Uniform Insignia Forum

tiaan25

dear 60Bill, thanks for your nice work.But the work that you did shows only the present day ranks of the Intalian army.
But i was infering to the ranks of World War Two.
And they were in many places different from the present day Italian army insignia.
tiaan from Belgium

tiaan25

i found the answer to my own question. Ah , well, i should have first looked for it my self, before i asked it here.So , I sorry for the inconvinience. These "commisaires " are special officers , attached to regiments and regions of the French Army , and with the task of administration, la...

tiaan25

does anyone know if the Italian army during the world war two period would regularly use Aiudante rank NCO's as platoon commanders of normal combat units ( tanks, infantry, etcetera ) , like the Free French army did ? Thanks in advance.
Tiaan from Belgium.

tiaan25

hello, i noticed on this site , that you do not have the rank insignia from the Italian army during world war two. I have found pictures of those rank insignia in an older book ( from the mid 1980-ties). Also i found a document on another site via Google. These ranks have two marshall ranks, 5 gener...

tiaan25

I do not know if it means something like garrison commander. But i Googled it and found what seemed to be an official document from or about the French Defense Ministry where the President of the French Republic promoted several générals de brigade to commisaires de général de brigade. And in the sa...

tiaan25

Tegmen comes from Segmen which mean something like militia.
Also it may come from Degmen which means a traditionaly dressed up man seated on a horse and wearing weapons , for a traditional feast.
So it seems to be more or less the same as Segmen.

tiaan25

that is correct , i have found those rank insignia on "the international encyclopedia of uniform insignia" under the "French Army " of the present. So : are those "commisaires de general de brigade" or "general de division" real ranks? Or are these just police...

tiaan25

hello , i have found the rank insignia of the so-called " commisairre de general de brigade " or " commisaire de general de division " on this exellent website. But are they real ranks?Is this an honorary rank? Or are they just police officers within the French army? Do they comm...

tiaan25

thanks very much for all your comments, but that's not what i was looking for. I only wanhted to know if there are SPECIAL ( as in : beeing different from the normal rank insignia ) rank insignia for brevet or acting officers, that make it clear that it is only that ? Thanks in advance. Tiaan 25 fro...

tiaan25

hello, does anyone know if an officer in the during f.i. the second world war American army ,who held a " brevet " rank, had any insignia poiting out that he was not yet promoted to the rank he temporarily held ?Or that he only had a " brevet " rank? And the same for "acting...

tiaan25

hello, i am wondering : how can someone see if for instance two Major Generals are standing somewhere, which one is the commander of the unit ( like a division ) and which one is his " second -in-command "?Which kind of insignia or badge or something will show that? F.i. in the American Ar...

tiaan25

hello, the double " greca" symbol ( and Italian eagle ) was worn on their sleeves by the Marshalls of Italy during the second world war. These were the King Victor-Emmanuel and of course the duce Benito Mussolini. My question is : what kind of insignia did they wear on their [u]shoulder pa...

tiaan25

hello, in the German armies of the twentieth century there are or were so-called " fahnrich's ". In the former East-German army ,there were even three ranks : fahnrich , stabsfahnrich , and oberstabsfahnrich. My question is : what were their commands in the peacetime East-German army? Did ...

tiaan25

hello, does anyone know what tegmen in the Turkish language actuly means. I know that it means " lieutenant ". ( Astegmen ,tegmen, ustegmen = first lieutenent ,second , third or ensign ) But what does it mean[b] etymological [/b]? Because for instance in the Turkish language : " binba...

tiaan25

thanks for your info,people. But i have to clearify something : it is certainly [b]not[/b] my intention to impursonate an general ,marshall or admiral or to misuse these rank insignia for whatever reason . smilies-03 And the trouble i talk about isn't only that about legality. Because also everyday ...

tiaan25

i mean "thanks so much " to the moderator, of course.

tiaan from Belgium

tiaan25

thanks so much for pointing me to this info,administrator !!!

It makes it much more clear to me.
tiaan from Belgium

tiaan25

hi people! i have found some good info on the sites you all proposed. Thanks for that. smilies-34 Especially the present day Italian army rank insignia are interesting. But these questions remain : there are some hounorary ranks.( a titolo onorifico ) Is that just what they are ?Hounorary ? Or do th...

tiaan25

thanks for your answers again. But i think the problem is that the rank insignia worn by the generals , admirals and marshalls all over the world are just to conspicous anyway.I mean, even in a subdued form, they almost all have either stars, crossed swords and marshalls batons, crowns or equivalent...

tiaan25

thanks for the many interesting answers !!!!!
They were a great help.

tiaan25

thank you for your kind answers , but the proposals that you give were already in my mind. They are still to conspicous for my taste. I just wanted to wear such insignia without getting into trouble. Or without beeing to conspicous myself. Others do not need to know,as long as i know. B smilies-29 u...

tiaan25

the point is that I would know !!!

tiaan25

thank you very much for these answers !
So the present day Italian army has special insignia denoting the position an officers holds, on top of his normal rank insignia?
And where might i find excamples these special insignia?
Thank you in advance again !!!!
Tiaan 25

tiaan25

hello ,this is my second question : which of the present day official rank insignia of a general , marshall or admiral/ commodore from whatever army ,navy or air forces in the world is the most subdued or inconspicuos ? So that if you would ware it on a civilian clothing piece , no-one would notice ...

tiaan25

hello , i am posting here for the first time. I have this question : wich army in the world had or has the greatest number of different ranks beginning from the lowest officer rank ( commisioned officers ) to the highest generals or marshalls or generalissimo's ?And this beginning from 1939 until no...

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World war two ranks

found answer to own question

aiudante in Italian army of WW 2

Italian rank insignia

promotion sheet

found it!

correct

commisaires general de brigade

special rank insignia ?

brevet or acting officer: special rank insignia ?

who is the the second in command?

greca symbol for Italian Marshalls

fahnrich

tegmen from Turkish army

clearification

oops..

clear!

some additional questions

the problem is ...

thank you so much !

thanks but no thanks

i would !

thank you !!!

subdued or inconspicuos rank insignia ?

number of ranks