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I Corps 1901-1992 |
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| 1901 | I Corps formed at Aldershot |
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| 1904 | reorganised as Aldershot Command | |
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| 1914.08.05 | I Corps formed from Aldershot Command |
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| 1919 | disbanded | |
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| 1939 | I Corps re-formed in England |
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| 1945.05.21 | I Corps District | |
| 1947 | disbanded in Germany | |
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| 1951 | I Corps re-formed at Bad Oeynhausen, Germany |
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| 1953 | HQ moved to Bielefeld | |
| 19uu | 1 (British) Corps redesignated to distinguish it from other NATO corps |
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| 1992.10.01 | disbanded (replaced by Allied Command Europe Rapid Reaction Corps, for which it provided the nucleus) | |
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| 1945 | Germany | BAOR | GuardsDiv 49Div 52Div 53Div 159Bde 9AGRA | |
| 1951 | Germany | BAOR | 1Div 2InfDiv 4InfDiv 5Div 6ArmdDiv 7ArmdDiv 11ArmdDiv | |
| 1992.10.01 | disbanded in Germany | |||
| Commanders |
| Commander: | ||
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| 1902.09.15 | Lt-Gen. Sir J.D.P. French | |
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| General Officer Commanding: | ||
| 1914.08.05 | Lt-Gen. Sir Douglas Haig | |
| 1914.12.26 | Lt-Gen. Sir C.C. Monro | |
| 1915.07.13 | Lt-Gen. H. de la P. Gough | |
| 1916.04.01 | Lt-Gen. C.T. McM. Kavanagh | |
| 1916.09.30 | Lt-Gen. Sir C.A. Anderson | |
| 1917.02.19 | Lt-Gen. A.E.A. Holland | |
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| 1951.11 | Lt-Gen. Dudley Ward | |
| 1953.01 | Lt-Gen. Archibald James Halkett Cassels | |
| 1954.04 | Lt-Gen. Hugh Charles Stockwell [transferred Aug. 1956 to II Corps, and returned Nov? 1956] | |
| 1956.12 | Lt-Gen. Sir Harold E. Pyman | |
| 1958.03 | Lt-Gen. Michael West | |
| 1960.01 | Lt-Gen. Charles Jones | |
| 1962.03 | Lt-Gen. Kenneth Darling | |
| 1963.12 | Lt-Gen. Richard Goodwin | |
| 1966.01 | Lt-Gen. John Mogg | |
| 1967.01 | Lt-Gen. Mervyn Butler | |
| 1970.01 | Lt-Gen. John Sharp | |
| 1972.01.14 | Lt-Gen. Sir Roland Christopher Gibbs | |
| 1974.01.24 | Lt-Gen. Sir Jack W. Harman | |
| 1976.04.05 | Lt-Gen. Sir Richard Edward Worsley | |
| 1978.07.22 | Lt-Gen. Sir Peter John Hall Leng | |
| 1980.11.01 | Lt-Gen. Sir Nigel Thomas Bagnall | |
| 1983.05 | Lt-Gen. Sir Martin Baker Farndale | |
| 1985.05.09 | Lt-Gen. Sir Brian Leslie Graham Kenny | |
| 1987.08.08 | Lt-Gen. Peter Anthony Inge | |
| 1989.09.30 | Lt-Gen. Charles Ronald Llewelyn Guthrie | |
| 1991.12.02 | Lt-Gen. Sir Jeremy John George Mackenzie [to 31 Aug. 1992 - see ARRC] | |
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