SOLDIER WHO PREFERRED FARMING
2ZB Features Viscount Allenby's Strange Career |
ISCOUNT ALLENBY, highlights of whose military career will be presented from Station 2ZB at 8.45 p.m. on April 22 in the "Magnificent Heritage " programme, was one of the strangest characters ever to carry a field-marshal’s baton. Up to the time of his campaign in the Middle ‘East in 1917, he had not
been a conspicuous military success, He came from a long. line of landowners, and originally had entered the army only because he had failed in examinations for the Indian Civil Service. He preferred the life of an English country gentleman to soldiering-‘"I hate war," he wrote to his wife in South Africa, Yet when Lloyd George asked him to give the British people Jerusalem as a Christmas present, he descended on the army of the Middle East like a whirlwind, banished the stagnation which had seized on the British Army there and proceeded to .carry out one of the most brilliant campaigns of the war.
As a tactician, Allenby was one of the earliest to recognise the importance, of mobility, a lesson well learnt by Sir Archibald Wavell, who was on his staff, and who has written a biography of him. The difference between the two men was that Allenby relied on horses; Wavell relies on petrol. Allenby is one of several generals who have been presented in the "Magnificent Heritage" series,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 95, 18 April 1941, Page 17
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234SOLDIER WHO PREFERRED FARMING New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 95, 18 April 1941, Page 17
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