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Hastings Anderson. Dalrymple Arbuthnot. Arthur Richard Careless Sanders. Edward Ashmore (British Army officer) Cecil Faber Aspinall-Oglander. John Asser. Llewellyn William Atcherley. Herbert Henry Austin. Sir Fenton Aylmer, 13th Baronet.
Gravestone of Brigadier-General Roland Bradford, killed 30 November 1917. General officer ranks in the armies of the British Empire of the First World War were, in descending order of seniority: field marshal, general, lieutenant-general, major-general, and brigadier-general. Field marshal was usually an honorary appointment, with the most ...
Major-General Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (1874—1957), Head of British Mission Belgian, Grand Quartier Général. Brigadier-General John Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl (1871—1942), Scottish Horse Mounted Brigade. Brigadier Robert Ringrose Gelston Atkins [ 2 ] (1891—1969), Royal Army Medical Corps.
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 Army during the First World War fought the largest and most costly war in its long history. [ 1 ] Unlike the French and German Armies, the British Army was made up exclusively of volunteers—as opposed to conscripts —at the beginning of the conflict. [ 2 ] Furthermore, the British Army was considerably smaller than its French and ...
Bernard Montgomery. Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein KG, GCB, DSO, PC, DL (/ məntˈɡʌməri ... ˈæləmeɪn /; 17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976), nicknamed " Monty ", was a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War, the Irish War of Independence and the Second World War.
General Henry Seymour Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson, GCB, GCSI, GCVO, KCMG (20 February 1864 – 28 March 1925), known as Sir Henry Rawlinson, 2nd Baronet between 1895 and 1919, was a senior British Army officer in the First World War who commanded the Fourth Army of the British Expeditionary Force at the battles of the Somme (1916) and Amiens (1918) as well as the breaking of the Hindenburg ...
Ross's full general rank was general of horse. Haydn's Book of Dignities gives Ross's promotion date as 1 April 1712. [4] 2 July 1730 [4] Sir Charles Wills: 1666 1741 Full general rank was general of foot. His promotion was not gazetted until 17 July 1739. [15] 2 July 1730 [4] Thomas Whetham: c. 1665: 1741 Full general rank was general of foot.