Senior colonel Senior colonel Senior colonel is an army officer rank placed between a regular colonel and a major general. The rank typically exists in militaries that do not maintain a rank of brigadier general or brigadier. In Nazi Germany, a rank equivalent to senior colonel, "Oberführer", was used by both the SA and SS. In the branches of the "Allgemeine SS" (General SS) and "Waffen-SS" (Armed SS) the rank of "Oberführer" was widely used. The rank did not exist in the army ("Heer"), although the "Kriegsmarine" (navy) maintained the equivalent rank of "Kommodore". After World War II, armies in Asia, especially
David Forbes (British Army officer) officer who returned out of forty-two, and bringing with him only thirty-six out of twelve hundred rank and file. He went on half-pay and settled at Aberdeen, where he lived without further employment for the rest of his life. On 10 January 1837 he was promoted colonel, in 1838 made a C.B., and in 1846 promoted major-general. He died in Aberdeen on 29 March 1849. David Forbes (British Army officer) Major-General David Forbes (13 January 1772 – 29 March 1849) was a Scottish military officer in the British Army. Forbes was the son of a Scottish minister in the county