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This list includes all British officers of general rank who are listed by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) as having died while serving during the First World War. During this period general officers were those who held the rank of field marshal, general, lieutenant-general, major-general, or brigadier-general and generally commanded units of brigade size or larger.
A popular view arose in post-war years that British general officers were detached from the fighting in châteaux far behind the front line. This view has been criticised as a misconception by some military historians. In 1995, British military historians Frank Davis and Graham Maddocks compiled, in the book Bloody Red Tabs, a list of 78 general officers that they considered to have been killed as a result of active service. This list provided below includes officers who died from all causes and so is broader than Davis and Maddocks' list. It includes 123 officers who died between the British entry into the war, 4 August 1914, and the armistice of 11 November 1918. Listed separately are 34 who died between the armistice and 31 August 1921 which was defined by an act of British parliament as the formal end of the war.
General officer ranks in the armies of the British Empire of the First World War were, in descending order of seniority: field marshal, general, lieutenant-general, major-general, and brigadier-general. Field marshal was usually an honorary appointment, with the most senior active duty officers being generals. [1] Generals typically commanded field armies, lieutenant-generals corps, major-generals divisions, and brigadier-generals brigades. At the start of the war the British Army contained 9 field marshals, 19 generals, 28 lieutenant-generals, 114 major-generals, and 180 brigadier-generals. At the end of the war in 1918, the expansion of the army had seen this rise to 8 field marshals, 29 generals, 47 lieutenant-generals, 219 major-generals, and 600 brigadier-generals. [2]
There has long been a view that British generals of the First World War were isolated from their men, issuing orders from châteaux far behind the front line with little thought for the reality in the trenches. [3] [4] This view has been criticised by Davis and Maddocks among others. The role of the general officers was not to oversee troops directly but to maintain a headquarters from which they could receive information and direct the battle. [2] In the early months of the war casualties among British general officers were high; indeed in a period of nine days in late September and early October 1914 eight generals were killed, wounded, or captured, a considerable loss of leadership and command experience. [5] On 3 October 1915 following the loss of three division commanders killed in action in a week, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff Lieutenant-General William Robertson ordered corps and division commanders of the armies on the Western Front not to expose themselves to danger during battle. [6]
One of the most prominent persons to propagate the "chateau generals" view, was wartime Prime Minister David Lloyd George in his 1933 War Memoirs. [7] The view was advocated by Alan Clark's 1961 book The Donkeys and the 1964 BBC documentary series The Great War . [8]
Since the 1980s military historians including Shelford Bidwell, Tim Travers, John Terraine, and Williamson Murray have stated that rather than being châteaux generals who hid in the rear, the British Army leadership of the war were creative innovators, keen to overcome the stalemate of trench warfare. [9]
