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Started by khaki , May 02 2012 05:05 AM

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#1 khaki

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Posted 02 May 2012 - 05:05 AM

I have always believed that General Sir Hubert Gough (died 1963) was the last surviving British General officer of the Great War, am I right or wrong?

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Posted 02 May 2012 - 07:44 AM

Wrong :D Although I don't know who was the last surviving General officer I know that Brigadier-General Rodolph Ladeveze Adlercron died on 12th June 1966. So Gough wasn't the last.

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Posted 02 May 2012 - 09:44 AM

Major General J. H. Cannan CB CMG DSO VD, was in WW2 the Australian Army's Quartermaster-General, Land Headquarters.  In WW1 he commanded the 11th Brigade, Third Australian Infantry Division as a Brigadier-General.  He died in May 1976.

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Posted 02 May 2012 - 10:25 AM

Sir Bertie Drew Fisher commanded 8th Infantry Brigade in 1918. I was a reserve for the  lance guard at his funeral in 1972.

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Posted 03 May 2012 - 04:39 PM

By my count the 1960's saw the death of fourteen Great War generals, apart from those already mentioned I found, Brig-General Strode-Jackson died Nov 1972, and Maj-General Spears died Jan 1974.

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