5/24/2023 0 Comments Liddell hart sherman![]() ![]() During this time he wrote a several booklets on infantry drill and training, which came to the attention of General Sir Ivor Maxse. Transferred to be Adjutant to Volunteer units in Stoud and Cambridge, he spent a great deal of time training new units. The experiences he suffered on the Western Front profoundly affected him for the rest of his life. His battalion was nearly wiped out on the first day of the offensive, a part of the 60,000 casualties suffered in the heaviest single day's loss in British history. He was hit three times without serious injury before being badly gassed and sent out of the line on July 18, 1916. He returned to the front for a third time in 1916, in time to participate in the Battle of the Somme. Liddell Hart's front line experience was relatively brief, confined to two short spells in the autumn and winter of 1915, being sent home from the front after suffering concussive injuries from a shell burst. On the outbreak of World War I in 1914 Liddell Hart volunteered to become an officer in the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. As a child he was fascinated by aviation. The Harts were farmers from Gloucestershire and Herefordshire. His mother's side of the family, the Liddells, came from Liddellsdale, on the border with Scotland, and were associated with the South-Western Railway. Born in Paris, as the son of an English Methodist minister, Liddell Hart received his formal academic education at St Paul's School in London and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. ![]()
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