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Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment (Sherwood Foresters) 300
5th Battalion 369
8th Battalion 37
12th Battalion 606
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 57, 366
Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment 371
Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment 4, 8, 112–14, 132, 133, 199, 456, 501
1st Battalion 113, 114, 132
2nd Battalion 132
3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion 132
4th Battalion 132
5th Battalion 132
1/4th Battalion 80
1/6th Battalion 390
2/4th Battalion 80
3/3rd Battalion 199
3/4th Battalion 80–82, 85, 87
4th (Territorial) Battalion 75, 79–80
6th Battalion 361, 392
1st Volunteer Battalion 79
Rifle Brigade 112, 139, 268, 592, 593
Royal Berkshire Regiment 76, 121
1st Battalion 115, 579
2nd Battalion 292, 358
4th Battalion 606
8th Battalion 572
Royal Dublin Fusiliers 361
7th Battalion 153
8th Battalion 155
Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) 45, 133, 172, 587, 607, 614
1st Battalion 89, 559
2nd Battalion 458
13th Battalion 53, 333, 351
17th Battalion (Empire) 146
18th Battalion (1st Public Schools) 146
19th Battalion (2nd Public Schools) 146
20th Battalion (3rd Public Schools) 146, 204
21st Battalion (4th Public Schools) 146
22nd Battalion (Kensington) 146
23rd Battalion (1st Sportsman’s) 146, 149
25th Battalion 602
26th Battalion 492
Royal Highland Regiment (Black Watch) 120, 330, 344, 539, 566
1st Battalion gi
2nd Battalion 105
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 551
7th Battalion 402
Royal Irish Regiment 206
2nd Battalion 206
6th Battalion 153, 155
Royal Irish Rifles 31, 116, 154, 155, 170, 285, 344, 388
9th Battalion 154, 269, 333
Royal Munster Fusiliers 585
2nd Battalion 519
Royal Northumberland Fusiliers 84
7th Battalion 92
11th Battalion 92, 579
24th Battalion 348
Royal Scots (1st of Foot) 112
2nd Battalion 565
11th Battalion 380
Royal Scots Fusiliers 76
Royal Sussex Regiment 105
Royal Warwickshire Regiment 16, 46, 122, 604
1st Battalion 544
1st/5th Battalion 276
7th Battalion 62
8th Battalion 61, 62–3, 237, 311, 477
9th Battalion 61
16th Battalion 276
Royal Welch Fusiliers 91, 108, 151, 79 250–51, 308, 534, 549, 601
1st Battalion 202
2nd Battalion 22, 23, 87–9, 91, 114, 177–8, 203, 204, 265, 270, 280, 285, 289, 301, 329, 355, 356, 35, 370–71, 380, 382, 387, 388, 463, 464, 516, 517, 537–8, 540, 556, 574–5, 598–601, 614, 625
3rd Battalion 202
10th Battalion 88
14th Battalion 382–3
17th Battalion 204
Scots Guards 71, 79, 110, 133, 217, 507’ 552, 618
Seaforth Highlanders 629
Somerset Light Infantry
2nd/4th Battalion 143
6th Battalion 302
South Lancashire Regiment 46, 195
5th Battalion 356
11th Battalion 92
South Staffordshire Regiment 357–8
7th Battalion 622
South Wales Borderers 91, 383
6th Battalion 582
12th Battalion 347
Suffolk Regiment 133, 297
Welch Regiment 46, 116–17, 293, 308
12th (Reserve) Battalion 90
16th Battalion (Cardiff City) 150
Welsh Guards 59, 133, 393, 394, 502, 503, 550, 618
West Yorkshire Regiment 45, 358, 566
1st/7th Battalion 372
2nd Battalion 262, 279, 281, 282, 284, 285
15th Battalion (1st Leeds) 49, 172, 400, 506
16th Battalion (1st Bradford) 149
18th Battalion (2nd Bradford) 149
Wiltshire Regiment 46, 141, 321, 401, 546
1st Battalion 141, 590
2nd Battalion 90, 91
3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion 131
