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Smith-Dorrien, General Sir Horace Lockwood. (1858-1930). Born in Haresfoot, England. A veteran of the 1879 battle of Isandhlwana and the Boer War, he assumed command of the II Corps of the British Expeditionary Force from August 1914 and the Second Army from December 1914 to April 1915. Well-liked by his troops, he handled them with sympathy but, like his fellow corps c
BY the tower on the summit of Crich Stand, Derbyshire, overlooking five counties, which was erected to 11,500 men of the Sherwood Foresters who fell in the Great War, a memorial tablet was yesterday unveiled by General Sir W. R. Marshall, Colonel of the Regiment, in honour of General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, who for 25 years was Colonel of the ...
14. März 2011 · Certainly, one of the survivors – a lieutenant named Horace Smith-Dorrien, who was destined to become a general in the First World War – recalled the reluctance of Quartermaster Edward Bloomfield of the 2nd Battalion, the 24th, to issue ammunition as the battle began. Yet a close reading of the evidence suggests that this incident was simply indicative of the confusion that inevitably ...
Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien, né à Berkhamsted (Hertfordshire) le 26 mai 1858 et mort à Chippenham (Wiltshire) le 12 août 1930, est un général britannique, adjoint du maréchal John French à la tête du BEF pendant la Première Guerre mondiale.
2. Jan. 2019 · Agreeing, French instructed his two corps commanders, General Douglas Haig and General Horace Smith-Dorrien to prepare for the German onslaught. This saw Smith-Dorrien's II Corps on the left establish a strong position along the canal while Haig's I Corps on the right formed a line along the canal which also bent south along the Mons–Beaumont road to protect the BEF's right flank. French ...
3. Mai 2023 · Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien. Publication date 1925-01-01 Publisher J. Murray Collection internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive Language English. Notes. some text are cut due to tight binding. Addeddate 2023-05-03 00:01:22 Aut ...
Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien, photographed by Bassano Ltd, 30 May 1927 Thomas’s brother Horace is of particular note; General Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien was a distinguished army general who served in the Second Boer War and World War I, commanding at the Second Battle of Ypres.
