François Paul Anthoine (28 February 1860 – 25 December 1944) was a
French Army
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general during the
First World War
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.
When the Great War began, Anthoine was
General Castelnau's Chief of Staff (
Second Army).
Anthoine played an important role in
Robert Nivelle
Robert Georges Nivelle (15 October 1856 – 22 March 1924) was a French artillery general officer who served in the Boxer Rebellion and the First World War. In May 1916, he succeeded Philippe Pétain as commander of the French Second Army in the ...
's
ill-fated campaign in spring 1917.
Anthoine was eventually promoted to command
French Fourth Army The Fourth Army (french: IVe Armée) was a Field army of the French Army, which fought during World War I and World War II.
Commanders World War I
258px, Tribute to the Fourth Army which liberated Sommepy-Tahure.
*General Fernand de Langle de Car ...
in March 1917 then
French First Army in June 1917. At the
Third Battle of Ypres
The Third Battle of Ypres (german: link=no, Dritte Flandernschlacht; french: link=no, Troisième Bataille des Flandres; nl, Derde Slag om Ieper), also known as the Battle of Passchendaele (), was a campaign of the First World War, fought by t ...
in autumn 1917, Anthoine and the First Army participated in the attacks on the northern flank of the salient and guarded the
BEF's northern flank from enemy attack across the
Yser Canal.
Herbert Plumer
Field Marshal Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, (13 March 1857 – 16 July 1932) was a senior British Army officer of the First World War. After comman