Title: From chauffeur to Brigadier
Description: Recounts author's experiences in WWI as a volunteer driver, machine gun instructor, officer of the Machine Gun Corps and later of the Tank Corps.   Fascinating first hand account.  Details obstruction of GHQ in creation and use of machine guns and tanks.
Subjects: WWI, Machine Gun Corps, Tank Corps, Lord Kitchener, Conscription, Battle of Ypres, The Somme, Battle of Cambrai, Battle of Arras, Sir Hugh Elles, Sir Thomas Capper, Sir Ivor Maxse, Sir John French, Sir George Harper
Places: Albert, Amiens, Arras, Bermicourt, Beaumont Hamel, Bourlon, Bullecourt, Canal du Nord, Compiegne, Doullens, Flers, Flesquieres, Graincourt, Havrincourt, Le Cateau, Messines, St. Julien, St. Omer, St. Quentin, Soissons, Somme, Vimy, Vincennes, Wisques, Ypres, Zonnnebeke
People: Lord Kitchener, Herbert Asquith, Sir Eric Geddes, Sir Henry Wilson, Lord Haig, Sir Launcelot Kiggle, David Lloyd George, Sir Julian Gough
Time periods: 1914-1918