“Our Allies, the French”: Anglo-French Co-operation in Practice  – Bryn Hammond

Liaison is essential to effective military operations in any coalition of two or more military forces from different nations. This talk presents early research on what structures, organisation and methods existed to encourage co-operation in military operations between the French and Allied forces on the Western Front and how well these aids to co-operation performed and survived under the pressure of the events of the war. The particular focus will be 1918 in defence and attack when these structures and methods were under greatest stress.