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Alphonse Joseph Georges

Alphonse Joseph Georges
Georges in 1939
Born(1875-08-15)15 August 1875
Allier, Montluçon, France
Died24 April 1951(1951-04-24) (aged 75)
Paris
Allegiance France
Service / branchFrench Army
Years of service1897–1944
RankGeneral
Wars and battles
Alma materÉcole Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr
General Georges, left, with General Lord Gort at Arras circa 1940
General Alphonse Joseph Georges of the French Army, accompanied by General Lord Gort, Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C) of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), inspecting men of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, British 5th Division, at Bethune, France, 23 April 1940.

Alphonse Joseph Georges (French pronunciation: [alfɔ̃s ʒozɛf ʒɔʁʒ]; 15 August 1875 – 24 April 1951) was a French army officer. He was commander in chief of the North East Front in 1939 and 1940.[1] Opposing the plan by supreme commander Maurice Gamelin to move the best Allied forces into the Low Countries, he was overruled. Georges tried to allow as much initiative to his subordinates as possible to improve operational flexibility.

  1. ^ Greenwood, John; Karl-Heinz Frieser (2005). The Blitzkrieg Legend: The 1940 Campaign in the West. Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press. p. 92. ISBN 1-59114-294-6.
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