The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... took up his new position on 6 August . Although the appointment of Secretary of State for War was a political one , Kitchener was on the active Army List , the most senior officer of the British Army on that list after Field Marshal ...
... took up his new position on 6 August . Although the appointment of Secretary of State for War was a political one , Kitchener was on the active Army List , the most senior officer of the British Army on that list after Field Marshal ...
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... took over command of Second Army , Lieutenant - General Sir Edmund Allenby succeeded him as commander of the V Corps , and Major - General the Hon . Sir Julian Byng took command of the Cavalry Corps . The new Salient Plumer had to ...
... took over command of Second Army , Lieutenant - General Sir Edmund Allenby succeeded him as commander of the V Corps , and Major - General the Hon . Sir Julian Byng took command of the Cavalry Corps . The new Salient Plumer had to ...
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... took place south of the Ypres Salient , between Armentières and Vimy Ridge . This is not chronologically correct , for one of these - Neuve Chapelle - took place before the Second Battle of Ypres , and the Battle of Aubers Ridge took ...
... took place south of the Ypres Salient , between Armentières and Vimy Ridge . This is not chronologically correct , for one of these - Neuve Chapelle - took place before the Second Battle of Ypres , and the Battle of Aubers Ridge took ...
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