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  3. IWM DOCS: A V Conn, Typescript account

  4. IWM DOCS: D. Starrett, Typescript account, pp. 48–9

  5. IWM DOCS: A. V Conn, Typescript account

  6. D. Haig, diary entry 4/4/1916, quoted in G. Sheffield & J. Bourne (eds), Douglas Haig: War Diaries and Letters 1914–18

  7. H. Rawlinson quoted in R. Prior & T. Wilson, Command on the Western Front, p. 149

  8. D. Haig, diary entry 27/6/1916, quoted in G. Sheffield & J. Bourne (eds), Douglas Haig: War Diaries and Letters 1914–18

  9. IWM DOCS: A. Home, Typescript diary, 22/6/1916

  10. D. Haig, diary entry 17/6/1916, quoted in G. Sheffield & J. Bourne (eds), Douglas Haig: War Diaries and Letters 1914–18

  11. IWM DOCS: B. S. Philpotts Collection: F. H. Aincham, Typescript account

  12. IWM DOCS: W. H. Bloor, Typescript diary, 23/6/1916

  13. J. E. Edmonds, History of the Great War: Military Operations, France and Belgium, 1916, p. 283

  14. IWM DOCS: S. W. Appleyard, Transcript diary, p. 57

  15. IWM DOCS: F. L. Cassel, Typescript account

  16. IWM DOCS: R. Stockman, Typescript memoir

  17. Ibid.

  18. T. Snow, quoted in J. E. Edmonds, History of the Great War: Military Operations, France and Belgium, 1916, p. 460

  19. IWM DOCS: W T. Colyer, Manuscript account, ‘War Impressions’

  20. IWM DOCS: C. Carter, Typescript account, Pt 3, pp. 2–3

  21. IWM SOUND: N. M. Dillon, AC 9752, Reel 7

  22. IWM DOCS: D. N. Menaud-Lissenburg, Typescript memoir, pp. 168–9

  23. IWM SOUND: M. S. Cleeve, AC 7310, Reel 2

  24. Ibid., Reel 3

  25. Ibid., Reel 2

  26. IWM DOCS: D. N. Menaud-Lissenburg, Typescript memoir, pp. 180–1

  27. IVM DOCS: C. C. May, Typescript diary, 16/6/1916

  28. IWM SOUND: L. G. Ounsworth, AC 332, Reel 4

  29. N. Fraser-Tytler, Field Guns in France (London: Hutchinson & Co, 1922), pp. 73–4

  30. IWM DOCS: A. L. Atkins, Typescript letter, pp. 25–6

  31. IWM DOCS: W. P. Nevill, Edited from manuscript letters, 16/6/1916, 18/6/1916 & 22/6/1916

  32. IWM DOCS: D. N. Menaud-Lissenburg, Typescript memoir, p. 178

  33. IWM DOCS: W. H. Bloor, Typescript diary, 24/6/1916

  34. IWM DOCS: C. G. Lawson, Typescript letters, 24/6/1916

  35. IWM DOCS: R. G. Ingle, Typescript diary, 24/6/1916

  36. IWM DOCS: C. C. May, Typescript diary, 25/6/1916

  37. IWM DOCS: W. H. Bloor, Typescript diary, 25/6/1916

  38. IWM DOCS: D. N. Menaud-Lissenburg, Typescript memoir, pp. 168–9

  39. IWM DOCS: W. H. Bloor, Typescript diary, 26/6/1916

  40. Diary quoted in T. Chalmers, History of the 15th Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow: John McCallum & Co, 1934), p. 68

  41. Ibid.

  42. IWM DOCS: F. L. Cassel, Typescript account

  43. Ibid.

  44. Ibid.

  45. Ibid.

  46. IWM DOCS: H. C. Rees, A Personal Record of the War, 1915–1916–1917’

  47. IWM DOCS: W T. Colyer, Manuscript account, ‘War Impressions’

  48. Ibid.

  49. IWM DOCS: R. G. Ingle, Typescript diary, 25/6/1916

  50. IWM SOUND: R. Miller, AC 11961, Reel 4

  51. IWM DOCS: C. C. May, Typescript diary, 28/6/1916

  52. Ibid., 29/6/1916

  53. IWM SOUND: H. Tansley, AC 13682, Reel 1 (Recorded for BBC Radio 4, A Summer Day on the Somme, broadcast 27/6/1976)

  54. IWM DOCS: E. B. Lord, Typescript account, p. 16

  55. IWM DOCS: A. L. Atkins, Typescript letter, p. 29

  56. C. W. Wood, quoted in The Robin Hoods: 117th, 217th and 3/7th Battalions, Sherwood Foresters (Nottingham: J. & H. Bell Ltd, 1921), p.201

