Recruitment in the British Army from families with a military tradition. (This contrasted with the Navy, whose officers were more often from a middle-class background.) The second son of King George III, Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, did much to improve the standard of officer recruitment from his position as Commander in Chief of the Army (from 1795 to 1809, then from 1811 to 1827). The sale of commissions, finally abolished in the Cardwell reforms in 1868–1874, and the further Childers Reforms. In spite of its abolition, the status of an officer being from a privileged background and that of another rank being
Captain 1st rank Captain 1st rank The rank was introduced in Russia by Peter the Great in 1713. By decision of the so-called "military navy commission" (ru: "Воинская морскaя комиссия") in 1732 the sequence of Kapitan ranks was abolished. However, until 1752 the grade rank "Kapitan 1st rank" was corresponding to Fleet kapitan (ru: Флота капитан). Finally, the "Kapitan ranks" were reintroduced September 5 (16), 1751. The Red Army introduced the "Kapitan 1st rank" rank in 1935, together with a number of other former Russian ranks, and it has been used in many ex-USSR countries, including Russia, to the present day. The first