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Pages in category "British Army generals of World War I" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 544 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
At the start of the war the British Army contained 9 field marshals, 19 generals, 28 lieutenant-generals, 114 major-generals, and 180 brigadier-generals. At the end of the war in 1918, the expansion of the army had seen this rise to 8 field marshals, 29 generals, 47 lieutenant-generals, 219 major-generals, and 600 brigadier-generals.
General Officers of World War I (originally entitled Some General Officers of the Great War) is an oil painting by John Singer Sargent, completed in 1922. It was commissioned by South African financier Sir Abraham Bailey, 1st Baronet to commemorate the generals who commanded British and British Empire armies in the First World War.
The British force was led, in turn, by General Horace Smith-Dorrien, South African General Jan Smuts, and British General Arthur Reginald Hoskins. [ 166 ] [ 168 ] The force was composed of units of the KAR and the 27th Bangalore Brigade from the British Indian Army, with the 2nd Battalion, Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) under command.
General Sir Thomas Bradford (1777—1853), Commander-in-Chief, Bombay Army; Major-General Peter Bradley (1914—2010), Chief of Staff, Allied Forces Northern Europe [80] General Sir Adrian Bradshaw (1958— ), Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe; Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Bradshaw (1920—1999), Director General Army Medical Services
British Army generals of World War I (2 C, 544 P) Indian Army generals of World War I (1 C, 55 P) C. Canadian generals of World War I (43 P) F.
The two cavalry officers that commanded the British Expeditionary Force, Field Marshal Sir John French and General Sir Douglas Haig, flank the French General Joseph Joffre. The British First World War cavalry generals, by the end of the war belonged to one of the smallest arms of the British Army, they did however, including those belonging to ...
Field Marshal Sir William Robert Robertson, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, DSO (29 January 1860 – 12 February 1933) was a British Army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) – the professional head of the British Army – from 1916 to 1918 during the First World War.