General Officers Commanding
Commanders have included:
- Oct 1914-Dec 1915 Lieutenant-General Henry Rawlinson
- Dec 1915-end 1916 Lieutenant-General Henry Wilson
- 1916-1918 Lieutenant-General Charles Woollcombe
- Mar 1918-Nov 1918 Lieutenant-General George Harper
- Feb 1940-May 1940 Lieutenant-General Claude Auchinleck
- Jul 1940-Nov 1941 Lieutenant-General Francis Nosworthy
- Jan 1942-Mar 1942 Lieutenant-General Thomas Corbett
- Apr 1942-Jul 1942 Lieutenant-General Noel Irwin
- Aug 1942-Dec 1944 Lieutenant-General Sir Geoffrey Scoones
- Dec 1944-Jul 1945 Lieutenant-General Sir Frank Messervy
- Jul 1945-Aug 1945 Lieutenant-General Sir Francis Tuker
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Famous quotes containing the words general, officers and/or commanding:
“We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.”
—Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)
“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)
“It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction; I love myself too well.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)