General Joseph Joffre
Friday 28th May 1915: Yesterday 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, along with the rest of 7th Division, was inspected by the French General Joseph Joffre, who is in command of all allied armies in France including, nominally, those of this country. He is popular amongst his own countrymen in uniform, who refer to him as papa, or Daddy, Joffre(1)
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(1) He was replaced by Robert Nivelle in December 1916 as it was believed his leadership had cost unnecessarily large numbers of lives
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