joined in the offensive. This did not happen. Despite being in pain from his injured pelvis, Snow surveyed his positions from Ronssoy-Epehy Ridge each day and warned his superiors that a German counter-attack was brewing for 29 or 30 November. They were still preoccupied with the attack at Bourlon Wood on the left and did not believe – wrongly – that the Germans had sufficient reserves left after Third Ypres to mount a big attack. At 7:00 p.m. on 28 November his chief of staff, Brigadier-General Jock Burnett-Stuart, telephoned Byng's chief of staff, Major-General Louis Vaughan, to request reinforcements and was told that the Guards Division could soon be sent. When the counter-attack came, the Guards Division had already been committed to III Corps. Bryn Hammond describes Snow at Cambrai as a "safe pair of hands" on account of his experience but also "tired and relatively old" at the age of 59. After criticism of British leadership during the German counter-attack and along with several other BEF corps commanders, he was replaced largely on grounds of age on 2 January 1918. He returned to England, being appointed General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Western Command. He was promoted to lieutenant general and appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in recognition of his services on the Western Front. He had also been Mentioned in Despatches six times, appointed a Commander of the Legion of Honour by the French Government and made a Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold from Belgium. Post-war life Snow retired from the army in September 1919. He was also Colonel of the Suffolk Regiment from 1918 to 1919 and Colonel of the Somerset Light Infantry from 1919 to 1929. Snow became largely confined to a bath chair and moved from Blandford to Kensington. He devoted much of his time to charitable work and became chairman of the Crippled Boys' Home for Training. Snow died at his home in Kensington Gate, London, on 30 August 1940, aged 82. His wealth was £15,531.95 (over £750,000 at 2016 prices). Personal life and descendants Snow was in height. Snow married Charlotte Geraldine, second daughter of Major-General John Talbot Coke of Trusley, Derbyshire, on 12 January 1897. They had two sons and one daughter. His son George D'Oyly Snow became the Bishop of Whitby. Snow was the grandfather of British broadcasters Peter Snow and Jon Snow