General Officers Commanding
Commanders have included:
- 1902-1906 Lieutenant-General Sir Gerald Morton
- 1906-1907 Major-General Herbert Plumer
- 1914-1915 Major-General Thompson Capper
- Apr 1915-Jul 1915 Major-General Hubert Gough
- Jul 1915-Sep 1915 Major-General Sir Thompson Capper
- 1915-1917 Major-General Herbert Watts
- Jan 1917-Apr 1917 Major-General George Barrow
- 1917-1919 Major-General Herbert Shoubridge
- 1938-1939 Major-General Richard O'Connor
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Famous quotes containing the words general, officers and/or commanding:
“Private property is held sacred in all good governments, and particularly in our own. Yet shall the fear of invading it prevent a general from marching his army over a cornfield or burning a house which protects the enemy? A thousand other instances might be cited to show that laws must sometimes be silent when necessity speaks.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“My father in the night commanding No
Has work to do.”
—Louis Simpson (b. 1923)