The Victorian Army and the Staff College 1854-1914 by Brian Bond

Author:Brian Bond [Bond, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781317412502
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2015-10-05T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 5. NOTES

1 Godwin-Austen, op. cit., p. 231. Aston, op. cit., p. 101. Aston has amusingly described how, becoming confused from overwork just before the final examination, he attempted to light his watch with a match, threw his socks into the bath instead of the sponge and threw an unread letter into the fire instead of the envelope.

2 Col. G. F. R. Henderson (ed. Capt. N. Malcolm), The Science of War (London, 1910), pp. 402–3; Godwin-Austen, op. cit., pp. 231–2; Field-Marshal Sir William Robertson, op. cit., pp. 81–2; Sir Edward May, Changes and Chances of a Soldier’s Life (London, 1925), p. 80.

3 Luvaas, op. cit., pp. 223–4. Luvaas provides an excellent short account of Henderson’s publications and the evolution of his military thought. The other principal sources of information on Henderson used here are E. M. Lloyd’s article in the D.N.B. (1901–11); Lord Roberts’s Memoir in The Science of War; and Lt-Col R. M. Holden’s obituary article in the R.U.S.I. Journal, Vol. XLVII (1903), pp. 375–82.

4 Maurice, op. cit., pp. 64–5.

5 See The Science of War, pp. 382–434.

6 Maj.-Gen. Sir Frederick Maurice, The Life of Lord Rawlinson of Trent (London, 1928), p. 26. For another warm tribute to Henderson as a teacher see Gen. Sir George de S. Barrow, The Fire of Life (London, c1941), p. 42.

7 The Science of War, pp. 48–9.

8 Luvaas, op. cit., p. 242.

9 Capt. B. H. Liddell Hart in The Remaking of Modern Armies, pp. 170–1, cited by Luvaas, op. cit., p. 243.

10 The Science of War, p. XXIX.

11 The Science of War, pp. XXIX-XXX. Aston, op. cit., pp. 100–1.

12 The Science of War, p. XXX. A dissentient note is struck by Brig.-Gen. Sir James Edmonds who wrote in old age that Henderson ‘was rather lazy and did not make many criticisms of instructional value’. But Edmonds had an uncomfortably long memory and in 1952 he still recalled Henderson’s criticism of his eccentric use of commas (‘The pepperpot appears to have been used’) in his Waterloo memoir of 1897. See Edmonds’ ‘Four Generations of Staff College Students – 1896 to 1952. I, 1896’, The Army Quarterly, Vol. LXV, no. 1 (October, 1952), pp. 42–5.

13 The Times, 7 March 1903. Robertson, op. cit., p. 83.

14 M. V. Brett (ed.) Journals and Letters of Reginald Viscount Esher, Vol. II, 1903–10 (London, 1934), p. 112.

15 Sir James Edmonds, unpublished Reminiscences, Chapter XIV, ‘The Staff College 1896–7, and his draft reply to an article on the Staff College in the World of 21 November 1900 (Edmonds Papers).

16 Edmonds, Reminiscences, Chapter XIV, p. 279. A History of the Civil War in the United States by W. Birkbeck Wood and Maj. J. E. Edmonds was published in 1905. Lt.-Gen. Sir George Macdonogh achieved distinction as Director of Military Intelligence 1916–18 and Adjutant-General to the Forces 1918–22.

17 Edmonds published his analysis of the fates of his contemporaries at Camberley in Owl Pie (The Staff College Journal) in 1956 and it is reprinted by F. W. Young in The Story of the Staff College, 1858–1958 (Aldershot, 1958), p.

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