A few more comments suggestions not comprehensive Lede is completely uncited so should be carefully checked to ensure each statement is elsewhere in the text I d suggest hidden comments to say where Commanders When did French s term start Why was he replaced conduct during the war or conduct of the war Organisantion consider any conflict or any external conflict link first use of Guards infantry cavalry regiment division brigade battalion how big are these units relate 3s6d week to the modern equivalent Recruitment and conscription not just men women esp nurses boys some of 14 volunteered Doctrine the quotation In every respect the Expeditionary Force in 1914 was incomparably the best trained best organized and best equipped British Army which ever went forth to war is attributed in Beckett Simpson p 38 to J E Edmonds Military Operations France and Belgium 1914 Volume I pp 10 11 HMSO London 1925 should be verified and properly attributed Artillery tactics link first use of creeping barrage indirect fire Communications link first use of dispatch trench wireless set flags Life in the trenches lice and rats didn t cause the diseases they carried them Gas helmet see Heller Charles E September 1984 Chemical Warfare in World War I The American Experience 1917 1918 Combat Studies Institute that s all for now perhaps more later