Brigadier a brigadier is either the highest field rank or most junior general appointment, nominally commanding a brigade. It ranks above colonel and below major general. The rank is used by the British Army, the Royal Marines, the Australian Army, the Indian Army, the Sri Lankan Army, the New Zealand Army, the Pakistan Army and several others. Although it is not always considered a general officer rank, it is always considered equivalent to the brigadier general and brigade general rank of other countries. In NATO forces, brigadier is OF-6 on the rank scale. "The grade of brigadier-general, also called, almost interchangeably,
John Moyle (British Army officer) John Moyle (British Army officer) Major-General John Moyle (died 3 November 1738) was an officer of the British Army. Moyle entered the Army on 4 January 1696 as a captain in the Royal Regiment of Ireland. He served with reputation under the Duke of Marlborough, and was present at the Battle of Blenheim. On 12 April 1706 he was made lieutenant-colonel of Colonel Roger Townshend's newly raised regiment of infantry, and on 13 April 1707 he was promoted to the brevet rank of colonel in the Army. At the peace of Utrecht in 1713 his regiment was disbanded, and he