Aide-de-camp general (Redirected from Aide-de-Camp General)

Aide-de-camp general is a senior honorary appointment for generals in the British Army. The recipient is appointed as an aide-de-camp general to the head of state, currently King Charles III. They are entitled to the post-nominals "ADC (Gen.)".

The Royal Air Force's equivalent appointment is air aide-de-camp, while the Royal Navy's is First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp.

List of aides-de-camp general

Name and rank Date of appointment Appointment ended Notes
General Sir William Nicholson 1 July 1910 19 June 1911 Appointment vacated on promotion to field marshal.
Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Paget 1 July 1910 1 July 1914
Lieutenant-General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien 1 July 1910 1 July 1914
Major-General Spencer Ewart 1 July 1910 1 July 1914
General Sir John French 19 June 1911 18 February 1914
General Sir Edmund Barrow, Indian Army 2 December 1911 17 January 1913
General Sir O'Moore Creagh, Indian Army 2 December 1911 8 March 1914
Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Scallon 17 January 1913 29 October 1915
Lieutenant-General Sir Douglas Haig 18 February 1914 1 January 1917 Promoted to field marshal.
General Sir Beauchamp Duff, Indian Army 8 March 1914 3 November 1917
Lieutenant-General Sir James Grierson 1 July 1914 17 August 1914 †
General Sir Charles Douglas 1 July 1914 25 October 1914 †
General Sir Ian Hamilton 1 July 1914 1 July 1918
General Sir John Nixon, Indian Army 29 October 1915 3 November 1917
General Sir Herbert Plumer 15 January 1917 31 July 1919 Promoted to field-marshal.
General Sir Archibald Hunter 15 January 1917 1 October 1920
General Sir William Robertson 15 January 1917 29 March 1920 Promoted to field-marshal.
General Sir Arthur Barrett 3 November 1917 31 May 1920
General Sir William Birdwood 3 November 1917 21 June 1922
General Sir Charles Monro, Bt. 1 July 1918 30 June 1922
General the Lord Rawlinson 31 July 1919 31 July 1923
General the Lord Horne 29 March 1920 29 March 1924
Lieutenant-General the Earl of Cavan 1 October 1920 26 April 1922
General Sir Claud Jacob 11 January 1921 31 May 1924
General Sir Francis Davies 26 April 1922 26 April 1926
General Sir Havelock Hudson 21 June 1922 14 February 1924
General Sir Thomas Morland 30 June 1922 21 May 1925 †
General Sir George Milne 31 July 1923 31 July 1927
Lieutenant-General Sir George Barrow 14 February 1924 14 February 1928
General Sir Walter Congreve 29 March 1924 28 February 1927 †
Lieutenant-General Sir John Shea 31 May 1924 31 May 1928
General Sir Alexander Godley 22 May 1925 22 May 1929
General Sir John Du Cane 26 April 1926 26 April 1930
General Sir Walter Braithwaite 14 March 1927 1 March 1931
General Sir Philip Chetwode, Bt. 31 July 1927 31 July 1931
Lieutenant-General Sir Andrew Skeen 14 February 1928 26 April 1929
General Sir Alexander Cobbe, Indian Army 31 May 1928 29 June 1931 †
General Sir Robert Cassels, Indian Army 26 April 1929 9 June 1933
General Sir John Asser 22 May 1929 9 August 1930
General Sir Charles Harington 26 April 1930 26 April 1934
General Sir Robert Whigham 9 August 1930 1 March 1931
General Sir David Campbell 1 March 1931 1 March 1935
General Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd 1 March 1931 1 March 1935
General Sir Norman MacMullen, Indian Army 29 June 1931 12 September 1935
General Sir William Thwaites 31 July 1931 1 October 1933 Extra A.D.C. General from 1 October 1933 until 31 July 1935.
General Sir Kenneth Wigram, Indian Army 9 June 1933 6 June 1936
General Sir Percy Radcliffe 1 October 1933 9 February 1934 †
General Sir Cyril Deverell 10 February 1934 15 May 1936 Promoted field-marshal.
General the Honourable Sir John Gathorne-Hardy 26 April 1934 12 October 1937
General Sir Alexander Wardrop, Indian Army 1 March 1935 12 October 1937
General Sir John Burnett-Stuart 1 March 1935 26 April 1938
General Sir Walter Leslie, Indian Army 12 September 1935 1 May 1936
