Field-Marshal Sir John French - Leader of British Army in WWI (Great War, World War 1, European War)

Major French was attached to the picked force sent across the Bayuda Desert under Sir Herbert Stewart in the futile attempt to relieve General Gordon.

At Abu Klea he took part in the most savage action ever fought in the Soudan (now Sudan) by British troops. The small British force met with an overwhelming number of the enemy. It was hurriedly formed into a square near the wells. One side of the square was broken by the Dervishes, and but for the fact that the inside of the formation was packed solid with horses, camels, baggage-mules, and stores, the whole would have been exterminated.

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As it was, over a hundred British officers and men were killed outright, while about the same number were wounded. Major French escaped without a scratch, and similar good fortune attended him during the fierce fighting at Metammeh (where Sir Herbert Stewart was mortally wounded), and at Gubat.

In the masterly retreat from Gubat, between February and March, 1885, Major French had a foretaste of his later experiences at Mons.

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