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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.
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 initial British component of the combined Anglo-French offensive known as the Second Battle of Artois. [a] The French commander-in-chief, Joseph Joffre, had enquired of Sir John French, commander of the British Expeditionary Force, if British units could support a French offensive into the Douai Plain around late April or early May 1915.
By the evening Sir John French was able to discuss with his commanders the German dispositions near the BEF which had been provided by aircraft observation, the strength of the German forces, that the Sambre had been crossed and that an encircling move by the Germans from Geraardsbergen was possible. During the battle on 23 August, the aircrews ...
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 ...
Commander-in-Chief of the BEF: Field-Marshal Sir John French. John French Chief of Staff: Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Murray Deputy Chief of Staff: Major-General Sir Henry Wilson Adjutant-General: Major-General Sir Nevil Macready Quartermaster-General: Major-General Sir William Robertson Deputy Adjutant-General: Major-General E. R. C. Graham
Shortage of ammunition had been a serious problem since the autumn of 1914 and the British Commander-in-Chief Field Marshal Sir John French gave an interview to The Times (27 March) calling for more ammunition. On the basis of an assurance from Kitchener, Asquith stated in a speech at Newcastle (20 April) that the army had sufficient ammunition.
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 ...