The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... Officers Commanding ] were infantry , I artillery and 1 cavalry ( Lieutenant - General Haig , at Aldershot ) . The 6 Regular divisions of the BEF were commanded by 5 infantry officers and one artillery officer - Allenby's cavalry ...
... Officers Commanding ] were infantry , I artillery and 1 cavalry ( Lieutenant - General Haig , at Aldershot ) . The 6 Regular divisions of the BEF were commanded by 5 infantry officers and one artillery officer - Allenby's cavalry ...
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... officer corps . The skills of the French and German officers have already been touched on , and will be looked at again later , but a closer examination of the British officer corps now seems necessary . In 1914 , the British officer ...
... officer corps . The skills of the French and German officers have already been touched on , and will be looked at again later , but a closer examination of the British officer corps now seems necessary . In 1914 , the British officer ...
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... officers of 3 Cavalry Brigade sent in their papers . It suddenly became abundantly clear to the British Government that the Army would not take up arms against the Protestants or support any attempt to bully them . In this the officers ...
... officers of 3 Cavalry Brigade sent in their papers . It suddenly became abundantly clear to the British Government that the Army would not take up arms against the Protestants or support any attempt to bully them . In this the officers ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
THE BACKGROUND TO THE WAR 18711914 | 8 |
THE TURN OF THE TIDE AND THE HUNDRED DAYS JuneNovember 1918 483 | 22 |
Copyright | |
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advance Allenby Allied ammunition Arras artillery assault attack Aubers Ridge August Australian barrage Bassée battalions battle battlefield began Belgian bombardment Bourlon Brigade British Army British line Byng Cambrai Canadian Corps Canal casualties Cateau cavalry Cavalry Corps Cavalry Division counter-attack creeping barrage east enemy Field Marshal French Fifth Army fighting Flesquières Foch force forward Fourth Army France French Army front line front-line German Army German defences German line Gough ground Haig Haig's heavy guns Hindenburg Line II Corps infantry Joffre Kitchener La Bassée La Boisselle Lanrezac Le Cateau Lieutenant-General Lloyd George Loos losses Major-General Messines miles military move Neuve Chapelle Nivelle offensive officers ordered Passchendaele Plumer push Rawlinson Regiment reserves rifle Salient Schlieffen Plan Second Army sent shells Smith-Dorrien soldiers Somme staff strongpoints tactics tanks Third Army took troops village Vimy Ridge Western Front wire Wood wounded yards Ypres