WW1 Leaders - French War Leaders - Part 1 - WW1 Information

 1. General I. Joffre, in peace time Chief of the General Staff, Commandant in Chief until December 1915, afterwards Head Director of the French Army on all fronts and military technical counsellor for the government.

2. General F. Foch, Commandant of the 20th corps, 9th Army, North Army, Commandant in Chief (from April 1918).

3. General H.Petain, Division Commandant (1914), 33th Corps, 2nd Army, Army-grouping in Verdun, Commandant in Chief (May 1914).

4. General M. Sarrail, Commandant of the 3rd Army, later Allied-forces in the East (in Salonica till 1917).

5. General Franchet d'Esperey, Commandant of the 1st Corps (1914) 5th Army, North Army group Allied-forces in the East (Salonica).

6. General Guillaumat, Commandant of the 1st Corps, 2nd later 5th Army, at the Salonica front, successor to Sarrail, replaced by Franchet d'Espercy.

7. Contre -Admiral Guepratte, Commandant of the French Aegian fleet.

8. Admiral Dartige du Fournet, Commandant of the French and British Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea.

9. Jonart, Senator. High Commissioner of the Entente in Greece.

10. Vice-Admiral de Gueydon, Commandant of the Fleet, who directed the transport of the Serbian Army to Corfu and Salonica.

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Excerpt from the book: Ратни албум (War Album) 1914-1918
Author: Андра Поповић (Andra Popovic),
Belgrade, 1926