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Jersey District

1860?-present

 
 United Kingdom  
 
    Titles & History
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    Commanders
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   Titles and History
Index of Home Cmds
Index of Overseas Cmds
   
1860? Jersey District
formed with HQ at ?, including Minquiers and Ecréhous islands (Bailiwick of Jersey)
  1940.06.21 district disbanded and islands demilitarised
  1940.07.01 German troops arrived and occupation began
  1945.05.09 British forces liberated Jersey
  1945.05.12 British Military Administration formed
1945.08.25 civil administration restored with Jersey re-formed as a de facto sub-district (with its own C-in-C) in South Western District (Southern Command)
1968? transferred to South East District (Southern Command)
1972? transferred to South West District (Southern Command)
1995? ?
     
     
   Forces Under Command
Index of Divisions
Index of Brigades
  Divisions:
 
 
  Militia:
  Royal Militia of the Island of Jersey [1337-present]
 
   Commanders
   
  Lieutenant Governor and Colonel on Staff:
1857.01.30 Maj-Gen. Godfrey Charles Mundy
  1860.08.18 Sir Robert Percy Douglas
  1862 B. Loch [acting]
1863.10.23 Burke Douglas Cuppage
1868.10.01 Maj-Gen. Philip Melmoth Nelson Guy, CB
1873.10.01 Lt-Gen. Sir William Sherbrooke Ramsay Norcott, KCB
1878.10.01 Lt-Gen. Lothian Nicholson, CB
1883.10.01 Maj-Gen. Henry Wray, CMG
1887 Charles Brisbane Ewart
  Lieutenant Governor and Commanding the Troops:
1892.11.01 Lt-Gen. Edwin Markham
1895 Lt-Gen. Sir Edward Hopton, CB
1900.11.01 Maj-Gen. Henry Richard Abadie, CB
  1904 Maj-Gen. Hugh Sutlej Gough, CB, CMG
1910.06.16 Maj-Gen. Alexander Nelson Rochfort, CB, CMG
1916.10.07 Maj-Gen. Sir Alexander Wilson, KCB
  1920.10.29 Sir William Douglas Smith
  1924 Sir Francis Richard Bingham
1929.05.28 Maj-Gen. Edward Henry Willis, CB, CMG
1934.05.28 Maj-Gen. Sir Horace de Courcy Martelli, KBE, CB, DSO
  1939 James Murray Robert Harrison
  (German Occupation 1940-45)
  Head of the British Military Government:
  1945.05.12 L.A. Freeman
  Lieutenant Governor and Commander-in-Chief:
1945.08.25 Lt-Gen. Sir Arthur Edward Grasett, KBE, CB, DSO, MC
1953.10.16 Adm. Sir Randolph Stewart Gresham Nicholson, KBE, CB, DSO, DSC
1958.11.15 Gen. Sir George Watkin Eben James Erskine, GCB, KBE, DSO
1964.01.15 Vice-Adm. Sir John Michael Villiers, KCB, OBE
1969.06.30 Air Chief Marshal Sir John Gilbert Davis, GCB, OBE, MA
1974.09.02 Gen. Sir Geoffrey Richard Desmond Fitzpatrick, GCB, DSO, MBE, MC
1979.11.26 Gen. Sir Peter John Frederick Whiteley, GCB, OBE
1985.01.09 Adm. Sir William Thomas Pillar, GBE, KCB
1990 Sir John Matthias Dobson Sutton
1995.09 Sir Michael John Wilkes
2001.01.24 Sir John Anthony Cheshire
     
     
     
   Insignia
 

     
     
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