5th Infantry Division (United Kingdom) - Recent Commanders

Recent Commanders

Recent Commanders have been:
GOC 5th Division

  • 1902-1903 Major-General Sir Leslie Rundle
  • 1903-1906 Lieutenant-General Henry Grant
  • 1907-1909 Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Plumer
  • 1909-1913 Major-General William Campbell
  • 1913-1914 Major-General Sir Charles Fergusson
  • 1914-1915 Major-General Thomas Morland
  • 1915-1916 Major-General Charles Kavanagh
  • 1916-1918 Major-General Reginald Stephens
  • 1918-1919 Major-General John Ponsonby
  • 1919-1922 Major-General Sir Hugh Jeudwine
Note the Division was disbanded in 1922 and reformed in 1929
  • 1929-1931 Lieutenant-General Walter Kirke
  • 1931-1934 Lieutenant-General Thomas Humphreys
  • 1934-1937 Major-General Geoffrey Howard
  • 1937-1938 Major-General Guy Williams
  • 1938-1940 Major-General Harold Franklyn
  • 1940-1943 Major-General Horatio Berney-Ficklin
  • 1943-1944 Major-General Gerard Bucknall
  • Jan 1944-Nov 1944 Major-General Philip Gregson-Ellis
  • 1944-1946 Major-General Richard Hull
  • 1946-1947 Major-General Philip Gregson-Ellis
Note the Division, having been disbanded at the end of the War, was reformed in 1958 but the brigades used to form 1st Armoured Division in 1959
  • 1958-1959 Major-General Geoffrey Musson
Note the Division was briefly reformed in 1968 but disbanded again in 1971
  • 1968-1970 Major-General Walter Thomas
  • 1970-1971 Major General Mervyn Janes
Note the Division was reformed in 1995
  • 1995-1996 Major General Ian Freer
  • 1996-1999 Major General Robin Searby
  • 1999-2000 Major General Peter Grant Peterkin
  • 2000-2003 Major General Arthur Denaro
  • 2003-2005 Major General Nicholas Cottam
  • 2005-2008 Major General Andrew Farquhar
  • 2008-2012 Major General Martin Rutledge

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