ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: MILITARY AND NAVAL HISTORY
Volume 6
THE VICTORIAN ARMY AND THE STAFF COLLEGE 18541914
THE VICTORIAN ARMY AND THE STAFF COLLEGE 18541914
BRIAN BOND
First published in 1972
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THE VICTORIAN ARMY AND THE STAFF COLLEGE 18541914
Brian Bond
First published 1972
by Eyre Methuen Ltd
11 New Fetter Lane, EC4P 4EE
1972 Brian Bond
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Cox & Wyman Ltd
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to the memory of my mother
OLIVE BESSIE SARTIN
Contents
Illustrations
PLATES
DRAWINGS
title page
TABLES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FOR THE ILLUSTRATIONS
All the illustrations are reproduced by kind permission of Maj.-Gen. A. M. Taylor M.C., Commandant of the Staff College, except for the following: Capt. J. H. Lefroy (photograph in Royal Artillery Society Proceedings, January 1967, from a portrait by Berthon in Toronto); British infantry at Magersfontein and The Loss of the Convoy at Waterval Drift (With the Flag to Pretoria); the Staff College, Quetta, and The First V.C. of the European War (National Army Museum, the latter on loan to the Staff College). Photographs of Wavell as a G.S.O.3. in 1914 from J. Connell, Wavell: Scholar and Soldier (Collins), and of Capt. E. F. Calthrop from F. S. G. Piggott, Broken Thread (Gale & Polden). Cartoon, Our Future Staff from Punch, 5 March 1859.
I should like first to acknowledge my indebtedness to John Shy, Neil Summerton, John Gooch and John Terraine for taking the trouble to read individual chapters in typescript and giving me the benefit of their expert knowledge. Special thanks are due to Doctors Gooch and Summerton for generously allowing me to draw extensively on their unpublished theses in my respectively.
Among many people who kindly allowed me to borrow and quote from private papers in their possession I am particularly grateful to Mrs Evelyn Arthur (Memoirs of Sir John Burnett-Stuart); Viscount Esher (Esher Journals and Correspondence); Mrs A. M. B. Sandison (Edmonds Papers); and Maj. Cyril Wilson (Diaries of Sir Henry Wilson). Sir Bernard Fergusson lent me documents relating to Field-Marshal Earl Wavells early days in the Army; and Mr J. A. P. Lefroy patiently answered my questions about the family history of Sir John Henry Lefroy.
Besides their general interest and encouragement, I am enormously indebted to the late Sir Basil and Lady Liddell Hart for allowing me to use Sir Basils library as my own. Sir Basils death in January 1970 deprived me of the benefit of his critical comments, which would doubtless have been voluminous.
I am glad of this opportunity to say thank you to the numerous archivists and librarians whose interest, courtesy and expert assistance have brightened and lightened many hours of painstaking research. My colleague Antony Grant of the Centre for Military Archives at Kings College, London, has been unfailingly helpful during the past five years; his departure to a new post in the autumn of 1971 will be a great loss to the College, as well as to me personally.
For many years Mr D. W. King and his colleagues have made it a pleasure for me to work at the Old War Office (now Central and Army) Library. Although it is invidious to mention some individuals and not others I must beg the pardon of the latter in naming Mrs G. Davies, Mr C. A. Potts, Mr J. Woods, Mr D. Bradley and Mr N. B. Leslie, all of whom have been of tremendous assistance during the long gestation of this book.
Mr Robert Mackworth-Young, the Royal Librarian, granted me access to the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle, and Miss Jane Langton and her assistants went to a great deal of trouble in searching for relevant documents for me. I should like to acknowledge the gracious permission of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to consult the Royal Archives and to quote from them certain passages in the text.
Lt-Col F. W. Young and Mr Kenneth White, successive Librarians at the Staff College, made my visits to Camberley enjoyable as well as academically rewarding. I should also like to express my thanks to the staff of the National Library of Scotland, the Scottish Records Office, the Public Record Office and all the other libraries and archives which I visited in the course of writing this book.
My publishers, and others mentioned above, have saved me from many factual errors, obscurities and inconsistencies, but I alone am responsible for those that remain.
Last, but far from least, I have depended entirely on my wife Madeleine for typing and re-typing my longhand drafts. She alone knows the full cost in many senses of bringing this book to the point of publication.
Medmenham, Bucks, June 1971 | Brian Bond |
I am grateful to the following publishers and literary agents for permission to quote from books whose copyright they hold:
Edward Arnold Ltd, for Stray Recollections by Charles Callwell. Cassell & Co Ltd, for The Theory and Practice of War by Michael Howard (ed); The Education of an Army by Jay Luvaas; and At G.H.Q. by J. Charteris. William Collins, Sons and Co, Ltd, for Wavell: Scholar and Soldier by J. Connell; and The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery. Constable & Co Ltd, for The Staff and the Staff College by A. R. Godwin-Austen. Harrap & Co Ltd, for Allenby: a Study in Greatness by Sir A. Wavell. Hutchinson & Co Ltd, for The Fire of Life by Sir G. Barrow; Annals of an Active Life by Sir N. Macready; and
