Understanding the Rank of Colonel in Military History Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

Witold Dzierżykraj-Morawski, a colonel of the Polish Army, was one of the many prisoners murdered by Nazi Germany in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.

following her service in the Mexican–American War, laundress and madam Sarah Bowman was breveted an honorary colonel and buried with military honors.

the Banat Bulgarian Stefan Dunjov participated in both the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and the Italian unification, and was the first Bulgarian to be promoted to the rank of Colonel.

the Russian Association of Scouts was founded by Colonel Oleg Pantyukhov (pictured).

Hartvig Andreas Munthe, an aide-de-camp of King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway, was made Colonel in the turbulent year of 1905, only to die three months later.

Colonel Denning State Park, which opened in Pennsylvania in 1936, is named for an American Revolutionary War hero, Colonel William Denning, who was a sergeant not a colonel.

Cuban Colonel Ramón Barquín, who unsuccessfully attempted to overthrow Fulgencio Batista in 1956, later founded Atlantic College and several other educational institutions while in exile in Puerto Rico.

GRU colonel Vladimir Kvachkov won second place in by-elections to the State Duma, while imprisoned due to his suspected attempted murder of Russian politician Anatoly Chubais.

Winston Churchill was an Honorary Colonel in the "Queer Objects On Horseback"—better known as the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars.

Colonel J. Thomas Scharf, who served in both the Confederate Army and Navy, later became New York's Chinese Inspector.

Understanding the Rank of Colonel in Military History

1 Standartenführer was a separate SS rank in ________ and was not used in the Wehrmacht

2 Since the 16th century, the rank of regimental commander was adopted by several Central and Eastern European armies, most notably the forces of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ________ and then Muscovy.

3 The ________, a successful team in the American Basketball Association

4 Vatican City State (now consisting of a single branch, the ________)

5 A colonel is typically in charge of a ________ in the army.

6 By the late 19th century, colonel was a professional military rank though still held typically by an officer in command of a ________ or equivalent unit.

7 As a rank the term arose in the late sixteenth century ________ where it referred to the officer in charge of a column (Italian colonna, plural colonne) or field force.

8 Today, a colonel is usually a military title rated as the highest, or the second-highest field rank below the ________, or "flag" grades.

9 Pukovnik (________, Croatia, Serbia)

10 (The head of a single ________ or demi brigade would be called a mestre de camp or, after the Revolution, a chef de brigade.)

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