The Occupation of the Rhineland, 1918-1929"This volume contains a military account of the 11-year occupation of the Rhineland by British forces and of matters which affected their sojourn and well-being. It continues the history of the War of 1914-18 on the Western Front, taking up the narrative at 11 a.m. on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the moment at which the Armistice of R?thondes became effective on land, and concludes with the withdrawal of the British Army of Occupation in December, 1929"--Page iii. |
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administration Allied and Associated Allied Armies Alsace-Lorraine ammunition Appendix Armies of Occupation Armistice arms Article bank Barracks battalions Belgian Belgium billets bridgehead Brigade British Army British military authorities British Occupied Territory British Zone carried civil authorities civilians Coblence Cologne command Commander-in-Chief Corps Court December demobilization depôts Düren Düsseldorf duties evacuation forbidden force Fourth Armies France French and Belgian frontier garrison German Army German authorities German Government German territory guard guns handed headquarters High Commission II Corps infantry inhabitants instructions issued January Lieut.-General Sir lorries Major-General March Maréchal Foch material Military Governor necessary Neutral Zone occupied territory officers Ordinance pass Peace Treaty personnel persons Plumer police prisoners prisoners of war railway regards regiment regulations Reich Reichswehr reparation reported requisition Rhine Rhineland Rhineland High Commission Ruhr Second Army sent soldiers Solingen Staff supply telegraph tion trains transport units Upper Silesia War Office Wiesbaden