General Sir Henry ap Rhys Pryce, Indian Army 1 May 1936 1 April 1938
General Sir George Jeffreys 15 May 1936 17 August 1938
Lieutenant-General Sir John Coleridge, Indian Army 6 June 1936 6 June 1940
General Sir Walter Kirke 12 October 1937 1 July 1940
General Sir Edmund Ironside 12 October 1937 20 July 1940 Promoted to field-marshal.
General Sir Douglas Baird, Indian Army 1 April 1938 1 April 1940
General Sir William Bartholomew 26 April 1938 8 June 1940
General Sir Charles Bonham-Carter 17 August 1938 17 August 1941
General Sir Sydney Muspratt, Indian Army 1 April 1940 15 December 1941
General Sir Roger Wilson, Indian Army 6 June 1940 15 May 1941
General Sir Robert Gordon-Finlayson 8 June 1940 24 November 1941
General Sir John Dill 1 July 1940 18 November 1941 Promoted to field-marshal.
General the Viscount Gort 20 July 1940 20 July 1944
General Sir Claude Auchinleck 15 May 1941 1 June 1946 Promoted to field marshal.
General Sir Archibald Wavell 17 August 1941 18 October 1943 Appointed Viceroy and Governor-General of India.
General Sir Walter Venning 18 November 1941 11 September 1942
General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson 24 November 1941 29 December 1944 Promoted to field marshal.
General Sir Alan Hartley, Indian Army 15 December 1941 7 July 1944
General Sir Alan Brooke 11 September 1942 26 June 1946
General Sir George Giffard 18 October 1943 17 August 1946
General Mosley Mayne, Indian Army 7 July 1944 1 March 1947
General the Honourable Sir Harold Alexander 20 July 1944 5 April 1946
General Sir Bernard Paget 13 October 1944 14 October 1946 Appointed aide-de-camp general (extra).
General Sir Richard O'Connor 5 April 1946 30 January 1948
General Sir Charles Loyd 26 June 1946 23 April 1947
General Sir Daril Watson 17 August 1946 19 August 1947
General Sir Miles Dempsey 14 October 1946 22 August 1947
General Sir Geoffry Scoones, Indian Army 1 March 1947 1 August 1949
General Sir Edwin Morris 23 April 1947 15 November 1948
General Sir Philip Christison, Bt. 19 August 1947 27 June 1949
General Sir Montagu Stopford 22 August 1947 6 July 1949
General Sir John Crocker 30 January 1948 31 January 1951
General Harry Crerar, Canadian Army 23 July 1948 c.1953
General Sir Neil Ritchie 15 November 1948 30 August 1951
General Sir Brian Robertson 27 June 1949 27 June 1952
General Sir Evelyn Barker 6 July 1949 c.1950
General Sir James Steele c.1950 21 October 1950
General Sir John Harding 21 October 1950 21 July 1953 Promoted to field marshal.
General Sir Frank Simpson 31 January 1951 31 January 1954
General Sir Gerald Templer 30 August 1951 30 August 1954
General Sir Ouvry Roberts 27 June 1952 26 June 1955
General Sir Charles Keightley 21 July 1953 20 July 1956
General Sir Richard Gale 31 January 1954 31 January 1957
General Sir Cameron Nicholson 30 August 1954 29 November 1956
General Sir George Erskine 26 June 1955 26 June 1958
General Sir Robert Mansergh 20 July 1956 13 February 1959
General Sir Charles Loewen 29 November 1956 14 August 1959
General Sir Nevil Brownjohn 31 January 1957 29 November 1958
General Sir Francis Festing 26 June 1958 1 September 1960
General Sir Dudley Ward 29 November 1958 29 November 1961
General Sir Hugh Stockwell 13 February 1959 13 February 1962
General Sir Geoffrey Bourne 14 August 1959 29 April 1960
General Sir James Cassels 29 April 1960 29 April 1963
General Sir Cecil Sugden 1 September 1960 28 December 1961
General Sir Richard Hull 29 November 1961 29 November 1964
General Sir Richard Goodbody 28 December 1961 29 June 1963
General Sir Gerald Lathbury 13 February 1962 25 February 1965
General Sir Roderick McLeod 29 April 1963 30 January 1965
General Sir Michael West 29 June 1963 21 September 1965
General Sir William Stirling 29 November 1964 30 June 1966
General Sir Charles Jones 30 January 1965 9 January 1967
General Sir Rodney Moore 25 February 1965 18 October 1966
General Sir Robert Bray 21 September 1965 21 September 1968
General Sir Reginald Hewetson 30 June 1966 27 November 1967
