Recent Commanders
Recent Commanders have been:
GOC 5th Division
- 1902-1903 Major-General Sir Leslie Rundle
- 1903-1906 Lieutenant-General Henry Grant
- 1907-1909 Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Plumer
- 1909-1913 Major-General William Campbell
- 1913-1914 Major-General Sir Charles Fergusson
- 1914-1915 Major-General Thomas Morland
- 1915-1916 Major-General Charles Kavanagh
- 1916-1918 Major-General Reginald Stephens
- 1918-1919 Major-General John Ponsonby
- 1919-1922 Major-General Sir Hugh Jeudwine
- Note the Division was disbanded in 1922 and reformed in 1929
- 1929-1931 Lieutenant-General Walter Kirke
- 1931-1934 Lieutenant-General Thomas Humphreys
- 1934-1937 Major-General Geoffrey Howard
- 1937-1938 Major-General Guy Williams
- 1938-1940 Major-General Harold Franklyn
- 1940-1943 Major-General Horatio Berney-Ficklin
- 1943-1944 Major-General Gerard Bucknall
- Jan 1944-Nov 1944 Major-General Philip Gregson-Ellis
- 1944-1946 Major-General Richard Hull
- 1946-1947 Major-General Philip Gregson-Ellis
- Note the Division, having been disbanded at the end of the War, was reformed in 1958 but the brigades used to form 1st Armoured Division in 1959
- 1958-1959 Major-General Geoffrey Musson
- Note the Division was briefly reformed in 1968 but disbanded again in 1971
- 1968-1970 Major-General Walter Thomas
- 1970-1971 Major General Mervyn Janes
- Note the Division was reformed in 1995
- 1995-1996 Major General Ian Freer
- 1996-1999 Major General Robin Searby
- 1999-2000 Major General Peter Grant Peterkin
- 2000-2003 Major General Arthur Denaro
- 2003-2005 Major General Nicholas Cottam
- 2005-2008 Major General Andrew Farquhar
- 2008-2012 Major General Martin Rutledge
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