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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 .
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 ...
Pages in category "British Army cavalry generals of World War I" The following 79 pages are in this category, out of 79 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Under the Termination of the Present War (Definition) Act 1918 the end of the war was defined for general purposes by the British parliament as 31 August 1921. This is the same date that the Commonwealth War Graves Commission uses for its casualty records. The following generals of the British Empire died between the armistice and 31 August ...
General Sir Charles Whittingham Horsley Douglas GCB ADC (1850—1914) General Sir Charles W. H. Douglas (1850—1914), Chief of the Imperial General Staff; Major-General Henry Edward Manning Douglas; Major-General Henry McDonell de Wend Douglas (1834—1897), Bengal Staff Corps; General Sir Howard Douglas (1776—1861), lieutenant governor of ...
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.
General Henry Sinclair Horne, 1st Baron Horne, GCB, KCMG (19 February 1861 – 14 August 1929) was a military officer in the British Army, most notable for his generalship during the First World War, where he commanded at division, corps, and field army level, rising to command the British First Army in 1916, which he held until the armistice of 11 November 1918.
Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (/ h eɪ ɡ /; 19 June 1861 – 29 January 1928), was a senior officer of the British Army.During the First World War he commanded the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) on the Western Front from late 1915 until the end of the war.