List of Australian Army brigadiers

The following is an incomplete list of Australian Army brigadiers and other senior Australian Army officers. (There is a separate list of Australian Army generals.)

Ranks

An Australian Army brigadier is not classed as a "general", whereas an Australian Army brigadier general was. The senior Australian Army ranks are:

Senior Officer: brigadier.

General: brigadier general, major general, lieutenant general, general.

Marshal: field marshal.

Background

The British Army replaced the rank of brigadier general with colonel-commandant in 1922, and then with brigadier in 1928. The rank insignia was changed from crossed sabre and baton to crown with three stars ("pips") to reflect that a brigadier is a senior colonel rather than a junior general. The Cadet Instructor's Handbook (2006), page 104 states:

1.25 At the end of World War I the British Government told the British Army that it had too many generals and that they were to be reduced in numbers. The Army did just that; it removed the word 'general' and was left with fewer generals and, at the same time, had created a 'new' rank.

1.26 The rank of brigadier general was abolished in the Australian Army in 1921, and it was eventually replaced by that of brigadier in 1929. In the interim titles such as 'colonel-in-command', 'colonel-of-staff' and 'colonel-commandant' were used for officers posted into that level of command.^[1]

List

Rank	Name	Born	Died	Notes
Brigadier	Gerald Adams	1898	1990	[2]
Brigadier	Bertram Alderson	1892	1983	[3]
Brigadier	Archibald Allen	1888	1961	[4] generals.dk[5]
Brigadier	Basil Andrew	1894	1941	[6]
Brigadier	Crispin Anstey	1901		[citation needed]
Brigadier	Chris Appleton			[7]
Brigadier	Mark Armstrong	1973		"[8]
Brigadier	Andrew Arthur	1909	1968	[9]
Brigadier	Rob Atkinson	1947		[10]
Brigadier	Maurice ("Bunny") Austin	1916	1985	[11]
Brigadier	Steve Ayling			[12]
Brigadier	Henry Bachtold	1891	1983	[13]
Brigadier	Charles Barber	1888	1965	[14][15]
Brigadier	Lindley Barham	1900	1995	[16]
Brigadier	Lewis Barker	1895	1981	[17]
Brigadier	Alfred Baxter-Cox	1898	1958	[18]
Brigadier	Leslie Binns	1900	1965	[19]
Brigadier	Arthur Blackburn	1892	1960	[20]
Brigadier	Gordon Bleby	1910	1976
Brigadier	Bruce Lockhart Bogle	1922	2012	[21]
Brigadier	Wayne Bowen	1956		[22]
Brigadier	John Raymond Broadbent (Quartermaster-General)	1893	1972	[23]
Brigadier	Harry Charles Bundock	1886	1957	[24]
Brigadier	Frederick Alexander Burrows	1897	1973	[25]
Brigadier	Francis Robert Burton	1906	1993	[26]
Brigadier	Gary Byles			[27]
Brigadier	Claude Ewen Cameron	1894	1982	[28]
Brigadier	Kenneth Chalmers	1900	1971	[29]
Brigadier	Wilfrid Chapman	1891	1955	[30]
Brigadier	Frederick Chilton	1905	2007	[31]
Brigadier	William James Christie	1896	1979	[citation needed]generals.dk[32]
Brigadier	Frederick Hay Christison	1891	1966	[citation needed]generals.dk[33]
Brigadier	John Augustus Clarebrough	1894	1985	[citation needed]generals.dk[34]
Brigadier	Donald Cleland	1901	1975	[35]
Brigadier	Michael Lewis Clifford	1956	2017	[36]