Historians Frank Davis and Graham Maddocks published, in 1995, Bloody Red Tabs, that attempted to list all British generals killed in action, died of wounds, or as a result of active service. They found 78 general officers in these categories. [10] Although Maddocks and Davis could not find a conclusive cause of death in some cases they assessed that 34 of the deaths were caused by artillery fire, 22 by small arms fire, three from drowning, four from accidents, and one from cholera. None of the generals were killed in their châteaux (though two were wounded non-fatally there). The proportion of deaths by shell fire is lower than that for general British Army casualties and a disproportionate number killed by small arms fire, indicating a presence in the front lines. [11] A further 146 generals were either wounded or taken prisoner during the war. [12]
Bailey, Hatton, and Inwood (2023) report that, of those who joined the British Army in 1914, 74% of officers and 85% of other ranks survived to the end of the conflict. [13] French Marshal Ferdinand Foch listed 41 of his generals killed in action during the war, whose names were engraved on a memorial at Les Invalides. [14] A wider listing of all those mort pour la France by Gerard Gehin for Le Souvenir français gives 81 generals. [15] French historian Laurent Guillemot working from a definition similar to Foch gives numbers of 76 British, 42 French, 2 Belgian, 2 Italian, and 2 Romanian generals killed on the Allied side and around 70 German, 40 Austro-Hungarian, and 1 Ottoman on the Central Powers side. [16]
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission list all those who "died while serving in the Commonwealth forces during the war", including those not on active duty, and their records include other general officers not listed by Davis and Maddocks. [17]
Indicates the officer is listed in Bloody Red Tabs |
Image | Name | Branch | Command | Date of Death | Place of Death | Cause of Death | Ref. |
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![]() | Lord Roberts | British Army | Colonel-in-Chief of Overseas and Indian Forces in the United Kingdom | 14 November 1914 | Saint-Omer, France | Illness | [18] [19] |
![]() | Sir Charles Henry Brownlow | Indian Army | 5 April 1916 | Bracknell, United Kingdom | [20] [21] | ||
![]() | Lord Kitchener | British Army | Secretary of State for War | 5 June 1916 | Off Mainland, Orkney, Atlantic Ocean | Killed in action | [22] |
Image | Name | Branch | Command | Date of Death | Place of Death | Cause of Death | Ref. |
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![]() | Sir Charles Douglas | British Army | Chief of the Imperial General Staff | 25 October 1914 | London, United Kingdom | Illness | [23] [24] |
Image | Name | Branch | Command | Date of Death | Place of Death | Cause of Death | Ref. |
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![]() | Sir James Grierson | British Army | II Corps | 17 August 1914 | Near Amiens, France | Illness | [25] [26] [27] |
![]() | Sir William Franklyn | British Army | Third Army | 27 October 1914 | London, United Kingdom | Illness | [28] [29] [30] |
![]() | Samuel Lomax | British Army | 1st Division | 10 April 1915 | London, United Kingdom | Wounds received | [31] |
![]() | Robert George Broadwood | British Army | 57th (2nd West Lancashire) Division | 21 June 1917 | Estaires, France | Wounds received | [32] |
Sir Pardey Lukis | Indian Army | Indian Medical Service | 21 October 1917 | Simla, India | Illness | [33] [34] [35] | |
![]() | Sir Stanley Maude | British Army | Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force | 18 November 1917 | Baghdad, Mesopotamia | Illness | [36] |
Image | Name | Branch | Command | Date of Death | Place of Death | Cause of Death | Ref. |
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![]() | Hubert Hamilton | British Army | 3rd Division | 14 October 1914 | La Couture, France | Killed in action | [37] |
![]() | Robert Kekewich | British Army | 13th (Western) Division | 5 November 1914 | Whimple, United Kingdom | Suicide | [38] [39] [40] |
