English: The painting depicts 22 of the approximately 1,500 brigadier-generals, major-generals, lieutenant-generals, generals, and field marshals who served in the British and Imperial armies in the First World War. All but two of the subjects reached the rank of at least lieutenant-general, and most were commanders of armies or army corps. The only two divisional commanders are Major-General Lukin and Major-General Russell.

From left to right, they are:

1. Field Marshal William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood (commander of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps from 1914 to 1916, and of the British Fifth Army in 1918)
2. Field Marshal Jan Smuts (commander of Imperial forces in east Africa in 1916)
3. General Louis Botha (commander in southwest Africa) (blue lapel flashes)
4. Field Marshal Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy (commander of the British Third Army from 1917 to 1918)
5. General Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson (commander of the British Fourth Army from 1916 to 1918) (carrying a coat)
6. Major-General Sir Henry Lukin (commander of the South African Brigade from 1915 to 1916, and of the 9th (Scottish) Division from 1916 to 1918)
7. General Sir John Monash (commander of the Australian Corps from 1917 to 1918)
8. General Henry Horne, 1st Baron Horne (commander of the British First Army from September 1917)
9. Field Marshal George Milne, 1st Baron Milne (commander of British forces in Salonika from 1916 to 1918)
10. Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet (Chief of the Imperial General Staff from February 1918)
11. Major-General Sir Andrew Hamilton Russell (commander of the New Zealand Division from 1916 to 1918)
12. Field Marshal Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer (commander of the British Second Army from 1915 to 1917 and in 1918) (white moustache)
13. General Sir John Cowans (Quartermaster-General to the Forces from 1912 to 1919)
14. Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Force in France from December 1915 to 1918) (with baton)
15. Field Marshal John French, 1st Earl of Ypres (commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Force in France in 1914 to December 1915) (with baton, wearing coat)
16. Field Marshal Sir William Robertson, 1st Baronet (Chief of the Imperial General Staff from December 1915 to February 1918)
17. Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude (commander of British forces in Mesopotamia from 1916 to his death in 1917)
18. Field Marshal Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (commander of the British Third Army in 1916 to 1917, and the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in the Middle East) (turning away, with sword)
19. Lieutenant-General Sir William Marshall (commander of British forces in Mesopotamia from 1917 to 1918)
20. General Sir Arthur Currie (commander of the Canadian Corps from June 1917 to 1918) (carrying coat)
21. Field Marshal Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan (commander of the Italian Tenth Army from March 1918)
22. General Sir Charles Macpherson Dobell (commander in Cameroon from 1914 to 1916, and then in the Middle East until 1917)

The generals are mostly British, but some representatives from the British Empire are also included: Field Marshal Smuts, General Botha and Major-General Lukin from South Africa, Generals Currie and Dobell from Canada, General Monash from Australia, and Major-General Russell from New Zealand.