4th Infantry Division (United Kingdom) - Recent Commanders

Recent Commanders

Recent Commanders have been:
GOC 4th Division

  • 1902-1906 Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Knox
  • 1906-1907 Major-General William Franklyn
  • 1907-1911 Major-General Herbert Belfield
  • 1911-1914 Major-General Thomas Snow
  • Sep 1914-Oct 1914 Major-General Sir Henry Rawlinson
  • 1914-1915 Major-General Henry Wilson
  • 1915-1917 Major-General William Lambton
  • 1917-1918 Major-General Torquhil Matheson
  • Sep 1918-Oct 1918 Major-General Louis Lipsett
  • 1918-1919 Major-General Cuthbert Lucas
  • 1919-1923 Major-General Sir Cameron Shute
  • 1923-1926 Major-General Sir Reginald Stephens
  • 1926-1927 Major-General Sir Percy Radcliffe
  • 1927-1931 Major-General Archibald Cameron
  • 1931-1933 Major-General Charles Bonham-Carter
  • 1933-1935 Major-General Sir John Brind
  • Jun 1935-Nov 1935 Major-General James Dick-Cunyngham
  • 1935-1937 Major-General Clive Liddell
  • 1938-1940 Major-General Dudley Johnson
  • Jun 1940-Oct 1940 Major-General Ralph Eastwood
  • 1940-1942 Major-General John Swayne
  • 1942-1943 Major-General John Hawkesworth
  • 1943-1944 Major-General Hayman Hayman-Joyce
  • 1944-1945 Major-General Alfred Dudley Ward
  • 1945-1946 Major-General Colin Callander
  • 1946-1947 Major-General Ernest Down
Note: The Division was disbanded after the War and reformed in 1956
  • 1956-1957 Major-General Reginald Hewetson
  • 1957-1959 Major-General Gerald Hopkinson
  • 1959-1961 Major-General Desmond Gordon
  • 1961-1963 Major-General Jean Allard
  • 1963-1965 Major-General Basil Eugster
  • 1965-1967 Major-General Michael Forrester
  • 1967-1969 Major-General Vernon Erskine-Crum
  • 1969-1971 Major-General David Fraser
  • 1971-1973 Major-General Anthony Farrar-Hockley
  • 1973-1975 Major-General Michael Gow
  • 1975-1977 Major-General Nigel Bagnall

GOC 4th Armoured Division

  • 1977-1979 Major-General Richard Vickers
  • 1979-1981 Major-General John Akehurst
  • 1981-1983 Major-General Jeremy Reilly
  • 1983-1985 Major-General John Waters
  • 1985-1987 Major-General Michael Hobbs
  • 1987-1989 Major-General William Rous
  • 1989-1991 Major-General Jeremy Mackenzie
  • 1991-1993 Major-General Anthony Denison-Smith

GOC 4th Division

  • 1996-1998 Major General Nigel Richards
  • 1998-2001 Major General Timothy Sulivan
  • 2001-2002 Major General John Holmes
  • 2002-2003 Major General Andrew Ritchie
  • 2003-2004 Major General David Judd
  • 2004-2006 Major General Seumas Kerr
  • 2006-2008 Major General Peter Everson
  • 2008-2011 Major General Lamont Kirkland

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