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 |
This area of the Who's Who
category of the site contains biographies of the many and varied men who
provided military leadership during the four years of war on all fronts.
Some remain well-known household names to this day; others, though their
star shone at the time, have faded into obscurity.