992 (with the rank of Major-General). Directors of the WRAC were: The Staff Band of the Women's Royal Army Corps was an all female military band. It was formed in 1949, and was the only all-female band in the British Armed Forces by the time it was disestablished. The Central Band of the Women's Royal Air Force , which was one of only two all-female bands to exist, transferred some of its musicians to
85-530: The Women's Royal Army Corps , also used the same ranks until it abandoned them in favour of regular British Army ranks. Princess Elizabeth held the rank of second subaltern in the ATS during World War II . The Continental Army carried over the rank structure from the British Army including the subaltern ranks of lieutenant, cornet, ensign and subaltern. Continental Army subalterns ranks were supposed to wear green colored cockades in their hats. State militias in
102-512: The adjutant for this duty, although the adjutant is ultimately responsible to the commanding officer for the discipline of all the junior officers within the unit. From 1941 to 1949, the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) of the British Army used the ranks of second subaltern and subaltern, which were equivalent to second lieutenant and lieutenant respectively. From 1949 to 1950, the ATS's successor organisation,
119-943: The Corps they served with. Those who served with the Royal Army Pay Corps , the Corps of Royal Military Police , the Military Provost Staff Corps , the Royal Army Educational Corps , the Army Legal Corps and the Staff Clerks from the Royal Army Ordnance Corps were transferred to the newly formed Adjutant General's Corps . The post of Director WRAC, which carried the rank of Brigadier ,
136-662: The Royal Swedish Naval Staff College (established 1898) and the Royal Swedish Air Force Staff College (established 1939). The Royal Swedish Naval Staff College was located at the following addresses in Stockholm : Heads of the Royal Swedish Naval Staff College: Subaltern (military) A subaltern ( IPA : / ˈ s ʌ b ə l t ər n / ) is a primarily British military term for
153-482: The education was a one-year long general course, designed for subaltern officers, as well as a one and two-year long higher course (general higher course, artillery, torpedo and naval mine courses) for officers who had undergone the general course. For subjects in the general course, air warfare and naval officer's programme and navigation were added. Only the coastal artillery course included physics. In higher education courses, special subjects were included, and in some of
170-667: The general course subjects. In 1926 there were teachers in 18 subjects. As students, the Navy's subaltern officers were commanded in turn; an entry qualification was not needed. The Royal Swedish Naval Staff College was discontinued in 1961 and the Royal Swedish Armed Forces Staff College was formed by merging war colleges of the different military branches, namely the Royal Swedish Army Staff College (established 1878),
187-637: The gold bar insignia in 1917. When the United States Air Force became a separate military branch from the Army, it kept the Army's commissioned officers ranks and insignia. Women%27s Royal Army Corps The Women's Royal Army Corps ( WRAC ; sometimes pronounced acronymically as / ˈ r æ k / , a term unpopular with its members) was the corps to which all women in the British Army belonged from 1949 to 1992 except medical, dental and veterinary officers and chaplains, who belonged to
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#1732797391500204-457: The junior subaltern ranks in the cavalry and infantry respectively, and were responsible for the flag. A subaltern takes temporary command of proceedings during Trooping the Colour . Within the ranks of subaltern, in a battalion or regiment, a Senior Subaltern may be appointed, usually by rank and seniority, who is responsible for discipline within the junior officer ranks and is responsible to
221-613: The ranks of the WRAC, which had previously been Subaltern, Junior Commander, Senior Commander and Controller were harmonised with the rest of the British Army. In 1974, two soldiers of the corps were killed by the Provisional IRA in the Guildford pub bombings . In October 1990 WRAC officers employed with other corps were transferred to those corps and in April 1992 the WRAC was disbanded and its remaining members transferred to
238-496: The same corps as the men; the Ulster Defence Regiment , which recruited women from 1973, and nurses, who belonged to Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps . The WRAC was formed on 1 February 1949, by Army Order 6, as the successor to the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) that had been founded in 1938. For much of its existence, its members performed administrative and other support tasks. In March 1952
255-644: Was also abolished and it was seven years before a woman, Brigadier Patricia Purves, again reached that rank. The highest rank available to a serving officer was brigadier , held by the Director WRAC, although the Controller-Commandant, a member of the Royal Family , held a higher honorary rank. Princess Mary held the post from 1949 to her death in 1965 (beginning as a major general and being promoted general on 23 November 1956) and
272-399: Was in 1914 a one-year long general course for subaltern officers and a one-year long advanced course (general, artillery, torpedo and naval mine courses) for officers, who had completed the general course. Subjects covered in the general course were strategy, tactics, coastal fortress, land warfare, military coastal geography, artillery, torpedo, naval mine, physics and mathematics (the latter
289-437: Was optional). In the advanced course teaching was in special subjects, and in some of the general course subjects. The Royal Swedish Naval Staff College permanent staff consisted of a head, an adjutant and librarian, teachers in 15 subjects, rehearsers and a caretaker. During the years 1899-1900 there was only one student in the advanced course, Lieutenant Carl Gustav Flach. According to the regulations issued on 17 September 1923
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