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His Only Chance

Writer and star Captai Conant was aide de camp to the Governor-General Sir Arthur Stanley.

Raji Rasaki

The plotters led by the late Major Gideon Orkar had attempted to overrun the then seat of the Federal Government; Dodan Barracks, and in that process killing Babangida’s Aide de Camp, Major U.K.Bello.

William Derwood Cann, Jr.

In 1946, he became an aide de camp with the 82nd Airborne Division to Major General James M. Gavin, who was known for his unleashing of paratroopers during World War II.


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Amado García Guerrero

A member of the Military Aides-de-Camp of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, he was the person who informed the other conspirators that Trujillo would later leave that night for San Cristóbal.

Antoine François Brenier de Montmorand

Brenier enlisted in 1786 and gained rapid promotion during the period of the French Revolutionary Wars, becoming an aide-de-camp in 1792 and in 1793 a Chef de brigade (colonel) in the Army of the Eastern Pyrenees (Armée des Pyrénées orientales).

Antony Crockett

He is the son of John Crockett, (John Angus Basil) the artist, playwright and television and film director, grandson of Colonel Basil Crockett (Basil Edwin) DSO and William Joseph Stern OBE (civ.), nephew of Colonel Anthony John Stewart Crockett RM, OBE (Mil.), ADC, and descendant of the Blessed Ralph Crockett, English Martyr.

Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais

Colbert joined the army as a private, but soon became aide-de-camp to Emmanuel Grouchy, then to Joachim Murat and served in the Army of Italy.

Auguste-Jean-Gabriel de Caulaincourt

In 1804 Caulaincourt was appointed aide-de-camp to Louis Bonaparte, with the rank of chef de brigade (colonel) of a dragoon brigade.

Badminton, Gloucestershire

Field Marshal FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War and later commander of all the British forces in the Crimean War was born, raised and buried in Badminton.

Battle of Culloden

Murray's one time aide-de-camp, James Chevalier de Johnstone later wrote, "this march across country in a dark night which did not allow us to follow any track, and accompanied with confusion and disorder".

Bingit

June Paulo Abrazado, the aide-de-camp of the late Department of the Interior and Local Government secretary Jesse Robredo.

Boniface de Castellane

In October 1812 he was made aide-de-camp of general Narbonne and was present at Krasnoi and the crossing of the Beresina.

Brinckman baronets

The latter was a Colonel in the Grenadier Guards, Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Victoria and to the Governor-General of Canada and Chief of Staff to the British Military Mission in Moscow during the Second World War.

Cantacuzino family

Prince Mikhail Cantacuzène, Count Spiransky: Russian Representative to the U.S. 1892-1895; Russian representative to Rome 1895-1899; aide-de-camp to Nicholas II, last Tsar of Russia 1900-1917

Charles Edward Stuart

James, the Chevalier de Johnstone, acted as Murray's Aide de Camp during the campaign and, for a brief spell, the Young Pretender's.

Charles Elers Napier

When during Portugal's Liberal Wars his stepfather was appointed Admiral of the navy of Dom Pedro, he accompanied him as aide-de-camp, with the temporary rank of Captain, and distinguished himself by his bravery in the fourth Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1833) in which the navy of Dom Miguel was resoundingly defeated.

Charles R. Train

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->During the Civil War served in the Union Army as a volunteer aide-de-camp to General George B. McClellan.

Charles Treat

Treat served in Artillery assignments in the United States, including postings to the western states during the American Indian Wars and duty as aide-de-camp to Oliver O. Howard.

Charles Vyner Brooke

Vyner served as aide-de-camp to his father 1897–1898, district officer of Simanggang 1898–1901, Resident of Mukah and Oya, 1902–1903, Resident of the Third Division 1903–1904, President of the Law Courts 1904–1911, Vice-President of the Supreme and General Councils 1904–1911.

Charles-Marie-Napoléon de Beaufort d'Hautpoul

From 1834 to 1837, he was Aide-de-Camp of French-born adventurer Suleiman Pasha, and then Chief-of-Staff of the Egyptian Sultan Ibrahim Pasha during the Egyptian campaigns in Syria.

Christopher Birdwood, 2nd Baron Birdwood

In France he was Aide-de-Camp to the General Officer Commanding the Australian Corps and 5th Army, his father, from 10 March 1918 to 28 February 1919.

Count Miklós Cseszneky

His great-uncle was Count Gyula István Cseszneky de Milvány et Csesznek, aide-de-camp of King Tomislav II of Croatia.

Daniel Knox, 6th Earl of Ranfurly

He and his wife met in 1937 when he was an aide-de-camp to Lord Gowrie, the Governor-General of Australia, an appointment Ranfurly held from 1936 to 1938.

Frederick Wing

In the September 1915 Battle of Loos, generals George Thesiger and Thompson Capper were killed, and less than a week later, on 2 October 1915, a shell exploded in the road outside the 12th Division's forward report centre at Mazingarbe and killed Wing and his aide-de-camp Lieutenant Tower outright at 3:45pm.

Gani Bey Kryeziu


Gani grew up in Serbia, attended a military academy in Sarajevo, and served in the Serbian army in early '20s, as well as aide-de-camp for Alexander I of Yugoslavia, and for a short time in Albania during 1925 after the June Revolution and Zogu coming into power.