  57. D. Haig, diary entry 30/6/1916, quoted in G. Sheffield & J. Bourne (eds), Douglas Haig: War Diaries and Letters 1914–18

  58. W. D. Allen quoted in O. Rutter, The History of the Seventh (Service) The Royal Sussex Regiment (London: Times Publishing Company, 1934), p. 83

  59. IWM DOCS: D N. Menaud-Lissenburg, Typescript memoir, p. 182

  60. IWM DOCS: W. T. Colyer, Manuscript account, ‘War Impressions’

  61. Ibid.

  62. IWM SOUND: A. Irwin, AC 211

  63. IWM DOCS: W. P. Nevill, Manuscript letter, 18/6/1916

  64. J. Engall, ‘A Farewell letter, 30/6/1916’, The New Chequers (The Journal of the Friends of Lochnagar), No. 4, pp. 24–5

  65. IWM DOCS: C. C. May, Typescript diary, 17/6/1916

  66. IWM DOCS: E. C. Crosse, Typescript diary, 4/7/1916–5/7/1916

  67. N. Hodgson, Poem: Before Action, 30/6/1916

  68. IWM DOCS: E. C. Crosse, Typescript manuscript, ‘The History of the Chaplains’ Department in the War, 1914–1918’, pp. 62–3

  69. Diary quoted in T. Chalmers, History of the 15th Battalion, p. 69

  4 1 July 1916

  1. IWM DOCS: C. C.May, Typescript diary, 1/7/1916

  2. H. Baumber, ‘The Grimbsy Chums’, The New Chequers, p.9

  3. IWM DOCS: W. T. Colyer, Manuscript account, ‘War Impressions’

  4. Ibid.

  5. IWM SOUND: A. Irwin, AC 211

  6. A. W. Andrews (edited by S. Richardson), Orders are Orders: A Manchester Pal on the Somme (Manchester: Neil Richardson, 1987), p. 48

  7. IWM DOCS: W A. Vignoles, Typescript manuscript, p. 81

  8. F. Hawkings, From Ypres to Cambrai: The 1914–1919 Diary of Infantryman Frank Hawkings (Morley: Elmfield Press, 1974), p. 97

  9. IWM DOCS: W. A. Vignoles, Typescript manuscript, pp. 79–82

  10. IWM SOUND: B. Farrer, AC 9552, Reel 13

  11. IWM SOUND: A. Hurst, AC 11582, Reel 7

  12. A. W. Andrews (edited by S. Richardson), Orders are Orders, p. 48

  13. National Army Museum: F. W. Jacobs, Typescript account, ‘In the Third Hun Trenches’

  14. IWM DOCS: S. W. Appleyard, Transcript diary, p. 59

  15. IWM DOCS: H. Russell, Typescript manuscript, p. 6

  16. IWM DOCS: A. Schuman, ‘Memoirs’, p. 4

  17. F. Hawkings, From Ypes to Cambrai, pp. 97–8

  18. National Army Museum: F. W. Jacobs, Typescript account, ‘In the Third Hun Trenches’

  19. D. G. C. Hawker, quoted in J. Q. Henriques, The War History of the 1st Battalion Queen’s Westminster Rifles, 1914–1918 (London: Medici Society, 1923), pp. 100–101

  20. J. H. Foaden, quoted in F. Maurice, The History of the London Rifle Brigade, 1859–1919 (London: Constable, 1921), p. 141

  21. R. F. Ebbetts, Ibid., p. 143

  22. D. G. C. Hawker, quoted in J. Q. Henriques, The War History of the 1st Battalion Queen’s Westminster Rifles, p. 101

  23. Ibid., pp. 101–2

  24. R. E. Petley, quoted in F. Maurice, The History of the London Rifle Brigade, p. 145

  25. V. W. F. Dickins, quoted in C. A. Cuthbert Keeson, The History and Records of Queen Victoria’s Rifles, 1792–1922 (London: Constable, 1923), p. 162

  26. IWM DOCS: S. W. Appleyard, Transcript diary, p. 59–60

  27. IWM DOCS: S. A. Newman, Manuscript account

  28. C. C. Dickens, quoted in O. F. Bailey & H. M. Hollier, The Kensingtons: 13th London Regiment (London: Regimental Old Comrades Association, 1935), p. 77

  29. W. R. Smith, quoted in, 500 of the Best Cockney War Stories (London: London Evening News), p. 49

  30. IWM SOUND: P. Neame, AC 48, Reel 5

  31. IWM DOCS: A. Schuman, ‘Memoirs’, p. 4

  32. H. C. Sparks, quoted in . J. H. Lindsay, The London Scottish in the Great War (London: Regimental Headquarters, 1925), p. 114

