Michael Barker

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Lieutenant-General Michael George Henry Barker (1884 – 1960), CB, DSO was a British Army general who served as commander of I Corps in 1940, before being replaced by Lieutenant-General Harold Alexander. His performance there was undistinguished; his subordinate Montgomery remarked that "only a madman would give a Corps to Barker." His active military service was finished, and he served for a year as head of Aldershot Command before retiring from the army.

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  • Biographical Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War, Nick Smart. ISBN 1-84415-049-6.
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