Commanding officer
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The commanding officer or commander, or sometimes, if the incumbent is a general officer, commanding general, is the officer in command of a military unit. The commanding officer has ultimate authorit
Douglas Haig and Ferdinand Foch inspecting the Gordon Highlanders, 1918
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Ferdinand Foch
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Ferdinand Foch was a French general, Marshal of France and a member of the Académie Française and Académie des Sciences. He distinguished himself as Supreme Allied Commander on the Western Front durin
Commanding officer
…Douglas Haig and Ferdinand Foch inspecting the Gordon Highlanders, 1918 The commanding officer (CO) or commander, or sometimes, if the incumbent is a general officer, commanding general…
Foch in c. 1914
Foch's birthplace in Tarbes
General Foch in 1916
Foch, Weygand, Haig, Pétain and other British and French officers with King George V, 1918