  33. G. F. Telfer, quoted in C. A. Cuthbert Keeson, The History and Records of Queen Victoria’s Rifles, p. 169

  34. J. H. Foaden, quoted in F. Maurice, The History of the London Rifle Brigade, pp. 141–2

  35. R. E. Petley, pp. 146–7

  36. IWM DOCS: A. Schuman, ‘Memoirs’, p
p. 4–5

  37. National Army Museum: F. W Jacobs, Typescript account, ‘In the Third Hun Trenches’

  38. S. J. M. Sampson, quoted in C. A. Cuthbert Keeson, The History and Records of Queen Victoria’s Rifles, p. 166

  39. IWM DOCS: H. C. Rees, ‘A Personal Record of the War, 1915–1916–1917’

  40. IWM SOUND: A. V Pearson, AC 13680, Reel 1 (Recorded for BBC Radio 4, A Summer Day on the Somme)

  41. IWM SOUND: F. Raine, AC 9751, Reel 7

  42. IWM SOUND: R. Glenn, AC 13082

  43. IWM SOUND: D. E. Cattell, AC 13673, Reel 1 (Recorded for BBC Radio 4, A Summer Day on the Somme)

  44. IWM SOUND: A. S. Durrant, AC 13675, Reel 1 (Recorded for BBC Radio 4, A Summer Day on the Somme)

  45. IWM DOCS: H. C. Rees, ‘A Personal Record of the War, 1915–1916–1917’

  46. IWM DOCS: W. T. Colyer, Manuscript account, ‘War Impressions’

  47. Ibid.

  48. Ibid.

  49. Ibid.

  50. J. E. Edmonds, History of the Great War, Military Operations, Frame and Belgium, 1916, fn, p. 431

  51. IWM DOCS: D. N. Menaud-Lissenburg, Typescript memoir, pp. 182–3

  52. IWM SOUND: G. Ashurst, AC 9875, Reel 15 & 16

  53. Ibid.

  54. IWM DOCS: D. N. Menaud-Lissenburg, Typescript memoir, p. 183

  55. IWM SOUND: G. Ashurst, AC 9875, Reel 15 & 16

  56. National Army Museum: J. L. Stewart-Moore, Typescript account, p. 35

  57. Lt. Col. A. Ricardo, quoted in C. Fall, The History of the 36th (Ulster) Division (Belfast: McCaw, Stevenson & Orr Ltd, 1922), p. 52

  58. IWM DOCS: D. Starrett, Typescript account, pp. 64–5

  59. F. P. Crozier, A Brass Hat in No Man’s Land (London: Jonathan Cape, 1930), pp. 104–5

  60. IWM DOCS: D. Starrett, Typescript account, pp. 64—5

  61. Ibid., pp. 65–6

  62. IWM DOCS: W.J. Grant, Manuscript account, ‘Diary of D Battery, 154th Brigade of 36th (Ulster Division) RFA in the Great War’

  63. IWM DOCS: J. L. Jack, Typescript memoir, pp. 5–6

  64. B. Meadows, quoted in J. W Arthur & I. S. Munro, The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow: David J. Clark, 1920), p. 45

  65. IWM DOCS: J. L. Jack, Typescript memoir, pp. 5–6

  66. B. Meadows, quoted in J. W. Arthur & I. S. Munro, The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry, p. 45

  67. Ibid., p. 46

  68. Ibid., pp. 46–7

  69. IWM DOCS: F. L. Cassel, Typescript account

  70. Ibid.

  71. von Soden orders of 1/7/1916, quoted in J. E. Edmonds, History of the Great War, note, p. 423

