Talk:Guy Simonds

message: I believe I can further annotate the 2nd photo in the article
(ie identify the other people in the photo)
However, I am not sure whether this is germane to Guy Simmonds specifically
Also, not sure how to edit the caption (I've edited other stuff, just don't see how to make this particular edit
Actually the photo would tie in to a number of other articles ... can a photo be shared somehow?
Feldercarb (talk) 03:11, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not an expert but I understand that a BGS (brigadier general staff) is normally the senior staff officer in a corps HQ in much the same way as a GSO1 (who is normally a colonel) is the senior staff officer in a division HQ. The chief of staff in an army HQ is normally a major-general. Stephen Kirrage talk - contribs 14:20, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The attacks on Simonds re: the Black Watch have been perpetuated mainly by two unsubstantiated sources - The Valour and the Horror and a more recent history done for the History Channel, largely research by, of all things, the Black Watch itself. Both cast slurs on Simonds. C.P. Stacey addresses some controversial aspects of the reporting of Operation Spring in his autobiogaphy, A Date with History, but does not provide much evidence of the kind that the CBC or the Black Watch historian would like to believe exists vis a vis Simond's culpability for the "massacre" atop the ridge.139.48.25.60 (talk) 22:27, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  2nd photo 

message: I am hoping on some leeway with the expansion of this article. As the "best of Canadian generals" I would hope to give Simonds a fairly substantial article. If it is longer that say Andy McNaughten's, then I trust you will be motivated to expand that article not shrink this one. 
With the family background I had hoped to show several things: the "interconnectedness" of British establishment, and the sacrifices of the Simonds family (2 siblings dead either in the run up to the war or as a civilian casuality). In documenting the various moves and residences, I was hoping to show what a military family has to put up with.
I've tried to list Simonds numerous appointments in 1939-1943 because I think it illustates the tremondous expansion of the army in a very personal way; also I think you can readily imagine the stress which was placed on an indivdual.
I've been "name dropping" a bit, but I hoped to use this to show the small size the the prewar army. 
If there are points you feel need references please bear in mind several things:
-I don't feel every fact or sentence needs its own reference; the reference given can easily apply to a paragraph
-I'd prefer that if you question a fact, put the "citation needed" mark in, and let it sit for a bit before deleting please
There are some points where my sources disagree. For now I've chosen the one I feel is most reliable, but I hope to document these points soon.
Feldercarb (talk) 06:02, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: A Note on Relevance

message: I believe it should be put in that Simonds sat the entrance exams for RMC in 1921 and ranked second in the country. I will cite these to J/L. Granatstein's "The Generals: The Canadian Army's Senior Commanders in the Second World War"  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.241.61.35 (talk) 02:20, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Education 

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message: Early dry-stowage Shermans burned at similar rates to many other tanks; wet-stowage Shermans actually had unusually low burn rates. The "Ronson" nickname is usually claimed to have been given by *allied* troops (with reference made to an advertising slogan that Ronson didn't actually use until the 1950s), with the Germans supposedly calling them something along the lines of "Tommycookers" (which there's no actual evidence for either), so the account given doesn't even get the standard myth right. The M4 had definite weaknesses, but they're drastically overstated here, and that overstatement is used to push a clear POV.2600:8807:C180:CB3:2DE6:BCB6:83B2:BAE8 (talk) 17:09, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Falaise pocket section reads more like a defense than a neutral account and states discredited myths as facts 

message: Lots of cites for Morton, but I am not seeing the base reference ~ am I missing something here?
Feldercarb (talk) 22:27, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing Morton?