General Sir John Anderson 18 October 1966 27 February 1968
General Sir Charles Richardson 9 January 1967 9 January 1970
General Sir John Hackett 27 November 1967 1 October 1968
General Sir Geoffrey Baker 27 February 1968 31 March 1971 Promoted to field marshal.
General Sir Alan Jolly 21 September 1968 27 October 1969
General Sir Kenneth Darling 1 October 1968 11 November 1969
General Sir Charles Harington 27 October 1969 6 February 1971
General Sir Michael Carver 11 November 1969 11 November 1972
General Sir Desmond Fitzpatrick 9 January 1970 9 January 1973
General Sir John Mogg 6 February 1971 6 February 1974
General Sir Antony Read 31 March 1971 2 March 1974
General Sir Victor FitzGeorge-Balfour 11 November 1972 21 November 1973
General Sir Peter Hunt 9 January 1973 9 January 1976
General Sir Basil Eugster 21 November 1973 29 April 1974
General Sir Thomas Pearson 6 February 1974 27 December 1974
General Sir Cecil Blacker 2 March 1974 25 June 1976
General Sir William Jackson 29 April 1974 29 April 1976
General Sir Harry Tuzo 27 December 1974 27 December 1977
General Sir John Gibbon 9 January 1976 27 May 1977
General Sir John Sharp 29 April 1976 15 January 1977 †
General Sir Roland Gibbs 25 June 1976 25 June 1979
General Sir Frank King 15 January 1977 27 December 1978
General Sir David Fraser 27 May 1977 5 February 1980
General Sir Jack Harman 27 December 1977 27 December 1980
General Sir Patrick Howard-Dobson 27 December 1978 24 April 1981
General Sir Edwin Bramall 25 June 1979 31 July 1982 Promoted to field marshal.
General Sir Robert Ford 5 February 1980 7 April 1981
General Sir William Scotter 27 December 1980 5 February 1981 †
General Sir John Stanier 6 April 1981 10 July 1985 Promoted to field marshal.
General Sir Michael Gow 7 April 1981 7 April 1984
General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley 24 April 1981 14 February 1983
General Sir George Cooper 31 July 1982 26 May 1984
General Sir Frank Kitson 14 February 1983 27 July 1985
General Sir Thomas Morony 7 April 1984 11 November 1986
General Sir Roland Guy 26 May 1984 7 February 1987
General Sir Nigel Bagnall 10 July 1985 9 September 1988 Promoted to field marshal.
General Sir Edward Burgess 27 July 1985 2 October 1987
General Sir David Mostyn 7 February 1987 10 February 1989
General Sir John Chapple 2 October 1987 14 February 1992
General Sir Charles Huxtable 9 September 1988 3 December 1990
General Sir Robert Pascoe 10 February 1989 21 February 1991
Lieutenant-General Sir David Ramsbotham 3 December 1990 13 July 1993
General Sir Peter Inge 21 February 1991 21 April 1994 Promoted to field marshal.
General Sir John Waters 14 February 1992 22 March 1995
General Sir Charles Guthrie 13 July 1993 4 May 2001
General Sir John Wilsey 21 April 1994 24 June 1996
General Sir Michael Rose 9 September 1995 31 August 1997
General Sir Roger Wheeler 6 December 1996 7 August 2000
General Sir Jeremy Mackenzie 17 March 1997 8 February 1999
General Sir Michael Walker 1 September 1997 5 June 2006
General Sir Alexander Harley 8 February 1999 7 August 2000
General Sir Rupert Smith 7 August 2000 1 November 2001
General Sir Samuel Cowan 7 August 2000 18 November 2002
General Sir Mike Jackson 1 November 2001 14 November 2006
General Sir Timothy Granville-Chapman 6 January 2003 29 October 2009
General Sir Richard Dannatt 5 June 2006 1 September 2009
General Sir Redmond Watt 8 January 2007 30 April 2008
General Sir David Richards 12 June 2008 2 January 2014
General Sir Nicholas Houghton 1 October 2009 24 January 2017
General Sir Peter Wall 30 October 2009 5 September 2014
General Sir Nick Parker 29 October 2010 25 May 2013
General Sir Richard Barrons 19 April 2013 5 April 2016
General Sir Nicholas Carter 5 September 2014 1 December 2021
General Sir Christopher Deverell 5 April 2016 10 May 2019
General Sir Mark Carleton-Smith 11 June 2018 13 June 2022
General Sir Patrick Sanders 6 May 2019
General Sir James Hockenhull 23 May 2022
† : Date of death.

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