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The Generals

Original title: Sir Douglas Haig, Gen. Currie Gen. Burstall, Gen. Watson, and Staffs, Bonn December 1918. 

Source: Library and Archives Canada/MIKAN 3404973

This extract from the biography of Sir Edwin Alfred Hervey ALDERSON illustrates a few of the problems he encountered:

“Alderson found the [Canadian Expeditionary Force] ill-equipped and untrained, with many weak officers. In a few cold, rain-sodden months on Salisbury Plain, he did what he could to put things right, dismissing some of [Minister of Militia and Defence Samuel] Hughes’s chosen officers and replacing useless Canadian-made equipment with British issue. Inadvertently he made an enemy of Hughes’s representative in England.”

To learn more about the difficulties Alderson and other high-ranking officers encountered, please consult the list of biographies.

ALDERSON, Sir EDWIN ALFRED HERVEY
CURRIE, Sir ARTHUR WILLIAM
GWATKIN, Sir WILLOUGHBY GARNONS
HODGINS, WILLIAM EGERTON
LESSARD, FRANÇOIS-LOUIS (baptized Louis-François-Guillaume)
LIPSETT, LOUIS JAMES
LOOMIS, Sir FREDERICK OSCAR WARREN
MACDONALD, Sir DONALD ALEXANDER
MacINNES, DUNCAN SAYRE
MERCER, MALCOLM SMITH
MORRISON, Sir EDWARD WHIPPLE BANCROFT
PATERSON, ROBERT WALTER
WATSON, Sir DAVID