Middle East Command - Commanders-in-Chief

Commanders-in-Chief

Commanders-in-Chief have included:
Middle East Command

• General Sir Archibald Wavell 28 July 1939 – 4 July 1941
• General Sir Claude Auchinleck 5 July 1941 – 14 August 1942
• General Sir Harold Alexander 15 August 1942 – February 1943
• General Sir Henry Wilson February 1943 – January 1944
• General Sir Bernard Paget January 1944 – October 1946

Middle East Land Forces

• General Sir Miles Dempsey 1946 – 1947
• General Sir John Crocker 1947 – 1950
• General Sir Brian Robertson 1950 - 1953
• General Sir Cameron Nicholson 1953
• General Sir Charles Keightley 1953 – 1957
• General Sir Geoffrey Bourne 1957 – 1958
• Lieutenant-General Sir Roger Bower 1958 – 1960
• General Sir Richard Anderson 1960 – 1963
• General Sir Charles Harington 1963 – 1966