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 George, 3rd Viscount Tenby William Lloyd George, 3rd Viscount Tenby William Lloyd George, 3rd Viscount Tenby, JP (born 7 November 1927) is a British peer and former Army officer. Tenby was elected one of the initial ninety hereditary peers to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999 until his retirement in 2015. Tenby is the son of Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby and Edna Gwenfrom Jones. He was educated at Eastbourne College and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he won an exhibition and graduated with a BA degree in 1949. His father was a