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Major General Garnet Burk Hughes CB, CMG, DSO (22 April 1880 – 13 April 1937) was a Canadian military officer during the First World War. Although he had shown promise as a cadet officer and was politically well-connected, he was judged not to be an able combat officer and, in the latter half of the war, was shunted away from the front lines ...
Major General Garnet Burk Hughes CB, CMG, DSO, (April 22, 1880 - April 13, 1937) was a Canadian military officer during the First World War. Although he had shown promise as a cadet officer and was politically well-connected, he was judged not to be an able combat officer and, in the latter half...
Ähnlichen Angriffen war Currie schon kurz nach dem Krieg durch Sam Hughes, dessen Sohn Garnet Hughes im Krieg von Currie angeblich zurückgesetzt worden war, im kanadischen Parlament ausgesetzt gewesen. Hughes war dabei durch seine parlamentarische Immunität geschützt. Currie gewann den Prozess, erstritt aber nur eine minimale Entschädigung.
Hughes’s own son, Lt. Col. Garnet Hughes, stated that “the Ross is not a perfect mechanism,” and Third Division commander Brig. Gen. M.S. Mercer warned, “To longer withhold the issue of the Lee-Enfield rifle and compel the men of this division to use the Ross rifle would be criminal in the extreme.”.
Brigadier-General Garnet Hughes (1st Canadian Infantry Brigade) the son of Sam Hughes, the Minister of Militia and Defence. Later in 1916, Brigadier-General G. Hughes receives a promotion to command the 5th Canadian Division, an administrative posting. Photograph taken July, 1916.
Garnet Hughes. Major General Garnet Burk Hughes CB, DSO, (April 22, 1880 - April 13, 1937) was a Canadian military officer during World War I. Garnet Hughes was the son of Sir Sam Hughes, a Canadian politician and Minister of the Militia during the war. Before the Great War, Garnet joined the Canadian militia in Victoria, British Columbia as a part
4. Okt. 2018 · Currie had resisted the demands of Minister of Militia and Defence Sir Sam Hughes that he accept his son, Garnet Hughes, as one of the Corps’s division commanders, instead relegating him to...
