This presentation, Dr Peter Hodgkinson looks at battalion commanders in the British Army in WW1. Were they 'donkeys' or skilled and motivated officers? Who were these men? What were their backgrounds?

This is one of two lectures given at the WFA's AGM and Conference 2014

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