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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"British Expeditionary Force"”.
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Point of failure: British Army brigadiers in the British Expeditionary Force and North Western Expeditionary Force, 1940 - A study of advancement and promotion
By the summer of 1940 the British Army had suffered two simultaneous strategic defeats in Norway and France. Both had led to hurried and ignominious evacuations. A popular misconception contends that this led to a wholesale clearing out of the British Army’s command structure in order to start …
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‘A matter of persistence’: Lessons learnt by the British Expeditionary Force and its operational development following The Battle of Festubert, 15-25 May 1915
This thesis assesses the learning process of the British Expeditionary Force by its participation in The Battle of Festubert 15 – 25 May 1915.The study of this battle offers an important insight in the development of the BEF during this period, despite it being neglected in much of the …
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A report on certain clinical and experimental investigations of a series of cases allied to frost bite admitted to No: 1 General Hospital, British Expeditionary Force since November, - 1914
(1). These are briefly as follows: - That the aetiological factors of classical frost bite are by no means identical with those of the allied condition, which for want of a bettor term we have called "Trench Feet ". (2). That two such divergent types of causal factors cannot, and do not, produce …
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British 21st Infantry Division on the Western Front 1914 - 1918: A Case Study in Tactical Evolution
This MPhil thesis is a case study of the British 21st Infantry Division on the Western Front during the First World War. It examines the progress of the division, analysing the learning curve of tactical evolution that some historians maintain was experienced by the British Expeditionary Force …
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Lord Lansdowne at the War Office (1895-1900)
… thesis aims to re-examine these questions and force those who have written on the problems Lansdowne encountered to rethink their conclusions. By portraying Lansdowne as a man of his time and returning him to his proper position this thesis demonstrates that it is possible to reinterpret the …
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John Buchan (1875-1940) and the First World War: A Scot's Career in Imperial Britain
… (1875-1940) who, through the avenue of the British Empire, formed political alliances that enabled him to enter into the power circles of the British government. Buchan's involvement in governmental service is illustrative of the political and financial advantages Scots sought in Imperial …
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The influence of the Boer War (1899 - 1902) on the tactical development of the Regular British Army 1902 - 1914
… – 1902 upon tactics and training in the regular British Army 1902 – 1914. The work argues that several key lessons drawn from South Africa became the tactical cornerstones for infantry, artillery and cavalry throughout the pre-First World War period and shaped the performance of the B.E.F. during …