General
* 27th of October 1905
† 14th of May 1978
(Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry)
(Michael Montgomerie Alston-Roberts-West)
| 1941-08-16 | Acting Lieutenant-Colonel |
| 1941-11-16 | Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel |
| 1943-06-07 | Acting Colonel |
| 1943-12-07 | War substantive Lieutenant-Colonel |
| 1943-12-07 | Temporary Colonel |
| 1944-05-16 | Acting Brigadier |
| 1944-11-16 | Temporary Brigadier |
| 1946-07-02 | Lieutenant-Colonel |
| 1949-02-03 | Colonel |
| 1950-07-31 | Temporary Major-General |
| 1951-05-10 | Major-General |
| 1958-03-20 | Lieutenant-General |
| 1962-06-23 | General |
| 1941-08-16 | – | 1943-06-06 | Commanding Officer 2nd Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment |
| 1943-06-07 | – | 1944-05-15 | Second in Command 72nd Indian Infantry Brigade |
| 1944-05-16 | – | 1944-08-22 | Commanding Officer 5th Infantry Brigade [Burma] |
| 1944-08-15 | – | 1944-08-23 | Acting General Officer Commanding 2nd Infantry Division [Burma] |
| 1944-09-14 | – | 1944-09-30 | Commanding Officer 5th Infantry Brigade [Burma] |
| 1944-10-01 | – | 1945-10-12 | Commanding Officer 5th Infantry Brigade [Burma] |
| 1945-10-12 | – | 1948-08-31 | Commandant of School of Infantry |
| 1949-10-15 | – | 1950-07-30 | Deputy Director of Manpower Planning, War Office |
| 1950-07-31 | – | 1952-07-22 | General Officer Commanding in Chief British Troops in Austria |
| 1952-09-07 | – | 1953-10-11 | General Officer Commanding Commonwealth Division [Korea] |
| 1955-03-10 | – | 1958-02-10 | Director of Territorial Army, War Office |
| 1958-03-20 | – | 1959-03-07 | General Officer Commanding I Corps [Germany] |
| 1960-05-11 | – | 1962-06-01 | General Officer Commanding in Chief Northern Command |
| 1962-07-07 | – | 1965-XX-XX | Head of the British Defence Staff Washington |
| 1963-06-29 | – | 1965-09-21 | Aide-de-Camp General to the Queen |
| 1965-09-21 | Retired |