Maurice Paul Emmanuel Sarrail was a French general of the First World War. Sarrail's openly socialist political connections made him a rarity amongst the Catholics, conservatives and monarchists who d
General Maurice Sarrail and his chief of staff at Salonika
Fighting along the Greek border, 1916
Lieutenant-General Sir Bryan Mahon, commanding British forces at Salonika, and General Maurice Sarrail, along with other senior officers, at Salonika, March 1916.
Robert Georges Nivelle was a French artillery general officer who served in the Boxer Rebellion and the First World War. In May 1916, he succeeded Philippe Pétain as commander of the French Second Arm
General Nivelle c. 1917
General Nivelle in 1916. Autochrome portrait by Jules Gervais-Courtellemont
General Robert Nivelle, wearing the three stars of a General de Division in Times history of the war