Word: commander-in-chief
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...General Sir William Birdwood, the famous commander of the Anzac (Australian-New Zealand Army Corps) Division in the War, was transferred from command of the Northern Army, promoted to the rank of Field Marshal and appointed Commander-in-Chief in India. It is the first time in history that an officer has been promoted to the supreme military rank on appointment as the military head of British India...
...conduct the American campaign from the London headquarters. In 1896, Bramwell Booth's brother, Ballington, and his sister-in-law, Maud Ballington Booth, held sway on this Continent. They seceded, forming the Volunteers of America. Most of the Army officers, however, remained loyal to the London Commander-in-Chief, who promptly appointed his sister Evangeline to the difficult American command. Now Evangeline is a very great woman. She began her career by peddling copies of the War Cry and has done all the unpleasant jobs associated with slumming. She has even impersonated beggars and other wretches that she might...
...Charles has had a brilliant naval career. He served with distinction in the Battle of Jutland, was, for two years (1914-16), Chief-of-Staff to Admiral of the Fleet Sir John R. Jellicoe, was second in command (1917) to Admiral Sir David Beatty, the then Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet. Since 1922 he has been First and Principal Naval A. D. C. to the King...
Died. General Robert Georges Nivelle, 67, member of the Supreme War Council (of the Allies), one-time Commander-in-Chief of the French armies; in Paris, of double pneumonia. His mother was English, his father a French army captain. He went through the Fontainbleau Artillery School, the Superior War College, served in Africa, China, Algeria. In 1916 he succeeded General Petain at Verdun and arrested the great German push at Douamont and Vaux. After the retirement of Joffre, he led the costly offensive of April, 1917. A year later he was sent to command the troops in Algeria...
Turning to the Premier the Commander-in-Chief said: "Three hundred thousand bayonets of the Militia are at your command...