I Corps was an army corps in existence as an active formation in the British Army for most of the 80 years from its creation in the First World War until the end of the Cold War, longer than any other corps. It had a short-lived precursor during the Waterloo Campaign. It served as the operational component of the British Army of the Rhine during the Cold War, and was tasked with defending West Germany.
The Royal Military College (RMC), founded in 1801 and established in 1802 at Great Marlow and High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England, but moved in October 1812 to Sandhurst, Berkshire, was a British Army military academy for training infantry and cavalry officers of the British and Indian Armies.
The II Corps was an army corps of the British Army formed in both the First World War and the Second World War. There had also been a short-lived II Corps during the Waterloo Campaign.
III Corps was an army corps of the British Army formed in both the First World War and the Second World War.
The 70th Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army that fought during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. What would become the 70th Division originated with the 7th Infantry Division, which was formed in 1938 to serve in the British Mandate of Palestine during the Arab Revolt. This division then transferred to Egypt on the outbreak of the Second World War and soon became the 6th Infantry Division, which went on to take part in the Battle of Crete and the Syria–Lebanon Campaign. On 10 October 1941, the 6th Division was re-created as the 70th Infantry Division, in an attempt to deceive Axis intelligence concerning the strength of British forces in the Middle East.
Lieutenant General Sir Hugh Jamieson Elles was a British officer and the first commander of the newly formed Tank Corps during the First World War.
Lieutenant General Sir Carl Herman Jess, was an Australian Army officer who served in the First and Second World Wars.
Lieutenant General Sir Desmond Francis Anderson was a senior British Army officer in both the First and the Second World Wars.
Major General Sir Spring Robert Rice was a British Army general who was on the staff of the British Expeditionary Force during the First World War.
General Sir Ronald Forbes Adam, 2nd Baronet, was a senior British Army officer. He had an important influence on the conduct of the British Army during the Second World War as a result of his long tenure as Adjutant-General, responsible for the army's organisation and personnel, from June 1941 until the end of the war, and as a close confidant of Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), the professional head of the British Army.
Lieutenant General Sir Roderick William McLeod, was a British Army officer who achieved high office in the 1950s.
Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Merrick Lawson, was a British Army general during the First World War.
Lieutenant General Sir Henry Beresford Dennitts Willcox KCIE CB DSO MC was a British Army officer who served during World War I and World War II.
General Sir William Duthie Morgan, was a British Army officer. During the Second World War, he served as Chief of Staff to Field Marshal Harold Alexander, and later succeeded him as Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean Theatre of Operations.
Major General Ridley Pakenham Pakenham-Walsh, was a senior British Army officer who served as Engineer-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force in the Battle of France and later as General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland District and IX Corps.
Lieutenant General Sir William Pasfield Oliver, was a senior British Army officer who served as Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff from 1955 to 1957.
Lieutenant General Sir Francis Poitiers Nosworthy, was a British Army officer who served as Commander-in-Chief of West Africa Command during the Second World War.
Brigadier-General Neil Douglas Findlay was a British Army general. A Royal Artillery officer, Findlay served in action on the Hazara Expedition of 1888 and in the Second Boer War. He was commended by General Redvers Buller for his actions during the latter and subsequently became a staff officer. After the outbreak of the First World War Findlay was promoted to brigadier general and appointed Commander, Royal Artillery of the 1st Infantry Division. Whilst serving in this capacity during the First Battle of the Aisne Findlay was hit by shrapnel from a German shell and killed. He was the first British general to be killed in the war.
Major-General Eric George William Warde Harrison, CB, CBE, MC, was a British Army officer who served in both world wars, a rugby player, Olympic athlete, and later a painter and author.
Brigadier John Sebastian Nichols, was a British Army officer who fought during both the First World War and the Second World War. During the latter his most notable role was when he commanded the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division during the Second Battle of El Alamein and in the Tunisian campaign from 1942 to 1943.
