Former Commander-in-Chief of the Petrograd military okrug , Colonel Georgi Polkovnikov , pronounced Statement himself as commander of the so-called `` Salvation Army '' ( войска спасения ) and ordered Arranging his garrison not to execute orders issued by the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee ( PMRC ) , arrest Arrest its commissars , and send Sending representatives from all military units to Nikolayevskoye School of Engineers ( a.k.a .

General Sir Harold Alexander , Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Armies in Italy , planned Arranging `` Diadem '' to coordinate roughly with the invasion of Normandy , so that German forces Military_operation would be tied Connect down in Italy , and could not be redeployed to France .

Orders for the deportation were given Giving by Commander-in-Chief William Shirley without direction from Great Britain .

In August 1942 , General Claude Auchinleck had been sacked as Commander-in-Chief Middle East Command and his successor , Lieutenant-General William Gott was killed Killing on his way to replace him as commander of the Eighth Army .