The Generals of WWII
Generals from Great Britain
Ironside
William Edmund, Field Marshal
(1880 – 1959)
Nickname: Baron Ironside of Archangel and of Ironside
Nickname: Tiny
1916
- 1918
General Staff Officer 1, 4th Candian Division [France]
1918
Commandant of Small Arms School School at Camiers [France]
1918
Commanding Officer 99th Infantry Brigade [France]
1918
Brigadier-General General Staff Allied Troops Archangel [Russia]
1918
- 1919
General Officer Commanding Allied Troops Archangel [Russia]
1919
General Officer Commanding in Chief Allied Troops Archangel [Russia]
1920
Head of the British Military Mission to Hungary
1920
General Officer Commanding Ismid Force [Iraq]
1920
- 1921
General Officer Commanding Northern Persian Force [Iran]
1922
- 1926
Commandant of Staff College Camberley
1926
- 1928
General Officer Commanding 2nd Infantry Division
1928
- 1931
District Officer Commanding Meerut District [India]
1931
- 1933
Lieutenant of Tower of London
1933
- 1936
Quartermaster-General, Army Headquarters India
1936
- 1938
General Officer Commanding in Chief Eastern Command
1937
- 1940
Aide-de-Camp General to the King
1938
- 1939
Special employment
1938
- 1939
Governor-General & Commander in Chief Gibraltar
1939
Inspector-General of Overseas Forces, War Office
1939
- 1940
Chief Imperial General Staff, War Office
1940
Commander in Chief Home Forces
Picture source: From Hutchinson's Pictorial History of the War /ed. by Walter Hutchinson, 1945