![]() | Henry Heath | British Army | South Midland Division | 29 July 1915 | London, United Kingdom | Illness | [41] [42] |
![]() | Sir William Bridges | Australian Army | 1st Division | 18 May 1915 | HMHS Gascon, Mediterranean Sea | Wounds received | [43] |
Ralph Champney Broome | Indian Army | Indian Army Remount Department | 26 August 1915 | Colombo, Ceylon | Illness | [44] [45] [46] | |
Archibald Playfair | Indian Army | Bengal Staff Corps | 10 September 1915 | St Leonards-on-Sea, United Kingdom | [47] [48] | ||
![]() | Sir Thompson Capper | British Army | 7th Division | 27 September 1915 | Loos, France | Wounds received | [49] |
![]() | George Thesiger | British Army | 9th (Scottish) Division | 27 September 1915 | Auchy-les-Mines, France | Killed in action | [50] |
![]() | Frederick Wing | British Army | 12th (Eastern) Division | 2 October 1915 | Mazingarbe, France | Killed in action | [51] |
![]() | Malcolm Mercer | Canadian Expeditionary Force | 3rd Canadian Division | 3 June 1916 | Mount Sorrel, Belgium | Killed in action | [52] |
![]() | Edward Ingouville-Williams | British Army | 34th Division | 22 July 1916 | Mametz, France | Killed in action | [53] |
![]() | Sir Frederick Benson | Reserve of Officers | British Remount Commission in North America | 20 August 1916 | Montreal, Canada | Illness | [54] [55] |
Edmund Davidson Smith | British Army | Assistant Quartermaster General, Dublin District | 8 September 1916 | Hove, United Kingdom | [56] [57] | ||
![]() | William Holmes | Australian Army | 4th Division | 2 July 1917 | Messines, Belgium | Wounds received | [58] |
![]() | Edward Feetham | British Army | 39th Division | 29 March 1918 | Ignaucourt, France | Killed in action | [59] |
![]() | Richard Hutton Davies | British Army | In hospital, former commander 20th (Light) Division | 9 May 1918 | London, United Kingdom | Suicide | [60] [61] |
![]() | William George Birrell | British Army | Retired due to ill health contracted on service, formerly Deputy Director Medical Services of Southern Command | 23 August 1918 | Lochboisdale, United Kingdom | Illness | [62] [63] [64] |
![]() | Louis Lipsett | Canadian Expeditionary Force | 4th Division | 14 October 1918 | Haspres, France | Killed in action | [65] |
Image | Name | Branch | Command | Date of Death | Place of Death | Cause of Death | Ref. |
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![]() | Neil Douglas Findlay | British Army | Royal Artillery, 1st Division | 10 September 1914 | Priez, France | Killed in action | [66] |
![]() | Norman McMahon | British Army | 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers [Note 1] | 11 November 1914 | Hooge, Belgium | Killed in action | [67] |
![]() | Charles Fitzclarence | British Army | 1st (Guards) Brigade | 12 November 1914 | Polygon Wood, Belgium | Killed in action | [68] |
![]() | William Murray | British Army | Retired due to ill-health, formerly commander Pretoria District | 2 February 1915 | [69] [70] [71] | ||
Richard Kelly | British Army | Royal Artillery, Southern Coast Defences | 20 February 1915 | Portsmouth, United Kingdom | [72] [73] | ||
![]() | John Gough | British Army | 10th Brigade | 22 February 1915 | Estaires, France | Wounds received | [74] |
![]() | Henry Napier | British Army | 88th Brigade | 25 April 1915 | Sedd el Bahr, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [75] |
![]() | James Foster Riddell | British Army | 149th (Northumberland) Brigade | 26 April 1915 | Sint-Juliaan, Belgium | Killed in action | [76] |
![]() | Julian Hasler | British Army | 11th Brigade | 27 April 1915 | Ypres, Belgium | Killed in action | [77] |
![]() | Henry Normand MacLaurin | Australian Army | 1st Brigade [Note 2] | 27 April 1915 | ANZAC Cove, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [79] [78] |
![]() | Arthur Lowry Cole | British Army | 25th Brigade | 9 May 1915 | Aubers, France | Wounds received | [80] |