Brigadier	Jack Kerr Coffey	1900	1969	[citation needed]generals.dk[37]
Brigadier	Harold Cohen	1881	1946	[38]
Brigadier	Bertrand Combes	1894	1971	[citation needed]generals.dk[39]
Brigadier	John Cosson			[citation needed]Director General Supply Army
Brigadier	John Craven	1894	1965	[40][41][42]
Brigadier	John Wilson Crawford	1899	1943	[citation needed] [43]
Brigadier	William Cremor	1897	1962	[44]
	Ralph Daly	1902	1970	[citation needed]
	Jeff Davie			[citation needed]
	Charles Stewart Davies	1880	1946	[citation needed]
	Derek Deighton	1930	1991	[citation needed]
	Harold Charles de Low	1892	1957	[citation needed]
	Francis Plumly Derham	1885	1957	[citation needed]
Brigadier	Adrian d'Hagé	1946		[45]
	Harold Clive Disher	1891	1976	[citation needed]
	William Huggett Douglas	1895	1982	[citation needed]
Brigadier	Gregory Francis Downing			[citation needed]
Brigadier	Geoffrey Drake-Brockman	1885	1977	[46]
	Herbert Frederick Henry Durant	1899	1974	[citation needed]
	Leslie Glanville Howard Dyke	1900	1984	[47]
Brigadier	Tom Eastick	1900	1988	[48]
Brigadier	Cedric Edgar	1901	1967	[49]
	Henry Herrick Edwards	1896	1959	[citation needed]
	Cyril Maurice Lloyd Elliott	1899	1983	[citation needed]
Brigadier	John Essex-Clark	1931		[50]
Brigadier	Bernard Evans	1905	1981	[51]
Brigadier	Peter Evans	1937	-	[52] Chairman Duntroon Society
Brigadier	Neil Fairley	1891	1966	[53]
	David Ferguson	1941		[citation needed]
	Luke Ferguson			[citation needed]
Brigadier	Maurice Fergusson	1895	1975	[54]
	Albert Cecil Fewtrell	1885	1950	[citation needed]
	Frederick Percy Herbert Fewtrell	1894	1964	[citation needed]
Brigadier	John Field	1899	1974	[55]
	Gerard Fogarty			[citation needed]
	Alexander Moore Forbes	1892	1961	[citation needed]
Brigadier	Neil Mackenzie Freeman	1890	1961	[56]
	Peter Gates	1966
	Stephen Gilbert Friend	1896	1960	[citation needed]
	Vivian Harrold Gatliff	1889	1963	[citation needed]
Brigadier	Ian Geddes	1921	2007	[57]
Brigadier	Ian Gilmore	1925	2013	[58] Chair of Legacy Australia
	Arthur Harry Langman Godfrey	1896	1942	[citation needed]
Brigadier	Wayne Goodman			[59]
Brigadier	Eugene Gorman	1891	1973	[60]
	William Allan Hailes	1891	1949	[citation needed]
	Eric Fairweather Harrison	1881	1948	[citation needed]
	Neville Gordon Hatton	1895	1983	[citation needed]
	William Alexander Henderson	1882	1949	[citation needed]
Brigadier	Scott Hicks			Director General - Defence Force Recruiting,[61] VP, Strategy and Business Development - EOS Australia[62]
	John Hill	1888	1961	[citation needed]
	Frederick Brock Hinton	1892	1969	[citation needed]
	Oswald Vick Hoad	1888	1963	[citation needed]
	Gary Hogan			[citation needed]
	Austin Claude Selwyn Holland	1889	1965	[citation needed]
Brigadier	William 'Bill' Horrocks	1958		[citation needed]
Brigadier	Garth Hughes	1935	2017	[citation needed]President Australian Ordnance Council
Brigadier	Ronald Godfrey Howy Irving	1898	1965	[63]
Brigadier	Donald Robert Jackson	1915	1986	[64]
Brigadier	Oliver David Jackson	1919	2004	[65]
Brigadier	Wayne Jackson			[citation needed]
