Byng, coincidentally, had been ordered to prepare a diversion for Third Ypres - more usually known as Passchendaele - (this diversion to be aimed at the Flesquieres Ridge ) and Fuller’s plan, which arrived with Byng during the first week in August, fitted in with this order very well. This evolved into the operation at Cambrai.īrig-Gen H Elles, commanding the Tank Corps, took the plan to both GHQ and to General Byng, the new Third Army commander. He initially devised an Anglo-French attack supported by tanks, to capture St Quentin. The plan for the battle came about as a result of an idea initially put forward by Lt-Col JFC Fuller, GSO1 of the Tank Corps. The reasons for the failure to achieve everything that was hoped for may have started at the planning stage. Clearly they had to understand what had gone right but, perhaps, more importantly, what had gone wrong. The Battle of Cambrai - general area (Map image courtesy Probert Encyclopedia)Ĭambrai was to give the British GHQ food for thought over the winter. Although the Germans would apply what they had learned first, it was to be the British who were to be the more successful at putting the new developments into practice. For the British, especially, the battle failed to live up to the initial expectations but lessons were learned by both sides. The lessons of the operational successes and failures would be digested by both sides over the forthcoming winter. The Battle of Cambrai in November 1917 turned out, for both Britain and Germany, to be a major signpost showing how to break the trench deadlock of the previous three years. Lanoe Hawker, VC: Pilot, Innovator and Inventor.The Cotton-Mill Worker, the Stockbroker and the Flammenwerfer: The 8th Battalion Rifle Brigade at Hooge.Every man for himself: The Loss of HMS Formidable 1 January 1915.Forever Friends: Laurie Denison and Clifford Thompson.FILM REVIEW : All Quiet on the Western Front. Tolkien’s “bitter winnowing” and the War Memorial at St.Addison Barnes Perrott Hadden MC - South Irish Horse in the First World War.Sussex Women at War: Iva Mary Harland and Fanny Amelia Kennaird. A bloody war or a sickly season: The East Yorkshire Regiment’s Regular Officers of August 1914 and the Great War.Hobkirk DSO as GOC 14 Australian Brigade, July 1916 Through a Glass Darkly: The Appointment of T/Lieutenant-Colonel C.J.
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