![]() | George Colborne Nugent | British Army | 141st (5th London) Brigade | 31 May 1915 | Béthune, France | Killed in action | [81] |
Mainwaring Jacson | British Army | Reserve Infantry Brigade, Portsmouth Garrison | 2 June 1915 | Portsmouth, United Kingdom | [82] [83] | ||
![]() | Noel Lee | British Army | 127th (Manchester) Brigade | 22 June 1915 | Malta | Wounds received | [84] |
![]() | William Scott-Moncrieff | British Army | 156th (Scottish Rifles) Brigade | 28 June 1915 | Gallipoli, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [85] |
![]() | Anthony Baldwin | British Army | 38th Brigade | 10 August 1915 | Chunuk Bair, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [86] |
![]() | Lord Longford | British Army | 2nd Mounted Brigade | 21 August 1915 | Scimitar Hill, Ottoman Empire | Killed in action | [87] |
![]() | Paul Aloysius Kenna | British Army | 3rd Mounted Brigade | 30 August 1915 | Suvla Bay, Ottoman Empire | Wounds received | [88] |
![]() | Norman Nickalls | British Army | 63rd Brigade | 26 September 1915 | Loos-en-Gohelle, France | Killed in action | [89] |
![]() | Frank Wormald | British Army | 5th Cavalry Brigade | 3 October 1915 | Vermelles, France | Killed in action | [90] |
![]() | John Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis | British Army | 20th Brigade | 24 October 1915 | Givenchy-lès-la-Bassée, France | Killed in action | [91] |
![]() | Hugh Fitton | British Army | 101st Brigade | 20 January 1916 | Ypres, Belgium | Wounds received | [92] |
George Hodson | Indian Army | 33rd Indian Brigade | 25 January 1916 | Tigne Hospital, Malta | Wounds received | [93] | |
![]() | William Harvey | British Army | 19th (Dehra Dun) Brigade | 1 February 1916 | Hana, Mesopotamia | Wounds received | [94] |
Thomas Wight-Boycott | British Army | 2nd South Midland Mounted Brigade | 30 March 1916 | London, United Kingdom | Illness | [95] [96] | |
Frederick Hoghton | Indian Army | 17th Brigade | 12 April 1916 | Kut, Ottoman Empire | Illness | [97] | |
Augustus McKerrell | British Army | Tay Defence Garrison | 24 April 1916 | Dundee, United Kingdom | [98] [99] | ||
![]() | Richard Menteith Greenfield | British Army | On the headquarters staff of Irish Command | 25 April 1916 | Croxley Green, United Kingdom | [100] [101] | |
Gerard Rice | Indian Army | 35th Indian Brigade | 7 May 1916 | Mesopotamia | [102] [103] | ||
![]() | Frederick Heyworth | British Army | 3rd Guards Brigade | 9 May 1916 | Ypres, Belgium | Killed in action | [104] |
Henry Buchanan Kirk | British Army | 93rd Brigade | 12 May 1916 | Le Tréport, France | Illness | [105] [106] | |
Colquhoun Grant Morrison | British Army | President of Claims Commission | 23 May 1916 | Amiens, France | Accident | [107] [108] [109] | |
![]() | Sir Hay Donaldson | British Army | Chief Superintendent, Ordnance Factories | 5 June 1916 | Off Mainland, Orkney, Atlantic Ocean | Killed in action | [110] |
![]() | Wilfred Ellershaw | British Army | Special Service Officer, War Office | 5 June 1916 | Off Mainland, Orkney, Atlantic Ocean | Killed in action | [111] |
![]() | Hubert Du Cane | British Army | General Staff | 15 June 1916 | Wickham Market, United Kingdom | Illness | [112] [113] |
![]() | Charles Bertie Prowse | British Army | 11th Brigade | 1 July 1916 | Beaumont-Hamel, France | Wounds received | [114] |
Edwin Hazelton | Indian Army | Indian Veterinary Corps | 24 July 1916 | Simla, India | Illness | [115] [116] | |
![]() | Archie Stewart Buckle | British Army | Royal Artillery, 17th (Northern) Division | 18 August 1916 | Near the Somme, France | Illness | [117] [118] |
Louis Murray Phillpotts | British Army | Royal Artillery, 24th Division | 8 September 1916 | Guillemont, France | Killed in action | [119] | |
Henry Clifford | British Army | 149th (Northumberland) Brigade | 11 September 1916 | High Wood, France | Killed in action | [120] | |
