Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas D’Oyly Snow KCB, KCMG (5 May 1858 – 30 August 1940) was a British General on the Western Front in the First World War. He played an important role leading 4th Division in the retreat of August 1914, and commanding VII Corps at the unsuccessful Gommecourt diversion on the First Day of the Somme (1 July 1916) and at the Battle of Cambrai in November 1917. He had several nicknames, ‘Slush’, ‘Snowball’ & 'Polar Bear', all plays on his surname & his physical size & height.. }
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- Thomas_D'Oyly_Snow abstract "Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas D’Oyly Snow KCB, KCMG (5 May 1858 – 30 August 1940) was a British General on the Western Front in the First World War. He played an important role leading 4th Division in the retreat of August 1914, and commanding VII Corps at the unsuccessful Gommecourt diversion on the First Day of the Somme (1 July 1916) and at the Battle of Cambrai in November 1917. He had several nicknames, ‘Slush’, ‘Snowball’ & 'Polar Bear', all plays on his surname & his physical size & height.".