Noel Birch
![1917 portrait by [[Francis Dodd (artist)|Francis Dodd]]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Major-general_James_Frederick_Noel_Birch%2C_Cb_Art.IWMART1784.jpg)
General Sir James Frederick Noel Birch (29 December 1865 – 3 February 1939) was a British Royal Artillery officer during the Second Boer War and the First World War who served as Master-General of the Ordnance from 1923 to 1927. The Birch gun was named after him.
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