![]() | Charles Stewart | British Army | 154th Brigade | 14 September 1916 | Houplines, France | Killed in action | [121] |
![]() | Philip Howell | British Army | General Staff Officer, II Corps | 7 October 1916 | Authuille, France | Killed in action | [122] |
![]() | Duncan Glasfurd | British Army | 12th Brigade | 12 November 1916 | Heilly, France | Wounds received | [123] |
George Bull | British Army | 8th Brigade | 11 December 1916 | Varennes, France | Wounds received | [124] | |
Robert H. W. Dunn | British Army | Until 8 December 1916 commanded a reserve brigade | 8 January 1917 | Cheshire, United Kingdom | Injuries sustained in an accident | [125] [126] | |
![]() | Lord Binning | British Army | President of the Territorial Force Association | 12 January 1917 | Prestonkirk, United Kingdom | Illness | [127] [128] |
Walter Long | British Army | 56th Brigade | 28 January 1917 | Couin, France | Killed in action | [129] | |
![]() | Francis de Gex | British Army | Base Commandant, Rouen | 2 April 1917 | Rouen, France | Illness | [130] [131] |
![]() | Charles Bulkeley-Johnson | British Army | 8th Cavalry Brigade | 11 April 1917 | Monchy-le-Preux, France | Killed in action | [132] |
![]() | Charles Gosling | British Army | 10th Brigade | 12 April 1917 | Arras, France | Killed in action | [133] |
Godfrey Estcourt Matthews | Royal Marines (seconded to the British Army) | 198th (East Lancashire) Brigade | 13 April 1917 | Cambrin, France | Killed in action | [134] [135] | |
![]() | Vincent Ormsby | Indian Army | 127th (Manchester) Brigade | 2 May 1917 | Ronssoy, France | Killed in action | [136] |
![]() | Arthur Roberts | British Army | 80th Brigade | 17 May 1917 | London, United Kingdom | Operation | [137] [138] |
Lewin Walton | Indian Army | 24 May 1917 | Simla, India | [139] [140] | |||
![]() | Charles Henry Brown | New Zealand Military Forces | 1st Brigade | 8 June 1917 | Messines, Belgium | Killed in action | [141] |
Gerald Holland | British Army | Assistant director of Inland Water Transport, France | 26 June 1917 | Hastings, United Kingdom | Illness | [142] [143] | |
Charles Gordon | British Army | 123rd Brigade | 23 July 1917 | Heuvelland, Belgium | Killed in action | [144] | |
![]() | John Tanner | British Army | Royal Engineers, VII Corps | 23 July 1917 | Wancourt, France | Killed in action | [121] |
![]() | Alister Gordon | British Army | 153rd Brigade | 31 July 1917 | Ypres, Belgium | Wounds received | [145] |
![]() | Francis Earl Johnston | New Zealand Military Forces | New Zealand Rifle Brigade | 7 August 1917 | Ploegsteert Wood, Belgium | Killed in action | [146] |
![]() | Ronald Maclachlan | British Army | 112th Brigade | 11 August 1917 | Oostaverne, Belgium | Killed in action | [147] |
Malcolm Peake | British Army | Royal Artillery, I Corps | 27 August 1917 | Loos, France | Killed in action | [148] | |
![]() | Francis Aylmer Maxwell | British Army | 27th Brigade | 21 September 1917 | Zonnebeke, Belgium | Killed in action | [149] |
![]() | Cecil Rawling | British Army | 62nd Brigade | 28 October 1917 | Hooge, Belgium | Killed in action | [150] |
Orlando Gunning | Indian Army | 36th Indian Brigade | 14 November 1917 | Wynberg, Cape Town, South Africa | Wounds received | [151] [152] [153] | |
Edward Stokes-Roberts | British Army | Director of Works, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force | 22 November 1917 | Baghdad, Mesopotamia | Illness | [154] [155] | |
Arthur Lowe | British Army | Royal Artillery, 66th Division | 24 November 1917 | Ypres, Belgium | Killed in action | [156] | |
![]() | Roland Bradford | British Army | 186th (2/2nd West Riding) Brigade | 30 November 1917 | Graincourt-lès-Havrincourt, France | Killed in action | [157] |
Arthur Howell | British Army | 1st London Reserve Brigade | 15 January 1918 | Blackdown Camp, near Camberley, United Kingdom | [158] [159] | ||
