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British Army

Army · United Kingdom

The land force of the United Kingdom.

Fought in Anglo-Burmese Wars Wikipedia

Sub-units 50

People who served 432

Charles Lee 1747–1763 Richard Montgomery 1756–1772 George Harris, 1st Baron Harris General · 1759–present Benedict Arnold 1780–1781 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington General Field Marshal · 1787–present Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts Field Marshal · 1851–1904 Lord George Hamilton 1864–1869 John French 1870–1921 Frederick Stopford Major · 1871–present Horace Smith-Dorrien General · 1876–1923 Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig Field Marshal · 1884–1920 Winston Churchill 1895–1900 Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke 1909–1919 Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg Lieutenant-general · 1914–1937 Winston Churchill 1915–1916 Prince George, Duke of Kent 1937–present Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg Colonel · 1942–1945 Idi Amin Field Marshal · 1946–1962 Peter de la Billière General · 1952–1992 Prince Edward, Duke of Kent 1955–1976 Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex Major · 2005–2015 Claude Maxwell MacDonald Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester Soldier James Hope Grant General Leslie Hore-Belisha Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan Edward Heath Lieutenant Colonel Harold Macmillan Captain Anthony Eden Major Clement Attlee Major Edward Bulfin General Edward Pakenham Major-general Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell Lieutenant General Lester B. Pearson Military Officer Phineas Riall General Francis Smith Major-general George White Field Marshal Hubert Gough General Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar Norman Manley Bernard Montgomery General Prince Albert Field Marshal Edward, Duke of Kent Field Marshal H. Jones Lieutenant Colonel Henry Procter Major-general Stanley Baldwin Charles Cornwallis Major General John Campbell, of Strachur General John Maitland Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone T. E. Lawrence John Vincent Alexander Stewart Major-general Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet General Robert Peel Lieutenant Arthur Percival Lieutenant-general Robert Brooke-Popham Herbert Lawrence General George Clinton Edward VII Field Marshal Duncan Sandys Lieutenant Colonel Bryan Mahon Lieutenant General Jan Smuts General Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby Captain Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener General Sir Robert Pigot, 2nd Baronet Lieutenant General Roger Hale Sheaffe General Montagu Stopford General S. M. Bruce Hugh Dowding Isaac Brock Major General George V Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall Archibald James Murray General Ralph Abercromby General George VI Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae Brigadier Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow Arthur Wauchope General Chaim Herzog Iain Duncan Smith Lieutenant William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne General Archibald Wavell General Claude Auchinleck Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin Brian Robertson, 1st Baron Robertson of Oakridge General Aylmer Hunter-Weston Lieutenant-general John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore Lieutenant General Roy Jenkins Captain Geoffrey Howe Denis Healey Major Banastre Tarleton General Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham John Charles Herries Charles Townshend Frank Soskice Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon Iain Macleod Anthony Barber Gwilym Lloyd George William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan Field Marshal Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester Major General Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe Lieutenant General Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie General Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland General John Keane, 1st Baron Keane Lieutenant-general Philip Chetwode Soldier Willoughby Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie Lieutenant General Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer Field Marshal John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven Peter Thorneycroft Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory James Chuter Ede David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington Major William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil Duff Cooper William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley Jo Grimond Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy Field Marshal John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort General Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay General William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby Field Marshal Christopher Soames Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt Colonel Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford General Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood General Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie Brigadier General Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala General Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch Major General Paul Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen Field Marshal Douglas Hurd John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun General Richard O'Connor Army General William Pulteney Lieutenant General Horatio Gates Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow Tito Okello General Walter Braithwaite General Harold Alexander General Charles Macpherson Dobell Lieutenant-general Charles III John Burgoyne Lieutenant General Henry Clinton General Arthur St. Clair Alexander Cobbe Allan Maclean of Torloisk Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham Arthur Brooke Lieutenant-general Arthur Dorward Major General Augustine Prévost Major General Trafford Leigh-Mallory Andrew Wauchope Charles Mawhood Lieutenant Colonel Chris Keeble Lieutenant Colonel Miles Dempsey Kléber Dadjo Gordon Drummond General Edward Woodgate Major General Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet General Qaboos bin Said Al Said Field Marshal Hew Pike Lieutenant-general Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet Edward VIII Captain General Royal Marines William Denison Thomas Gage General George Prevost Lieutenant General J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone General James Cleverly Lieutenant Colonel James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope John Kiszely Major General John Macdonell Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings General Michael Scott Major-general Ian Hamilton General John Moore General John Warburton Paul Captain Redvers Buller General Charles Warren General Rupert Smith General Glubb Pasha Lieutenant General Laming Worthington-Evans Richard Prescott Lieutenant General Prince Philip George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe William Phillips Major General John Harvey Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson General Keith Park A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough William II of the Netherlands Field Marshal Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn Field Marshal Henry Abel Smith Colonel Joseph Wanton Morrison Brigadier General Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Kars General Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany Field Marshal Lord Leopold Mountbatten Major Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood Prince Maurice of Battenberg Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood Arthur Reginald Hoskins Major-general Alastair Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn Lieutenant Gerald David Lascelles