2nd Infantry Division (United Kingdom) - Recent Commanders

Recent Commanders

Recent Commanders have been:
GOC 2nd Division

  • 1899-1901 Major-General Francis Clery
  • 1902-1904 Major-General Charles Douglas
  • 1904-1907 Lieutenant-General Sir Bruce Hamilton
  • 1907-1910 Major-General Theodore Stephenson
  • 1910-1914 Major-General Henry Lawson
  • Aug-Dec 1914 Major-General Charles Monro
  • 1914-1915 Major-General Henry Horne
  • 1915-1916 Major-General William Walker
  • 1916-1919 Major-General Sir Cecil Pereira
  • 1919-1923 Major-General Sir Richard Butler
  • 1923-1926 Major-General Sir Peter Strickland
  • 1926-1928 Major-General Sir Edmund Ironside
  • 1928-1935 Major-General Thomas Cubitt
  • 1931-1935 Major-General Henry Jackson
  • 1935-1937 Major-General Archibald Wavell
  • 1937-1939 Major-General Henry Wilson
  • 1939-1940 Major-General Henry Loyd
  • May-Aug 1940 Major-General Noel Irwin
  • 1940-1941 Major-General Daril Watson
  • 1941-1944 Major-General John Grover
  • 1944-1946 Major-General Cameron Nicholson
  • 1946-1947 Major-General Robert Arkwright
  • 1947-1949 Major-General Philip Balfour
  • 1949-1951 Major-General Colin Callander
  • 1951-1954 Major-General Basil Coad
  • 1954-1956 Major-General John Wilsey
  • 1956-1958 Major-General Cosmo Nevill
  • 1958-1960 Major-General William Stirling
  • 1960-1962 Major-General Edward Williams
  • 1962-1964 Major-General Mervyn Butler
  • 1964-1966 Major-General Norman Wheeler
  • 1966-1967 Major-General John Sharp
  • 1968-1970 Major-General Chandos Blair
  • 1970-1972 Major-General Rollo Pain
  • 1972-1974 Major-General John Archer
  • 1974-1976 Major-General Desmond Mangham
  • 1976-1977 Major-General Frank Kitson
Note: from 1977 to 1983 2nd Division operated as an Armoured Division: see 2nd Armoured Division

GOC 2nd Infantry Division

  • 1983-1984 Major-General Patrick Palmer
  • 1984-1986 Major-General Peter Inge
  • 1986-1987 Major-General Charles Guthrie
  • 1987-1989 Major-General Murray Naylor
  • 1989-1991 Major-General Michael Rose
  • 1991-1992 Major-General Michael Walker

GOC 2nd Division

  • 1995-1996 Major General Patrick Cordingley
  • 1996-1999 Major General Dair Farrar-Hockley
  • 1999-2002 Major General Robert Gordon
  • 2002-2004 Major General Nick Parker
  • 2004-2007 Major General Euan Loudon
  • 2007-2009 Major General David McDowall
  • May 2009-September 2009 Major General Andrew Mackay
  • October 2009-January 2012 Major General David Shaw
  • January 2012-March 2012 Major General Nick Eeles

Deputy Commanders

  • 2006-2009 Brigadier Joe d'Inverno
  • 2009–2012 Brigadier Simon Bell

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