WW1 English Commandants - WW1 Information

1. General H.S.Horne, Commandant of the 1st Army

2. General H. C. O. Plumer, Commandant 2nd Army

3. General E. H. H. Allenby, Commandant 3rd Army, later in Palestine

4. General J. H. G. Byng, later took over the Command of the 3rd Army

5. General H. S. Rawlinson, Commandant of the 4th Army

6. General H. de la P. Gough, Commandant of the 3rd Corps

7. General W. P. Pulteney, Commandant of the 3rd Corps

8. General A.W.Currie, Commandant of the Canadian Corps

9. General Sandeman Carey, saved the retreat of the 5th Army and also Calais

10. General H. L. Smith-Dorrien, 2nd Corps 2nd Army, later S.W.Africa


11. General E. H. Alderson, Commandant of the Canadian Corps

12. General Jan Hamilton, Commandant of the Allied Troops on the Dardanelles


13. General Charles Monro, succ. to J. Hamilton


14. General W. R. Birwood, Comm. of the Austr. Corps, later of the 5th Army

15. General John Maxwell, Commandant of the British troops in Egypt

16. General Percy Lake, Commandant of the troops Mesopotamia

17. General Gorringe,  Divisional Commander in Mesopotamia

18. General Townshend, Divisional Commandant capitulated in Kut

19. General Stanley Maude, conqueror of Bagdad and Mesopotamia

20. General Stanley Maude, conqueror of Bagdad and Mesopotamia

21. General Botha, former Boer-General, Commandant of the native troops in S.W.Africa. 

Excerpt from the book: Ратни албум (War Album) 1914-1918
Author: Андра Поповић (Andra Popovic),
Belgrade, 1926

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