James Gordon Legge

James Gordon Legge
Official portrait of Major General James Gordon Legge, 1920
Born(1863-08-15)15 August 1863
Hackney, London, England
Died18 September 1947(1947-09-18) (aged 84)
Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia
AllegianceAustralia
Service / branchAustralian Army
Years of service1885–1924
RankLieutenant General
CommandsChief of the General Staff (1914–15, 1917–20)
2nd Division (1915–17)
Australian Imperial Force (1915)
1st Division (1915)
Battles / warsSecond Boer War
First World War
AwardsCompanion of the Order of the Bath[1]
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
Mentioned in Despatches
Grand Officer of the Order of Prince Danilo I (Montenegro)[2]
Officer of the Legion of Honour (France)
RelationsMajor General Stanley Legge (son)
Other workFarmer

Lieutenant General James Gordon Legge, CB, CMG (15 August 1863 – 18 September 1947) was an Australian Army senior officer who served in the First World War and was the Chief of the General Staff, Australia's highest ranking army officer between 1914 and 1915 and again from 1917 to 1920. His son, Stanley Ferguson Legge, reached the rank of major general.

  1. ^ "No. 29886". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1916. p. 2.
  2. ^ Acović, Dragomir (2012). Slava i čast: Odlikovanja među Srbima, Srbi među odlikovanjima. Belgrade: Službeni Glasnik. p. 364.