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Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres, KP, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCMG, PC (28 September 1852 – 22 May 1925), known as Sir John French from 1901 to 1916, and as The Viscount French between 1916 and 1922, was a senior British Army officer.
Field Marshal Sir John French, the first Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces. The post was created for Field Marshal Sir John French in December 1915, after his enforced resignation as the Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force in the aftermath of the Battle of Loos. Bitterly disappointed, Lord French regarded the appointment as a ...
31 May 1915 (by Field Marshal Sir John French, Commander-in-Chief British Armies in the Field) [18] 1 November 1915 (by Field Marshal Sir John French, Commander-in-Chief, The British Army in France) [19] 1 January 1916 (by Field Marshal Sir John French, Commander-in-Chief, The British Army in France) [20] 15 June 1916 [12] 4 January 1917 [12]
left to right, generals French, Joffre and Haig behind the front. Lt-General Henry Wilson is second from right. The force was commanded by Field Marshal Sir John French until December 1915, [5] when he was replaced by General Sir Douglas Haig. [6] The BEF's Chief of Staff on mobilisation was General Archibald Murray. [7]
To deal with the threat of violence from the UVF should the Home Rule Bill be passed in the British Parliament, Chief of the General Staff (CIGS) Field Marshal Sir John French and Secretary of State for War J. E. B. Seely summoned General Sir Arthur Paget, Commander-in-Chief in Ireland, for talks at the War Office in October 1913.
The two cavalry officers that commanded the British Expeditionary Force, Field Marshal Sir John French and General Sir Douglas Haig, flank the French General Joseph Joffre. The British First World War cavalry generals , by the end of the war belonged to one of the smallest arms of the British Army , they did however, including those belonging ...
The German defences in the centre were quickly overrun on a 1,600 yd (1,500 m) front and Neuve Chapelle was captured by 10:00 a.m. [8] At Haig's request, the British Commander-in-Chief, Field Marshal Sir John French, released the 5th Cavalry Brigade to exploit the expected breakthrough. [9]
The battle was the British part of the Third Battle of Artois, a Franco-British offensive (known to the Germans as the Herbstschlacht (Autumn Battle). Field Marshal Sir John French and Douglas Haig (GOC First Army), regarded the ground south of La Bassée Canal, which was overlooked by German-held slag heaps and colliery towers, as unsuitable for an attack, particularly given the discovery in ...