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Future Field Marshals / Admirals of the Fleet / Marshals of the Royal Air Force
Future Field Marshals / Admirals of the Fleet / Marshals of the Royal Air Force
This Community includes those who served in the Great War and then rose to the rank of Field Marshal, Admiral of the Fleet, or Marshal of the R.A.F. later in their careers (I have deliberately included some duplicates where information is already present - because of all the decorations they received, there are a horrendous number of duplicates in this group.)
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British Army Lieutenant Colonel Indian Army
British Army General Indian Army
More about Arthur Arnold Barrett -
British Army London Regiment 11th lond Battalion
British Army Lieutenant Machine Gun Corps
British Army Major Somerset Light Infantry
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More about Allan Francis Harding -
Born 1866
Died 1948
British Army Brigadier General Royal Artillery
More about George Francis Milne -
Born 1861
Died 1936
British Army General/Commander in Chief Egyptian Expeditionary Force
More about Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby -
Born 1884
Died 1981
Indian Army Major 62nd Punjabis Commands and Staff
Indian Army Major and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel 62nd Punjabis and Staff Mesopotamia
More about Claude John Eyre Auchinleck -
Born 1881
Died 1968
British Army Battery Serjeant Major Royal Lancaster Regiment attached Royal Flying Corps
British Army Temporary Major General Royal Flying Corps
British Army Major General Royal Lancaster Regiment
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More about John Maitland Salmond -
Born 1891
Died 1970
British Army Captain Royal Warwickshire Regiment
British Army Major General Staff Office India
Indian Army Captain 6th Gurkha Rifles
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More about William Joseph Slim -
Born 1860
Died 1933
British Army Temporary Lieutenant General Dragoons
British Army Major General Chief of the Imperial General Staff
British Army Major General Staff College, Camberley
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More about William Robert Robertson -
Born 1887
Died 1976
British Army Captain General Staff Officer
British Army Lieutenant Colonel General Staff Officer
British Army Lieutenant Royal Warwickshire Regiment 1st Battalion
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More about Bernard Law Montgomery, K. -
Born 1886
Died 1963
Indian Army Lieutenant Colonel 2nd K.E.O. Gurkha Rifles attached Royal Flying Corps
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Lieutenant Colonel Royal Air Force
British Army Captain Royal Flying Corps
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More about Cyril Louis Norton Newall -
Born 1861
Died 1928
British Army Major 7th Hussars
British Army Brevet Lieutenant Colonel 7th Hussars
British Army Lieutenant 7th Hussars
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More about Douglas Haig -
Born 1897
Died 1979
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Flight Lieutenant Royal Air Force
More about John Cotesworth Slessor -
Born 1893
Died 1971
British Army C408 Corporal Royal Engineers
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Engineers, Motor Cyclist Officers (Special Reserve)
British Army 28028 Corporal Royal Engineers, First Army Signal Company France, Mentioned in Despatches
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More about Charles Frederick Algernon Portal -
Born 1864
Died 1922
British Army Lieutenant General (Temporary General) Chief of the Imperial General Staff
British Army Field Marshal Chief of the Imperial General Staff
More about Henry Hughes Wilson -
Born 1873
Died 1956
British Army Major General Royal Scots Fusiliers
British Army Lieutenant Royal Scots Fusiliers
British Army Lieutenant Colonel Royal Scots Fusiliers attached Royal Flying Corps
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More about Hugh Montague Trenchard -
Born 1865
Died 1951
British Army Royal Scots Fusiliers
Indian Army Cavalry Officer 11th Bengal Lancers
Indian Army
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More about William Riddell Birdwood -
Born 1869
Died 1950
British Army Lieutenant General GOC Desert Mounted Corps, Palestine
British Army Brigadier General GOC 5th Cavalry Brigade
British Army Major General 2nd Cavalry Division
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More about Philip Walhouse Chetwode -
Born 1880
Died 1959
British Army Captain Royal Artillery
British Army Major General Royal Artillery
British Army Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Royal Field Artillery
More about William Edmund Ironside -
Born 1883
Died 1963
British Army Lieutenant Royal Horse Artillery N Battery
British Army Captain Royal Horse Artillery N Battery
British Army Second Lieutenant
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More about Alan Francis Brooke -
British Army Colonel Meerut Division Indian Corps
British Army Lieutenant General Indian Army
More about C W Jacob