Captain Robert Laycock Major General Prince Michael of Kent Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild Charles Carnegie, 11th Earl of Southesk John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne Nevil Macready General Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone Major-general George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood Second Lieutenant James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife William, Prince of Wales Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet Field Marshal Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece Prince Henry of Battenberg General Christopher Teesdale Major-general Alexander Ramsay of Mar Prince Arthur of Connaught Colonel Angus Ogilvy Mark Phillips (born 1948) Captain Harold Wernher Major-general Jacob van Deventer Lieutenant-general Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster Captain Arthur Aitken Richard Abel Smith Colonel Ian Liddell-Grainger Patrick Ferguson Major Patrick Grant Field Marshal Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein Major Ronald Scobie Lieutenant-general Sir Charles Clarke, 3rd Baronet General Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough General Edward Braddock Major General William Pepperrell Lieutenant General Henry Bouquet Colonel Leopold I of Belgium Lieutenant General · ?–1831 Hubert Rance Major-general George Wade Field Marshal Lord William Bentinck Lieutenant General Leander Starr Jameson George Anson Major-general George Thomas Napier Lieutenant General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough Generalissimo Robert Ross Major-general Robert Hunter Major General John Bradstreet Major General Harry Smith (British Army officer) Lieutenant General James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick Ernest Augustus of Hanover Field Marshal Birendra of Nepal Field Marshal James Mackay John Butler Colonel John Lambert (British Army officer, born 1772) Robert Abercromby of Airthrey General Alfonso XIII Field Marshal Mark Aitchison Young Commander-in-chief William Monson Colonel William Keir Grant Lieutenant General Thomas Gore Browne Richard Bourke General George Erskine General John Bisset Lieutenant-general John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier Field Marshal William Draper Major General Philip Neame Lieutenant General Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire Sir Thomas Hislop, 1st Baronet Lieutenant General Henry Ricketts George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle General Richard Church Alfred Reade Godwin-Austen General William Jervois Lieutenant General William Amherst Lieutenant-general William Tryon Lieutenant General Steve Barclay Hugh Dalton Eyre Coote Lieutenant General James Murray General Robert Kekewich Major-general Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson Field Marshal John Chancellor Lieutenant Colonel Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos Gordon Holmes MacMillan General George Strahan Major William Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech Captain Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood Mordechai Hod Aluf Christopher Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson General William Peel, 1st Earl Peel Louis de Duras, 2nd Earl of Feversham Lieutenant General Eric Bols Major General Charles Lawrence Brigadier General Charles Michel de Langlade Charles O'Hara General Anthony Crosland Edward Cornwallis Lieutenant-general George Augustus Eliott Lieutenant General Charles George Gordon Major General George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend Field Marshal William Marshall Lieutenant General Henry Sheehy Keating Lieutenant General John Forbes General Oswald Mosley Lieutenant John Profumo Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne Lieutenant Colonel Francis Pym Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry Lieutenant Colonel Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope General Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet Colonel John Cope Lieutenant General Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake General Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave General Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge Field Marshal Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton John Manners, Marquess of Granby General Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair Field Marshal Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde Field Marshal Charles Cathcart, 2nd Earl Cathcart General Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey Field Marshal Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst Field Marshal Peregrine Maitland Major General John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll Field Marshal Arnold van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle General Garnet Wolseley Field Marshal Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun General Auckland Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes General George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill General Robert Monckton Lieutenant General Freddie Guest William Hinde Major-general Galbraith Lowry Cole Simon Fraser Brigadier General Oliver Stanley Colonel Clifford Dupont Stringer Lawrence Major-general Alexander Hamilton-Gordon Lieutenant General Benjamin D'Urban Major General Alan Cunningham General Richard Temple-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford James Wolfe Major General Prince William, Duke of Cumberland General Gordon Guggisberg Brigadier General Charles Cameron Lees Willem van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle Lieutenant-general William Alexander Reginald Dorman-Smith William Medows General Brian Horrocks Lieutenant-general James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury Alexander Mackenzie Fraser Lieutenant-general George Monro Lieutenant Colonel Albert Henry Hime Alexander Leslie Major-general Neil Ritchie General Alfred Gaselee General Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway Major-general Charles MacCarthy Sir Charles Preston, 5th Baronet Charles Wills Douglas Houghton, Baron Houghton of Sowerby Oliver Leese Lieutenant General Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby Dunquat Edward Hand Elias Durnford Edward Heneage, 1st Baron Heneage Ernest Brown Frederick Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale Frederick Carrington Major-general Francis Peirson Major George Giffard General George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe Brigadier General George Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon Harold Franklyn Lieutenant-general Hector Munro, 8th Laird of Novar General James Abercrombie General Henry Godwin Major-general Alexander Gordon Laing James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde General James Stuart Lieutenant General Jacko Page Lieutenant-general John Cradock, 1st Baron Howden General John Davies John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham John Caillaud Brigadier General John Holmes Major-general John Richmond Webb Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton Thomas Jacomb Hutton Lieutenant-general George Colley Major-general Montfort Browne William Hicks Colonel Peter Walls Lieutenant General Roy Bucher Robert William Harley Colonel Hector MacDonald Major General George Grey Lieutenant Charles Hobhouse James Pulteney General Sir Lionel Smith, 1st Baronet George Cathcart Major-general Sir Thomas Shirley, 1st Baronet Thomas Edward Taylor Thomas Fowke Lieutenant General William Walrond, 1st Baron Waleran James Grant Major General Thomas Bligh Lieutenant General Sir Fenton Aylmer, 13th Baronet Lieutenant General Henry Horne, 1st Baron Horne General Francis Dundas Lieutenant General Matthew Nathan William Gott Lieutenant-general

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