Gordon Strachey Shephard | British Army | I Brigade, Royal Flying Corps | 19 January 1918 | Auchel, France | Accident | [160] | |
![]() | Sir Samuel Pethebridge | Australian Army | Administrator of occupied German Pacific territories | 25 January 1918 | Canterbury, New South Wales, Australia | Illness | [161] [162] |
George Cape | British Army | 39th Division | 18 March 1918 | Ronssoy, France | Killed in action | [163] | |
![]() | Randle Barnett Barker | British Army | 99th Brigade | 24 March 1918 | Gueudecourt, France | Killed in action | [164] |
![]() | Harry Fulton | New Zealand Military Forces | New Zealand Rifle Brigade | 29 March 1918 | Colincamps, France | Wounds received | [165] |
Charles Campbell | British Army | 5th Cavalry Brigade | 31 March 1918 | London, United Kingdom | [166] [167] | ||
George Forster | British Army | 42nd Brigade | 4 April 1918 | Aubigny, France | Killed in action | [168] | |
![]() | Robert Gore | British Army | 101st Brigade | 13 April 1918 | Mont de Lille, Belgium | Killed in action | [169] |
Charles Richard Townley | British Army | 15 May 1918 | Boscombe, United Kingdom | [170] [171] | |||
Duncan Sayre MacInnes | British Army | Inspector of Mines, GHQ | 23 May 1918 | Étaples, France | Accident | [172] | |
Cuthbert Martin | British Army | 151st Brigade | 27 May 1918 | Aisne, France | Killed in action | [173] | |
Ralph Hamer Husey | British Army | 25th Brigade | 30 May 1918 | Aisne, France | Wounds received | [174] | |
![]() | Frederick Lumsden | Royal Marines | 14th Brigade | 4 June 1918 | Ransart, France | Killed in action | [175] |
Wellesley Paget | British Army | Formerly Royal Artillery, VI Corps | 11 June 1918 | [176] | |||
Alfred Lumsden | British Army | 46th Brigade | 24 June 1918 | Feuchy, France | Killed in action | [177] | |
Arthur Williams | Indian Army | Director of Supply and Transport, India | 11 July 1918 | Srinagar, India | [178] [179] | ||
![]() | John Arthur Hannyngton [Note 3] | Indian Army | 21 August 1918 | In hospital, Egypt | Illness | [181] [182] [183] | |
Edgar William Cox | British Army | Head of Intelligence, GHQ | 26 August 1918 | Berck, France | Accident/suicide | [184] | |
![]() | Lionel East | British Army | Heavy artillery, XIII Corps | 6 September 1918 | Ferfay, France | Killed in action | [185] |
Lumley Jones | British Army | 13th Brigade | 14 September 1918 | Bagneux, France | Illness | [186] [187] | |
Arthur Sanders | British Army | 50th Brigade | 20 September 1918 | Gouzeaucourt, France | Killed in action | [188] | |
![]() | Gilbert Follett | British Army | 3rd Guards Brigade | 27 September 1918 | Dernancourt, France | Killed in action | [189] |
![]() | Sir William Kay | British Army | 3rd Brigade | 4 October 1918 | Magny-la-Fosse, France | Killed in action | [190] |
Stuart Campbell Taylor | British Army | 93rd Brigade | 11 October 1918 | Mesen, Belgium | Wounds received | [191] | |
![]() | Colin Macnab | British Army | Retired due to ill-health contracted on service | 13 October 1918 | Illness | [192] [193] | |
Edward John Granet | British Army | Royal Artillery, 11th (Northern) Division (wounded) Military attaché, Bern (died) | 22 October 1918 | Bern, Switzerland | Wounds received | [194] |
The First World War is usually held to have ended with the armistice of 11 November 1918 though the peace treaties officially ending the war took some years to agree and sign. Under the Termination of the Present War (Definition) Act 1918 the end of the war was defined for general purposes by the British parliament as 31 August 1921. This is the same date that the Commonwealth War Graves Commission uses for its casualty records. The following generals of the British Empire died between the armistice and 31 August 1921. [195]
Image | Name | Branch | Command | Date of death | Place of death | Cause of death | Ref. |
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![]() | Sir David Henderson | Royal Air Force | Director-General League of Red Cross Societies | 17 August 1921 | Geneva, Switzerland | [196] [197] |
