The Generals of WWII
Generals from Great Britain
Cunningham
Sir Alan Gordon, General
(1887 – 1983)
1937
- 1938
Commander Royal Artillery 1st Division
1938
- 1940
General Officer Commanding 5th Anti-Aircraft Division
1940
General Officer Commanding 66th Division
1940
General Officer Commanding 9th Division
1940
General Officer Commanding 51st Division
1940
- 1941
General Officer Commanding East Africa Force
1941
General Officer Commanding 8th Army, North Africa
1942
- 1943
Commandant of Staff College Camberley
1943
- 1944
District Officer Commanding Northern Ireland District
1944
- 1945
General Officer Commander in Chief Eastern Command
1945
- 1948
High Commissioner & Commander in Chief Palestine
1948
Retired
Picture source: From Hutchinson's Pictorial History of the War /ed. by Walter Hutchinson, 1945