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VIII Corps
Criteria [1] Branch [2] Directorate [3] Role [4]

Branch of The General Staff - Main - Brigadier General Staff

From To Rank Name Acting
19-Jul-1940 18-Feb-1941 Brigadier MA James
20-Jul-1940 ? 17-May-1941 ? Lieutenant-General Sir Harold Franklyn
19-May-1941 07-Nov-1941 Lieutenant-General Sir Kenneth Anderson
01-Sep-1941 30-Jan-1943 ? Brigadier PG Whitefoord
22-Oct-1941 11-Dec-1942 Brigadier CM Christie
07-Nov-1941 14-Jan-1943 Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Grassett
18-Feb-1942 02-Nov-1944 Brigadier C Knowles
15-Jan-1943 ? 15-Mar-1943 ? Brigadier LC Manners-Smith
20-Jan-1943 ? 25-Jul-1943 ? Lieutenant-General H Lumsden
16-Mar-1943 10-May-1945 ? Brigadier AG Matthew
16-Mar-1943 ? 09-Oct-1944 ? Brigadier Sir Henry Floyd
26-Jul-1943 ? 20-Aug-1943 Lieutenant-General Sir Richard McCreery
01-Sep-1943 ? 16-May-1945 ? Brigadier EP Sewell
11-Nov-1943 25-Dec-1943 Lieutenant-General Sir John Harding
25-Dec-1943 21-Jan-1944 Major-General GHA MacMillan *
21-Jan-1944 02-Dec-1944 Lieutenant-General Sir Richard O'Connor
09-Oct-1944 10-May-1945 ? Brigadier RGV Fitzgeorge-Balfour
02-Dec-1944 10-May-1945 ? Lieutenant-General Sir Evelyn Barker
Number of Records Returned: 18
Number of Pages Returned : 1

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