Granville Gower Loch

He was advanced to post rank on 26 August 1841, and on returning to England went out to China as a volunteer, and at the capture of Chinkiang Foo (Zhenjiang Fu) served as an aide-de-camp to General Sir Hugh Gough.

Harry de Windt

Captain Harry Willes Darell de Windt (9 April 1856, Paris - 30 November 1933, Bournemouth) was the aide-de-camp to his brother-in-law Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak (Harry's sister Margaret was Brooke's wife), and is best known as an explorer and travel writer.

Ian Hamilton Burrows

Following his return to New Zealand, he served as Aide-de-Camp to Governor General, Lord Cobham, before spending two years as Adjutant of the Nelson Marlborough West Coast Regiment.

James Givins

He was given the rank of major and appointed Provincial Aide-de-Camp to General Isaac Brock.

James Shaw Kennedy

As Robert Craufurd's aide-de-camp during 1809 and 1810, Shaw was on the staff of the Light Division at the Coa and the Agueda, and, with William Campbell, prepared and edited the Standing Orders of the Light Division (printed in Home's Précis of Modern Tactics, pp. 257–277).

Jean Rapp

He was made aide de camp of Louis Desaix, who named him captain and took him to Egypt, where Rapp distinguished himself at Sediman, capturing an enemy battery.

John E. Phelps

In 1862, he became an aide-de-camp on the staff of Brigadier General Eugene Asa Carr.

John James Snodgrass

The couple had one child, Archibald Campbell Snodgrass, who, following the family's military tradition, joined the 38th Regiment and served as an aide-de-camp to his uncle Sir John Campbell, 2nd Baronet during the Battle of the Great Redan.

Liam Tobin

Tobin was placed on the Army Council and was Director of Intelligence from September 1922 until his appointment as Senior Aide-de-Camp to the new Governor General, Tim Healy in November 1922.

Lionel Bootle-Wilbraham, 6th Baron Skelmersdale

Postwar, Lionel-Wilbraham saw service in Turkey during the Chanak Crisis of 1922, and then went to India to serve as ADC to the Governor of Madras (1924–27).

Madho Rao Scindia

He was appointed Honorary Aide-de-camp to King Edward VII in 1901, in recognition of his support during the Boxer Rebellion in China.

Mehmed Namık Pasha

Among the various titles he held was also that of yaver-i ekrem (aide de camp to His Imperial Majesty), and it is in that capacity that he carried a note from the Sultan to Alexander II.

Meriwether Lewis Clark, Jr.

His father was Major Meriwether Lewis Clark Sr., "aide de camp" and in-law to General Stephen Watts Kearny, of Mexican-American War fame (Kearny married Mary Radford, the stepdaughter of Clark).

Michel Chartier de Lotbinière, Marquis de Lotbinière

In the run up to the Battle of Quebec his cousin, Vaudreuil, employed him to build defences about the city, and during the battle he served as his aide-de-camp.

Montague Bertie, 12th Earl of Lindsey

Between 1885 and 1888, he served as an aide-de-camp to Lord Carrington, then Governor of New South Wales.

Murtala Mohammed

Murtala Muhammed was killed along with his aide-de-camp, Lieutenant Akintunde Akinsehinwa, on February 13, 1976 in an abortive coup attempt led by Lt. Col Buka Suka Dimka, when his car was ambushed while en route to his office at Dodan Barracks, Lagos.

Oliver Edwards

At the start of the Civil War, he became adjutant of the 10th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and later aide-de-camp to Brigadier General Darius N. Couch.

Philippines–Russia relations

The diplomatic ties of the Philippines and the Soviet Union was reinitiated by President Ferdinand Marcos' Executive Secretary Alejandro Melchor, Jr. and his then Aide-de-camp Major Jose T. Almonte through the help of Professor Ajit Singh Rye of the Institute of Asian Studies in the University of the Philippines.

Robert Merrill Lee

During 1938 to 1940 he was aide-de-camp to General Adna R. Chaffee, Jr., the "father" of the Armored Force.

Sarah Thompson, Countess Rumford

In 1785, when Sarah Thompson was eleven years old, her father moved to Bavaria to become an aide-de-camp to the Prince-elector Charles Theodore.

Thomas Haddon

Haddon was awarded an OBE in 1951, a CBE in 1961, and appointed an aide-de-camp to Queen Elizabeth II, holding that post from 1962 until his retirement in 1968.

Tintin and the Picaros

At Tapiocapolis, the Captain and the Professor are received warmly by Colonel Alvarez, aide-de-camp to General Tapioca and are accommodated in a luxury apartment, which is bugged (though the duo don't realise it immediately).

William Bagot, 4th Baron Bagot

He was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Staffordshire Yeomanry and a Captain in the 3rd Staffordshire Rifle Volunteers and served as an Aide-de-Camp to the Governor General of Canada from 1876 to 1883.

William M. Wherry

While serving in the American Civil War, as a First Lieutenant of Company D, 3rd Missouri Volunteer Infantry and aide-de-camp to Nathaniel Lyon.

William R. Higgins

As a lieutenant, he participated in combat operations during 1968 with C Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines in the Republic of Vietnam as a rifle platoon commander and rifle company executive officer, and was aide-de-camp to the Assistant 3rd Marine Division Commander.

Yegor Tolstoy

Tolstoy was aide-de-camp to general Alexander von Neidgart, and was stationed in Laibach (Ljubljana) during the Congress, where he was appointed head of the Russian headquarters of the detachment against Piedmont.