For example, Douglas Haig's
name is known to most - but how many remember one of the more successful
British commanders of the war, Sir Hubert 'Daddy' Plumer?
Biographies |
Description |
Duke of the Abruzzi |
Admiral |
Arthur Edward Aitken |
General |
Duke Albrecht |
General |
Sir Edwin Alderson |
General |
Mikhail Alexeev |
Commander-in-Chief |
Sir Edmund Allenby |
Commander-in-Chief, Palestine |
Duke Aosta |
General |
Francois Anthoine |
General |
Edward Ashmore |
London Air Defence Commander |
Moritz von Auffenberg-Komarow |
General |
Alexandru Averescu |
Commander |
Gustav Bachmann |
Chief of Admiralty Staff |
Sir Reginald Bacon |
Commander, Dover Patrol |
Prince Louis of Battenberg |
First Sea Lord |
Max Bauer |
Artillery Commander |
Sir David Beatty |
Commander-in-Chief, Grand Fleet |
Fritz von Below |
General |
Otto von Below |
General |
William Shepherd Benson |
Chief of Naval Operations |
Henri Berthelot |
Chief of Staff |
Hans von Beseler |
Military Governor, Poland |
Edward Bingham |
Naval Commander |
Sir Noel Birch |
Chief Naval Adviser |
Sir William Birdwood |
General |
Tasker Bliss |
Chief of Staff |
Eduard Freiherr von Bohm-Ermolli |
Field Marshal |
Svetozar Boroevic von Bojna |
Field Marshal |
Sir Louis Jean Bols |
General |
Louis Botha |
General |
Felix von Bothmer |
General |
Karl Boy-Ed |
Naval Attaché to U.S. |
Walter Braithwaite |
General |
Sir William Bridges |
General |
Georg Bruchmuller |
Artillery Colonel |
Alexei Brusilov |
Commander-in-Chief |
Edward Bulfin |
General |
Robert Lee Bullard |
General |
Karl von Bulow |
General |
Sir Julian Byng |
General |
Luigi Cadorna |
Chief of Staff |
Sir George Callaghan |
C-in-C Home Fleet |
Luigi Capello |
General |
Sir Sackville Carden |
Admiral |
Alfred Carpenter |
Captain |
Noel de Castelnau |
General |
Earl of Cavan |
Commander-in-Chief, Italy |
John Charteris |
General |
Edward Chaytor |
General |
Sir Philip Chetwode |
Field Marshal |
Sir Winston Churchill |
First Lord of the Admiralty |
Sir Alexander Cobbe |
General |
Sir John Cowans |
Quartermaster-General |
Sir Christopher Cradock |
Rear-Admiral |
Sir Arthur Currie |
Commander, Canadian Forces |
Yuri Danilov |
Deputy Chief of Staff |
Count Viktor Dankl von Krasnik |
General |
Gabriele D'Annunzio |
Politician/Soldier |
Marie-Eugene Debeney |
General |
Victor Deguise |
General |
Berthold von Deimling |
Field Marshall |
Augustin Boue de Lapeyrere |
Naval C-in-C |
Sir Henry de Beauvoir de Lisle |
General |
Anton Denikin |
General |
Franz Baron Rohr von Denta |
Field Marshal |
Sir John de Robeck |
Admiral |
Franchet d'Esperey |
Marshal |
Ahmed Djemal Pasha |
Military Governor of Syria |
Armando Diaz |
Chief of Staff |
Sir Charles Dobell |
General |
Vladimir Dragomirov |
General |
Auguste Dubail |
General |
Pierre Dubois |
General |
Denis Auguste Duchene |
General |
Nikolai Dukhonin |
Commander-in-Chief |
Lionel Dunsterville |
General |
Andrei Eberhardt |
Commander, Black Sea Fleet |
Hermann von Eichhorn |
General |
Karl von Einem |
General |
Pompey Elliott |
General |
Enver Pasha |
Commander-in-Chief |
Nikolai von Essen |
Supreme Cmdr, Baltic Fleet |
Archduke Eugen |
Field Marshal |
Edward Evans |
Captain |
Alexei Evert |
General |
Erich von Falkenhayn |
Chief of General Staff |
Marie Fayolle |
General |
Admiral John Fisher |
First Sea Lord |
Bradley Allen Fiske |
Admiral |
Ferdinand Foch |
Supreme Allied Commander |
Hermann von Francois |
General |
Sir John French |
Commander-in-Chief, BEF |
Bernard Freyberg |
General |
