Word: giffard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Lieut. General Sir Giffard Le Quesne Martel, who headed a British military mission to Moscow during the war, in a speech at Bristol: "I think he [Stalin] was banished to the Crimea for a bit and then he came back and found that Molotov and Vishinsky and that...
That night the estimate of prisoners taken was boosted to 30,000 by the Australian commander, slim, soft-voiced Major General Iven Giffard Mackay, who earned the title "Iven the Terrible" in World War I, spent his time between wars as headmaster of a school in Sydney...
...obvious that tank production was far behind necessities-and the Army looked around for a new Master General of Ordnance. "An obvious choice," says Liddell Hart, was Giffard Le Quesne Martel. This brilliant young man helped develop tanks in 1916. In November of that year he wrote a paper suggesting an entire Army of fighting vehicles. Later, he built the first one-man tank in his own garage. Known by his staff as Q, by his friends as "Slosher," he was, as all insiders knew, the man to produce tanks. But Martel was only a colonel, and when...
Liddell Hart ends "Wasted Brains" with this terse thought: "It is not too late." Last week-very late, but perhaps not too late-the War Office announced the creation of a new post: Commander of the Royal Armored Corps. Named to fill it was Major General Giffard Le Quesne Martel...