Deputy Chief of the General Staff (DCGS) is the title of the deputy to the Chief of the General Staff, the professional head of the British Army. From 1942 until 1985 the Deputy Chief was the third-ranking member of the General Staff, subordinate the Chief and Vice Chief. As of September 2015, the role of Deputy CGS is to be "responsible for representing the Army Top Level Budget (TLB) within Head Office and outwards to relevant TLBs and dependencies, provides oversight of the Army Operating Model and provides overall personnel policy direction as the Principal Personnel Officer (PPO)."
Post-holders have been as follows:
Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff
Major-General Sir Henry Lawson November 1914 – January 1915
Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Murray February 1915 – September 1915
Major-General Sir Launcelot Kiggell November 1915 – December 1915
Major-General Robert Whigham December 1915 – April 1918
Major-General Sir Charles Harington 1918–1920
Lieutenant-General Sir Philip Chetwode, 1920–1922
Lieutenant-General Sir Ronald Adam 1938–1939
Major-General Hugh Massy 1939–1940
Lieutenant-General Sir Ronald Weeks 15 June 1942 – 29 May 1945
Lieutenant-General Sir Sidney Kirkman 1945–1947
Lieutenant-General Sir Kenneth Crawford 1947–1949
Lieutenant-General Sir John Whiteley 1949–1953
Lieutenant-General Sir Dudley Ward 1953–1956
Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Hull 1956–1958
Lieutenant-General Sir Harold Pyman 1958–1961
Lieutenant-General Sir John Anderson 1961–1963
Lieutenant-General Sir John Hackett 1963–1966
General Sir Charles Harington 1966–1968
Lieutenant-General Sir Ian Freeland April 1968 – December 1968
Deputy Chief of the General Staff
Lieutenant-General Mark Poffley Spring 2015 – December 2015
Lieutenant-General Nicholas Pope 2015–