Brigadier	Peter Robin Jeffrey	1960		[66]
	Maurice Barber Bevan Keating	1887	1952	[citation needed]
Brigadier	Michael Christopher Kehoe			[citation needed]Comd LSF/17 (CSS) Bde 2005–06
Brigadier	Charles Kellaway	1889	1952	[67]
	Roy King	1897	1959	[citation needed]
	Douglas Oswald Luke Kitto	1895	1988	[citation needed]
	Errol Knox	1889	1949	[citation needed]
Brigadier	George Furner Langley	1891	1971	[68]
Brigadier	Peter Lambert			[69]
Brigadier	Ian Lillie			[citation needed]
Brigadier	Edmund Lind	1888	1944	[70]
Brigadier	Ian D. Langford	1975
	John Lloyd	1894	1965	[71]
	William James Macavoy Locke	1894	1962	[citation needed]
	Thomas Steane Louch	1894	1979	[citation needed]
	Leonard Cuthbert Lucas	1894	1978	[72]
	Daniel Aston Luxton	1891	1960	[citation needed]
	Thomas Fergus Buchanan MacAdie	1919	1973	[citation needed]
Brigadier	Malcolm Hudson MacKenzie-Orr			[citation needed]President Australian Ordnance Council
	Patrick Sanfield McGrath	1898	1972	[citation needed]
Brigadier	Peter McGuinness	1945	2003	[citation needed]
Brigadier	Tim McKenna	1954		[citation needed]
	Eric George Henderson McKenzie	1896	1957	[citation needed]
	Kenneth Alan McKenzie	1893	1948	[citation needed]
Brigadier	Barry Neil McManus	1962		[73]
	Douglas Murray McWhae	1884	1969	[citation needed]
	Noel Maguire			[citation needed]
Brigadier	John Walter Main CBE	1899	1969	[citation needed]
	Gordon Maitland	1896	1982	[citation needed]
	Gordon Edward Manchester	1885	1957	[citation needed]
	Jack Mann	1897	1968	[citation needed]
Brigadier	Norman Marshall	1886	1942	[citation needed]
	James Eric Gifford Martin	1904	1993	[citation needed]
	Athelsan Markham Martyn	1881	1956	[citation needed]
Brigadier	Duncan Maxwell	1892	1969	[74]
	Stephen Meekin			[citation needed]
	Ian Meibusch	1933	2013	[citation needed]
Brigadier	Kit Miles			[57]
	Arthur James Mills	1884	1954	[citation needed]
	Raymond Frederic Monaghan	1898	1966	[citation needed]
Brigadier	Michael Moon			[75]
	Guy Newton Moore	1893	1984	[citation needed]
	George Moran			[citation needed]
Brigadier	Gerald Vincent Moriarty	1894	1966	[76]
	Murray John Moten	1899	1953	[citation needed]
Brigadier	Thomas Murdoch	1876	1961	[77]
Brigadier	Allan A. Murray	1960		[citation needed]Commander 8th Brigade Dec 2011 – Dec 2014
	Edward Michael Neylan	1896	1967	[citation needed]
Brigadier	Andrew Nikolic	1961		[citation needed]
	Reginald Havill Norman	1893	1973	[78]
	Frank Kingsley Norris	1893	1984	[citation needed]
	Francis Roger North	1894	1978	[citation needed]
	Harry Scott Nurse	1896	1981	[citation needed]
Brigadier	David O'Brien			[citation needed]
	John William Alexander O'Brien	1908	1980	[citation needed]
	Douglas Paine	1892	1960	[citation needed]
	William Edward Hill Pascoe	1893	1956	[citation needed]
Brigadier	Cheryl Pearce			[79]
Brigadier	Matthew Pearse			[80]
Brigadier	Michael Phelps			[citation needed]
Brigadier	Arnold Potts	1896	1968	[81]
Brigadier	Michael Prictor	1962		[citation needed]
	Claude Esdaile Prior	1895	1954	[citation needed]
