Key Information
Reference code
ROBERTSON, WR 3/1/1
Title
Report by Field Marshal Sir John French, 17 May 1915, on the need for further troops and ammunition
Date(s)
- 1915 May 17 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
3pp
Scope and content
Report by FM Sir John Denton Pinkstone French, Commander in Chief, British Armies in France, for FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, Secretary of State for War, emphasising the need for a constant supply of troops and ammunition on the Western Front, and requesting information concerning the dispatch of further divisions of the first New Army, in order to concert plans with the French. 3pp.