Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces

Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces was a senior officer in the British Army during the First and Second World Wars. The role of the appointment was firstly to oversee the training and equipment of formations in preparation for their deployment overseas, and secondly, to command the forces required to defend the United Kingdom against an enemy incursion or invasion.

Field Marshal Sir John French – December 1915 to May 1918

Field Marshal – 1918 to 1919 ^[2]

Sir William Robertson

Field Marshal – 1919 to 1921 ^[3]

Lord Haig

General Sir – September 1939 to May 1940

Walter Kirke

General Sir – May to July 1940

Edmund Ironside

General Sir – July 1940 to December 1941

Alan Brooke

General Sir – December 1941 to January 1944

Bernard Paget

General Sir – January 1944 to 1945^[7]

Harold Franklyn

Collier (1956), Defence of the United Kingdom. , accessed November 2011.