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It passed the Self-denying Ordinance, by which all members of either House of Parliament laid down their commands, and re-organized its main forces into the New Model Army (" Army "), under the command of Sir Thomas Fairfax, with Cromwell as his second-in-command and Lieutenant-General of Horse.
* Jack Hawkins as Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton
* Lieutenant-General Sir David Henderson, Additional Member and Vice-President
In the north, in the first week of September, the British 21st Army Group, under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, sent its British Second Army commanded by Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey advancing on a line running from Antwerp to the northern border of Belgium while its First Canadian Army, under Lieutenant-General Harry Crerar, was pursuing its task of recapturing the ports of Dieppe, Le Havre and Boulogne-sur-Mer.
In vain, Montgomery complained about this to the Vice-Chief of the Imperial General Staff in London, Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Nye.
The British XVII Corps, commanded by Lieutenant-General Sir Julian Byng, relieved the French Tenth Army in the sector in February 1916, permitting the French to expand their operations at Verdun.
On 28 May 1916, Byng took command of the Canadian Corps from Lieutenant-General Sir Edwin Alderson.
The position of Governor of Edinburgh Castle, which had been vacant since 1876, was revived in 1935 as an honorary title for the General Officer Commanding in Scotland, the first holder being Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Cameron of Lochiel.
*** Lieutenant-General Sir James Hills-Johnes VC GCB
The left-centre column, commanded by Lieutenant-General Sir James Pulteney, was composed of:
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 ".
As of January 2012 the Chairman of the Trustees is Sir Francis Richards and his deputy is Lieutenant-General Sir John Kiszely.
Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore, KB ( 13 November 1761 16 January 1809 ) was a British soldier and General.
Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Burnett " Joe " Lumsden ( 12 November 1821 12 August 1896 ) was a British military officer active in India.
* Lieutenant-General Sir George Thomas Napier KCB ( 1784 1855 )
* Lieutenant-General Sir William Francis Patrick Napier KCB ( 17 December 1785 12 February 1860 )
Wilson with Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, 30 April 1944
* January July 1939: Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, KCB, CMG, MC
* July 1939 1941: Lieutenant-General ( Local General ) Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, KCB, CMG, MC
Wavell concurred as did Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, now the military governor of Cyrenaica, and XIII Corps resumed its advance.
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 ).
On 27 November he was removed from his post and was ordered to take over from Lieutenant-General Sir Mosley Mayne as GOC-in-C, Eastern Command in India.

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* Terence Alexander as Lieutenant-General Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge
Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt Rivers ( 14 April 1827 4 May 1900 ) was an English army officer, ethnologist, and archaeologist.
* Bowden, Mark ( 1991 ) Pitt Rivers: The life and archaeological work of Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers.
* Lieutenant-General Lord Henry Percy VC KCB, ( 1817 1877 ), soldier and MP, was born at Burwood House ( now Notre Dame School ).
The persons constituted to be of that committee were Sir Henry Vane the Younger, Sir Arthur Haslerig, Lieutenant-General Fleetwood, Col. Sydenham, Major Saloway, Col. John Jones, and Endmond Ludlow.
The son of George Clinton, an admiral of the fleet, Henry had two sons who continued the family tradition of high command: General Sir William Henry Clinton ( 1769 1846 ), and Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton ( 1771 1829 ).
Buckingham had been Lieutenant-General of Normandy between 1430 and 1432 and was created, in 1431, the Count of Perche, a province in English-occupied Normandy by King Henry VI.
* 1941 1942 Lieutenant-General Henry Willcox
Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, the Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command ( SEAC ), had need of a new chief of staff owing to the poor health of Lieutenant-General Henry Royds Pownall.
His sons General Sir William Henry Clinton and Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton were also successful military commanders.
Erskine was the son of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Erskine, 5th Baronet, and Janet, daughter of Peter Wedderburn ( a Lord of Session under the judicial title of Lord Chesterhall ) and sister of Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn.
Robert Alexander, son of Alderman Nathaniel Alexander and elder brother of the 1st Earl of Caledon, had several sons, including Nathaniel Alexander, Bishop of Meath ; Henry Alexander, MP for the Londonderry City and for Old Sarum ; Lieutenant-General William Alexander, Mayor of Derry ; James Alexander, MP for Old Sarum ; and Joseph Josias Du Pré Alexander, MP for Old Sarum.
However, all the other titles ( those of 1902 and 1914 ) were created with remainder to 1 ) the heirs male of his body, failing which to 2 ) his first daughter and the heirs male of her body, failing which to 3 ) his other daughters and the heirs male of their bodies, failing which to 4 ) his elder brother Colonel Henry Kitchener and the heirs male of his body, failing which to 5 ) his youngest brother Lieutenant-General Sir Walter Kitchener ( who was alive at the time of the 1902 creation but deceased at the time of the 1914 creations ) and the heirs male of his body.
Charles Kitchener, had died in 1982, and the line of Lieutenant-General Sir Walter Kitchener had failed on the death of his younger son, Squadron Leader Henry Kitchener, in 1984.
He was the son of the aforementioned Lieutenant-General Thomas Howard ( d. 1758 ) and the brother of Henry Howard, father of Kenneth Alexander Howard, 1st Earl of Effingham.
The following day Lincoln, along with over 7, 000 American soldiers, surrendered to the British forces under the command of Lieutenant-General Henry Clinton.
The regiment was part of the left wing of the front line of the army, under the command of Lieutenant-General Henry Hawley.
General Officer Commanding ( GOC ): Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Rawlinson
* Oct 1914-Dec 1915 Lieutenant-General Henry Rawlinson
* 1903-1906 Lieutenant-General Henry Grant

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