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© IWM (HU 122609)
Brigadier General Edmund Howard Gorges, CB, DSO. Commanding British Contingent in Cameroon. Death: 1949.




© IWM (HU 124346)
Brigadier-General Arthur Cecil Lowe, CMG, DSO. Honourable Artillery Company, attached to the 6th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 24 November 1917, Ypres, Western Front.




© IWM (HU 124289)
Brigadier General S.S. Long, CB. Army Service Corps.




© IWM (HU 96681)
BRIGADIER GENERAL HERBERT COLBORNE NANTON,
Herbert Nanton was born in 1863 and joined the Royal Engineers in 1885 as a Lieutenant. He served in the North Western Territories of Canada before joining the Lushai Expedition of 1888-1889. He served with the Relief Force in Chitral in 1895 and was mentioned in Despatches for his services in the South African War of 1899-1902 as Deputy Assistant Director of Railways. He then served as Deputy Director of Military Works India from 1910 and was made Brigadier General in September 1914. He served in France as Chief Engineer of the Indian Corps and was made temporary Major General and Chief Engineer of the 3rd Army in 1917. He was briefly admitted to hospital in 1917 suffering from influenza. He was ordered to proceed to England to report to the Military Secretary, India Office in November 1917 and sailed to India in December 1917. He retired from the army at the age of 57 and died in British Columbia in 1935 at the age of 71.




© IWM (Q 92258)
THE BRITISH MILITARY MISSION TO POLAND, 1919-1921.

Major-General Adrian Carton de Wiart, VC, the Chief of the British Military Mission to Poland, posing for a photograph with a group of senior officers of the British Army of the Rhine. Left to right (probably) - unknown; Brigadier-General Eric Fitzgerald Dillon (GSO1 Rhine Garrison); Brigadier-General Henry Brewster Percy Lair Kennedy (2nd Rhine Brigade); Colonel Ryan, Royal Field Artillery (British High Commission); Major-General Carton de Wiart.


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THE BRITISH ARMY ON THE ITALIAN FRONT, 1917-1918.

© IWM (Q 26460)
Brigadier General W.S. Swabey, Royal Army Service Corps Director of Supplies and Transport in Italy.




© IWM (Q 26448)
Brigadier General H. Gordon commanding British troops in Fiume (Rijeka), November, 1918.