# 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.

## List

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