General Officers Commanding
Commanders have included:
- Aug 1914 Lieutenant-General James Grierson
- Aug 1914-Dec 1914 Lieutenant-General Horace Smith-Dorrien
- Jan 1915-May 1916 Lieutenant-General Charles Fergusson
- Sep 1916-Nov 1918 Lieutenant-General Claud Jacob
- 1939-1940 Lieutenant-General Sir Alan Brooke
- May-Jun 1940 Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery
- 1940-1941 Lieutenant-General Edmund Osborne
- 1941-1942 Lieutenant-General Kenneth Anderson
- Apr-Sep 1942 Lieutenant-General James Steele
- 1942-1943 Lieutenant-General Gerald Templer
- Jul-Oct 1943 Lieutenant-General Herbert Lumsden
- 1943-1944 Lieutenant-General Sir Desmond Anderson
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