General Officers Commanding
Commanders have included:
- Jul 1915 - Apr 1918 Lieutenant-General Thomas Morland
- May 1918 - Jun 1918 Lieutenant-General William Peyton
- 1918 - 1919 Lieutenant-General Reginald Stephens
- Jun 1940-Aug 1942 Lieutenant-General William Holmes
- Aug 1942-Dec 1942 Lieutenant-General Herbert Lumsden
- Dec 1942-Apr 1943 Lieutenant-General Brian Horrocks
- Apr 1943-May 1943 Lieutenant-General Bernard Freyberg
- Aug 1943-Oct 1944 Lieutenant-General Sir Richard McCreery
- Nov 1944-May 1945 Lieutenant-General Sir John Hawkesworth
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“Towards him they bend
With awful reverence prone; and as a God
Extoll him equal to the highest in Heav’n:
Nor fail’d they to express how much they prais’d,
That for the general safety he despis’d
His own: for neither do the Spirits damn’d
Loose all thir vertue; lest bad men should boast
Thir specious deeds on earth, which glory excites,
Or close ambition varnisht o’er with zeal.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“I then went to the Parade. I saw the King. It was a glorious sight.... As a loadstone moves needles, or a storm bows the lofty oaks, did Frederick the Great make the Prussian officers submissive bend as he walked majestic in the midst of them.”
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“My father in the night commanding No
Has work to do.”
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