Field Marshal Sir Archibald James Halkett Cassels, was a senior British Army officer who served as Chief of the General Staff, the professional head of the British Army, from 1965 to 1968. As a young
General Sir James Cassels, pictured here in 1968.
Major General James Cassels, GOC 6th Airborne Division, congratulates men of the cross country running team of the 8th Parachute Battalion on the occasion of the division's cross country run in which they ran second. Picture taken in Palestine, March 1946.
General Mark W. Clark (left), Cassels and General J. Lawton Collins, both of the U.S. Army, in Korea, July 1952.
Cassels served as director of operations during the Malayan Emergency.
Field marshal has been the highest rank in the British Army since 1736. A five-star rank with NATO code OF-10, it is equivalent to an Admiral of the Fleet in the Royal Navy or a Marshal of the Royal A
James Cassels (British Army officer)
…Field Marshal Sir Archibald James Halkett Cassels, (28 February 1907 – 13 December 1996) was a senior British Army officer who served as Chief of the General Staff…
Charles III in the no. 4 warm weather service dress of a field marshal in the British Army
Field Marshal's uniform and baton (pertaining to the late Sir John Stanier) on display in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Museum, Edinburgh Castle.
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John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll and Duke of Greenwich by William Aikman