Download or read book The Life of Lieut General Sir James Moncrieff Grierson written by Duncan Stewart Macdiarmid and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Lieut General Sir James Moncrieff Grierson written by D. S. MacDiarmid and published by From Musket to Maxim. This book was released on 2023-08-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Moncrieff Grierson was born in Glasgow in 1859. Having been educated in Scotland and Germany, he entered the Royal Military Academy passing out fourth and joining the Royal Artillery in 1878. He saw service in India, Egypt and the Sudan, and started to build a reputation both as a competent staff officer but also as a knowledgeable individual on foreign armies, and attended many European army maneuvers as an official representative. Active service overseas was combined with staff work at home, particularly in the Intelligence Department where he headed up the Section concerning Russia. Grierson was also an expert of the German military, where he had many friends and was warmly welcomed. There is therefore a certain irony that it was Grierson who would later lay the foundations of military cooperation between Britain and France in the early years of the 20th century. Prior to the outbreak of war in 1914 it had been presumed that Grierson would be appointed Chief of Staff, but when war came Grierson was given command of the 2nd Army Corps of the B.E.F. Sadly on the 17th August 1914, whilst on a train near Amiens, he suffered an aneurism of the heart and died. His untimely death remains one of the great 'what if' questions of World War One. Grierson was a first rate staff officer and had a considerable active service record to support it. An expert in foreign languages and an astute writer, he made a considerable contribution to the British Army during the Late Victorian and Edwardian period. D S MacDiarmid's biography of Grierson will always remain the definitive account of his life, with extensive quotations from diaries and private papers. Unfortunately, on the death of MacDiarmid Grierson's papers are said to have been destroyed. This therefore adds importance to this work and why it proves a useful tool to historians of the period.
Download or read book The Life of Lieut General Sir James Moncrieff Grierson Etc With Portrait written by Duncan Stewart MACDIARMID and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Life of Lieut General Sir James Moncrieff Grierson K C B C V O C M G A B C written by Duncan Stewart Macdiarmid and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Life of Lieut Gen Sir James Moncrieff Grierson written by Duncan Stewart MacDiarmid and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Field Marshal Lord Roberts written by Rodney Atwood and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of Field Marshal Lord Roberts charts a remarkable life that spanned the apogee of the British Empire. During a diverse career, Roberts won the Victoria Cross, planned the strategic defence of India, turned the tide of war in South Africa, introduced army reform and campaigned for National Service before 1914. Rodney Atwood explores his military career, in particular his role as a tactician and strategist in Afghanistan, Burma, the North-West frontier, South Africa and Europe, but also looks at Roberts as a symbol of Empire and explores his celebration in British culture.
Download or read book The Army Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Lord Rawlinson written by Rodney Atwood and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this biography Rodney Atwood details the life of General Lord Rawlinson of Trent (1864-1925), a distinguished British soldier whose career culminated in decisive victories on the Western Front in 1918 and command of the Indian Army in the early 1920s. He served his soldier's apprenticeship in the Victorian colonial wars in Burma, the Sudan and South Africa. His career provides a lens through which to examine the British Army in the late-19th and early-20th century. In the South African War (1899-1902) Rawlinson's ideas aided the defence of Ladysmith, and he distinguished himself leading a mobile column in the guerrilla war. In the First World War he held an important command in most of the British Expeditionary Force's battles on the Western Front. He bears a heavy part-responsibility for the disastrous first day of the Somme, but later in the battle his successful tactics inflicted heavy losses on the enemy. His Western Front career culminated in a series of victories beginning at Amiens. He commanded the Indian Army between 1920 and 1925 at a time of military and political tension following the 3rd Afghan War and the Amritsar Massacre. He introduced necessary reforms, cut expenditure at a time of postwar retrenchment and began commissioning Indians to replace British officers. He would have taken up the post of CIGS (Chief of the Imperial General Staff), thus being the only British soldier to hold these two top posts. He died, however, four days after his sixty-first birthday. Drawing extensively on archival material including Rawlinson's own engagingly-written letters and diaries, this thorough examination of his life will be of great interest to those studying British military history, imperial history and the First World War.
Download or read book The Staff and the Staff College written by Alfred Reade Godwin-Austen and published by London, Constable. This book was released on 1927 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The British Army Regular Mounted Infantry 1880 1913 written by Andrew Winrow and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The regular Mounted Infantry was one of the most important innovations of the late Victorian and Edwardian British Army. Rather than fight on horseback in the traditional manner of cavalry, they used horses primarily to move swiftly about the battlefield, where they would then dismount and fight on foot, thus anticipating the development of mechanised infantry tactics during the twentieth century. Yet despite this apparent foresight, the mounted infantry concept was abandoned by the British Army in 1913, just at the point when it may have made the transition from a colonial to a continental force as part of the British Expeditionary Force. Exploring the historical background to the Mounted Infantry, this book untangles the debates that raged in the army, Parliament and the press between its advocates and the supporters of the established cavalry. With its origins in the extemporised mounted detachments raised during times of crisis from infantry battalions on overseas imperial garrison duties, Dr Winrow reveals how the Mounted Infantry model, unique among European armies, evolved into a formalised and apparently highly successful organisation of non-cavalry mounted troops. He then analyses why the Mounted Infantry concept fell out of favour just eleven years after its apogee during the South African Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902. As such the book will be of interest not only to historians of the nineteenth-century British army, but also those tracing the development of modern military doctrine and tactics, to which the Mounted Infantry provided successful - if short lived - inspiration.
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Download or read book A British Profession of Arms written by Ian F. W. Beckett and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You offer yourself to be slain,” General Sir John Hackett once observed, remarking on the military profession. “This is the essence of being a soldier.” For this reason as much as any other, the British army has invariably been seen as standing apart from other professions—and sometimes from society as a whole. A British Profession of Arms effectively counters this view. In this definitive study of the late Victorian army, distinguished scholar Ian F. W. Beckett finds that the British soldier, like any other professional, was motivated by considerations of material reward and career advancement. Within the context of debates about both the evolution of Victorian professions and the nature of military professionalism, Beckett considers the late Victorian officer corps as a case study for weighing distinctions between the British soldier and his civilian counterparts. Beckett examines the role of personality, politics, and patronage in the selection and promotion of officers. He looks, too, at the internal and external influences that extended from the press and public opinion to the rivalry of the so-called rings of adherents of major figures such as Garnet Wolseley and Frederick Roberts. In particular, he considers these processes at play in high command in the Second Afghan War (1878–81), the Anglo-Zulu War (1879), and the South African War (1899–1902). Based on more than thirty years of research into surviving official, semiofficial, and private correspondence, Beckett’s work offers an intimate and occasionally amusing picture of what might affect an officer’s career: wealth, wives, and family status; promotion boards and strategic preferences; performance in the field and diplomatic outcomes. It is a remarkable depiction of the British profession of arms, unparalleled in breadth, depth, and detail.
