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3 giorni fa · Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres, KP, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCMG, PC (28 September 1852 – 22 May 1925), known as Sir John French from 1901 to 1916, and as The Viscount French between 1916 and 1922, was a senior British Army officer.
31 mag 2024 · This was particularly the case in British commentary, which cast the Flemish town as having been sanctified by the spilling of so much imperial blood across three major battles, each of which reinforced Ypres as the epicentre of death and destruction on the Western Front.
19 giu 2024 · The house at Bull's Cross called the Manor House, which belonged in 1911 to Gen. Sir John French (1852–1925), later field-marshal and earl of Ypres, had no connexion with Goldbeaters.
15 giu 2024 · This is a list of the various different nobles and magnates including both lords spiritual and lords secular. It also includes nobles who were vassals of the king but were not based in England (Welsh, Irish, French). Additionally nobles of lesser rank who appear to have been prominent in England at the time.
15 giu 2024 · The annual Remembrance ceremony in Ypres this year will commemorate the 105 th Anniversary of the Armistice. There will be a number of events in the city on the day. 9.15am – Service in St George’s Church. 9.30am – Service in St Martin’s Cathedral. 10.20am – Poppy Parade starts. 10.30am – Parade stops to lay wreaths at the Belgian Monument.
2 giu 2024 · John Richard Moores. London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, ISBN: 9781137380135; 280pp.; Price: £60.00. Reviewer: Dr James Baker. University of Sussex. Citation: Dr James Baker, review of Representations of France in English Satirical Prints 1740-1832, (review no. 1854) DOI: 10.14296/RiH/2014/1854. Date accessed: 2 June, 2024.
15 giu 2024 · On December 17 of that year, he succeeded Sir John French (afterward 1st Earl of Ypres) as commander in chief of the BEF. In July–November 1916, he committed great masses of troops to an unsuccessful offensive on the Somme River, which cost 420,000 British casualties.
