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
The Life Story of David Lloyd George but is the subject of much speculation. Long believed destroyed, the film was rediscovered in the Lloyd George family archives in 1994 by the Wales Film and Television Archive (later the National Library of Wales' National Screen and Sound Archive). When fully restored, the film had its world premiere in Cardiff in 1996. In 2009, the film was released on DVD and in 2010 was inscribed in UNESCO's UK Memory of the World Register. The Life Story of David Lloyd George The Life Story of David Lloyd George (originally titled "The Man Who Saved The Empire") is a 1918 British