Major-General Stringer Lawrence, first commander-in-chief of British troops in India, under whose command Robert Clive served, was born in Hereford.

A report written by Major-General Robert Laycock in 1947 said there was a German raid on a radar station on the Isle of Wight in 1941.

* Wright, Robert, The Life of Major-General James Wolfe, London 1864.

In 1646 O ' Neill, with substantial Gallowglass numbers and additionally furnished with supplies by the Papal Nuncio, Giovanni Battista Rinuccini, attacked the Scottish Covenanter army under Major-General Robert Monro, who had landed in Ireland in April 1642.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, having succeeded his father in the earldom in November 1642, Manchester commanded a regiment in the army of Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, and in August 1643 he was appointed Major-General of the parliamentary forces in the eastern counties ( the Eastern Association ), with Cromwell as his second in command.

Major-General Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster ( born 22 December 1951 ), is the son of Robert George Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster, and his wife Hon.

During the formation of the division, Major-General Robert Kekewich was appointed as its first commander.

Major-General Dr Walter Robert Dornberger ( 6 September 1895-27 June 1980 ) was a German Army artillery officer whose career spanned World Wars I and II.

Rennell was originally just one surveyor among many, but he showed such enthusiasm and ability that Major-General Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, the governor of Bengal and Bihar, promoted him to Surveyor-General in 1767.

* 1946-1947 Major-General Robert Arkwright

* 1919-1922 Major-General Robert Whigham

* 1934-1936 Major-General Robert Gordon-Finlayson

In 1640 it was occupied by the Scottish Covenantor army under Major-General Robert Monro ( d. 1680 ).

Major-General Robert Craufurd ( 5 May 1764 – 23 January 1812 ) was a Scottish soldier and Member of Parliament ( MP ).

He produced many busts of children, reliefs and also some notable church monuments and statues, including ones of Dr William Babington in St Paul's Cathedral and Major-General Sir Henry Havelock ( believed to be the first statue based on a photograph, two casts were made-one is today situated in Trafalgar Square, London, the other in Mowbray Park, Sunderland ) and several of Sir Robert Peel ( including ones situated in Leeds, Peel Park in Bradford, and at the police college in Hendon in north-west London ).

* Corbett, Major-General Sir Robert, Berlin and the British Ally, 1945-1990, ( Privately published by Sir Robert in Oerlinghausen, 1991 )

In 1847 he went to New Zealand as Brigade Major on staff of Major-General George Dean Pitt ( 1781 – 1851 ), and in the same capacity served Major-General Robert Wynyard ( 1802 – 1864 ) on the death of General Pitt.

* Major-General Robert Hayman-Joyce, 1994 – 1995

** 31st Indian Armoured Division, Major-General Robert Wordsworth

They were the sons of Major-General Sir Robert Travers ( 1770 – 1834 ) C. B., K. C. M. G., of the 95th Rifle Brigade, who was one of six brothers who again all served in the military, and one of three to be knighted for their services, including Rear-Admiral Sir Eaton Stannard Travers ( 1777 – 1858 ), who was engaged in battle with the enemy upwards of over one hundred times, and was mentioned in dispatches eight times for gallantry.

Brooke, who had taken over from Major-General Robert Ross, who was mortally wounded just before the Battle of North Point on September 12, decided to withdraw.

In his Official Report, Major-General Robert Patterson states the number of Confederate deaths as " over sixty " but does not describe Union casualties.

* 1935-1937 Major-General Clive Liddell

* 1752 After Chandra and the French allies attempt to retake Arcot leaving Trichinopoly undefended, Major-General Stringer Lawrence, with Clive captured Trichinopoly.

Percy was the son of Major-General the Honourable William Henry Herbert ( himself the son of Edward Clive, 2nd Earl of Powis ) and Sybella Milbank.

Major-General Gatehouse — commanding 1st Armoured Division — had been unconvinced that a path had been adequately cleared in the minefields and had suggested the advance be cancelled.

