General Officers Commanding
Commanders have been:
GOC The Mobile Division
- 1937–1938 Major-General Alan Brooke
GOC 1st Armoured Division
- 1938–1940 Major-General Roger Evans
- 1940–1941 Major-General Willoughby Norrie
- 1941–1942 Major General Herbert Lumsden
- Jan 1942–Mar 1942 Major-General Frank Messervy
- Mar 1942–Aug 1942 Major General Herbert Lumsden
- 1942–1943 Major-General Raymond Briggs
- 1943–1944 Major-General Alexander Galloway
- Aug 1944–Sep 1944 Major-General Richard Hull
GOC 1st Division
- 1960–1961 Major-General Alan Jolly
- 1961–1963 Major-General Thomas Pearson
- 1963–1965 Major-General Miles Fitzalan-Howard
- 1965–1968 Major-General Richard Ward
- 1968–1970 Major-General Allan Taylor
- 1970–1972 Major-General Jack Harman
- 1972–1973 Major-General Edwin Bramall
- 1973–1975 Major-General John Stanier
GOC 1st Armoured Division
- 1975–1977 Major-General David Alexander-Sinclair
- 1977–1979 Major-General Richard Lawson
- 1979–1982 Major-General Geoffrey Howlett
- 1982–1983 Major-General Brian Kenny
- 1983–1985 Major-General David Thorne
- 1985–1987 Major-General Anthony Mullens
- 1987–1989 Major-General Richard Swinburn
- 1989–1990 Major-General Roger Wheeler
- 1990–1992 Major-General Rupert Smith
- 1992–1993 Major-General Iain Mackay-Dick
GOC 1st (UK) Armoured Division
- 1993–1994 Major General Anthony Denison-Smith
- 1994–1996 Major General Roddy Cordy-Simpson
- 1996–1998 Major General John Kiszely
- 1998–2000 Major General Redmond Watt
- 2000–2003 Major General Robin Brims
- 2003–2005 Major General Peter Wall
- 2005–2006 Major General John Cooper
- 2006–2009 Major General Graham Binns
- 2009–2011 Major General Adrian Bradshaw
- 2011–2012 Major-General James Bashall
- 2012–Present Major-General James Chiswell
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