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Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Charles Chermside GCMG, CB ( 31 July 1850 – 24 September 1929 ) was a British soldier who served as Governor of Queensland in Australia from 1902 to 1904.
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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.
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.
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.
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 Henry Fuller Maitland Wilson ( 1859 – 1941 ), who commanded XII Corps during World War I, was his uncle.
* 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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He was the son of Lieutenant-General the Right Honourable Sir Percy Egerton Herbert, second son of the 2nd Earl.
Herbert was born at Belgrave Square, London, the second son of Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea ( who was the son of George Augustus Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke, by his second wife Catherine Woronzow ) and Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Lieutenant-General Charles Ashe A ' Court.
Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Taylor ( 1775 – 1839 ) GCB GCH was the first Private Secretary to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom.
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The Crown nominally then fell upon the son of Louis Antoine's younger brother, < span lang =" fr "> Charles X </ span >' s grandson, who became < span lang =" fr "> Henri V </ span >, with Louis-Phillippe, Duc d ' Orléans, as Lieutenant-General of the realm.
But he did not accompany it, as he was kept in England by his marriage to Susannah, daughter of Lieutenant-General Charles Barton ( 1760 – 1819 ) and his wife Susannah.
The Allied forces involved came from the U. S Army ′ s II Corps commanded by Major General Lloyd Fredendall, and the British 6th Armoured Division commanded by Major-General Charles Keightley, which were part of the British 1st Army commanded by Lieutenant-General Kenneth Anderson.
The fifth Duke died unmarried and was succeeded by his first cousin once removed, William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland, who was the only son from the first marriage of Lieutenant-General Arthur Cavendish-Bentinck, second and youngest son of Lord Charles Bentinck, the third son of the third Duke.
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.
The Honourable Augustus George Charles Chichester ( 1822 – 1896 ), second son of the first Baron, was a Lieutenant-General in the 77th Foot.
She divided her property, for that time a large one, between her natural sons, the first by Arthur Mainwaring ( 1668 – 1712 ) who had left her and his son half his fortune on his death and the second by Lieutenant-General Charles Churchill ( d. 1745 ).
Charles Wemyss Thesiger ( 1831 – 1903 ), second son of the first Baron, was a Lieutenant-General in the Army.
Married Charles Skelton, Esq., Lieutenant-General in the French service, and Grand Croix de St. Louis.
Lieutenant-General George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, KG, PC ( 28 December 1665 – 28 June 1716 ) was the third and youngest illegitimate son of King Charles II and his mother Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine ( also known as Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland ).
His performance as a corps-level commander proved to be controversial, despite the successes of the Canadian forces in the Italian Campaign, and so he was replaced as commander of I Canadian Corps by Lieutenant-General Charles Foulkes.
The 3rd Division was also present at the Battle of Quatre Bras and the Battle of Waterloo. in the Waterloo campaign under the command of Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Alten K. C. B.
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