Lieutenant General Sir Edric Montague Bastyan,was a senior British Army officer,who became Governor of South Australia from 4 April 1961 until 1 June 1968 then Governor of Tasmania from 2 December 1968 until 30 November 1973. He was the last British person to be governor of either state.
Field Marshal Paul Sanford Methuen,3rd Baron Methuen,,was a British Army officer. He served in the Third Anglo-Ashanti War in 1873 and then in the expedition of Sir Charles Warren to Bechuanaland in the mid-1880s. He took a prominent role as General Officer Commanding the 1st Division in the Second Boer War. He suffered a serious defeat at the Battle of Magersfontein,during which he failed to carry out adequate reconnaissance and accordingly his artillery bombarded the wrong place leading to the Highland Brigade taking heavy casualties. He was later captured by the Boers at Tweebosch. After the war,he became General Officer Commanding-in-Chief in South Africa in 1908,Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Natal in 1910 and then Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Malta in 1915.
The Major-General commanding the Household Division commands the Household Division of the British Army and is also the General Officer Commanding London District. In British Army parlance,"The Major-General" always refers to the Major-General commanding the Household Division. The Major-General has sole responsibility for the Service aspect of all State and ceremonial occasions within London District. The office holds executive command of the Household Division and of any other units brought into London for providing military security to the Sovereign,the Royal Palaces as well as for ceremonial purposes and is the main channel of communication between the Household Division and the Monarch. He or she is appointed by The Sovereign,and will previously have commanded a Regiment or Battalion within the Household Division.
Lieutenant General Sir Frederick William Stopford,was a British Army officer,best remembered for commanding the landing at Suvla Bay in August 1915,during the Gallipoli Campaign,where he failed to order an aggressive exploitation of the initially successful landings.
Major General Sir Michael Frederick Hobbs is a former commander in the British Army who was later a charity director and Governor of the Military Knights of Windsor.
Field Marshal Sir Arthur Arnold Barrett,was a British officer of the Indian Army. He saw action at the Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment in December 1879 and at the Battle of Kandahar in September 1880 during the Second Anglo-Afghan War and went on to serve in the Hunza-Nagar Campaign in 1891. During the First World War he was General Officer Commanding the Poona Division which successfully took Basra in Mesopotamia in November 1914 and then Al-Qurnah in Mesopotamia in December 1914. He spent the rest of the War commanding the Northern Army in which role he took part in operations against the Mahsuds in Spring 1917. He saw action again as the senior British officer on the ground during the Third Anglo-Afghan War in 1919 before retiring in May 1920.
General Sir William Godfrey Fothergill Jackson,was a British Army officer,military historian,author and Governor of Gibraltar.
Major General Sir Rohan Delacombe,was a senior British Army officer. After he retired from the army,he was the last British-born Governor of Victoria,Australia from 1963 to 1974.
Lieutenant General Sir David George House was a British Army officer who was General Officer Commanding in Northern Ireland during the Troubles,and later held the office of Black Rod at the House of Lords from 1978 to 1985.
The Deputy Commander Field Army is a senior British Army officer who serves as deputy to the Commander Field Army. It currently is held by an Army Reserve officer.
General Sir Clive Gerard Liddell,was a senior British Army officer who served as Adjutant-General to the Forces from 1937 to 1939. He was Governor of Gibraltar from 1939 to 1941 during the early stages of the Second World War.
General Sir Bruce Meade Hamilton,was a British Army general during the Second Boer War and the First World War.
Major General Sir Charles Edward Corkran,was a senior British Army officer who served as Major-General commanding the Brigade of Guards and General Officer Commanding London District from 1928 to 1932.
The Coronation Honours 1911 for the British Empire were announced on 19 June 1911,to celebrate the Coronation of George V which was held on 22 June 1911.
Lieutenant General Sir George Pemberton Ross Norton,is a retired British Army officer. He was the UK Military Representative to NATO from 2016 to 2020,and has served as the Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies since 2020.
Lieutenant General Sir Edward Alexander Smyth-Osbourne,is a retired senior British Army officer.
Lieutenant General Sir Christopher Linley Tickell,is a senior British Army officer who served as the Deputy Chief of the General Staff from August 2019 to August 2022.
Major General Sir Christopher John Ghika,is a retired senior British Army officer. He was deputy commander of the US-led military coalition against ISIS,the Combined Joined Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve,from 2018 to 2019 and Major-General commanding the Household Division from 2019 to 2023.
Lieutenant General Sir Ian John Cave,,is a British Army officer who was Commander Home Command from June 2021 to September 2023. He now serves as the UK Military Representative to NATO and to the European Union.
