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General Sir Charles Carmichael Monro

from IWM Collections

  • 1 older comment, and then…
  • grahamH said:
    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.
  • Denise Jackson said:
    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.
  • Denise Jackson said:
    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.
  • Denise Jackson said:
    His Wikipedia page is here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Charles_Monro,_1st_Baronet
  • Stephen Munro said:
    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.

Attending to wounded in German dugouts

from National Science and Media Museum

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  • tiberiousss said:
    I think it's time to shoot their general.
  • Kathryn N said:
    More like time to shoot the morons making fatuous remarks tagging these photos. Maybe they don't have enough intelligence to realize what they're looking at!
  • Jo Angus said:
    I agree. It's like spraying graffiti on a tomb stone. The disrespect and ignorance is completely beyond me.
  • Lanterna said:
    Cannot believe the photo quality in these conditions - tripods and plates, after all, not pocket-digi cams.
  • Few Van said:
    Thats a big scratch....bite on this while I cut your limb off, technology was wonderful back then, lol.

Fancy Dress and Fancy Anything

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • beachcomber australia said:
    According to this website, "No.11 General Hospital" was at Genoa in Italy - www.anzacday.org.au/digging/hospitals.html
  • beachcomber australia said:
    See more info at next photo ...
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    I have just added this photo to our 50,000+ Views Album. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/sets/72157651136879037]