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Commander in Chief

Name: Commander in Chief – Great Britain factsheet records
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Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 1st. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

6Records

1914–1918Date range

6Named people

2Places

Chronological records

1914

Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton1914

Warfare / World War, 1st

Appointed Commander in Chief, Home Defence Army in Britain

1915

Douglas Haig Bemersyde, 1st18 December 1915

London · Warfare / World War, 1st

Appointed Commander in Chief

1916

William Raine MarshallSeptember 1916

Mesopotamia · Warfare / World War, 1st

Appointed Commander in Mesopotamia

David Beatty Beatty, 1st1916

Warfare / World War, 1st

Appointed Commander in Chief, Grand Fleet

1917

Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby Allenby, 1st17 June 1917

London · Warfare / World War, 1st

Appointed Commander in Chief, EEF

1918

Lambart Cavan, 10th1918

Warfare / World War, 1st

Appointed Commander in Chief of the British troops in Italy

Names involved

David Beatty Beatty, 1stDouglas Haig Bemersyde, 1stEdmund Henry Hynman Allenby Allenby, 1stIan Standish Monteith HamiltonLambart Cavan, 10thWilliam Raine Marshall

Provenance

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