Military Honours
A number of members of the Royal family also hold and have held several distinctions as part of the Australian Defence Forces:
- HM King George VI (1895-1952):
- Marshal of the Royal Australian Air Force (1939-1952)
- HM Queen Elizabeth II:
- Captain-General of the Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery (1953)
- Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Australian Engineers (1953)
- Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Australian Infantry Corps (1953)
- Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps (1953)
- Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (1953)
- Air-Commodore-in-Chief of the Australian Citizen Air Force (1953)
- HRH Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh:
- Field Marshal of the Australian Army (1954)
- Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (1959)
- Colonel-in-Chief of the Australian Army Cadets (1970)
- Marshal of the Royal Australian Air Force (1954)
- Admiral of the Fleet of the Royal Australian Navy (1954)
- HRH The Prince of Wales:
- Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps (1977)
- HRH Princess Mary, Princess Royal (1897-1965):
- Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Australian Corps of Signals (1937-1965)
- HRH Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (1930-2002):
- Colonel-in-Chief of the Women's Royal Australian Army Corps (1953-1985)
- HRH Princess Anne, Princess Royal:
- Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Australian Corps of Signals (1977)
- HRH The Duchess of Gloucester (1901-2004):
- Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Australian Corps of Transport (1977-2004)
- HRH The Duchess of Gloucester:
- Colonel-in-Chief, of the Royal Australian Army Education Corps
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Famous quotes containing the words military and/or honours:
“I’m not a military man, Captain. War holds no romance for me. The side effects are repulsive.”
—Richard Bluel, and Henry Hathaway. Major Hugh Tarkington (Clinton Greyn)
“Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)