User:Carcharoth/Article incubator/List of British Army generals who died during World War I

Or to be more precise, that died in 1914-1918 (some may have died before or after the war). The following obtained by intersections of Category:British Army generals of World War I with Category:1914 deaths and so on. For a definitive list, see the book Bloody Red Tabs, and the documents here and here. The ones marked in bold are not on the 'British Generals Killed in Action or Died of Wounds on the Western Front' list of 58.


 * Charles Douglas (1914 deaths) (17 July 1850 – 25 October 1914) "due to strain and overwork"
 * Charles FitzClarence (1914 deaths) (8 May 1865 - 2 November 1914) "killed in action at Polygon Wood, name inscribed on the Menin Gate Memorial"
 * Hubert Hamilton (1914 deaths) (27 June 1861 – 14 October 1914) "killed by artillery fire whilst surveying the front line, the first British divisional commander to be killed in action during the conflict"
 * James Grierson (1914 deaths) (27 January 1859 – 17 August 1914) "Aortic aneurysm"
 * Robert Kekewich (1914 deaths) (17 June 1854 - 5 November 1914) "suicide"
 * Frederick Wing (1915 deaths) (29 November 1860 - 2 October 1915) "artillery fire"
 * George Thesiger (1915 deaths) (6 October 1868 - 27 September 1915) "artillery fire - Battle of Loos"
 * John Gough (1915 deaths) (25 October 1871- 22 February 1915) "sniper fire, died of wounds"
 * Paul Aloysius Kenna (1915 deaths) (16 August 1862 - 30 August 1915) "killed in action at Suvla, Turkey during the Battle of Gallipoli"
 * Samuel Lomax (1915 deaths) (August 1855 - 10 April 1915) "artillery fire on 31 October 1914, died following year of wounds - first of three British Lieutenant Generals to be killed on active service during World War I"
 * Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of Longford (1915 deaths) (19 October 1864–21 August 1915) "killed in action at Suvla, Turkey during the Battle of Gallipoli"
 * Thompson Capper (1915 deaths) (20 October 1863 – 27 September 1915) "sniper fire, died of wounds"
 * Malcolm Mercer (1916 deaths) (17 September 1859 – 3 June 1916) "was inspecting frontline trenches when the Battle of Mont Sorrel started, and was killed in action"
 * Duncan John Glasfurd (1916 deaths) (23 November 1873 – 12 November 1916) "artillery fire"
 * Hay Frederick Donaldson (1916 deaths) (7 July 1856 - 5 June 1916) "ship struck a mine and sank"
 * Cecil Rawling (1917 deaths) (16 February 1870 - 28 October 1917) "artillery fire, Battle of Passchendaele"
 * Frederick Stanley Maude (1917 deaths) (24 June 1864 - 18 November 1917) "cholera during the Mesopotamian campaign"
 * George Baillie-Hamilton, Lord Binning (1917 deaths) (24 December 1856 – 12 January 1917) "not stated"
 * Robert George Broadwood (1917 deaths) (1862 – 21 June 1917) "died of wounds suffered in battle"
 * Roland Boys Bradford (1917 deaths) (22 February 1892 – 30 November 1917) "killed in action, at Cambrai"
 * Walter Long (1917 deaths) (26 July 1879 – 27 January 1917) "killed in action at Hebuterne"
 * William Holmes (1917 deaths) (12 September 1862 – 2 July 1917) "artillery fire while surveying the ground won at the Battle of Messines"
 * Francis Earl Johnston (1917 deaths) (1 October 1871 – 7 August 1917) "sniper fire while inspecting frontline trenches"
 * Francis Aylmer Maxwell (1917 deaths) (7 September 1871 - 21 September 1917) "sniper fire"
 * Frederick William Lumsden (1918 deaths) (14 December 1872 – 4 June 1918) "killed in action at Blairvill"
 * Beauchamp Duff (1918 deaths) (17 February 1855–20 January 1918) "suicide following official condemnation of conduct in Mesopotamian campaign"
 * Duncan Sayre MacInnes (1918 deaths) (21 February 1860 - 23 May 1918) "accidental death"
 * Edgar William Cox (1918 deaths) (9 May 1882 - 26 August 1918) "drowning, possible suicide"
 * Louis Lipsett (1918 deaths) (14 June 1874 – 14 October 1918) "gunfire during reconnaissance mission in the Advance to Victory - the last British general to be killed during World War I"
 * Richard Hutton Davies (1918 deaths) (1861 – 9 May 1918) "suicide"


 * Field Marshals
 * Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1916 deaths) (24 June 1850 – 5 June 1916) "ship struck a mine and sank"

Others ranked general or higher may have been on board HMS Hampshire (1903).

Western Front casualties
From British Generals Killed in Action or Died of Wounds on the Western Front (Word document, Centre for First World War Studies). Total of 58 listed.


 * 1) Neil Douglas Findlay
 * 2) Hubert Ion Wetherall Hamilton
 * 3) Charles Fitzclarence
 * 4) John Edmund Gough
 * 5) Samuel Holt Lomax
 * 6) James Foster Riddell
 * 7) Julian Hasler
 * 8) Arthur Willoughby George Lowry Cole
 * 9) George Colborne Nugent
 * 10) Norman Tom Nickalls
 * 11) George Handcock Thesiger
 * 12) Thompson Capper
 * 13) Frederick Drummond Vincent Wing
 * 14) Frank Wormald
 * 15) John Frederick Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis
 * 16) Hugh Gregory Fitton
 * 17) Alister Fraser Gordon
 * 18) Frederick James Heyworth
 * 19) Malcolm Smith Mercer
 * 20) Edward Charles Ingouville-Williams
 * 21) Charles Bertie Prowse
 * 22) William Holmes
 * 23) Louis Murray Phillpotts
 * 24) Henry Frederick Hugh Clifford
 * 25) Charles Edward Stewart
 * 26) Philip Howell
 * 27) Duncan John Glasfurd
 * 28) George Bull
 * 29) Walter Long
 * 30) Charles Bulkeley Bulkeley-Johnson
 * 31) Charles Gosling
 * 32) Godfrey Estcourt Matthews
 * 33) Vincent Alexander Ormsby
 * 34) Charles Henry Jeffries Brown
 * 35) Robert George Broadwood
 * 36) Charles William Eric Gordon
 * 37) Francis Earl Johnston
 * 38) Ronald Campbell Maclachlan
 * 39) Malcolm Peake
 * 40) Francis Aylmer Maxwell
 * 41) Cecil Godfrey Rawling
 * 42) Roland Boys Bradford
 * 43) George Augustus Stewart Cape
 * 44) Randle Barnett-Barker
 * 45) Edward Feetham
 * 46) Harry Townshend Fulton
 * 47) George Norman Bowes Forster
 * 48) Robert Clements Gore
 * 49) Cuthbert Thomas Martin
 * 50) Ralph Hamer Husey
 * 51) Frederick William Lumsden
 * 52) Alfred Forbes Lumsden
 * 53) Lionel William Pellew East
 * 54) Arthur Richard Careless Sanders
 * 55) Gilbert Burrell Spencer Follett
 * 56) Sir William Algernon Ireland Kay, Baronet
 * 57) Stuart Campbell Taylor
 * 58) Louis James Lipsett


 * As of 25/01/2010, 18 of the 58 have Wikipedia articles.
 * As of 01/07/2016, 29 of the 58 have Wikipedia articles.
 * Still 29 as of 21/05/2019, though worth checking again as some full name redirects may not yet exist

See also: User:Andrew Gray/Casualties, and even better (and more complete) is User:Dumelow/List of British generals killed during the First World War