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
William Lloyd (British Army officer) William Lloyd (British Army officer) William John Lloyd (2December 177829July 1815) was a British Army officer wounded at the Battle of Waterloo on June18 1815. HE was the son of Major John Lloyd, of the 46th Regiment of Foot, who had been "aide-de-camp" to General Sir Henry Clinton during the American War of Independence, and Corbetta, daughter of the Venerable George Holcombe, Archdeacon of Carmarthen. Lloyd joined the Royal Artillery as a second-lieutenant on 6March 1795. He was promoted to first-lieutenant on 18June 1796; to captain-lieutenant on 12September 1803; to second-captain on 19July 1804; to captain on 22October 1806 and