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Haldane had taken a great deal of trouble to win over Lord Esher, whose commission had recommended conscription for this purpose [25] but he still faced a determined and influential campaign by the National Service League, led by Field Marshal Lord Roberts, to introduce conscription. [26]
Field Marshal Roberts wrote to Richard Haldane (Secretary of State for War) and Esher recommending Wilson on the basis of his excellent staff work in South Africa, and as a strong character needed to maintain Rawlinson's improvements at Camberley.
It traces the deficiencies identified by the Elgin commission (1903), the recommendations advanced by the Esher committee for War Office reconfiguration (1904), and the military reforms of Secretary of State for War Richard Haldane to implement Esher’s recommendations, create an expeditionary force for continental warfare, and establish a ...
In 1919, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig addressed a copy of his despatches to ‘the greatest.
In his published memoirs, Before the War (London, 1920) and An Autobiography (London, 1929), Haldane, the former Secretary of State for War, argues that the perception of a new strategic purpose had underpinned his reform of the regular army.
Wilson, who learned indirectly from Aylmer Haldane (cousin of Richard Haldane) on the 24th of October that he was to get the job, wrote to thank Roberts, and was in little doubt that his support had clinched it for him.
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Aug 19, 2010 · The wide-ranging army reforms, named after Richard Burdon Haldane, the Liberal secretary of state for war (1905-12), are widely credited with the despatch of the best organised, trained and equipped expeditionary force that Britain sent to war in the twentieth century.
