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    From Chauffeur to Brigadier

    By Brig.-Gen. C. D. Baker-Carr

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    Originally published in 1930, these are the remarkable memoirs of Brigadier General Christopher D'Arcy Bloomfield Saltern Baker-Carr (1878-1949), a British Army staff officer who went on to rise through the ranks to become an important military commander during World War I.

    His account begins in August 1914 with his departure for the front in France and concludes four years later with his experiences at his last headquarters, situated in a small town in northern France, Caudry.

    “It was my unique privilege during the Great War to be closely associated with the development and organisation of the most important defensive weapon, the machine gun, and of the most important offensive weapon, the tank.

    “Today, perhaps, it will seem incredible that the High Command failed to appreciate the true value of the machine gun and the tank in the early stages of their development. It will seem even more incredible that, at a later period, it was necessary to scheme and struggle against official lukewarmness, at times almost indistinguishable from hostility, in order to secure the increase in the numbers of these arms, which, as was evident to everybody else, had proved themselves to be the greatest preservers of life yet discovered.

    “In the following pages I have endeavoured to set down an account of the difficulties encountered, of failures and successes, of high hopes brought to the ground by lack of faith and vision, of the ultimate recognition at long last, of the superiority of machinery and metal over beef and brawn.

    “Much of what I have written, especially in the earlier portions of the book, is, of necessity, a personal narrative, and I have described events and occurrences as I, myself, saw them.”—Brig.-Gen. C. D. Baker-Carr
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcole Publishing
    Release dateApr 3, 2018
    ISBN9781789121919
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    From Chauffeur to Brigadier
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    Brig.-Gen. C. D. Baker-Carr

    Brigadier General Christopher D'Arcy Bloomfield Saltern Baker-Carr (1878-1949) was a British Army staff officer and military commander during World War I. He was born on 3 March 1878 in Lanteglos, Cornwall, England, the youngest of eight children of the Rev. Robert James Baker-Carr and his wife Rose Louisa Longmore Teesdale Baker-Carr. He married his first wife, Sarah de Witt Quinan, on 11 August 1902, and the couple had two sons, Christopher Jerome (1903-1970) and John D’Arcy (1906-1998), who went on to serve in the Royal Air Force during World War II and became a senior RAF Force commander during the 1960’s. Brig.-Gen. Baker-Carr left the army before World War I with the rank of captain, but returned to the colours when the war broke out. His first post was as driver at the General Headquarters (GHQ), and his final appointment was as General Officer Commanding (GOC) with the 1st Tank Brigade—a remarkable progression, which would inspire the title of his memoirs, From Chauffeur to Brigadier, first published in 1930. During his career, Brig.-Gen. Baker-Carr played a pivotal role in the development of British machine gun tactics and organisation. With the vital support of Lord Kitchener, and later of the Machine Gun Corps, he established the BEF Machine Gun School at Wisques in France on 22 November 1914 to train new regimental officers and machine gunners, both to replace those lost in the fighting to date and to increase the number of men with MG skills. A Machine Gun Training Centre was also established at Grantham in England. Brig.-Gen. Baker-Carr passed away in Bacton, Cromer, Norfolk, England on 10 January 1949, aged 70.

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