Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
Duties of a Civil Authority
Contributor/Publisher
Rhine Army
Place
Date
1919
Language
English
German
Level of Current Record
Single Item
Subject Category
Classification
Flyer/Advertising Media/08 Communication Artifacts/Chenhall Nomenclature
Public Access Text
After entering German territory on 3 December, 1918, the British Army of the Rhine was established as the occupying force in March 1919. They were based in Cologne.
Keywords: Military Occupation
Subject Notes
Field Marshal Sir William Robert Robertson, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, DSO (29 January 1860 – 12 February 1933) was a British Army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) – the professional head of the British Army – from 1916 to 1918 during the First World War. As CIGS he was committed to a Western Front strategy focusing on Germany and was against what he saw as peripheral operations on other fronts. While CIGS, Robertson had increasingly poor relations with David Lloyd George, Secretary of State for War and then Prime Minister, and threatened resignation at Lloyd George's attempt to subordinate the British forces to the French Commander-in-Chief, Robert Nivelle. In 1917 Robertson supported the continuation of the Third Battle of Ypres, at odds with Lloyd George's view that Britain's war effort ought to be focused on the other theatres until the arrival of sufficient US troops on the Western Front. [Source: Wikipedia]
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14 Nov 2022
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