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3 Infantry Division
Criteria [1] Branch [2] Directorate [3] Role [4]

Command Appointments - Main - General Officer Commanding

From To Rank Name Acting
04-Aug-1914 14-Oct-1914 Major-General HIW Hamilton
04-Aug-1914 26-Aug-1914 Colonel FRF Boileau
04-Aug-1914 29-Oct-1914 Brigadier FDV Wing
04-Aug-1914 04-Mar-1916 Lieutenant-Colonel CS Wilson
04-Aug-1914 31-Dec-1914 Colonel RC Boyle
27-Aug-1914 11-Feb-1915 Colonel FB Maurice
15-Oct-1914 29-Oct-1914 Major-General CJ Mackenzie
29-Oct-1914 21-Nov-1914 Major-General FDV Wing *
29-Oct-1914 24-Feb-1915 Brigadier AH Short *
21-Nov-1914 07-Aug-1916 Major-General Sir Aylmer Haldane
31-Dec-1914 26-Feb-1915 Lieutenant-Colonel FC Dundas
11-Feb-1915 12-Aug-1915 Lieutenant-Colonel C Evans
24-Feb-1915 18-Feb-1916 Brigadier HG Sandilands
26-Feb-1915 03-Jul-1915 Lieutenant-Colonel AF Sillem
03-Jul-1915 22-Aug-1915 Lieutenant-Colonel WHV Darell
12-Aug-1915 17-Nov-1916 Lieutenant-Colonel HS de Brett
22-Aug-1915 04-Apr-1918 Lieutenant-Colonel RH Collins
18-Feb-1916 24-Jul-1916 Brigadier EWM Powell
04-Mar-1916 13-Feb-1918 Lieutenant-Colonel CA Elliott
24-Jul-1916 11-Nov-1918 ? Brigadier JS Ollivant
07-Aug-1916 01-Jan-1919 Major-General Sir Cyril Deverell
17-Nov-1916 11-Nov-1918 ? Lieutenant-Colonel WH Traill
13-Feb-1918 24-Jun-1918 Lieutenant-Colonel WC Cooper
04-Apr-1918 24-Jul-1918 Lieutenant-Colonel TW Pragnell
24-Jun-1918 15-Jul-1918 Major P de H Hall *
15-Jul-1918 11-Nov-1918 Lieutenant-Colonel RP Pakenham-Walsh
24-Jul-1918 11-Nov-1918 ? Lieutenant-Colonel GH Gill
15-Oct-1934 27-Apr-1936 Major-General Sir Robert Gordon-Finlayson
27-Apr-1936 ? 14-Aug-1936 ? Major-General CP Heywood
28-Aug-1939 30-May-1940 Major-General Sir Bernard Montgomery
09-Sep-1939 20-Feb-1941 Brigadier RH Towell
30-May-1940 03-Jun-1940 Brigadier Sir Kenneth Anderson
03-Jun-1940 22-Jul-1940 Major-General Sir Bernard Montgomery
22-Jul-1940 25-Jul-1940 Brigadier JAC Whitaker
25-Jul-1940 20-Nov-1941 Major-General Sir James Gammell
16-Oct-1940 27-Dec-1940 Major RE Urquhart
28-Dec-1940 27-Mar-1941 Lieutenant-Colonel RE Urquhart
20-Nov-1941 15-Dec-1942 Major-General EC Hayes
15-Dec-1942 12-Dec-1943 Major-General WHC Ramsden
12-Dec-1943 13-Jun-1944 Major-General TG Rennie Wounded 13th June 1944
17-Jan-1944 31-Aug-1945 Lieutenant-Colonel RV Blundell
13-Jun-1944 23-Jun-1944 Brigadier EEE Cass *
23-Jun-1944 22-Jan-1945 Major-General LG Whistler
05-Nov-1944 21-Mar-1945 Major JFC Mellor
22-Jan-1945 25-Feb-1945 Major-General A Galloway
25-Feb-1945 31-Aug-1945 Major-General LG Whistler
Number of Records Returned: 46
Number of Pages Returned : 2

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