A Slashing Man of Action

Hailed by General Sir Ian Hamilton as a slashing man of action , Aylmer Hunter-Weston began the Great War as one of the British Army's rising stars. By its close, his reputation was very different. Branded by some contemporaries as a butcher and a mountebank , he has also been criticised by modern military historians both for his role in the Gallipoli campaign and also at the Somme, where his ...