The 82nd Airborne Division, under Brigadier General James M. Gavin, would drop northeast of them to take the bridges at Grave and Nijmegen and the British 1st Airborne Division, under Major-General Roy Urquhart, with the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade, under Brigadier General Stanisław Sosabowski, attached would drop at the extreme north end of the route, capturing the road bridge at Arnhem and the rail bridge at Oosterbeek.

* Birthplace of Major-General Sir Richard Havelock Charles, 1st Baronet ( 1858 – 1934 ), doctor, and Serjeant Surgeon to King George V.

Major-General Sir Thomas Morgan ( 1st Baronet 1604-79 ) served in the Commonwealth forces during English civil war from 1642-9, was Governor of Gloucester 1645, fought in Flanders, wounded, and in 1661 retired to his estate in Kynnersley, Herts.

Major-General Sir John Moore ’ s 4th Brigade ( 2 / 1st, 25th, 49th, 79th and 92nd Foot ).

Major-General D ' Oyley's 1st Guards Brigade ( 3 / 1st Foot Guards and combined Guards grenadier companies ).

Major-General Harry Burrard's 2nd Brigade ( 1st battalions of the Coldstream and 3rd Foot Guards ).

Three battalions of Russians, under Major-General Sedmoratsky, moving from Krabbendam, gallantly stormed the left of the village, with the 1st Regiment of Guards entering it on the right at the same time.

Nevertheless, an early breakthrough seemed unlikely until on May 30 Major-General Fred Walker's 36th Division found a gap in the Caesar Line at the join between 1st Parachute Corps and LXXVI Panzer Corps.

On the mainland Major-General Richard Heidrich, who had remained in Calabria with his 1st Parachute Division headquarters and 1st Parachute Regiment when the rest of the division had been sent as reinforcements to Sicily, was appointed XIV Panzer Corps Mainland Commander to receive evacuating formations while Hube continued to control the operations on the island.

Major-General Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone ( born Prince Alexander of Teck ; 14 April 187416 January 1957 ), was the husband of Princess Alice of Albany ( a granddaughter of Queen Victoria ) and a British military commander and major-general who served as Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, the country's fourth, and as Governor General of Canada, the 16th since Canadian Confederation.

* Sir John Campbell, 1st Baronet ( 1836 – 1915 ), Major-General, R. A., served in Crimea, China, Afghan War, Zhob Valley

After the success of the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Chemulpo Bay on 9 February 1904, the way was clear for the Imperial Japanese Army to deploy the 2nd, the 12th, and the Guards Divisions of the Japanese 1st Army, commanded by Major-General Baron Tamemoto Kuroki, into Korea.

Major-General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, 1st Baronet GCH, GCB, FRS, FRSE ( 23 July 1773 – 27 January 1860 ) was Governor of New South Wales ( 1821 – 25 ), as recommended by the Duke of Wellington, with whom he had seen military service.

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.

With two parachute brigades now in the order of battle, the 1st Airborne Division commanded by Major-General Frederick Browning was formed.

He relinquished command of the 1st Airborne Division in March 1943 to take up a new post as Major-General, Airborne Forces at Eisenhower's Allied Forces Headquarters ( AFHQ ).

His successor as commander of the 1st Airborne Division, Major-General George Hopkinson, had sold the commander of the British Eighth Army, General Bernard Montgomery, on Operation Ladbroke, a glider landing to seize the Ponte Grande road bridge south of Syracuse.

Down's replacement as commander of the 1st Airborne Division by Montgomery's selection, Major-General Roy Urquhart, an officer with no airborne experience, rather than Browning's choice, Brigadier Gerald Lathbury of the 1st Parachute Brigade, would become controversial.

After the battle, Browning was awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta ( II class ) by the Polish government-in-exile, but his critical evaluation of the contribution of Polish forces led to the removal of Polish Major-General Stanisław Sosabowski as the commanding officer of the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade.