# 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 | 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 | 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 to 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 | 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 | 16 June 2024 | |
| General Sir James Hockenhull | 23 May 2022 | | |
| General Dame Sharon Nesmith | 17 May 2024 | |
| General Sir Roland Walker | 16 June 2024 | | |
    † : Date of death.