ALLIED
GENERAL SIR WILLIAM BIRDWOOD: British commander of I Anzac Corps from February 1916 to May 1918, when he was promoted to command the British 5th Army.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL: British officer and First Lord of the Admiralty at the start of the Great War. Demoted after the failed Gallipoli campaign, he briefly commanded a battalion on the Western Front in 1915. He returned to England in 1916, becoming minister of Munitions the following year.
BRIGADIER GENERAL HAROLD ‘POMPEY’ ELLIOTT: Australian commander of the 15th Brigade from March 1916 to 1919.
FIELD MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH: French general appointed as the supreme commander of the Allied armies on the Western Front in March 1918.
FIELD MARSHAL SIR JOHN FRENCH: commander of the British Expeditionary Force from the start of the war until December 1915.
Lieutenant General Sir Alexander Godley: British officer who commanded II Anzac Corps from March 1916 until the end of the war.
GENERAL SIR HUBERT GOUGH: officer in charge of the British Reserve Army (renamed the 5th Army) from July 1916 to May 1918.
FIELD MARSHAL SIR DOUGLAS HAIG: war general and commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Force, including the AIF and NZEF, from December 1915 until the end of the war.
GENERAL SIR RICHARD HAKING: British officer who commanded a brigade, then a division and subsequently XI Corps from September 1915 to the end of the war.
GENERAL JOSEPH JOFFRE: commander-in-chief of the French Army from 1914 to 1916.
LIEUTENANT GENERAL SIR JAMES MCCAY: commander of the 5th Australian Division from July 1916 to January 1917.
LIEUTENANT GENERAL JOHN MONASH: commander of the 3rd Australian Division from December 1916 to May 1918, when he was given command of the Australian Corps.
GENERAL ROBERT NIVELLE: commander-in-chief of the French Army from December 1916 to May 1917.
GENERAL JOHN PERSHING: commander of the American Expeditionary Forces from May 1917 to the end of the war.
GENERAL HENRI-PHILIPPE PÉTAIN: general who first commanded a division, then a corps and then an army before becoming commander-in-chief of the French Army in May 1917.
GENERAL SIR HERBERT PLUMER: affectionately known as ‘old Plum’ or ‘Daddy Plumer’ to his men, commander of the British 2nd Army in Flanders from May 1915 to the end of the war.
MAJOR GENERAL SIR ANDREW RUSSELL: commander of the New Zealand Division from March 1916 to the end of the war.
LIEUTENANT GENERAL SIR HAROLD WALKER: British general who commanded the 1st Australian Division from April 1916 to July 1918.
GERMAN
GENERAL ERICH VON FALKENHAYN: commander of the German Army from 1914 to 1916.
FIELD MARSHAL PAUL VON HINDENBURG: commander-in-chief of the German Army from 1916 to 1919.
FIRST QUARTERMASTER GENERAL ERICH VON LUDENDORFF: joint war-leader of the German Army from 1916 to 1918.