  72. F. P. Crozier, A Brass Hat in No Man’s Land, pp. 109–110

  73. IWM SOUND: H. Tansley, AC 13682, Reel 1 (Recorded for BBC Radio 4 A Summer Day on the Somme)

  74. Ibid.

  75. IWM SOUND: A. Hanbury-Sparrow, AC 4131, Reel 1

  76. H. Baumber, ‘The Grimbsy Chums’, The New Chequers, No. 2, p. 9

  77. J. Maw, The New Chequers, No. 9, p. 54

  78. IWM SOUND: C. Lewis, AC 4162, Reel 1

  79. H. Baumber, ‘The Grimbsy Chums’, The New Chequers, No. 2, p. 9

  80. IWM SOUND: A. Dickinson, AC 13674, Reel 1 (Recorded for BBC Radio 4 A Summer Day on the Somme)

  81. Ibid.

  82. IWM DOCS: W. A. Vignoles, Typescript manuscript, pp. 77 & 84

  83. J. H. Turnbull, The New Chequers, No. 1, p. 10

  84. H. Baumber, ‘The Grimbsy Chums’, The New Chequers, No. 2, pp. 9–10

  85. H. Beaumont, ‘Memories of the Somme Offensive’, The New Chequers, No. 9, pp. 46–7

  86. IWM SOUND: C. Lewis, AC 4162, Reel 1

  87. J. H. Turnbull, The New Chequers, No. 1, p. 11

  88. Ibid.

  89. D. H.James, ‘My Recollections’, The New Chequers, No. 5, pp. 25–6

  90. A. E. Fitzgerald orders of 25/6/1916 quoted in J. E. Edmonds, History of the Great War, p. 350

  91. R. Gee, ‘In case I cannot write again’, The New Chequers, No. 2, pp 20–21

  92. Ibid.

  93. IWM DOCS: E. C. Crosse, Typescript manuscript, ‘The History of the Chaplains’ Department in the War, 1914–1918’, pp. 68, 70 & 71

  94. IWM DOCS: E. C. Crosse, Typescript diary, 1/7/1916

  95. IWM DOCS: Y. R. N. Probert, Typescript diary, 1/7/1916

  96. IWM DOCS: A. P. Burke, Typescript letter, p. 33

  97. IWM: Y.R.N. Probert, Typescript diary, 1/7/1916

  98. IWM DOCS: A. P. Burke, Typescript letter, p. 33

  99. Ibid.

  100. IWM DOCS: A. V. Conn, Typescript account

  101. IWM DOCS: F. Henwood, Typescript account

  102. IWM DOCS: R. Cude, Typescript diary, 1/7/1916

  103. IWM DOCS: C. W. Alcock, Manuscript letter, 15/7/1916

  104. IWM SOUND: A. Irwin, AC 211

  105. IWM DOCS: A. E. A. Jacobs, Manuscript letter, 15/7/1916

  106. IWM DOCS: L. L. Jeeves, Typescript article, ‘In the Battle of the Somme’, p. 27

  107. Ibid.

  108. IWM DOCS: R. Cude, Typescript diary, 1/7/1916

  109. National Army Museum: F. A. M. Maxwell, Manuscript copy of letter, 2/7/1916

  110. IWM DOCS: L. L. Jeeves, Typescript article, ‘In the Battle of the Somme’, p. 27

  111. A. W. Andrews (edited by S. Richardson), Orders are Orders: A Manchester Pal on the Somme (Manchester: Neil Richardson, 1987), p.49

  112. IWM SOUND: E. Bryan, AC 4042, Reel 1

  113. A. W. Andrews (edited by S. Richardson), Orders are Orders, p. 49

  114. Ibid., pp. 49–50

  115. Ibid., p. 50

  116. Lt. Col. Bedall, quoted in J. E. Edmonds, History of the Great War, fn, pp. 328–9

  117. IWM SOUND: P. J. Kennedy, AC 13679, Reel 1 (Recorded for BBC Radio 4, A Summer Day on the Somme)

  118. IWM DOCS: W. H. Bloor, Typescript diary, 1/7/1916

  119. Ibid.

  120. A. W. Andrews (edited by S. Richardson), Orders are Orders, pp. 50–1

  121. IWM DOCS: W. H. Bloor, Typescript diary, 1/7/1916

  122. IWM SOUND: P. J. Kennedy, AC 13679, Reel 1 (Recorded for BBC Radio 4, A Summer Day on the Somme)

  123. Ibid.

  124. Ibid.

  125. IWM DOCS: H.Wyllie, Transcript diary, 31/5/1916

  126. G. Lewis, Wings Over the Somme, p. 3

  127. L. Hawker quoted by T. M. Hawker, Hawker V.C., p. 18

  128. W. O. Tudor-Hart, quoted in C. Cole, RFC Communiques, 1915–1916 (London: Kimber, 1969), pp. 298–9

  129. L. Hawker quoted in B. G. Gray & the DH2 Research Group, ‘The Anatomy of an Aeroplane: The de Havilland DH2 Pusher Scout’, Cross & Cockade, Vol. 21, No. 3, p. 16

  130. M. Baring, Flying Corps Headquarters (Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1968), p. 155

  131. D. Haig, diary entry 1/7/1916, quoted in G. Sheffield & J. Bourne (eds), Douglas Haig: War Diaries and Letters 1914–18

