David Lloyd George access to the Cabinet so as to bypass Kitchener. However, he did succeed in securing the appointment of Sir Eric Geddes to take charge of military railways behind British lines in France, with the honorary rank of major-general. Lloyd George told a journalist, Roy W. Howard, in late September that "the fight must be to a finish – to a knockout", a rejection of President Wilson's offer to mediate. Lloyd George was increasingly frustrated at the limited gains of the Somme Offensive, criticising General Haig to Ferdinand Foch on a visit to the Western Front in September (British casualty ratios
George Lloyd Hodges on 15 December 1837. Hodges was appointed Consul-General in Egypt on 1 October 1839. On 11 May 1841, he was appointed Consul-General in the Circle of Lower Saxony and for the Free Cities of Hamburg, Bremen, and Lübeck. George Lloyd Hodges George Lloyd Hodges (1790–1862) was a British soldier and diplomat. He was the eldest son of George Thomas Hodges of The Abbey in County Limerick, Ireland. He entered the British army in 1806, and took part in the Battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo. In 1832 he commanded the brigade of British volunteers who enlisted to fight to restore