Oh yes ... times have changed here in Britain right enough. I worked as a Building Society clerk back in the late 1960s, and remember greeting one particular customer in the following manner: "Good Morning, Mr Jones ... " - to which he replied, somewhat pointedly:"It's Colonel Jones, actually!" Now, this guy happened to be the Principal of a local Insurance Company's Staff College and had long-since joined 'civy street' ... yet still insisted on being addressed by his military rank, of which he was obviously fiercely proud.
