James Gordon Legge

Lieutenant General James Gordon Legge CB, CMG was an Australian Army senior officer who served in the First World War and was the Chief of the General Staff, Australias highest ranking Army officer between 1914 and 1915 and again between 1917 and 1920. His son Stanley Ferguson Legge reached the rank of major general.

James Gordon Legge was born in Hackney, London, England onAugust 1863, the eldest of eight sons. The family migrated to Australia in 1878. He was educated at Cranleigh School in Surrey, England, and Sydney Grammar School. Legge graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts in 1884, Master of Arts in 1887 and a Bachelor of Law in 1890.

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