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French Army Commander-in-Chief Joseph JoffreVintage Photographs - Commanders
Updated - Saturday, 27 May, 2006

This section of the website contains archive photographs taken during, before and after the war.  Specifically this sub-section contains photography of armed services' commanders.

Click here to read introductory notes relating to this section, including information on photograph sources.  Use the sidebar to the right to select other categories of photos available within this section.

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King George V and Admiral Beatty (CNP)

King Albert I and Sir Douglas Haig (CNP)

French Commander in Chief Joseph Joffre (CNP)

Henri-Philippe Petain (CNP)

August von Mackensen (CNP) Erich von Falkenhayn (CNP)
Enver Pasha (CNP) Crown Prince Wilhelm (CNP)
Paul von Hindenburg (CNP) Prince Leopold of Bavaria (CNP)
Erich Ludendorff (CNP) Peyton March (CNP)
U.S. Commander-in-Chief John J Pershing (CNP) Henry Thomas Mayo (CNP)
George O. Squier (CNP) Robert L Bullard (CNP)
Sir Edmund Allenby (CNP) Sir Frederick Maude (CNP)
Ferdinand Foch (CNP) General von Emmich at Liege, August 1914 (CNP)
Generals Foch and Fayolle examining German 77's (CNP) Major General Wood at Fort McPherson, Georgia (CNP)
Lord Brooke, commander of Canadian forces (CNP) General Allenby entering Jerusalem through the Jaffa Gate (CNP)
Allenby receiving the notables of Jerusalem in barrack square (CNP) Allenby reading the proclamation of Military Law in Jerusalem (CNP)
General Pershing and Major General Sibert with President Poincare (CNP) General Cadorna (CNP)
General Diaz (CNP) Sir John French (MF)
Joseph Joffre (MF) Joffre, Poincare, George V, Foch, Haig (CPE)
Grand Duke Nicholas (CPE) Bavarian Prince Leopold (CPE)
German Crown Prince Wilhelm (CPE) Austro-Hungarian Commander-in-Chief Archduke Friedrich (left) (CPE)
Earl Kitchener, General Boques and David Lloyd George (CPE) General von Beseler (CPE)
Sir John French, British Commander-in-Chief (CPE) General Rennenkampf (CPE)
General von Heeringen (CPE) General Kamio (CPE)
General von Kluck (CPE) German Army Chief of Staff Erich von Falkenhayn (CPE)
Ferdinand Foch (CPE) General Paul Pau (CPE)
General Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien (CPE) General August von Mackensen (CPE)
General Maurice Sarrail (CPE) General Henri-Philippe Petain (CPE)
General von der Goltz (CPE) Paul von Hindenburg (CPE)
General Leman (CPE) Austro-Hungarian Chief of Staff General von Hotzendorf (CPE)
Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff (CPE) General Gallieni (CPE)
Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz (CPE) Admiral von Pliscott (CPE)
Admiral John Fisher (CPE) Admiral Sir John Jellicoe (CPE)
Admiral Beatty (CPE) Lieutenant von Weddigen (CPE)
Admiral Sir Frederick Sturdee (CPE) Admiral Jackson, Jellicoe's predecessor as First Sea Lord (CPE)
Admiral Sir John de Robeck (CPE) Rear-Admiral Cradock (CPE)
Admiral Gregorovich (CPE) Admiral Corsi (CPE)
General Alexei Brusilov (CPE) General Cadorna (CPE)
General Castelnau (CPE) British Commander-in-Chief Sir Douglas Haig (CPE)
Sir William Robertson (CPE) Count Tisza (CPE)
Serbian Chief of Staff Radomir Putnik (CPE) French Army reviewed by King George V, Poincare and Joffre, 25 Oct 15 (CPE)
Post-war photo of Paul von Hindenburg as German President (SR) General von Kluck (SR)
Ferdinand Foch (SR) Crown Prince Rupert of Bavaria (SR)
Sir David Beatty (WW) Sir Douglas Haig (WW)
Sir John French (WW) Sir Julian Byng (WW)
Serbian General Peter Vasic (WW) August von Mackensen (WW)
Jan Smuts (WW) Lieut-Col. Boeger arriving as German Commandant of Dinant (WW)
Eleutherios Venizelos and General Sarrail (WW) General Cadorna (WW)
General Diaz (WW) General Cadorna with his staff officers (WW)
Admiral Tirpitz (WW) Russian Commander-in-Chief Krylenko (WW)
Ferdinand Foch (WW) Ferdinand Foch and Henri-Philippe Petain (WW)
Henri-Philippe Petain decorates wounded nurses (WW) Joseph Joffre (WW)
General Swinton meets Benjamin Holt at the Holt offices, Stockton (TR) General Swinton meets Benjamin Holt at the Holt offices, Stockton (TR)

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