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Identification of people in photograph. From discussion on English wiki Military History Project

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Initial discussion at en:Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Military_history#Help_needed_with_identifying_people_in_photograph GraemeLeggett (talk) 08:04, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]


First row (left to right)
No. Person Command
1 Brigadier General en:William M. Miley 17th Airborne Division (US)
2 Major General en:Lewis Lyne 7th Armoured Division
3 Philip Roberts 11th Armoured Division
4 Major-General en:Gerald Templer 'intelligence duties' 21st Army Group
Second row (left to right)
No. Person Command
1 Lieutenant General en:Evelyn Barker VIII Corps
2 Lieutenant General en:Brian Horrocks XXX Corps
3 Major General Matthew Ridgway XVIII Airborne Corps (US)
4 Lieutenant General Sir en:Miles Dempsey Second Army
5 Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery 21st Army Group
6 General Harry Crerar First Canadian Army
7 Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham 2nd Tactical Air Force
8 Lieutenant General Sir Neil Ritchie XII Corps
9 Lieutenant General Sir John Crocker I Corps
Third row (left to right)
No. Person Command
1 Lieutenant General en:Stanisław Maczek Polish 1st Armoured Division
2
3
4
5
6 Major General Richard Gale 6th Airborne Division
7 Major-General Colin Muir Barber 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division
8 Lieutenant General en:Guy Simonds II Canadian Corps
9 Major General en:Christopher Vokes 4th Canadian Armoured Division
10 Bruce Matthews? 2nd Canadian Infantry Division
11
12 Major General Ivor Thomas 43rd Infantry Division
13 Major General en:Percy Hobart 79th Armoured Division
14 Major General Robert Ross 53rd Infantry Division
Fourth row (left to right)
No. Person Command
1 Major General Richard Hull 5th Infantry Division
2
3 Major General en:Lashmer Whistler 3rd Infantry Division
4 Major General Tom Rennie? 51st (Highland) Infantry Division
5 Major General Gordon Holmes Alexander MacMillan 49th Infantry Division
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7
8 Edmund Hudleston? No. 84 Group
9 Air Vice Marshal en:Harry Broadhurst No. 83 Group RAF
10 Major General en:Allan Adair Guards Armoured Division

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  1. Added Hawkeye7
  2. Added GELongstreet GraemeLeggett (talk) 08:13, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  3. added en:wiki links for reference GraemeLeggett (talk) 11:28, 10 March 2021 (UTC) added more en:wiki links GraemeLeggett (talk) 12:17, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Added two tentative ids
  5. linked some more names GraemeLeggett (talk) 17:33, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Couple of tentative IDs for two of the Scottish officers (Rennie and Barber) - Dumelow (talk) 19:41, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  7. If 4/8-9 are the commanders of 83 and 84 Group, it suggests that the extra RAF man, 3/11, might be the commander of 85 Group - w:Charles Steele - or of 38 Group - w:James Scarlett-Streatfeild. Hard to find images for either though. Andrew Gray (talk) 21:58, 11 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Milhist on En Wiki

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Hawkeye7 for Second row. "Lieutenant General Evelyn Barker, Lieutenant General Brian Horrocks, Major General Matthew Ridgway, Lieutenant General Sir Miles Dempsey, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery, General Harry Crerar, Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, Lieutenant General Sir Neil Ritchie, and Lieutenant General Sir Sir John Crocker" GraemeLeggett (talk) 08:00, 10 March 2021 (UTC) (added to table) GraemeLeggett (talk) 08:03, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

From GELongstreet (en wiki)

"According to the descriptions in the linked articles there supposedly are Major-General Gordon Holmes Alexander MacMillan (top row, fifth from left), Major-General Gerald Templer (sitting on the ground, fourth on the right), Major-General Richard Hull (top row, far left), Major-General Lashmer Whistler (top row, third from left), Major-General Ivor Thomas (standing second row, third from right) and Major-General Robert Knox Ross (standing second row, far right). " GraemeLeggett (talk) 08:06, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

From Hawkeye7

"I think Richard Gale is in the third row, sixth from left, behind Dempsey. Since we have Spry and Vokes, I'm guessing that the one next to Vokes is Bruce Matthews. Could the RAF officer next to them be Basil Embry?" - GraemeLeggett (talk) 12:35, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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