Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir William Pulteney Pulteney NPG x159767

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Walter Stoneman

A rector's son, Pulteney's military career begun when he was commissioned into the Oxford Militia in 1878. He served with the Scot's Guards in the Anglo-Egyptian War and the Second Boer War, and between 1908 and 1914 he commanded troops in southern Ireland. In World War I, Pulteney commanded the 3rd corps of the British expeditionary forces. Described by his chief of staff as, 'the most completely ignorant general I served during the war and that is saying a lot'. Pulteney's tactical decisions, made during... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.