Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 248, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1918 — Lieutenant Colonels. [ARTICLE]

Lieutenant Colonels.

Combinations of the word “lieutenant,” such as lieutenant colonel, mean an officer subordinate, an assistant to the rank to which lientenant is prefixed. In European armies the lieutenant colonel is often the real commander of a regiment, its colonel being some royalty whose duties end with having himself photographed in lbs uniform.