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Showing posts with label Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French. Show all posts
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Monday, March 29, 2010

Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres


28 September 1852 – 22 May 1925

French returned to England to be appointed Commander-in-Chief of the British Home Forces in December 1915 and oversaw the suppression of the Irish uprising in 1916. In January 1916, he was created Viscount French, of Ypres and of High Lake in the County of Roscommon.