The Council of Four (from left to right): David Lloyd George , Vittorio Emanuele Orlando , Georges Clemenceau and Woodrow Wilson in Versailles .
Map of the World showing the participants in World War I. Those fighting along with the Allied Powers (at one point or another) are depicted in blue, the Central Powers in orange, and neutral countries in grey.
The Allied leaders of World War I were the political and military figures that fought for or supported the Allied Powers during World War I .
King George V (right) with his first cousin Tsar Nicholas II, Berlin, 1913. Note the close physical resemblance between the two monarchs.[ 1] Nicholas II [ 2] – Last Tsar of Russia , titular King of Poland , and Grand Duke of Finland .
Georgy Lvov – Prime Minister of the Russian Provisional Government (1917)
Alexander Kerensky [ 3] – Minister of War (1917), Prime Minister of the Russian Provisional Government (1917)
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich [ 4] – Commander-in-Chief and Viceroy in the Caucasus
Ivan Goremykin – Prime Minister of Russia (1914–1916)
Boris Stürmer – Prime Minister of Russia (1916)
Alexander Trepov – Prime Minister of Russia (1916–1917)
Nikolai Golitsyn – Prime Minister of Russia (1917)
Vladimir Sukhomlinov – Minister of War (1909–1915)
Alexei Polivanov – Minister of War (1915–1916)
Dmitry Shuvayev – Minister of War (1916–1917)
Mikhail Belyaev – Minister of War (1917), Chief-of-Staff (1914–1916)
Alexander Guchkov – Minister of War (1917)
Ivan Grigorovich – Minister of Navy (1911–1917)
Nikolai Yanushkevich – Chief-of-Staff (1914)
Pyotr Averyanov [ru ] – Chief-of-Staff (1916–1917)
Ivan Romanovsky – Chief-of-Staff (1917)
Vladimir Marushevsky – Chief-of-Staff (1917)
Mikhail Alekseyev – Commander of Southwestern Front (1914), Northwestern Front (1915), Chief of Staff (1915–1917), Commander-in-Chief of the Army (1917)
Yakov Zhilinsky – Commander of the Northwestern Front in the early stages of the war (1914)
Alexander Samsonov [ 5] – Commander of the Second Army for the invasion of East Prussia
Paul von Rennenkampf [ 6] – Commander of the First Army for the invasion of East Prussia
Nikolay Ivanov [ 7] – Commander of the Russian army on the Southwestern Front (1914–1916) and responsible for much of the action in Galicia
Aleksei Brusilov [ 8] – Commander of the Southwestern Front (1916–1917), then provisional Commander-in-Chief after the Tsar's abdication
Lavr Kornilov – Commander of the Southwestern Front and Commander-in-Chief (August 1917)
Vladislav Klembovsky – Commander of the Northern Front (1917) followed by becoming Commander-in-Chief in August 1917
Nikolai Ruzsky – Commanded the 3rd Army , Northwestern Front (1914–1915) and lastly the Northern Front (1915)
Aleksey Kuropatkin – Commander of the Northern Front (1916)
Paul von Plehwe – Commander of the 5th Army , 12th Army and briefly the Northern Front (1916)
Aleksei Evert – Took part in the Invasion of Galicia as commander of the 10th Army , later commanded the Western Front (1915–1917)
Anton Denikin – Led the 8th Army in the Brusilov Offensive and commanded the Western Front in 1917.
