General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton,was a senior British Army officer who had an extensive British Imperial military career in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Hamilton was twice recommended for the Victoria Cross,but on the first occasion was considered too young,and on the second too senior. He was wounded in action at the Battle of Majuba during the First Boer War,which rendered his left hand permanently injured. Near the end of his career,he commanded the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in the Gallipoli Campaign of the First World War.
General Sir Henry George Chauvel,was a senior officer of the Australian Imperial Force who fought at Gallipoli and during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in the Middle Eastern theatre of the First World War. He was the first Australian to attain the rank of lieutenant general and later general,and the first to lead a corps. As commander of the Desert Mounted Corps,he was responsible for one of the most decisive victories and fastest pursuits in military history.
Lieutenant-General Sir Henry George Wakelyn Smith,1st Baronet,GCB was a notable English soldier and military commander in the British Army of the early 19th century. A veteran of the Napoleonic Wars,he is also particularly remembered for his role in the Battle of Aliwal,India in 1846,his subsequent governorship of the Cape Colony,and as the husband of Lady Smith.
Lieutenant-General Charles Willoughby Moke Norrie,1st Baron Norrie,,was a senior officer of the British Army who fought in both World Wars,following which he served terms as Governor of South Australia and the eighth Governor-General of New Zealand.
Frederic Augustus Thesiger,2nd Baron Chelmsford,was a British Army officer who rose to prominence during the Anglo-Zulu War,when an expeditionary force under his command suffered a decisive defeat at the hands of a Zulu force at the Battle of Isandlwana in 1879. Despite this defeat,he was able to score several victories against the Zulus,culminating in the British victory at the Battle of Ulundi,which ended the war and partly restored his reputation in Britain.
Field Marshal Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer,1st Viscount Plumer,was a senior British Army officer of the First World War. After commanding V Corps at the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915,he took command of the Second Army in May 1915 and in June 1917 won an overwhelming victory over the German Army at the Battle of Messines,which started with the simultaneous explosion of a series of mines placed by the Royal Engineers' tunnelling companies beneath German lines,which created 19 large craters and was described as the loudest explosion in human history. He later served as Commander-in-Chief of the British Army of the Rhine and then as Governor of Malta before becoming High Commissioner of the British Mandate for Palestine in 1925 and retiring in 1928.
General Sir Reginald Clare Hart,,was an Irish British Army officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross,the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
General Henry Sinclair Horne,1st Baron Horne,was a military officer in the British Army,most notable for his generalship during the First World War. He was the only British artillery officer to command an army in the war.
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.
Lieutenant General Sir Eric Winslow Woodward was an Australian military officer and viceroy. Following long service in the Australian Army,including terms as Deputy Chief of the General Staff and General Officer Commanding Eastern Command,he was appointed as the Governor of New South Wales from 1957 to 1965,thus becoming the first New South Welshman to be governor of the state.
General Sir Archibald Hunter,was a senior officer in the British Army who distinguished himself during the Boer War. He was Governor of Omdurman,in Sudan,and later of Gibraltar.
General Sir James Frederick Noel Birch was a British Royal Artillery officer during the Second Boer War and World War I and subsequently Master-General of the Ordnance. The Birch gun was named after him.
General The Honourable Sir Neville Gerald Lyttelton,was a British Army officer from the Lyttelton family who served against the Fenian Raids,and in the Anglo-Egyptian War,the Mahdist War and the Second Boer War. He was Chief of the General Staff at the time of the Haldane Reforms and then became Commander-in-Chief,Ireland.
Brigadier-General Sir William Henry Manning,was a British Indian Army officer and colonial administrator.
Major General Sir Edward Northey was a senior British Army officer of the First World War who commanded a brigade on the Western Front until wounded in 1915. Returning to service in 1916,Northey took command of a colonial force in Nyasaland in the East African campaign,later becoming Governor of Kenya. He later served as a general of Territorial forces and retired in 1926.
Lieutenant-General Sir John Spencer Ewart was a British Army officer who became Adjutant-General to the Forces,but was forced to resign over the Curragh Incident.
General Sir David Graham Muschet "Soarer" Campbell was a cavalry officer of the British Army,amateur sportsman,and later Governor of Malta.
General Sir Frederick William Edward Forestier-Walker,was a British senior military officer and Governor of Gibraltar.
Major General Sir William Lambton,KCB,CMG,CVO,DSO was a British Army officer who commanded the 4th Division during the First World War.
General Sir Thomas Astley Cubitt,was a British Army officer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,who commanded a division in the First World War and in retirement served as Governor of Bermuda.
