Manuscript letters to Mrs Winifred Bennett

Item author: Field Marshal Sir John French, First Earl of Ypres
Item date: 1914-15
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 4,800
Item date acquired: 1975
Item institution: Imperial War Museum
Town/City: London

99 letters written by the Field Marshal to his mistress, revealing that French was affected by the heavy losses and was not as callous as had been formerly thought. He wrote in great detail about the conduct of operations under his command on the Western Front

Item Provenance
Sothebys December 1975