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
"The arithmetic of German casualties was in British numbers so enormous that, from forty years of hindsight, one wonders how any but the most gullible could have been deceived by them. Haig reported an even hundred thousand on August 21 and flatly stated that the end of Germany's resources was at hand—this on the basis of a paper written by Charteris, who, however, protested in his diary (he does not seem to have protested elsewhere), 'D. H. has not only accepted in toto my report . . . but he has gone much further.'"
Brigadier General John Charteris was Chief of Intelligence to General Douglas Haig, commander in chief of British forces in France. Haig had launched the Third Battle of Ypres on July 31, 1917. He failed to reach his first day objectives, and rain and heavy artillery had made his battlefield impassable by the second day. Our author, Leon Wolff, writes (page 150) of Charteris: 'It can safely be said that from July 31 to the end of the Flanders campaign Charteris lied steadily to the press, to the War Cabinet, and to his own chief, Field Marshall Haig.' 'D. H.' was, of course, Haig.
In Flanders Fields, the 1917 Campaign by Leon Wolff, page 156, copyright © 1958 by Leon Wolff, publisher: The Viking Press, publication date: 1958
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