Lieutenant-General Sir William Pulteney Pulteney, GCVO, KCB, KCMG, DSO (18 May 1861 – 14 May 1941) was a British general during the First World War. Educated...
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Scottish lawyer, MP for Cromarty and Shrewsbury William Pulteney (British Army officer) (1861–1941), British general during the First World War This disambiguation...
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Richard Pulteney (1730–1801), English botanist and physician William Pulteney (British Army officer) (1861–1941), British general in World War I William Pulteney...
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Pulteney may refer to: Harry Pulteney (1686–1767), British Army general James Pulteney (c. 1755–1811), British Army general William Pulteney (British...
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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...
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a British Army general during the First World War. He was chief of staff to First Army for much of 1915, then deputy chief of staff to the British Expeditionary...
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given command of the new BEF III Corps (it went to Pulteney) in October 1914, or being appointed British representative at French GQG. Edmonds, who was a...
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1940) was a British Army officer most noted for his service during the First World War and the Chanak Crisis. During his 46 years in the army, Harington...
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General Sir James Murray Pulteney, 7th Baronet PC (c. 1755 – 26 April 1811) was a Scottish soldier and British politician. Born James Murray, he was the...
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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...
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joined the British Army in 1797, rising to the rank of major general before he retired in 1830. He served with his relative Sir James Pulteney in the Anglo-Russian...
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Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (25 November 1743 – 25 August 1805), was a grandson of George II and a younger brother of George...
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III Corps (United Kingdom) (redirect from British III Corps)
the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916: General Officer Commanding: Lieutenant-General Sir William Pulteney 8th Division 19th (Western) Division 34th Division...
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William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, PC, FRS (15 November 1708 – 11 May 1778) was a British Whig statesman who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain...
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was an Irish-born British soldier and politician who served as Governor of Jamaica. He attained the rank of general in the British Army and was created...
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Evelyn Metcalfe, CB (7 February 1856 – 1912) was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding 6th Division. Educated at Malvern Wells...
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Roger Granville Pulteney Eliot (a grandson of Francis Perceval Eliot) in 1871 Frederick Penrose Warren (born 2 February 1850, Fort William, Calcutta, Bengal...
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General William Robertson of Lude (died 1820) was an officer in the British Army who served in the army during the American War of Independence, the French...
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General Philip Honywood (c.1710 – 21 February 1785) was a British army officer who sat in the House of Commons from 1754 to 1784. Honywood was the fifth...
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Brigadier-General John Middleton MP (1678 –1739) was a British Army officer and Scottish Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons almost continuously...
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Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. A Jacobite army under Charles Edward Stuart was decisively defeated by a British government force under Duke of Cumberland...
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Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm GCB GCMG (20 February 1768 – 20 July 1838) was a British naval officer. He was born at Douglan, near Langholm, Scotland,...
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Battle of Culloden (category Prince William, Duke of Cumberland)
Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. A Jacobite army under Charles Edward Stuart was decisively defeated by a British government force commanded by the Duke of...
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Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland (category British Life Guards officers)
Northumberland KG FRS (14 August 1742 – 10 July 1817) was an officer in the British army and later a British peer. He participated in the Battles of Lexington and...
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Robert Clive (category British East India Company Army officers)
India, was the first British Governor of the Bengal Presidency. Clive has been widely credited for laying the foundation of the British East India Company...
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Black Rod (redirect from Serjeant at Arms of the British House of Lords)
retired senior officers from the Royal Navy, the British Army and the Royal Air Force. It is now advertised openly. Black Rod is an officer of the English...
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Percy Hambro (category British Militia officers)
Hambro KBE, CB, CMG (10 December 1870 – 25 November 1931) was a British Army officer. Educated at Eton College, Hambro was commissioned into the 4th Battalion...
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Ministry in 1929 before being made Air Officer Commanding RAF Cranwell in 1933, Air Officer Commanding British Forces in Iraq in 1934 and Air Member for...
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Henry Macandrew (category British Indian Army generals)
Henry Macandrew, KCB, DSO (7 August 1866 – 16 July 1919) was a British Indian Army officer who fought in the Boer War and First World War, rising to command...
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List of Scots (category Lists of British people)
Edinburgh (died 1724), British Army officer and politician Major Sir Ralph Anstruther, 7th Baronet (1921–2002), British Army officer and courtier, awarded...
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