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Topical Budget 231-2: Viscount French of Ypres (1916)
 

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"VISCOUNT FRENCH OF YPRES : the famous field marshall holds his first public ceremony since resigning the command of the Expeditionary Force. Leaving the parade ground with his staff officers after the review". Group of officers walking on a plain, Sir John French who resigned on 19/12/1915, in the middle. He gets into the car together with a staff-officer.