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Lieutenant-General Luigi Frusci commanded the Northern Sector, General Pietro Gazzera commanded the Southern Sector, General Guglielmo Nasi commanded the Eastern Sector, and Lieutenant-General Carlo De Simone commanded the Giuba Sector.
Orders were sent to Lieutenant-General Luigi Frusci for him to withdraw his forces from Kassala and Metemma in the lowlands along the Sudanese border with Eritrea.

Lieutenant-General and acting
The international force with British Lieutenant-General Alfred Gaselee acting as the commanding officer of the Eight-Nation Alliance, eventually numbered 55, 000, with the main contingent being composed of Japanese soldiers: Japanese ( 20, 840 ), Russian ( 13, 150 ), British ( 12, 020 ), French ( 3, 520 ), U. S .( 3, 420 ), German ( 900 ), Italian ( 2080 ), Austro-Hungarian ( 75 ) and anti-Boxer Chinese troops.
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Lieutenant-General and Governor
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The Lieutenant Governor is also the Lieutenant-General of the " forces of the State.
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Lieutenant-General Charles Willoughby Moke Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie GCMG, GCVO, CB, DSO, MC & Bar ( 26 September 189325 May 1977 ) was a British Army general during World War II, following which he served terms as Governor of South Australia and the eighth Governor-General of New Zealand.
* Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pottinger ( 1789 – 1856 ), Envoy and Plenipotentiary to China, 1840 – 1843, first Governor of Hong Kong, 1843 – 1844, and Governor of Madras, 1847 – 1854
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He later became Lieutenant-General of the King's forces in the North of England, and Governor of York and of Newark.
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Lieutenant-General and Eritrea
During the East African Campaign General Archibald Wavell the Commander-in-Chief of the British Middle East Command directed Cunningham to retake British Somaliland and free Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from the Italians whilst forces under the command of Lieutenant-General Sir William Platt would attack from Sudan in the north through Eritrea.
Information of the Italian withdrawal was quickly decrypted by the British and, knowing the Italian plans, Lieutenant-General William Platt was able to start his offensive into Eritrea on 18 January 1941, three weeks ahead of schedule.
Lieutenant-General Platt's attack from the Sudan to take Eritrea could only begin once re-inforcements arrived from Egypt, in the meantime he continued to conduct harrying raids on Italian positions.
The Indian 5th Infantry Division, under the command of Major-General Lewis Heath and comprising only two brigades at the time, was sent from India to the Sudan to reinforce the British forces there under Lieutenant-General Sir William Platt which had been attacked by Italian forces in Eritrea, at the time part of the Italian East African Empire.
After Keren, 4th Indian Division was withdrawn to Cairo and 5th Indian Division continued the campaign in Eritrea, finally joining up with elements of Lieutenant-General Alan Cunningham's forces, which had advanced north from Kenya to capture Italian Somaliland and the Italian capital of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, to take the surrender of Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, the Italian Viceroy, at Amba Alagi.

Lieutenant-General and commander
Headed by Lieutenant-General Jagjit Singh Arora, commander of Western Army Command of Indian Army.
On 8 July, Auchinleck ordered the new XXX Corps commanderLieutenant-General William Ramsden — to capture the low ridges at Tel el Eisa and Tel el Makh Khad and then to push mobile battle groups south toward Deir el Shein and raiding parties west toward the airfields at El Daba.
However, XIII Corps commanderLieutenant-General William Gott — rejected this and ordered the attack but on a centre line south of the original plan which he incorrectly believed was mine-free.
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Lieutenant-General Erwin Rommel is appointed commander of Afrika Korps.
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After witnessing the Japanese surrender aboard the on September 2, together with Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival, he returned to the Philippines to receive the surrender of the local Japanese commander, Lieutenant-General Tomoyuki Yamashita.
One detachment served with Lawrence of Arabia, while during the Battle of Loos ( June – December 1915 ) a battalion of the 8th Gurkhas fought to the last man, hurling themselves time after time against the weight of the German defences, and in the words of the Indian Corps commander, Lieutenant-General Sir James Willcocks, "... found its Valhalla ".
However, 8th Army was not ready to make an offensive and so Lieutenant-General Neil Ritchie, the army commander, anticipated fighting a battle on his prepared position, meeting an Axis attack and destroying his enemy's armoured forces in the process.
He was tasked by Lieutenant-General Maitland Wilson, commander of the British Troops in Egypt, to push the Italian force out of Egypt, to protect the Suez Canal and British interests from attack.
The inexperienced 2nd Armoured Division was soundly defeated and on 2 April Wavell came forward to review matters with Lieutenant-General Sir Philip Neame, by now the commander of British and Commonwealth troops in Cyrenaica ( Wilson having left to command the Allied expeditionary force in Greece ).
Conscious of the opportunity to bypass Caen's western defences by exploiting the Caumont Gap, British Second Army commander Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey met with Lieutenant-General Gerard Bucknall, commanding XXX Corps, and Major-General George Erskine, commanding the 7th Armoured Division.
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