Image | Name | Branch | Command | Date of Death | Place of Death | Cause of Death | Ref. |
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Thomas Hemming | Canadian Expeditionary Force | Formerly 3rd (Eastern Ontario) Military District | 8 January 1919 | Kingston, Canada | Illness | [198] [199] | |
John Henderson | Indian Army | Formerly Madras Medical Service | 12 April 1919 | Upper Norwood, United Kingdom | [200] [201] | ||
Sir William Williams | Australian Army | Formerly Deputy Director Army Medical Services (Australian Troops in England) | 10 May 1919 | No. 11 Australian General Hospital, Caulfield, Australia | [202] [203] [204] | ||
![]() | Sir Henry Macandrew | Indian Army | 5th Cavalry Division | 16 July 1919 | Aleppo, Ottoman Empire | Accident | [205] [206] |
Nathaniel Barnardiston | British Army | British Military Mission to Portugal | 18 August 1919 | Felixstowe Cottage Hospital, United Kingdom | Operation | [207] [208] [209] | |
Sir John Sym | Indian Army | 3 October 1919 | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | [210] [211] | |||
Sir Charles Dawkins | British Army | Deputy Quartermaster General, GHQ | 4 October 1919 | Illness | [212] [213] | ||
Spencer Scrase-Dickins | British Army | Formerly 37th Division | 23 October 1919 | Horsham, United Kingdom | [214] [215] | ||
James Clery | British Army | Formerly of the Royal Army Medical Corps | 10 February 1920 | Blackheath, United Kingdom | [216] [217] | ||
![]() | Sir David Mercer | Royal Marines | Adjutant General Royal Marines | 1 July 1920 | London, United Kingdom | Operation | [218] [219] [220] |
Gunning Campbell | Royal Marines | Adjutant General Royal Marines | 29 November 1920 | London, United Kingdom | [221] [222] | ||
Frederick Wadeson | Indian Army | 10 December 1920 | Exmouth, United Kingdom | [223] [224] | |||
![]() | Charles Blackader | British Army | Formerly 38th Division | 2 April 1921 | Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, United Kingdom | Illness | [225] [226] |
Charles Budworth | British Army | Artillery Technical Adviser, India | 5 July 1921 | Simla, India | Illness | [227] [228] | |
![]() | Benjamin Burton | British Army | 6 August 1921 | [229] |
Image | Name | Branch | Command | Date of Death | Place of Death | Cause of Death | Ref. |
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Ernest Pratt | British Army | Inspector of Infantry Home Forces | 24 November 1918 | Belgravia, United Kingdom | [230] [231] | ||
Arthur Wolfe-Murray | British Army | 7 December 1918 | London, United Kingdom | Illness | [232] [233] [234] | ||
Alexander Hamilton | British Army | Embarkation Commandant, Southern Command | 30 December 1918 | Weymouth, United Kingdom | [235] [236] | ||
Sir Godfrey Thomas | British Army | Royal Artillery, 24th Division | 17 February 1919 | Harlow, United Kingdom | Illness | [237] [238] [239] | |
John Doyle | British Army | Royal Artillery, III Corps | 19 February 1919 | Halle, Belgium | Illness | [240] [241] | |
![]() | Lord Basing | British Army | Staff Officer for Volunteer Services | 8 April 1919 | Upton Grey, United Kingdom | [242] [243] [244] | |
Michael Goring-Jones | British Army | 57th Brigade | 19 May 1919 | Seaview, United Kingdom | [245] [246] | ||
Alfred Lovett | British Army | Yorkshire Coastal Defences | 27 May 1919 | Scarborough, United Kingdom | [247] [248] | ||
![]() | John Geddes | British Army | Shoreham District | 26 August 1919 | Shoreham, United Kingdom | Illness | [249] [250] |
Alfred Ollivant | British Army | 31 August 1919 | St James's, United Kingdom | Illness | [251] [252] | ||
![]() | Francis Lafferty | Canadian Expeditionary Force | Superintendent of Arsenals in Canada, on the Permanent Staff of the Canadian Artillery | 29 November 1919 | Quebec, Canada | Illness | [253] [254] [255] |
