Plumer of Messines

Plumer of Messines

by Gen. Sir Charles Harington
Plumer of Messines

Plumer of Messines

by Gen. Sir Charles Harington

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Originally published in 1935, this is the memoir of Lord Herbert Plumer, commander of the Second Army during the First World War, and written by Sir Charles Harington Harington, who served as Major-General, General Staff, of the Second Army for a large period of the Great War in the defence of the Ypres Salient.

Field Marshal Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE (13 March 1857 - 16 July 1932) was a senior British Army officer of the First World War. After commanding V Corps at the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915, he took command of the Second Army in May 1915 and in June 1917 won an overwhelming victory over the German Army at the Battle of Messines, which started with the simultaneous explosion of a series of mines placed by the Royal Engineers’ tunnelling companies beneath German lines, which created 19 large craters and was described as the loudest explosion in human history. He later served as Commander-in-Chief of the British Army of the Rhine and then as Governor of Malta before becoming High Commissioner of the British Mandate for Palestine in 1925 and retiring in 1928.

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ISBN-13: 9781787204584
Publisher: Arcole Publishing
Publication date: 04/07/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 242
File size: 13 MB
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About the Author

General Sir Charles Harington Harington, GCB, GBE, DSO (31 May 1872 - 22 October 1940) was a British Army officer most noted for his service during the First World War and Chanak crisis. During his 46 years in the army, Harington served in the Second Boer War, held various staff positions during the First World War, served as Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff between 1918 and 1920, commanded the occupation forces in the Black Sea and Turkey, and ultimately became Governor of Gibraltar in 1933.

He served the entirety of WWI in a staff capacity, most notably as Chief of Staff to General Herbert Plumer, commander of the Second Army. As Commander-in-Chief of the Allied occupation army, based in Constantinople, he was instrumental in averting a war between the United Kingdom and pre-republic Turkey.

He retired in 1938, having been Governor of Gibraltar since May 1933. His continued association with the British Army in retirement was facilitated by symbolic positions, such as honorary colonel of the regular King’s Regiment, its territorial 7th Battalion, and the 4/15th Punjab Regiment.

He died following his retirement in Cheltenham, England in 1940.
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