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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 .
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 ...
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 .
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 ...
In 1918, staff officers who had been trained exclusively for static trench warfare were forced to adapt to the demands of semi-open warfare. During the course of the war, 78 British and Dominion officers of the rank of brigadier-general and above were killed or died during active service, while another 146 were wounded, gassed, or captured. [56 ...
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.
Brigadier Rowland Montagu Airey (1884— ), Army Service Corps; Lieutenant-General Sir Terence Airey (1900—1983), Commander British Forces in Hong Kong; Major-General Sir Christopher Airy (1934— ), GOC London District; General Sir John Aitchison (1779—1875), Colonel of the Scots Fusilier Guards; Brigadier Alastair Aitken, CO 77th Brigade
Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Harte Keatinge Butler, KCB, KCMG (28 August 1870 – 22 April 1935) was a British Army general during the First World War.He was chief of staff to First Army for much of 1915, then deputy chief of staff to the British Expeditionary Force from the end of 1915 to the start of 1918.