Military Ranks
Haile Selassie held the following ranks:
- Field Marshal, Imperial Ethiopian Army
- Admiral of the Fleet, Imperial Ethiopian Navy
- Marshal of the Imperial Ethiopian Air Force
- Field Marshal, British Army
- Jamaica Kings House Honouree, Jamaica (1966)
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