caption serviceyears laterwork branch commands death_date death_place birth_place allegiance awards battles birth_date rank image article_title name
general brudenell white in march 1940 1896 -- 1923 1940 chairman of the public service board australian army chief of the general staff 13 august 1940 canberra , australian capital territory st arnaud , victoria australia knight commander of the order of st michael and st george commander knight commander of the royal victorian order distinguished service order of mentioned in despatches -lrb- 8 -rrb- the order of the bath knight second boer war first world war 23 september 1876 general brudenell white -lrb- awm 001110 -rrb- . jpg brudenell white
 sir cyril brudenell bingham white
brudenell white

general sir cyril brudenell bingham white -lrb- 23 september 1876 -- 13 august 1940 -rrb- was a senior officer in the australian army , who served as chief of the general staff from 1920 to 1923 and again from march to august 1940 , when he was killed in the canberra air disaster .
