In the British Army, the term colonel-commandant goes back at least to the American War of Independence, when it denoted an officer in command of a regiment.
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He returned to India in January 1921 and, with the rank of colonel commandant, was again given his own command, the 5th Indian Cavalry Brigade and the Secunderabad Garrison.
Colonel of the 2nd Staffordshire Militia and Colonel Commandant of the Lichfield Volunteer Yeomanry, who had been posted to India where he married Mary Rotton (1767–1830) of Duffield, Derbyshire in October 1784.
He went to France in 1690 with his cousin, the Honourable Colonel Arthur Dillon, in whose regiment, as Colonel-Commandant, he was killed at Montmélian in 1691.
Brigadier Dame Cecilie Monica Johnson Golding, DBE (born 6 August 1902, London - died 6 June 1997, Bournemouth) was a British Army nurse, who rose to Colonel Commandant, Matron-in-Chief and Director of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANC).