• Thumbnail for James Grierson (British Army officer)
    Lieutenant-General Sir James Moncrieff Grierson, KCB, CMG, CVO ADC (Gen.) (27 January 1859 – 17 August 1914) was a British soldier. He was born in 1859...
    16 KB (1,613 words) - 10:55, 22 July 2024
  • James Grierson may refer to: James Grierson (British Army officer), British Army general James Grierson (minister, born 1662), Moderator of the General...
    302 bytes (70 words) - 03:42, 18 October 2021
  • Thumbnail for Thomas Snow (British Army officer)
    Thomas D’Oyly Snow, KCB, KCMG (5 May 1858 – 30 August 1940) was a British Army officer who fought on the Western Front during the First World War. He played...
    23 KB (2,625 words) - 20:13, 15 October 2024
  • Scottish literary critic James Grierson (British Army officer) (1859–1914), British Army Lieutenant General James Grierson (minister, born 1791) (1791–1875)...
    4 KB (583 words) - 22:21, 23 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for List of British generals and brigadiers
    general officer rank or the rank of brigadier (together now recognized as starred officers) in the British Army, Royal Marines, British Indian Army or other...
    404 KB (35,927 words) - 03:56, 31 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arthur Paget (British Army officer)
    June 1869 – the double rank was because Guards officers at that time held higher substantive rank in the army than in the regiment. He was promoted lieutenant...
    26 KB (2,877 words) - 11:16, 20 July 2024
  • generals in the British Army since the Acts of Union 1707. The rank of general (or full general to distinguish it from the lower general officer ranks) is the...
    322 KB (5,465 words) - 02:04, 31 October 2024
  • Smith-Dorrien, Sir James Grierson having collapsed and died shortly after his arrival in France. They engaged Von Kluck's First German Army on its sweep through...
    10 KB (1,311 words) - 07:30, 6 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for August 1914
    Campobello Island, New Brunswick (d. 1988) Died: James Grierson, British army officer, chief British military commander in the Anglo-Egyptian War, the...
    160 KB (17,558 words) - 10:20, 8 October 2024
  • Thomas Oswald (born 1722), younger brother of James Oswald (younger) of Dunnikier, was a British Army officer in the 18th century, engaged in the War of...
    14 KB (1,917 words) - 03:49, 19 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for British Army during the First World War
    British Army during the First World War fought the largest and most costly war in its long history. Unlike the French and German Armies, the British Army...
    153 KB (20,014 words) - 16:33, 12 August 2024
  • British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was the six divisions the British Army sent to the Western Front during the First World War. Planning for a British...
    43 KB (4,683 words) - 20:22, 13 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for MI5
    MI5 (redirect from MI5 officer)
    Lynton (17 August 2011). British Politics. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 341. ISBN 978-0-230-34422-8. Retrieved 11 July 2015. Grierson, Jamie (2 March 2018). "MI5...
    71 KB (7,843 words) - 14:01, 30 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sir William Robertson, 1st Baronet
    February 1933) was a British Army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) – the professional head of the British Army – from 1916 to...
    119 KB (16,025 words) - 03:52, 29 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lions led by donkeys
    Lions led by donkeys (category British military leaders of World War I)
    Connaughton attributed a later quotation to Colonel J. M. Grierson (later Sir James Grierson) in 1901, when reporting on the Russian contingent to the...
    23 KB (2,934 words) - 00:40, 27 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Volunteer Force
    Earl Brownlow (May 1900). "The British Volunteer System". North American Review. Retrieved 6 December 2012. Grierson, James Moncrieff (1909). Records of...
    31 KB (3,665 words) - 20:53, 29 October 2024
  • Spiers, Edward M. (1980). The Army and society, 1815-1914. London New York: Longman. pp. 163–168. ISBN 0-582-48565-7. Grierson, J. M. (1909). The Records...
    10 KB (1,145 words) - 13:41, 10 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for William Grierson (engineer)
    William Wylie Grierson CBE (9 December 1863 – 14 March 1935) was a British civil engineer. Grierson was born to James Grierson (Manager of the Great Western...
    3 KB (281 words) - 10:24, 24 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Directorate of Military Intelligence (United Kingdom)
    Directorate of Military Intelligence (United Kingdom) (category Use British English from December 2014)
    1901–1904 William Nicholson Director of Military Operations 1904–1906 James Grierson 1906–1910 Spencer Ewart 1910–1914 Henry Wilson 1914–1915 Charles Callwell...
    13 KB (856 words) - 15:22, 7 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer
    Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer (category British colonial army officers)
    British Army officer of the First World War. After commanding V Corps at the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915, he took command of the Second Army...
    25 KB (2,100 words) - 08:32, 16 October 2024
  • categories (in ascending order), i.e. three ranks: Knight, Officer, Commander, and two titles: Grand Officer and Grand Cross. Knight is the most common and is...
    17 KB (698 words) - 09:13, 8 October 2024
  • Controller, Leamington Spa. Alexander Millar Meek Grierson, MD, ChB, DPH, FRSE, Senior Assistant Medical Officer, Manchester. For services to Civil Defence....
    301 KB (36,022 words) - 18:03, 9 September 2024
  • Eye in the Sky (2015 film) (category Use British English from January 2016)
    twirls a hula-hoop in her backyard. British Army Colonel Katherine Powell wakes up and hears that an undercover British/Kenyan agent has been murdered by...
    25 KB (2,215 words) - 05:03, 7 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Edward Spears
    Edward Spears (category British Army cavalry generals of World War I)
    27 January 1974) was a British Army officer and Member of Parliament noted for his role as a liaison officer between British and French forces in two...
    94 KB (12,499 words) - 11:06, 6 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Rangers (British battalion)
    the British Army 1899–1914, London: Methuen, 1938. Lt-Col James Moncrieff Grierson (Col Peter S. Walton, ed.), Scarlet into Khaki: The British Army on...
    25 KB (2,674 words) - 23:21, 19 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby
    Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (category British Life Guards officers)
    a senior British Army officer and Imperial Governor. He fought in the Second Boer War and also in World War I, in which he led the British Empire's Egyptian...
    66 KB (7,584 words) - 09:31, 22 October 2024
  • 3rd Royal Lancashire Militia (The Duke of Lancaster's Own) (category Use British English from June 2023)
    Lineage Book of British Land Forces 1660–1978, Vol I, Wakefield: Microform Academic, 1984, ISBN 1-85117-007-3. Lt-Col James Moncrieff Grierson (Col Peter S...
    39 KB (4,686 words) - 22:17, 13 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
    Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (category British Army personnel of the Mahdist War)
    1861 – 29 January 1928) was a senior officer of the British Army. During the First World War he commanded the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) on the Western...
    152 KB (18,711 words) - 14:27, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Robert
    colonial frontiersman and officer in the British Army, commander of Rogers' Rangers Robert Ross (1766–1814), officer in the British Army, born in Ireland Robert...
    93 KB (10,988 words) - 20:57, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Horace Smith-Dorrien
    Horace Smith-Dorrien (category British Army personnel of the Mahdist War)
    – 12 August 1930) was a British Army General. One of the few British survivors of the Battle of Isandlwana as a young officer, he also distinguished himself...
    68 KB (8,213 words) - 17:46, 15 October 2024