Taking into account that the British Army hardly had any artillery at the start of the war and that the country was not on a war footing in August 1914, the design and production as stated was remarkable - not so the quality control as pointed out by Edmonds.

Yet despite all that Edmonds stated in his report at the end of the Battle of the Somme the "Entente Powers" had taken more ground than at any time since the First Battle of the Marne in 1914.

By the end of 1916 the Germans replaced Kalkenhayn their commander, they had been defeated at Verdun and on the Somme, their losses could not be replaced, ours and the French could - Falkenhayn's attempt to bleed the British and the French white had backfired spectacularly, in September the Germans started construction of the Hindenburg line and by January of 1917 the withdrawal of forces to occupy it was well under way. The Germans now knew that they had to defeat the Russians in the east to have any hope of gaining any victory in the west.

As I have stated previously the British did tend to learn from their mistakes. From the end of the Somme Battle onward the "Entente Powers" continued to "bite and hold" at the German lines. By 1917 all of the concerns detailed by Edmonds had been rectified. When the Russians signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and Germans transferred ~1.5 million men to the western front and launched them against the British in Northern France and Belgium - Their tactics were the same and their logistics had not improved one whit since 1914. Twenty-one days after the German attack reached as far as it was going to get, the British Army fully re-equipped launched the 100 days offensive that ended the war.