List of senior officers of the Australian Army

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Chief of the Army

in reverse chronological order

• Lieutenant General Peter Leahy, 28 June 2002 to present
• Lieutenant General Peter Cosgrove, 16 July 2000 to 28 June 2002
• Lieutenant General Francis Hickling, 24 June 1998 to 15 July 2000
• Lieutenant General John Sanderson, 19 February 1997 to 23 June 1998

Chief of the General Staff prior to 19 February 1997

• Lieutenant General John Sanderson, 8 July 1995 to 18 February 1997
• Lieutenant General John Grey, 1 May 1992 to 7 July 1995
• Lieutenant General John Coates, 16 April 1990 to 30 April 1992
• Lieutenant General Lawrence O'Donnell, 13 April 1987 to 15 April 1990
• Lieutenant General Peter Courtney Gration 13 April 1984 to 12 April 1987
• Lieutenant General Sir Phillip Harvey Bennett 15 February 1982 to 12 February 1984
• Lieutenant General Sir Donald Dunstan 21 April 1977 to 14 February 1982
• Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Leslie MacDonald 9 February 1976 to 20 April 1977
• Lieutenant General Sir Francis George Hassett 20 November 1973 to 23 November 1976
• Lieutenant General Sir Mervyn Francis Brogan 19 May 1971 to 19 November 1973
• Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Joseph Daly 19 May 1966 to 18 May 1971
• Lieutenant General Sir John Wilton 21 January 1963 to 18 May 1966
• Lieutenant General Sir Reginald George Pollard 1 July 1960 to 20 January 1963
• Lieutenant General Sir Ragnar Garrett 23 March 1958 to 30 June 1960
• Lieutenant General Sir Henry Wells 16 December 1954 to 22 March 1958
• Lieutenant General Sir Sydney Fairbairn Rowell, 17 April 1950 to 15 December 1954
• Lieutenant General Vernon Ashton Hobart Sturdee (acting from 1 December 1945) 1 March 1946 to 16 April 1950
• Lieutenant General John Northcott 10 September 1942 to 30 November 1945
• Lieutenant General Vernon Ashton Hobart Sturdee 30 April 1940 to 9 September 1942
• General Sir Brudenell White 18 March 1940 to 13 August 1940
• Major General John Northcott (acting) 27 January 1940 to 17 March 1940
• Lieutenant General Ernest Ker Squires 13 October 1939 to 26 January 1940
• Lieutenant General John Dudley Lavarack 21 April 1935 to 12 October 1939
• Major General Sir Julius Henry Bruche 1 October 1931 to 20 April 1935
• Major General Walter Adams Coxen 1 May 1930 to 30 September 1931
• General Sir Harry Chauvel 11 June 1923 to 15 April 1930
• Lieutenant General Sir Brudenell White 1 June 1920 to 10 June 1923
• Lieutenant General James Gordon Legge 1 October 1917 to 31 May 1920
• Colonel Hubert John Foster 1 January 1916 to 30 September 1917
• Colonel Godfrey George Howy Irving (temporary) 24 May 1915 to 31 December 1915
• Major General James Gordon Legge 1 August 1914 to 23 May 1915
• Brigadier Joseph Maria Gordon 7 October 1911 to 31 July 1914
• Lieutenant Colonel A. F. Wilson (acting) 1 June 1911 to 10 May 1912
• Major General John Charles Hoad 26 May 1909 to 30 May 1911
• Colonel William Throsby Bridges 1 January 1909 to 25 April 1909

General Officer Commanding

• Lieutenant General Sir Edward Hutton 1901

References

List derived from Beaumont, Joan, Australian Defence: Sources and Statistics, ISBN 0 19 554118 9 pp. 75-76

See also

List of Australian Generals