General Officers Commanding
Commanders included:
- 1902-1903 Major-General Sir Hugh McCalmont
- 1903-1905 Major-General Sir Reginald Pole-Carew
- 1905-1906 Major-General Sir William Knox
- 1906-1907 Major-General Lawrence Parsons
- 1914-1915 Major-General Francis Davies
- 1915-1916 Major-General Havelock Hudson
- 1916-1919 Major-General William Heneker
- 1938-1939 Major-General Bernard Montgomery
- 1939-1940 Major-General Reade Godwin-Austen
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That place might be forgot;
Or if not all so favored,
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