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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 16:54, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
... that despite at least 78 British general officers being killed as a result of active service in the First World War(gravestone of one pictured) a popular myth states that they rarely visited the battlefield? Source: "the popular perception of British general officers of the Great War is that they were all incompetent butchers, uncaringly consigning men to certain death from châteaux far from the front line, where they skulked in splendid luxury, with polished boots, eating caviar and drinking champagne and having neither conception nor care of the true conditions suffered by the men in the trenches" from page 2 of Davis, Frank; Maddocks, Graham (1995). Bloody Red Tabs - General Officer Casualties of the Great War, 1914-1918. London: Leo Cooper. and "chapter 3 contains the names of seventy-eight generals who were killed in action, died of wounds or died as a result of active serve" from page 22 of the same. Note the article is broader in scope and lists all those known to have died during the war
@Dumelow: Good article. 
AGF on the sources I can't access. Onegreatjoke (talk) 17:09, 19 December 2022 (UTC)