FIELD-MARSHALS

‘The clergy are the most conservative, tiresome, unimaginative men to deal with that I have ever come across: I suggested all sorts of things to them: proper hymns like “Eternal Father Strong to Save” and “Onward Christian Soldiers”, but they would not listen to me: I want this service to be a great recruiting occasion.’

Lord Kitchener, quoted in Autobiography, by Margot Tennant

‘I should as soon think of fighting without my artillery as without my chaplains.’

Lord Montgomery in All Saints' Cathedral Hall, Cairo