Key Information
Reference code
ROBERTSON, WR 4/4/18-22
Title
Telegram from Lieutenant General George Milne to Robertson, 12 May 1916, about French plans for operations in the Balkans
Date(s)
- 1916 May 12 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
5pp
Scope and content
Five copies of a telegram (GC30) to Robertson from temporary Lt Gen George Francis Milne, General Officer Commanding in Chief, British Salonika Force, outlining the plan of French Gen Maurice Paul Emmanuel Sarrail, Commander in Chief, Allied Army of the Orient, for a combined Allied offensive into the Balkans, and his opinion on the prospect of these operations succeeding. 5pp.