See Right Through Me by L.T. Smith6/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Horace Smith-Dorrien was born at Haresfoot, a house near Berkhamsted, in the county of Hertfordshire to Colonel Robert Algernon Smith-Dorrien and Mary Ann Drever. He was relieved of command by French for requesting permission to retreat from the Ypres Salient to a more defensible position. In the spring of 1915 he commanded the Second Army at the Second Battle of Ypres. He commanded II Corps at the Battle of Mons, the first major action fought by the BEF, and the Battle of Le Cateau, where he fought a vigorous and successful defensive action contrary to the wishes of the Commander-in-Chief Sir John French, with whom he had had a personality clash dating back some years. ![]() Smith-Dorrien held senior commands in the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) during the First World War. One of the few British survivors of the Battle of Isandlwana as a young officer, he also distinguished himself in the Second Boer War. General Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien, GCB, GCMG, DSO, ADC ( – 12 August 1930) was a British Army General. Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (France) Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Haresfoot, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England ![]()
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