Illarion Ivanovich Vorontsov-Dashkov – Governor General of the Caucasus Viceroyalty and Commander of the Caucasus Army (1914–1915),
Nikolai Yudenich – Commander of the Russian forces in the Caucasus Campaign (1917)
Andrei Zayonchkovski – Commander of the Russian-Romanian Dobruja Army in the Romanian Campaign
Vladimir Viktorovich Sakharov – Commanded the 11th Army (1915–1916), the Danube Army (1916) and then became deputy commander-in-chief of Romanian Front (1916–1917)
Dmitry Shcherbachev – Commanded the 11th Army and later became deputy commander-in-chief of the Romanian Front in 1917
Mikhail Diterikhs – Commander of the Russian Expeditionary Force at the Macedonian front
Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich – Chief of the Imperial Russian Air Service
Andrei Eberhardt – Commander of Black Sea Fleet (1914–16)
Alexander Kolchak – Commander of Black Sea Fleet (1916–17)
Nikolai Essen – Commander of Baltic Fleet (1913–1915)
French Third Republic [ edit ]
Raymond Poincaré [ 9] – President of France (1913–1920)
René Viviani – Prime Minister of France (1914–1915)
Aristide Briand – Prime Minister of France (1915–1917)
Paul Painlevé – Prime Minister of France (1917)
Georges Clemenceau – Prime Minister of France and Minister of War (1917–1920)
Adolphe Messimy – Minister of War (1914)
Alexandre Millerand – Minister of War (1914–1915)
Marie-Jean-Lucien Lacaze – Minister of War (1917)
Paul Painlevé – Minister of War (1917)
Joseph Joffre [ 10] – Commander-in-Chief of the French Army (1914–1916); Marshal of France from the end of 1916
Ferdinand Foch [ 11] – Commander of French Army Group North (1914–1916), Commander-in-chief and Generalissimo of the Allied Armies (1918); Marshal of France from August 1918
Robert Nivelle [ 12] – Commander-in-Chief of the French Army (1916–1917)
Philippe Pétain [ 13] – Commander-in-Chief of the French Army (1917–1918); Marshal of France from November 1918
Maxime Weygand – General in the French Army and one of the Permanent Military Representatives in the Allied Supreme War Council
Augustin Dubail – Commanded the 1st Army (1914–1915) followed by Army Group East at Battle of Verdun until 1916. He was later military governor of Paris (1916–1918)
Fernand de Langle de Cary – Commander of the 4th Army in the Battle of the Ardennes , 1914. Later took command of Central Army Group in 1915–1916.
Victor d'Urbal – Commander of all French troops in Belgium in 1914, then the 8th Army (1915–1916) and 10th Army which participated in the Second and Third Battle of Artois
Maurice Sarrail – Commander of the Army of the Orient and which evolved to the Allied Army of the Orient on the Macedonian front (1915–1917)
Adolphe Guillaumat – Commander of the Allied Army of the Orient (1917–1918), then became military governor of Paris and was appointed to the Supreme War Council
Louis Franchet d'Espèrey – Commander of Army Group North 1916–1918, The Allied Army of the Orient and in the Liberation of Serbia (1918)
Joseph Gallieni – Military Governor of Paris and Minister of War (1915–1916)
Michel-Joseph Maunoury – Commander of the 6th Army (1914–1915) during the First Battle of the Marne
Pierre Roques – Commanded the 1st Army (1915–1916) and served as Minister of War (1916)
Marie-Eugène Debeney – General of the 1st Army (1917–1918) and Chief of Staff to Philippe Pétain
Paul Maistre – Commander of the 6th Army (1917), the 10th Army as part of the Italian Expeditionary Force in the Italian Front (1917–1918) ). Finally the Northern Army Group (1918)
Henri Putz – Commander of the Army Detachment of the Vosges which later became the 7th Army (1914–1915)
Louis de Maud'huy – Commander of the 10th Army (1914–1915), followed by command of the 7th Army in 1915, notably at the Battle of Hartmannswillerkopf
Georges Louis Humbert – Commander of the 8th Army (1915) followed by command of the 3rd Army (1915–1918)
Denis Auguste Duchêne – Commander of the 6th Army (1917–1918) during the Third Battle of the Aisne
Charles Mangin – Commanded the 6th Army (1916–1917) in the Second Battle of the Aisne and later the 10th Army in the Second Battle of the Marne
Henri Gouraud – Led the Oriental Expeditionary Forces in 1915 during the Gallipoli Campaign where he lost his arm, later commanded the 4th Army (1915–1916 & 1917–1918)
François Anthoine – Commander of the 1st Army during the Battle of Passchendaele (1917)
Henri Mathias Berthelot – General of French Military Mission in Romania and the Fifth Army
Noël Èdouard de Castelnau – Commander of the 2nd (1914–1915), Central Army Group (1915) and Eastern Army Group (1918)
