'Major-General Sir J. D. P. French, ', 1901. Creator: Unknown.

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'Major-General Sir J. D. P. French, ', 1901. Portrait of British soldier John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres. Field Marshal French (1852-1925) served during the Boer Wars, and was first Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force for the first two years of World War I before serving as Commander-in-Chief of Home Forces. In 1918 Lord French became Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, a position he held throughout much of the Irish War of Independence. From "The Life and Deeds of Earl Roberts, Vol. IV. - To Lord Roberts's Reign in Pall Mall", by J. Maclaren Cobban. [T. C. & E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, 1901]

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