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Guernsey and Alderney District

1860?-present

 
 United Kingdom  
 
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<1860> Guernsey and Alderney District
formed with HQ at ? , including Sark, Herm, Jethou and Brechou (Bailwick of Guernsey)
  1940.06.19 district disbanded and islands demilitarised
  1940.06.30 German troops arrived and occupation began (Alderney on 1 July and Sark on 3 July)
  1945.05.09 British forces liberated Guernsey (Sark on 11 May)
  1945.05.12 British Military Administration formed
1945.08.25 civil administration restored with Guernsey & Alderney 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 Guernsey Militia [1203-1953]
  Royal Alderney Militia [12uu-present]
  Royal Sark Militia [1337-1875]
 
   Commanders
   
  Lieutenant Governor and Colonel on Staff:
1859.04.01 Maj-Gen. Marcus John Slade
1864.04.01 Maj-Gen. Charles Rochfort Scott
1869.05.01 Lt-Gen. Edward Charles Frome
1874.05.01 Lt-Gen. Hon. St. George Gerald Foley, CB
1879.05.01 Maj-Gen. Alexander Abercromby Nelson, CB
1883.10.01 Maj-Gen. Henry Andrew Sarel, CB
  1885.11.01 John Henry Ford Elkington
  1889.02.21 Edward Gascoyne Bulwer
  Lieutenant Governor and Commanding the Troops:
1894.03.16 Lt-Gen. Nathaniel Stevenson
1899 Maj-Gen. Michael Henry Saward
1903.04.01 Maj-Gen. Barrington Bulkeley Douglas Campbell, CVO, CB
1908 Robert Auld
1911 Edward Owen Fisher Hamilton
1914.04.08 Maj-Gen. Henry Merrick Lawson, CB
1914 Sir Reginald Clare Hart
1918 Launcelot Edward Kiggell
1920 Maj-Gen. Sir John Edward Capper, KCB, KCVO
1925 Sir Charles John (Sackville-West), Baron Sackville
1929.06.05 Maj-Gen. Walter Patrick (Hore-Ruthven), Baron Ruthven, CB, CMG, DSO
1934.06.05 Maj-Gen. Sir Edward Nicholson Broadbent, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO
1939 Maj-Gen. Alexander Patrick Drummond Telfer-Smollett, CB, CBE, DSO, MC
1940.06.07 Maj-Gen. John Randall Minshull Minshull-Ford, CB, DSO, MC [to 20 June 1940]
  (German Occupation 1940-45)
  Head of the British Military Government:
1945.05.12 Charles Gage Stuart
  Lieutenant Governor and Commander-in-Chief:
1945.08.25 Lt-Gen. Sir Philip Neame, VC, KBE, CB, DSO
1953.10.16 Air Marshal Sir Thomas Walker Elmhirst, KBE, CB, AFC
1958.12.11 Vice-Adm. Sir William Geoffrey Arthur Robson, KBE, CB, DSO, MC
1964.01.16 Lt-Gen. Sir Cyril Frederick Charles Coleman, KCB, CMG, DSO, OBE
1969.05.30 Vice-Adm. Sir Charles Piercy Mills, KCB, CBE, DSC
1974.10.04 Vice-Adm. Sir John Edward Ludgate Martin, KCB, DSC, FNI
1980.04.22 Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter de Lacey Le Cheminant, GBE, KCB, DFC
1985.10.07 Lt-Gen. Sir Alexander Crawford Simpson Boswell, KCB, CBE
1990 Sir Michael Compton Lockwood Wilkins
1994.04 Sir John Francis Coward
2000.05 Sir John Paul Foley
     
     
     
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