John Keir (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Lieutenant General Sir John Lindesay Keir KCB (6 July 1856 - 3 May 1937) was a British Army officer during the Boer War and the First World War. After early service in the Royal Artillery, he commanded the 6th Division in the British Expeditionary Force when it was mobilised in 1914, and was later promoted to lead VI Corps on the Western Front. However, he was relieved of command in 1916 after a personal spat with his commanding officer, and forced to retire. He was never given further command, and spent the remainder of the war fulminating about the role of privileged "cavalry generals," who he argued held a disproportionate amount of senior posts when compared to infantrymen, artillerists or engineers. He formally retired from the Army in July 1918, and published his memoir of the war, A Soldier's-Eye View, the following year.