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- The battles of the Isonzo (1 to 10)
- Vistula River and the first battle of Warsaw
- The Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive
- McDonnell F-101A Voodoo
- Me 163, Me 210/ 310/ 410 and Me 262
- Gudrun Ensslin (1940-1977)
- Bolimov and Second Masurian Lakes
- Lemberg, Krasnik, Komarow, Gnila Lipa and Przemysl
- Battles of the Ludendorff Offensives
- Second Artois, Aubers Ridge and Festubert, 1915
- Messines and Armentieres, 1914
- Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien, 1858-1930
- Ju 290, He 177 and He 219
- Malayan Emergency
- Brigadier General Charles FitzClarence, VC
- SMS Leipzig
- Yser, Nonne Bosschen, 2nd Ypres and Arras
- La Bassee, 1st Ypres, Langemarck and Gheluvelt
- Broodseinde and Poelcappelle
- British Generals: Gough, Byng and Maxse
- The Role of Intelligence in War
- SHIPS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
- Antwerp, Cambrai and Second Marne
- Ulrike Meinhof
- Eugene Bullard
- Time line of Japanese military history to 1400 AD
- SHIPS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
- Coronel, Falklands, Neuve-Chapelle, Vimy Ridge and...
- Andreas Baader
- Army of God
- Second Battle of the Aisne, 16 April-15 May 1917
- Third Battle of Ypres
- Battles of the First World War
- COBRA
- TREATIES OF THE NORTHERN WARS
- Battles of the Frontiers of France
- American Civil War battles
- Six First World War battles
- Focke Wulf Fw 190
- John Winthrop Hackett
- Entebbe Raid
- Cell System
- POLISH-SWEDISH WAR 1600-1629
- Battles of the Nordic Seven Years War
- Northern War 1655-60
- Alternative articles on aircraft
- Battles of the Great Northern War
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2 comments:
Re. your commment that "Brigadier General Charles FitzClarence, VC, was one of the few senior British officers to be killed in action during the First World War."
Few? In fact, 53 British Brigadier Generals were killed in action during
the First World War.
I have a figure of 56 myself, out of a total of 1,253 British Generals of the Western Front, so around 4% were killed, compared to an average in the army of 10%.
This compared to 1,008 General of the American Civil War, of whom 150 or so were killed in action, or 15%. For good reasons First WOrld War generals tended to spend their time further back from the front that in earlier wars, thus suffering proportionally fewer casualties. Relatively few might be a more accurate phrase I suppose
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