b'72332332 Foch was ultimately appointed Commander-in-Chief of A full-size Australian flag from WWI signed J.Foch, by Marshalthe Allied Armies on 26 March 1918 following being the Jean Marie Foch, Commander in Chief of the Allied Armies Commander-in-Chief of Western Front with title Gnralissime The flag is mounted within a large timber frame with anin 1918. He played a decisive role in halting a renewed German engraved plaque at centre base, advance on Paris in the Second Battle of the Marne, after which overall 89 x 150cm he was promoted to Marshal of France. Addington says, to a The plaque reads as follows: large extent the final Allied strategy which won the war on land THIS AUSTRALIAN FLAG in Western Europe in 1918 was Fochs alone.WAS SIGNED FOR CAPTAIN GEORGE R. HAMILTON,On 11 November 1918 Foch accepted the German request for A.A.M.C., A.I.F. an armistice. Foch advocated peace terms that would make AT THE HOTEL CARLTON, LONDON, Germany unable to pose a threat to France ever again. Foch BY considered the Treaty of Versailles too lenient on Germany and MARSHAL FOCH as the Treaty was being signed on 28 June 1919, he declared: ON 26th JUNE 1919, THE DAY OF THE SIGNING OF This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years. His PEACE. words proved prophetic: the Second World War started twenty AFTER THE MARCH OF THE ALLIED TROOPS THROUGH years and 65 days later.LONDON, ON WHICH OCCASION WHEN CALLED ON TO $3,0004,000SPEAK, ALL THE GENARALISSIMO SAID WAS -DO NOT THANK ME - THANK THE SOLDIERS.PROVENANCEThe family of Captain George R Hamilton, by descent.The Australian War Memorial holds The Kitchener Flag with Fochs signature. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C164767 The signature on Georges flag matches the Foch signature on AWMs flag.Marshel Ferdinand Jean Marie FOCH (18511929) was a French general and military theorist who served as the Supreme Allied Commander during the First World War. An aggressive, even reckless commander at the First Marne, Flanders, and Artois campaigns of 19141916, Foch became the Allied Commander-in-Chief in 1918 and successfully coordinated the French, British, American, and Italian efforts into a coherent whole, deftly handling his strategic reserves.332 (Detail)'