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A shame there weren't more Generals of his calibre during WWI. Ability to think and act independently about the evidence seemed to be in short supply.

The Luckiest Unlucky General of The Great War: www.westernfrontassociation.com/great-war-on-land/71-gen-... A brief extract is here: Born at sea in 1860, CCM was 54 when the Great War broke out, and was said to have become 'rather fat' for a soldier. But CCM's earlier career had followed the classic pattern for a British Empire Army officer of: Sandhurst (1879); a commission in the Queens Royal Surrey Regiment (1881); Gibraltar (1898); Guernsey (1889); India (1891) - where he served in the Malakand Field and Tirah Expeditionary Forces in the North West Frontier Province - and the Boer War (1899). Returning to the United Kingdom (1901) he was appointed first as Chief Instructor, and then Commandant, of the Army School of Musketry at Hythe in southern England. Here CCM developed the disciplines of 'Rapid aimed rifle fire' - i.e. 15 rounds per minute - and 'Fire and movement'. Of which the former skill was to prove so crucial against the German mass infantry attacks in the early days of the BEF in France and Belgium; the Germans believed they were facing machine-gun fire. In 1911 he became a Major General commanding the 2nd London Territorial Division.. In August 1914, CCM was given command of the British Second Division of I Corps of the BEF and took it to France.

He died in 1929, aged 69 years, whilst serving as Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig's successor as a Trustee of the Imperial War Museum in London.

His Wikipedia page is here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Charles_Monro,_1st_Baronet

Willing to let his reputation suffer and his name be sullied with defeat at Gallipoli in order to save the men under his command from slaughter. That is courage.

Lt Montague Vincent Altman according to his MIC. Date of entry into war Sept 1917 France. Address given as 44 Pattison Road, London. Died 27 Jan 1944 at Hampstead General Hospital. Probate granted to Kathleen Marion Bessie Altman, widow. Effects valued at £9757. Death record shows that he was born in 1879. Married KMB Cundell or Billett in Barnet in 1930. Marion Kathleen Bessie Billett was born in 1884. In 1910 she had married Augustus Cundell Greiffenhagen in Hampstead. Electoral registers for London show him living in Hendon 1918-1931; then in Hornsey. An online family tree reveals that he was born 29 July 1878 in Holloway, son of Albert Joseph Altman and Margaret Eliza Vernon. In 1910 he was living at Round Mountain, Nye, Nevada where he was described as 'Merchant, Drugstore'. Round Mountain is best known for the Round Mountain Gold Mine, a large open pit heap-leach gold mine clearly visible on Google Earth. The first gold production was in 1906. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_Mountain,_Nevada

London Gazette shows: The undermentioned Cadets to be temp. 2nd Lts. 28th Oct.'1917:— Montague Vincent Altman www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/30390/supplements/11983/p... There is a water-damaged WWI service record page for a Montague Altman. Stamped Lincoln's Inn and London Whitehall Jun 1917. Birthplace: London Examined: May 1917 Declared age: 3[?] 296 days Height: 6 feet 0 1/2 inches Stationed at: Berkhamsted, arrival 11.6.1917. Disembarkation 1.9.1917.

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