Military Musings
I know it's an easy target, but here are some quotes from officers in the British Army.
Sir John French: 'The British Army will give battle on the line of the Condé Canal.'
Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien: 'Do you mean to take the offensive or stand on the defensive?'
Sir John French: 'Don't ask questions, do as you're told.'
Commander BEF and Commander British II Corps, September 1914.
'It's no use prompting him. You must dictate to him.'
Staff College Invigilator c1906, final written exam when one student officer was trying to help another.
'Thank God! Then I'll be at them with the bayonet"
General Sir Hugh Gough, Battle of Sobraon 1846, when told his troops were running out of ammo.
'I can't write what I mean, I can't say what I mean, but I expect you to know what I mean.'
Marshal of the RAF Lord Trenchard.
'We never worked as they work now. We hunted six days a week. I once hunted seven.'
Brigadier Monkhouse on his training at the Royal Academy at Woolwich.
'Get up you lumps, and behave like Englishmen.'
British Officer to the Australian troops of the Victoria Rifles, Boer War.
'The French! They're the fellows we shall be fighting next.'
Field Marshall Haig in 1919.
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