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This is a list of serving senior officers of the British Army. It includes currently serving generals, lieutenant generals, major generals, and brigadiers.
NameAppointmentFormer Regiment/corpsDecorationsIrish Guards Grenadier Guards Special Air ...KCB, DSOCommander, Allied Rapid Reaction CorpsKCB, CBE, MCUK National Military Representative to ...Queen's Lancashire Regiment Cheshire ...CBDCBSee also Category:British generals – note that a "Brigadier" is not classed as a "general" in the British Army, despite being a NATO 1-star equivalent rank. Prior to the mid to late-1990s, British ranks used a hyphen.
This is a list of serving senior officers of the British Army. It includes currently serving generals, lieutenant generals, major generals, and brigadiers.
Chief of the General Staff. General Sir Patrick Sanders was commissioned in 1986 and spent his early service as an Infantry Officer in The Royal Green Jackets in Germany, Norway and the UK. General Sir Patrick Sanders took up the appointment of Chief of the General Staff in June 2022.
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- Historical Rank of Brigadier-General
- Junior Officer Rank
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The rank insignia for a brigadier is a St Edward's Crown over three "pips" ("Bath"stars). The rank insignia for a brigadier-general was crossed sword and baton.
Brigadier was originally an appointment conferred on colonels (as commodore was an appointment conferred on naval captains) rather than a substantive rank. However, from 1 November 1947 it became a substantive rank in the British Army.The Royal Marines, however, retained it as an acting rank until 1997, when both commodore and brigadier became subs...
Brigadier-general was formerly a rank or appointment in the British Army and Royal Marines, and briefly in the Royal Air Force. It first appeared in the army in the reign of James II, but did not exist in the Royal Marines until 1913. In the 1740s, the substantive rank of brigadier-general was suppressed, and thereafter brigadier-general was a temp...
Historically, brigadier and sub-brigadier were the junior officer ranks in the Troops of Horse Guards. This corresponded to French practice, where a brigadier was the cavalry equivalent of a corporal. To reflect the status of the Horse Guards as Household Troops, brigadiers ranked with lieutenants and sub-brigadiers with cornets in other cavalry re...
Command Structure. The command structure is hierarchical with divisions and brigades responsible for administering groupings of smaller units. Major Units are regiment or battalion-sized with minor units being smaller, either company sized sub-units or platoons.
18. Juli 2023 · The British Army is highly unlikely to take part in major warfighting operations in future unilaterally and instead will almost certainly do so as part of a UN or Nato coalition. Ensuring British Officers are in these posts helps ensure UK influence can shape how operations are planned and executed.
