Malaya Command - Commanders-in-Chief

Commanders-in-Chief

Commanders-in-Chief have included:
GOC Troops in the Straits Settlements

  • 1903 - 1905 Major-General Arthur Dorward
  • 1905 - 1907 Major-General Inigo Jones
  • 1907 - 1910 Major-General Thomas Perrott
  • 1910 - 1914 Major-General Theodore Stephenson
  • 1914 - 1915 Major-General Raymond Reade
  • 1915 - 1921 Major-General Sir Dudley Ridout
  • 1921 - 1924 Major-General Sir Neill Malcolm

GOC Malaya Command

  • 1924 - 1927 Major-General Sir Theodore Fraser
  • 1927 - 1929 Major-General Sir Casimir van Straubenzee
  • 1929 - 1931 Major-General Harry Pritchard
  • 1931 - 1934 Major-General Sir Louis Oldfield
  • 1934 - 1935 Major-General Ernest Lewin
  • 1935 - 1939 Major-General Sir William Dobbie
  • 1939 - 1941 Lieutenant-General Sir Lionel Bond
  • 1941 - 1942 Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival
Note from 1943 to 1945 Malaya was under Japanese control
  • Nov - Dec 1945 Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey
  • 1945 - 1946 Lieutenant-General Sir Frank Messervy
  • 1946 - 1947 Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Galloway

GOC Malaya District

  • 1947 - 1948 Major-General Ashton Wade
  • 1948 - 1950 Major-General Sir Charles Boucher

GOC Malaya

  • 1950 - 1952 Major-General Roy Urquhart
  • 1952 - 1954 Major-General Sir Hugh Stockwell
  • 1954 - 1956 Lieutenant-General Sir Geoffrey Bourne
  • 1956 - 1957 Lieutenant-General Sir Roger Bower

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