General Sir Hubert de la Poer Gough was a senior officer in the British Army in the First World War. A controversial figure, he was a favourite of the commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary F
Gough in 1916
Gough as a junior officer
The Relief of Ladysmith. Sir George White greets Lord Dundonald on 28 February 1900. Painting by John Henry Frederick Bacon.
Gough (left) and King Albert I of Belgium
Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Baronet was one of the most senior British Army staff officers of the First World War and an Irish unionist politician. He served as commandant of the Staff
Marlborough College, which Wilson attended as a boy
The Battle of Colenso, at which Wilson saw action, during the Second Boer War
The Staff College, Camberley, where Wilson served as Commandant