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General

General was a senior military rank above lieutenant general and below field marshal.

Named generals[]

Human[]

Mark Antony was a co-leader of Rome. (PROSE: The Last Pharaoh)

R. Asquith was the Chief of the Defence Staff. (TV: Aliens of London / World War Three)

George Carrington was a British military officer and the head of the Space Security Department. (TV: Ambassadors of Death)

Chellak was the leader of the troop sent to Androzani Minor to force out Sharaz Jek. (TV: The Caves of Androzani)

Cheng Teik was a Chinese army officer and the Chinese delegate to the World Peace Conference. (TV: The Mind of Evil)

Cobb was a cloned general encountered by the Tenth DoctorDonna and later Martha on the planet Messaline.  (TV: The Doctor's Daughter)

Cutler was the American military officer in command of the Snowcap base in Antarctica. (TV: The Tenth Planet)

Finch was an officer in the British Army.  (TV: Invasion of the Dinosaurs)

Nikolai Hermack was a long-time Space Corps officer.  (TV: The Space Pirates)

Hindenberg was a German general during World War I. He commanded the Germans at the battle of Tannenberg. (PROSE: Illegal Alien)

Reginald Hemmings was a general who covered for Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart when he was in Oslo in 1979. (AUDIO: The Valley of Death)

Adrienne Kramer was the leader of the United States division of UNIT in the 1990s and 2000s. (PROSE: Vampire Science)

Mariah Learman was the ruler of New Britain sometime in the 2050s. (AUDIO: The Time of the Daleks)

Matt Robinson worked for the Ministry of Defence. (PROSE: The Secret Lives of Monsters)

Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart was promoted to general but was still referred to as Brigadier. (PROSE: The Dying Days)

Maxwell-Lennon was a general working for UNIT. (COMIC: Doomcloud)

Raymar was an Egyptian general. (PROSE: The Last Pharaoh)

Stillmun was the leader of the Luminus expedition to colonise Olleril. (PROSE: Tragedy Day)

Otto Strasser was the commanding officer of the Britischer Freikorps in an alternate timeline. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus)

Tchike was a member of UNISYC. (PROSE: Alien Bodies)

John Williams was an Earth military officer and military advisor to the President of Earth, (TV: Frontier in Space, PROSE: Doctor Who and the Space WarDora, (AUDIO: The Transcendence of Ephros) in the year 2540. (TV: Frontier in Space)

Xiaolian was a high-ranking official in the Chinese army. She led the Chinese forces stationed in Turmezistan. (TV: The Pyramid at the End of the World)

Time Lord[]

The General led the War Council of Gallifrey during the Last Great Time War. (TV: The Day of the Doctor, Hell Bent)

Historians who had studied the Time War believed that the Master had been awarded the rank of general upon his resurrection. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe)

Chelonian[]

Fakrid was a general of the Chelonian military at Vaagon. (PROSE: The Highest Science)

Jafrid was a general of the Chelonian military at the battle on Barclow. (PROSE: The Well-Mannered War)

Gaztak[]

Grugger was the leader of a group of Gaztak mercenaries. (TV: Meglos)

Ice Warrior[]

Azznesh Azzar was a New Mars delegate for the Queen Bastrovan peace conference. (AUDIO: The Dance of the Dead)

Loba[]

Orryx was the commander of the loba forces in their war with human colonists on Lobos. (PROSE: The Good Doctor)

Robot[]

Ironicus was the robot regent of an alternate Earth where Rome never fell, and the general of its Iron Legion.  (COMIC: Doctor Who and the Iron Legion)

Sontaran[]

Staal of the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet was a general during the Sontaran invasion of Earth in 2009. (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky)

Kade of the Fourth Sontaran Intelligence Division was a general famous for invading Chelsea 426. (PROSE: The Taking of Chelsea 426)

Stenk was a general whose cowardice had lost 10000 troops when he left them to escape, and who also disobeyed Sontaran Command orders by invading Drakkis instead of observing the effect of the Last Great Time War. (AUDIO: The Sontaran Ordeal)

Fesk of the Eighth Battle Fleet was a general who kidnapped the War Ollistra in order to use her as a bargaining chip to both the Daleks and the Time Lords to allow them into the Last Great Time War, and who tricked the Dalek Time Strategist in to meeting him so he could use a Time Pocket to capture him. (AUDIO: The Eternity Cage)

Skelp was a general under Fleet Marshal Stentor, one of the oldest leaders through the Sontaran Empire. (TV: Lords of the Storm)

Chelonian[]

Jafrid was a general of the Chelonian military at the battle on Barclow. (PROSE: The Well-Mannered War, AUDIO: The Well-Mannered War)

War Lord[]

Smythe was the name used by one of the War Lords when he posed as a general in the British Army in their simulated version of World War I. (TV: The War Games)

Zerugian[]

Orlo was a Zerugian who, as a gift, gave a duplicate of the Mortal Mirror to mark the beginning of the negotiations.  (PROSE: Martha in the Mirror)

Unnamed species[]

Sholakh was the aide to the Graff Vynda-K. (TV: The Ribos Operation)

Nor-Din was a military leader native to Anhaut. (COMIC: The Return of the Daleks)

Unnamed generals[]

A General was a survivor of an age-old conflict on a planet. (COMIC: The Last Soldier)

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