A. von Freytag-Loringhoven |
Dep Chf of Gen Stf |
Archduke Friedrich |
Commander-in-Chief |
John Fuller |
Tank Strategist |
Joseph Gallieni |
General |
Max von Gallwitz |
General |
Dominique-Marie Gauchet |
C-in-C, Mediterranean |
Sir Eric Geddes |
First Lord of the Admiralty |
Sir John Gellibrand |
General |
Cyriaque Gillain |
Army Chief of Staff |
Sir William Glasgow |
General |
Sir Alexander Godley |
General |
Baron von der Goltz |
Field Marshal, Turkish Army |
William Goodenough |
Admiral |
George Gorringe |
General |
Sir Hubert Gough |
General |
Henri Gouraud |
General |
Rodolfo Graziani |
Colonel |
Wilhelm Groener |
General |
Vasily Gurko |
Commander-in-Chief |
Adolphe Guillaumat |
General |
Sir Douglas Haig |
Commander-in-Chief, BEF |
Richard Haking |
General |
Sir William Hall |
Director of Naval Intelligence |
Sir Lionel Halsey |
Fourth Sea Lord |
Sir Ian Hamilton |
Commander-in-Chief, Mediterran. |
Sir Alexander Hamilton Gordon |
General |
James Harbord |
AEF Chief of Staff |
Charles Harington |
Dep. Chief of Imperial General Staff |
Admiral Haus |
Naval Commander-in-Chief |
Max Klemens von Hausen |
General |
Josias von Heeringen |
General |
Prince Heinrich of Prussia |
Admiral |
Paul von Hindenburg |
Chief of General Staff |
Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard |
Sniping Expert |
Admiral Franz von Hipper |
Cmdr, High Seas Fleet |
Sir Talbot Hobbs |
General |
Max Hoffmann |
General |
Norman Holbrook |
Naval Commander |
Henning von Holtzendorff |
Chf of Naval Gen Staff |
Sir Horace Hood |
Admiral |
Sir Henry Horne |
General |
Miklos Horthy de Nagybanya |
Cmdr-in-Chief |
Conrad von Hotzendorf |
Commander-in-Chief |
Georges Humbert |
General |
Archibald Hunter |
General |
Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston |
General |
Oskar von Hutier |
General |
Frederich von Ingenohl |
Cmdr, High Seas Fleet |
Godfrey Irving |
Temp. Commander, 5th Division |
Nikolai Ivanov |
General |
Ahmed Izzet Pasha |
General |
Albert Jacka |
First AIF Winner of the VC |
Sir Henry Jackson |
First Sea Lord |
Sir John Jellicoe |
First Sea Lord |
Hugh Jeudwine |
General |
Joseph Joffre |
Commander-in-Chief |
Archduke Josef Augustin |
Field Marshal |
Archduke Josef Ferdinand |
General |
Alexei Kaledin |
General |
Mitsuomi Kamio |
General |
Franz von Keil |
Admiral |
Mustafa Kemal Pasha |
General |
Sir Roger Keyes |
Admiral |
Khalil Pasha |
General |
Sir Launcelot Kiggell |
General |
Alexander von Kluck |
General |
Alexander Kolchak |
Admiral |
Lavr Kornilov |
Commander-in-Chief |
Hermann Kovess |
Cmdr-in-Chief |
Kress von Kressenstein |
General |
Alexander von Krobatin |
Field Marshal |
Alexei Kuropatkin |
General |
Marie-Jean-Lucien Lacaze |
Admiral |
Sir Percival Lake |
General |
Frederick Lambart |
General |
Fernand de Langle de Cary |
General |
Charles Lanrezac |
General |
T.E. Lawrence |
'Lawrence of Arabia' |
Gerard Leman |
General |
Prince Leopold of Bavaria |
General |
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck |
Colonel |
Otto Liman von Sanders |
General |
Alexander von Linsingen |
General |
Louis James Lipsett |
General |
Erich Ludendorff |
Quartermaster General |
Sir Henry Lukin |
General |
Sir George MacDonogh |
Director of Military Intelligence |
August von Mackensen |
Field Marshal |
Paul Maistre |
General |
Charles Mangin |
General |
Peyton March |
Army Chief of Staff |
Georg von der Marwitz |
General |
Sir William Marshall |
Cmdr-in-Chief, Mesopotamia |
Sir Frederick Maude |
Cmdr-in-Chief, Mesopotamia |
