G.F.Boyd, D.S.O., D.C.M., who finished the war as Major-General commanding the 46th Division.

On the 29th February 1916 Major W.E.Ironside, who has since reached the position of Major-General commanding the Allied Forces at Archangel, was succeeded as G.S.O.2 by Major L.P.Evans of the Black Watch, who subsequently, after winning the V.C.as a Battalion Commander, finished the War in command of an Infantry Brigade.
A history of the Division would hardly be complete without a short reference to "The Admiral." Many of those who knew and liked him well by that name probably never knew him by any other.Lieut.Smith was an owner driver in charge of a convoy of 'buses with the Royal Naval Division at Antwerp, whence he escaped to France.

In October 1914 he seized the opportunity of an officer requiring to be taken up to join his unit, to make his way with his car to the front.

Arrived there he contrived to get himself attached to the 6th Division Headquarters, remaining with them until he was reported missing on the 10th June 1916.

Consumed with a good healthy hatred of the enemy, and keen to be of assistance in any way that he could, he devoted the greater part of the time he was with the Division to experimenting with bullet-proof shields on wheels to be propelled by manpower, a sort of embryonic tank.