Four men earned rank of general in a foreign military and served in the Lithuanian Army, but were not awarded the rank of general in Lithuania and are therefore not included in the list below.
[1] After the Soviet occupation of Lithuania on 15 June 1940, the Lithuanian Army was repressed and its remains were absorbed into the 179th Rifle and 184th Rifle Divisions of the Red Army and adopted Russian ranks.
Four generals of the Imperial Russian Army served in the Lithuanian Army but were not officially recognized as generals in Lithuania:[3] Three men were posthumously awarded the rank of general for their contributions to the anti-Soviet resistance, in particular the Lithuanian Liberty Army, the Union of Lithuanian Freedom Fighters and the Lithuanian partisan movement in 1998.
They did not serve as generals in the Lithuanian Army as it ceased to exist in 1940.
On 11 March 1990, Lithuania restored its independence and reestablished the Lithuanian Armed Forces.