Pulteney

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Detailed in Trevor Pidgeon's The Tanks at Flers volume 1.

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Indeed it is (and I missed it)

That's very interesting - thank you

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On 26/10/2015 at 18:55, IPT said:

His chief of staff between April and October 1917, Charles Bonham-Carter, said of him, " Putty was a dear old man (not so old), but the most completely ignorant general I served with during the war and that is saying a lot"

The original source may be Victor Bonham-Carter in "In a Liberal Tradition" (1960).

This book is now freely available online at https://archive.org/stream/inliberaltraditi00bonh/inliberaltraditi00bonh_djvu.txt

The full quote reads-

Between  April  and  October  1917  Charles  acted  as  chief 
of  staff  (BGS)  to  General  Pulteney,  commander  of  III  Corps. 

Putty  was  a  dear  old  man  (not  so  old),  but  the  most 
completely  ignorant  general  I  served  during  the  war,  and 
that  is  saying  a  lot.  An  attractive  trait  was  his  love  of  birds. 
There  was  a  swallow’s  nest  in  his  hut,  and  he  used  to  explain 
to  us  the  careful  sanitary  arrangements  of  the  parent  birds.