WW1 Patriotic Card - D'ye Ken John French ? WW1 Patriotic Card - D'ye Ken John French ? WW1 Patriotic Card - D'ye Ken John French ?

WW1 Patriotic Card - D'ye Ken John French ?

Commander of the BEF in WW1. Postally unused and in very good condition. JohnA great one to sing a long too in the style of the hunting air "John Peel".

Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres, KP, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCMG, ADC, PC (28 September 1852 – 22 May 1925), known as The Viscount French between 1916 and 1922, was an Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army. He distinguished himself commanding the Cavalry Division during the Second Boer War, became Chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1912 but resigned over the Curragh incident and then served as the first Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force for the first two years of World War I before serving as Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces, then becoming Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1918, a position which he held throughout much of the Irish War of Independence.

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