Émile Fayolle – Commander of the 1st Army (1916–1917), Army Group Center (1917), French divisions to the Italian Front (1917–1918) and the Army Group Reserve (1918)
Hubert Lyautey – Resident-General of Morocco (1912–1916), suppressing rebellions in North Africa during the war. Minister of War (1916–1917)
Jean César Graziani – Commander of the Italian 12th Army in the Battle of Vittorio Veneto
Milan Rastislav Štefánik – Commander of Czechoslovak Legions
Édouard Barès – Commander of French Air Force
H. H. Asquith – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1908–1916), Secretary of State for War (1914)
David Lloyd George – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1916–1922), Secretary of State for War (1916)
Herbert Kitchener – Secretary of State for War (1914–1916)
The Earl of Derby – Secretary of State for War (1916–1918)
The Viscount Milner – Secretary of State for War (1918–1919)
James Wolfe Murray – Chief of the Imperial General Staff (1914–1915), British Troops in Egypt (1916–1917)
William Robertson – Chief of the Imperial General Staff (1916–1918)
John French – Commander-in-Chief of the BEF (1914–1915) and Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces (1915–1918)
Douglas Haig – Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force (1915–1918)
Henry Wilson – Advisor of John French and Chief of the Imperial General Staff (1918–1922)
Archibald Murray – Chief of Staff of the British Expeditionary Force (1914–1915), Chief of the Imperial General Staff (1915) and Commander of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (1916–1917)
Edmund Allenby – Commander of the Third Army and later the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (1917–1918)
Henry Horne – Commander of the First Army (1916–1918)
Horace Smith-Dorrien – Led the II Corps of the BEF at the Battle of Mons and Le Cateau , he then commanded the 2nd Army (1914–1915)
Herbert Plumer – Commander of the V Corps at the Second Battle of Ypres (1915) followed by command of the 2nd Army (1915–1917). He then led the Italian Expeditionary Force before going back to the 2nd Army (1918)
Henry Rawlinson – British General of the Fourth Army , notably at the Battle of the Somme and Battle of Amiens
Hubert Gough – Commander of the Fifth Army (1916–1918)
George Milne – Commander of the British Salonika Army at the Salonika front (1916-1918f)
The Earl of Cavan – Commander of the Italian 10th Army at the Battle of Vittorio Veneto
Ian Hamilton – Commander of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force during the Gallipoli Campaign
Reginald Wingate – Commander of the British forces in the Anglo-Egyptian Darfur Expedition
Charles Macpherson Dobell – Commander of the Allied force in the Kamerun campaign
Hastings Ismay – Commander of the British forces in the Somaliland Campaign
Stanley Maude – Commander during the Mesopotamian Campaign
Prince Louis of Battenberg – First Sea Lord (1912–1914)
Lord Fisher – First Sea Lord (1914–1915)
Sir Henry Jackson – First Sea Lord (1915–1916)
Sir John Jellicoe – Commanding officer of the Grand Fleet (1914–1916), First Sea Lord (1916–1918)
Sir Rosslyn Wemyss – First Sea Lord (1918–1919)
David Beatty – Commanding officer of the Grand Fleet (1916–1919)
Winston Churchill – First Lord of the Admiralty (1911–1915)
Arthur Balfour – First Lord of the Admiralty (1915–1916), Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1916–1919)
Sir Edward Carson – First Lord of the Admiralty (1916–1917)
Sir Eric Geddes – First Lord of the Admiralty (1917–1919)
John de Robeck – Naval Commander in the Gallipoli Campaign
David Henderson – Director-General of Military Aeronautics (1913–1917)
Sir Edward Grey, Bt. – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1905–1916)`
Robert Borden , Prime Minister of Canada
Union of South Africa [ edit ]
Dominion of New Zealand [ edit ]
Dominion of Newfoundland [ edit ]
Kingdom of Montenegro [ edit ]
King Albert I
King Victor Emanuel III of Italy
Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States
Okuma Shigenobu , 5th Prime Minister of Japan .
First Portuguese Republic [ edit ]
Emirate of Nejd and Hasa [ edit ]
First Brazilian Republic [ edit ]
Yuan Shikai - President of the Republic of China (1916)
Li Yuanhong - President of the Republic of China (1916 – 1917)
Feng Guozhang - President of the Republic of China (1917 - 1918)
Duan Qirui - Premier of the Republic of China
^ At George's wedding in 1893, The Times claimed that the crowd may have confused Nicholas with George, because their beards and dress made them look alike superficially (The Times (London) Friday, 7 July 1893, p.5). Their facial features were only different up close.
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