George Glas Sandeman Carey
British WWI general
Major-General George Glas Sandeman Carey CB (13 February 1867 – 5 March 1948) was an officer in the British Army who, during World War I, prevented a breakthrough of the German forces to Amiens in the Second Battle of the Somme in 1918 by assembling a scratch force of British and American troops.[1][2]
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He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1916 Birthday Honours.[3]
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