British butchers and bunglers of World War One

advance Allied Anzac Army HQ artillery assault attack August Australian Aylmer Hunter-Weston Basil Liddell Hart Basra Battalion battle battlefield bombardment Boraston breakthrough Brigade Brigadier-General British and Empire British and French British Army bungling Byng C.E.W. Bean Cambrai campaign Captain captured cavalry CIGS Commander-in-Chief dead defence despatch diary Division divisional enemy fighting fire Flanders force France front line Gallipoli Gough guns Haig Haig's Haking Hamilton heavy casualties High Command Hubert Gough Hunter-Weston infantry John Monash July Kiggell killed in action knew leadership Lieut Lloyd George losses Ludendorff machine-gun Major-General Mametz Wood March Mesopotamia miles military never November offensive officers Official History operation ordered Passchendaele Plumer positions Pozieres Rawlinson reported Ridge Robertson senior shells Sir John French Smith-Dorrien soldiers Somme staff Stopford strategy success suffered tactics tanks Third Ypres Townshend trench warfare troops Turks victory warfare Western Front wire wounded wrote Ypres Salient