Richard Helmer | Canadian Expeditionary Force | Director-general of musketry, Department of Militia and Defense | 1 February 1920 | Ottawa, Canada | Illness | [256] [257] | |
Ryves Currie | British Army | 30 March 1920 | 37 Casualty Clearing Station, Danzig, East Prussia | Illness | [258] [259] | ||
Frederick Dawson | South African Army | Instructional and Administrative Staff | 26 October 1920 | Irangi, Kenya | Illness | [260] [261] [262] | |
Herbert Jennings | British Army | 15 January 1921 | India | Suicide | [263] [264] | ||
Hanway Robert Cumming | British Army | Kerry Infantry Brigade | 5 March 1921 | Clonbanin, United Kingdom | Killed in action | [265] [266] | |
Thomas Stanton Lambert [Note 4] | British Army | 13th Brigade | 20 June 1921 | Athlone, United Kingdom | Wounds received | [268] [269] [270] | |
George Milner | British Army | 1st Reserve Cavalry Brigade | 20 June 1921 | London, United Kingdom | [271] [272] |
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Brigadier-General Henry Edward Napier was a British Army officer who was killed in action during the landing at Cape Helles in 1915, whilst leading the 88th Brigade.
Brigadier-General Frederick Aubrey Hoghton was a British Indian Army officer. He died during the Siege of Kut during the First World War, as a result of the deprivations of the siege, after being poisoned from consuming herbs that had been gathered locally for food. At the time, he was in command of the 17th Brigade.
Brigadier-General Noel Lee, VD was a British businessman and British Army officer. He died of wounds received during the Gallipoli campaign while in command of the 127th (Manchester) Brigade.
Brigadier-General George Benjamin Hodson, CB, DSO was a British Indian Army officer. He died of wounds sustained at Suvla during the Gallipoli campaign, while in command of the 33rd Indian Brigade.
Brigadier-General George Norman Bowes Forster, CMG, DSO was a British Army officer. He was killed during the Battle of the Avre, commanding the 42nd Brigade, when his headquarters were overrun. According to one account, he was captured by the Germans, then shortly afterward was killed by a stray bullet.
Brigadier-General Cuthbert Thomas Martin, DSO* was a British Army officer. He was killed by a shell during the Third Battle of the Aisne while commanding the 151st Brigade. Brigadier-General Edward Riddell, who was with him, was wounded at the same time.
Brigadier-General Gilbert Burrell Spencer Follett, DSO, MVO was a British Army officer. He was killed in action in Dernancourt, France, while in command of the 3rd Guards Brigade.
Brigadier-General Sir William Algernon Ireland Kay, 6th Baronet, CMG, DSO was a British Army officer. He was killed in action in October 1918 in Magny-la-Fosse, while reconnoitering a new area. At the time, he was in command of the 3rd Brigade.
Brigadier-General Henry Frederick Hugh Clifford, DSO was a British Army officer. He was killed in action during the Battle of the Somme while inspecting trenches. At the time, he was commanding the 149th (Northumberland) Brigade.
Brigadier-General Robert Clements Gore was a British Army officer who was killed in action during the First World War.
Brigadier-General Lionel William Pellew East, CMG, DSO was a British Army officer. He was killed in action in Ferfay, France in September 1918 while reconnoitering for forward observation posts. At the time of his death, he was Brigadier-General Commanding Heavy Artillery, XIII Corps.
Brigadier-General Stuart Campbell Taylor, DSO was a British Army officer. He was killed in action near Messines, Belgium by German shell fire. At the time, he was commanding the 93rd Brigade.
Brigadier-General Arthur Richard Careless Sanders, CMG, DSO & Bar was a British Army officer. A Royal Engineer, he was killed in action in Gouzeaucourt, France, days after being given command of the 50th Brigade.