	Ralph Carlyle Geoffrey Prisk	1894	1960	[citation needed]
	Beauchamp Worters Pulver	1897	1981	[citation needed]
Brigadier	Steve Quinn			[82]
	John Herbert Rasmussen	1902	1952	[citation needed]
	John Reddish	1902	1971	[83]
	John Dalylell Richardson	1880	1954	[citation needed]
	James Campbell Robertson	1878	1951	[citation needed]
	John David Rogers	1895	1978	[citation needed]
	Henry Gordon Rourke	1896	1973	[citation needed]
Brigadier	Raymond Sandover	1910	1995	[84]
Brigadier	David Saul			[citation needed]Comd 17 Bde 2007–08, DGSL 2009–10
Brigadier	Ted Serong	1915	2002	[85]
	Harry Blamyre Sewell	1896	1943	[86]
Brigadier	Colin McOlvin Sharp			[citation needed]
	Edward Lonergan Sheehan	1898	1969	[citation needed]
	James Thomas Simpson	1898	1971	[citation needed]
Brigadier	Bob Slater	1943		[citation needed]
Brigadier	Mark Smethurst			[citation needed]
Brigadier	Andrew Smith			[87]
	Andrew Smith			[citation needed]
Brigadier	Walter Edmond Smith	1895	1976	[citation needed]
	Fritz Peter Max Solling	1892	1985	[citation needed]
	Victor Paul Hildebrand Stantke	1886	1967	[citation needed]
	William Howard St. Clair	1892	1977	[citation needed]
	John Rowlstone Stevenson	1908	1971	[citation needed]
	Robert Mackay Stodart	1879	1956	[citation needed]
Brigadier	Jack Studdert	1923	2003	[88]
Brigadier	Horace William Strutt	1903	1985	[89]
	Roy Buchanan Sutherland	1897	1943	[citation needed]
Brigadier	Harold Taylor	1890	1966	[90]
	Percy Chamberlin Thompson	1893	1972	[citation needed]
	Roy Meldrum Thompson	1895	1967	[citation needed]
	Edwin Tivey	1866	1947	[citation needed]
	Raymond Walter Tovell	1890	1966	[citation needed]
Brigadier	William Traynor			[91]
	Doug Tyers	1952		[citation needed]
Brigadier	Walter Urquhart	1894	1985	[citation needed]
Brigadier	Arthur Varley	1893	1944	[92]
Brigadier	William Veale	1895	1971	[93]
Brigadier	Donald Veron	1907	1988	[citation needed]
Brigadier	Eric Vowles	1893	1977	[citation needed]
Brigadier	Jim Wallace			[94]
Brigadier	Augustine Wardell	1895	1965	[citation needed]
Brigadier	Thomas Weavers	1892	1962	[citation needed]
Brigadier	David Welch			[citation needed]
Brigadier	Stuart Weir	1922	2004	[95]
Brigadier	Frank Wells	1896	1963	[citation needed]
Brigadier	Allan Wendt	1892	1977	[citation needed]
Brigadier	David Whitehead	1886	1992	[96]
Brigadier	Fred Whitelaw	1919		[citation needed]
Brigadier	Wilford Whittle	1892	1954	[97]
Brigadier	Jeff Wilkinson			[citation needed]
Brigadier	Ernst Williams	1884	1959	[citation needed]
Brigadier	Kenneth Williams	1896	1974	[citation needed]
Brigadier	Ian Rignold Wills			[citation needed]Director General Supply Army
Brigadier	Kenneth Wills	1896	1977	[98]
Brigadier	Robert Winning	1906	1971	[99]
Brigadier	Frederick Wood	1906	1991	[citation needed]
Brigadier	Hugh Wrigley	1891	1980	[citation needed] [100]

See also

• List of Australian admirals and commodores
• List of Australian air marshals
• Category:Australian generals
• Category:Australian brigadiers
• Category:Royal Australian Navy admirals
• Category:Royal Australian Air Force air marshals