Allied Commanders Henri Philippe Pétain, Douglas Haig, Ferdinand Foch, and John J. Pershing. Foch was Allied Commander in Chief, the other men commanders of the French Army, the British Expeditionary Force, and the American Expeditionary Force respectively. From The Memoirs of Marshall Foch by Marshall Foch.
Commanders of the Allies in 1918 and their autographs.Pétain Haig Foch Pershing
"What do you think of the news? Peace seems impossible before Autumn 1919 at any rate; but it is best to hope that Fritz will see reason.An officer-friend turned up here and took me to London where we had a little music and chocolate together and lemonade at St Albans — spirit and matter mixed. But it was delightful to see him; with talk of the Old Batt: and the changes in the Staff; gossip of the Front etc. He says his Brigadier has a great admiration for the French Staff and a contempt for ours — All daily orders are issued from Foch, and he believes that a vast improvement in all ways has come since the General took command. It was good to hear intelligent shop-talk again, and words like Merville, Lestrem etc floating on the air."
Ivor Gurney, English poet, composer, and private in the Gloucestershire Regiment, writing to the composer Marion Margaret Scott, on August 28, 1918 from Middlesex War Hospital, Napsbury. He had been sent back to the United Kingdom after being gassed in September, 1917, then suffered a mental collapse in March, 1918.
War Letters, Ivor Gurney, a selection edited by R.K.R. Thornton by Ivor Gurney, page 257, copyright © J. R. Haines, the Trustee of the Ivor Gurney Estate 1983, publisher: The Hogarth Press, publication date: 1984
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