General Sir James Frederick Noel Birch was a British Royal Artillery officer during the Second Boer War and the First World War who served as Master-General of the Ordnance from 1923 to 1927. The Birc
1917 portrait by Francis Dodd
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, C-in-C of the BEF, with Lieutenant General Arthur Currie (left), GOC of the Canadian Corps, and Currie's senior commanders in Germany, December 1918. Standing behind Currie is Birch.
General Sir George de Symons Barrow, was a British Indian Army officer who became General Officer Commanding Yeomanry Mounted Division and the 4th Cavalry Division.
Noel Birch
…the temporary rank of brigadier general and appointed brigadier general, general staff (BGGS) of the Cavalry Corps, taking over from Brigadier General George Barrow. He was made a brevet colonel the next month and appointed a personal aide-de-camp to King George V. A few months later he became commander, Royal…