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British military personnel killed in action in the Second World War (1939-1945). Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable. This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large.
This is a list of United States Armed Forces general officers and flag officers who were killed in World War II. The dates of death listed are from the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 to the surrender of Japan on 2 September 1945, when the United States was officially involved in World War II. Included are generals and admirals who ...
List of serving senior officers of the British Army; List of generals of the British Empire who died during the First World War; List of British general officers killed in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars; List of British Army full generals; List of Royal Marines full generals; List of British generals and brigadiers
Lieutenant-General Martin Bricknell (1963— ), Surgeon General of the British Armed Forces; Brigadier John William Bridge CBE, Royal Engineers; Brigadier the Honourable Geoffrey Bridgeman (1898–1974), Royal Army Medical Corps; Major-General Robert Bridgeman, 2nd Viscount Bridgeman (1896–1982), deputy adjutant-general to the War Office
Pages in category "British Army generals of World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 369 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Sky Generals. Cassell. ISBN 0-304-30480-8. Mead, Richard (2007). Churchill's Lions: a biographical guide to the key British generals of World War II. Stroud (UK): Spellmount. ISBN 978-1-86227-431-0. Smart, Nick (2005). Biographical Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War. Barnesley: Pen & Sword. ISBN 1844150496. Urquhart ...
Lieutenant-General William Henry Ewart Gott, CB, CBE, DSO & Bar, MC (13 August 1897 – 7 August 1942), nicknamed "Strafer", was a senior British Army officer who fought during both the First and the Second World Wars, reaching the rank of lieutenant-general while serving with the British Eighth Army in the Western Desert and North Africa from 1940 to 1942.
The Commanders of World War II were for the most part career officers.They were forced to adapt to new technologies and forged the direction of modern warfare. Some political leaders, particularly those of the principal dictatorships involved in the conflict, Adolf Hitler (Germany), Benito Mussolini (Italy), and Hirohito (Japan), acted as dictators for their respective countries or empires.