  132. IWM SOUND: C. R. Quinnell, AC 554, Reel 16

  133. IWM DOCS: E. H. E. Collen, Manuscript diary, 1/7/1916

  134. IWM DOCS: S. T. Kemp, Typescript account, p. 47

  135. IWM DOCS: T. D. Pratt, Manuscript account

  136. IWM DOCS: E. B. Lord, Typescript account, p. 16

  137. Ibid., pp. 16–17

  138. Ibid., pp. 17–18

  5 The Morning After

  1. IWM SOUND: Ms Llewellyn, AC 4163, Reel 1

  2. IWM DOCS: L. I. L. Ferguson, War diary, 5/7/1916

  3. IWM SOUND: M. S. Cleeve, AC 7310, Reel 3 & 4

  4. R. H. Lindsey-Renton, quoted in C. A. Cuthbert Keeson, The History and Records of Queen Victoria’s Rifles, p. 165

  5. IWM DOCS: S. T. Kemp, Typescript account, p. 47

  6. IWM SOUND: S. Jordan, AC 10391, Reel 4

  7. IWM DOCS: E. B. Lord, Typescript account, p. 18

  8. Ibid., p. 19

  9. IWM DOCS: E. C. Crosse, Typescript manuscript, ‘The History of the Chaplains’ Department
in the War, 1914–1918’, pp. 71–2

  10. IWM DOCS: E. C. Crosse, Typescript diary, 4/7/1916–5/7/1916

  11. IWM DOCS: E. C. Crosse, Typescript manuscript, op.cit., p. 73

  12. IWM DOCS: E. B. Lord, Typescript account, p. 18

  13. IWM DOCS: A. P. B. Irwin, Manuscript letter, 3/7/1916

  14. IWM DOCS: A. E. A.Jacobs, Manuscript letter, 15/7/1916

  15. IWM DOCS: C. G. Lawson, Typescript letter, 6/7/1916

  16. IWM DOCS: F. H. Drinkwater, Typescript diary, 2/7/1916

  6 Creeping Forward

  1. H. Rawlinson, quoted in R. Prior & T. Wilson, Command on the Western Front, pp. 185–6

  2. D. Haig, diary entry 3/7/1916, quoted in G. Sheffield & J. Bourne (eds), Douglas Haig: War Diaries and Letters 1914–18

  3. IWM DOCS: B. S. Philpotts Collection: A. C. Sparkes, Typescript letter, 15/9/1916

  4. National Array Museum: F. A. M. Maxwell, Manuscript copy of letter, 2/7/1916

  5. D. H. James, ‘My Recollections’, The New Chequers, No. 5, p. 26

  6. IWM DOCS: B. W. Downes, Typescript account, p. 17

  7. IWM DOCS: W. H. Bloor, Typescript diary, 3/7/1916

  8. IWM DOCS: S. T. Kemp, Typescript account, pp. 47–8

  9. Ibid., p. 48

  10. Ibid., pp. 48–9

  11. Ibid., p. 49

  12. IWM DOCS: W. A. Gates Collection, S. Stevenson-Jones, Edited from typescript letter, 13/7/1968 & Thiepval article

  13. Ibid.

  14. Ibid.

  15. Ibid.

  16. IWM DOCS: L. I. L. Ferguson, War diary, 7/7/1916

  17. Ibid.

  18. Ibid.

  19. Ibid.

  20. Ibid.

  21. Ibid.

  22. IWM SOUND: T. Bracey, AC 9419, Reel 10

  23. IWM SOUND: C. R. Quinnell, AC 554, Reel 17

  24. H. Sadler, quoted in O. Rutter, The History of the Seventh (Service), p. 90

  25. Ibid., p. 91

  26. IWM SOUND: C. R. Quinnell, AC 554, Reel 17

  27. IWM SOUND: A. Razzell, AC 11952, Reel 6

  28. Ibid.

  29. Ibid.

  30. W. L. Osborn, quoted in O. Rutter, The History of the Seventh (Service), pp. 86–7

  31. J. R. Wilton, Ibid., pp. 89–90

  32. W. L. Osborn, Ibid., p. 87

  33. H. Sadler, Ibid., pp.91–2

  34. IWM DOCS: E. H. E. Collen, Manuscript diary, 7/7/1916

  35. IWM SOUND: A. Razzell, AC 11952, Reel 6

  36. Ibid.

  37. IWM DOCS: R. D. Mountfield, Manuscript letter, 23/7/1916

  38. Ibid.

  39. Ibid.

  40. Ibid.

  41. H. C. O’Neill, The Royal Fusiliers in the Great War, (London: William Heinemann, 1922), p. 118

 

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