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Second World War Generals
Second World War Generals
The young officers of the Great War were in their forties and fifties by 1939; many of them volunteered to help in any way they could. Some had remained in the Regular Army between the wars, often taking steps down in rank to do so, and many of these became the Generals of the Second World War.
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Born 1892
Died 1975
British Army Major Royal Field Artillery
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery 114th Brigade
British Army Captain Royal Field Artillery
More about James Andrew Harcourt Gammell -
Born 1897
Died 1973
British Army Lieutenant Royal Engineers
More about Nevil Charles Dowell Brownjohn -
Born 1896
Died 1961
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Engineers
British Army Captain Royal Engineers
More about Kenneth Noel Crawford -
Born 1893
Died 1968
Indian Army Lieutenant Pathans
Indian Army Captain 55th Coke's Rifles (Frontier Force) attached 40th Pathans M.C. for defence of Mitole post
More about Roland Charles Richardson -
Born 1894
Died 1981
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery
British Army Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery
British Army Major Royal Field Artillery Attached Royal Engineers Mounted Depot
More about Charles Alexander Phipps Murison -
Born 1890
Died 1972
British Army Captain Royal Field Artillery
British Army Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery Won the D.S.O.
More about Edmond Charles Acton Schreiber -
Born 1890
Died 1967
Australian Imperial Force
Australian Imperial Force
Australian Imperial Force NX34723 Lt. Colonel Australian Field Artillery, 1st Australian Division D.S.O. as a Captain at Gallipoli
More about Cecil Arthur Callaghan -
Born 1887
Died 1967
British Army Lieutenant South Staffordshire Regiment southst Battalion
British Army Brevet Major South Staffordshire Regiment southst Battalion
More about Guy De Courcy Glover -
Died 1964
British Army Lieutenant King George's Own Sappers and Miners
British Army Captain Royal Engineers
More about Horace Eckford Roome -
Born 1897
British Army Lieutenant Glamorgan Yeomanry
Indian Army Captain 2/6th Gurkha Rifles
More about John Geoffrey Bruce -
Born 1890
Died 1945
Indian Army Captain 53rd Sikhs (Frontier Force)
More about Henry Finnis -
Born 1897
Died 1970
British Army Captain General List attached Indian Army
Indian Army Captain 114th Mahratta Light Infantry Shargat, Mesopotamia
British Army Captain Seaforth Highlanders
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More about Denys Whitehorn Reid -
Born 1887
Died 1966
British Army Captain Bedfordshire Regiment
British Army Lieutenant Colonel Essex Regiment
More about Arthur Ernest Percival -
Born 1890
Died 1981
British Army Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery 134 Battery, 32 Bde
British Army Captain Royal Field Artillery A/58 Brigade
British Army Acting Major Royal Field Artillery A/58 Brigade
More about Thomas Jacomb Hutton -
Born 1880
Died 1963
British Army Brigadier General 4th Dragoon Guards
British Army Captain 4th Dragoon Guards attached 8th Gloucs Battalion
British Army 836 Major-General (temporary Lieutenant-General) Royal Dragoon Guards 4/7th royal dragoon guard Battalion
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More about Adrian Carton De Wiart -
Born 1892
British Army Second Lieutenant North Staffordshire Regiment
British Army Captain, acting Lieutenant Colonel North Staffordshire Regiment
More about Vyvyan Vavasour Pope -
Born 1894
British Army Second Lieutenant Indian Army
Indian Army Lieutenant Bedfordshire Regiment attached 1st Battalion
More about Alfred Cyril Curtis -
Born 1893
Died 1977
British Army Captain Hussars, Staff and Tank Corps
More about Charles Willoughby Moke Norrie -
Born 1895
Died 1983
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Artillery
British Army Major Royal Field Artillery
British Army Captain Royal Horse Artillery
More about Roger Clayton Reynolds -
British Army Royal Army Medical Corps
British Army Captain Royal Army Medical Corps
More about Gordon Wilson