It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general
So pronounced Marshal Ferdinand Jean Marie Foch, a french general, military theorist and the Supreme Allied commander of World War One! A hundred years ago, the 'war to end all wars' devastated Europe and in particular much of Belgium and north west France. The numbers of casualties on both sides were staggering and the obscene loss of life is still impossible to get one's head around with most of the victims in their late teens