Louis Maud'huy |
General |
Michel-Joseph Maunoury |
General |
Sir Frederick Maurice |
General |
Sir Ivor Maxse |
General |
Sir John Maxwell |
General |
Henry Thomas Mayo |
Commander, Atlantic Fleet |
Joannis Metaxas |
Army Deputy Chief of Staff |
Joseph Alfred Micheler |
General |
Sir Berkeley Milne |
Admiral |
Sir George Milne |
Field Marshal |
Zivojin Misic |
Field Marshal |
Helmuth von Moltke |
Chief of General Staff |
Sir John Monash |
Cmdr, Australian Forces |
Sir Charles Monro |
Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean |
Georg von Muller |
Chief of Naval Cabinet |
Sir Archibald Murray |
Cmdr-in-Chief, Palestine |
Grand Duke Nikolai |
Commander-in-Chief |
Maximilian Njegovan |
Naval Cmdr-in-Chief |
Robert Nivelle |
Commander-in-Chief |
Sir John Nixon |
Cmdr-in-Chief, Mesopotamia |
Sir John Norton-Griffiths |
Mining Liaison Officer |
Sir William Pakenham |
Admiral |
Franz von Papen |
Military Attaché to U.S. |
Paul Pau |
General |
John J. Pershing |
Commander-in-Chief |
Henri-Philippe Petain |
Commander-in-Chief |
Karl von Pflanzer-Baltin |
General |
Josef Pilsudski |
General |
Wenzel von Plehve |
General |
Lord Plumer |
Field Marshal |
Hugo von Pohl |
Cmdr, High Seas Fleet |
Oskar Potiorek |
General |
Constantine Prezan |
Commander-in-Chief |
Maximilian von Prittwitz |
General |
Radomir Putnik |
Chief of General Staff |
Ferdinand von Quast |
General |
Sir Henry Rawlinson |
General |
George Windle Read |
General |
Paul von Rennenkampf |
General |
Ludwig von Reuter |
Admiral at Scapa Flow |
Sir William Robertson |
Chief of Imperial Gen. Staff |
Sir Charles Rosenthal |
General |
Pierre Ruffey |
General |
Crown Prince Rupprecht |
General |
Sir Andrew Russell |
General |
Nikolai Ruzsky |
General |
Alexander Samsonov |
General |
Maurice Sarrail |
General |
Reinhardt Scheer |
Chief of Admiralty Staff |
Alfred von Schlieffen |
Chief of Gen. Staff |
Alois Fürst Schönburg-Hartenstein |
General |
Ludwig von Schroder |
Admiral |
Hans von Seeckt |
Chief of General Staff |
Dmitry Shcherbachev |
General |
William Sims |
Admiral |
Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien |
General |
Jan Christian Smuts |
Prime Minister |
Sir Nevill Maskelyne Smyth |
General |
Admiral Wilhelm Souchon |
Admiral |
Maximilian von Spee |
Admiral |
R. Stoger-Steiner von Steinstatten |
General |
Stepa Stepanovic |
General |
Sir Frederick Stopford |
General |
Arz von Straussenberg |
Cmdr-in-Chief |
Sir Frederick Sturdee |
Admiral |
>Sir Ernest Swinton |
General |
Paolo Thaon di Revel |
Admiral |
Christopher Thomson |
Military Attaché to Romania |
Alfred von Tirpitz |
Naval Minister |
Sir Charles Townshend |
General |
Hugh Trenchard |
Chief of Air Staff |
Adolf von Trotha |
Admiral |
Sir Ernest Troubridge |
Admiral |
Sir Richard Turner |
Chief of Canadian General Staff |
Sir Jacob Louis Van Deventer |
General |
Peter Vasic |
Colonel |
Sir David Watson |
General |
Otto Weddigen |
U-boat Captain |
Rosslyn Wemyss |
First Sea Lord |
Maxime Weygand |
Army Chief of Staff |
Sir Brudenell White |
General |
Crown Prince Wilhelm |
General |
Henry Willis-O'Connor |
Staff Officer |
Sir Henry Wilson |
Chief of Imperial Gen. Staff |
Leonard Wood |
Pre-war Chief of Staff |
Remus von Woyrsch |
Field Marshal |
Petr Wrangel |
General |
Bosa Yankovich |
General |
Nikolai Yanushkevich |
Chief of Staff |
Alvin C. York |
Corporal |
Nikolai Yudenich |
General |
Andrei Zayonchkovski |
General |
Nikola Zhekov |
Commander-in-Chief |
Yakov Zhilinski |
General |