Worcestershire Regiment 133, 208, 570
1st Battalion 290 8th Battalion 61
York and Lancaster Regiment 45, 72, 116
9th Battalion 582
12th Battalion 562
12th Battalion (Sheffield City) 149
13th Battalion 280
13th Battalion (1st Barnsley) 149
14th Battalion (2nd Barnsley) 149
Corps and other formations;
Cavalry Corps 163, 184, 263, 279, 438–9, 442, 443, 446, 448, 484
Royal Flying Corps 63, 362, 371–2, 374–375
Machine Gun Corps 361, 375, 390, 391, 392, 507, 6l9
86th Company 572
100th Machine Gun Company 391
37th Company 390
(Heavy) Machine Gun Corps 431, 434
Tank Corps 56, 64, 233, 390, 427, 434
G Battalion 428
H Battalion 429
Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC)162, 239, 273, 376, 424, 466–9, 473–4, 475, 478, 479, 566
assistant director of medical services (ADMS) 175
field ambulances 175
3rd Cavalry Field Ambulance 467
NO.1 Field Ambulance 512
South Midland Field Ambulance, l/1st Battalion 601
Army Service Corps 163, 187, 273–4, 288, 431, 586
Corps of Military Police 102, 505, 520, 567, 570–72, 595
‘battle police’ 570, 571
Labour Corps 238
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) 597, 615
Women’s Forage Corps 163
Voluntary Aid Detachment 481
Officer Training Corps (OTC) 123, 134, 140, 141, 142, 357
British Columbia 198
British Empire 13, 529, 608
British Expeditionary Force (BEF) 28, 77, 93, 104, 182, 341, 393, 514
casualties 33
and Cavalry Corps 438
cavalry officers 209–11
components of 174
and death sentences 567
Empire and Dominion contingents 13
first battle of Ypres 33
horses 163
Kitchener’s instructions to the C-in-C 29
battle of Loos 36
battle of the Marne 32
machine guns 389
and mining 457
medical services 468, 478, 485
Mons 30–31, 139
size of 33
‘teeth to tail ratio’ 191
the Somme 47
survey officers 453
and Territorial Force 130
under severe pressure at Ypres 279
British Legion 631
British War Medal 630
Britton, Sgt Don 424
Broadwood, Lt. Gen. R. G. 195–6, 213
Brock, Maj. Gen. Sir Isaac 105
Brock Barracks, Reading 105
Brodrick, William St John 106
Brooks, 2nd Lt Gerry 428
Brophy, John 495
Brotherton Library, University of Leeds xxiii
Brown, Billy 296
Brown, Lt E. D. 58
Bruce, Brig. Gen. 212
Brunton, Sgt D. 446, 448
Brusilov, General Aleksey 44
Brusilov Offensive (1916) 44
Bryant, Capt. 438
Buck, Sgt 127
Buck, Trooper 127
Buckingha
m Palace, London 133
Budworth, Maj. Gen. 189
Bulford Camp 141
Bullock, Pte Albert 62–3, 237, 311–12, 327. 378 38o 426, 472, 477, 480–81, 482
bully beef 318, 320–21, 322, 469, 544, 546, 560
Bully Grenay 512
Burgoyne, Capt. Gerald 170–71, 248, 257, 297–8, 314, 316–17, 321, 324, 331, 332, 354, 386, 401 546, 555–6 564
Burnley Lads’ Club 82
Butler, Lt Gen. Sir Richard 221–2
Butterworth, Lt George 45
Byng, Gen. Sirjulian 64, 198, 209, 210
Cabinet 28, 29, 106, 107
Calais 191, 337
Anglo-French meeting (1915) 36
Allied conference (1917) 50
strike at army base 347
Caley, Hugh 80
Caleys (court dressmakers), Windsor 80
Calloway, Lt R. F. 345
Calvey, Driver 433, 434
Cambrai 21, 64, 65, 207, 553, 629
battle of (1917) 65, 157, 208, 210, 217, 233, 237–8, 256, 274, 399, 428, 429, 430, 442–3, 630
Cambridge University 357
library 607
Cambrin 296, 527 camouflets 462, 464
Camp 34: 281, 289
Campbell, Capt. 443
Campbell, Gen. Sir David ‘Soarer’ 197–8, 201–2, 207, 2iis 437
Campbell, Jack xxiv
Campbell, 2nd Lt P. J. 86, 272, 307–8, 355, 373, 411–14, 4l6 448, 468–527, 574–7, 597–605, 611
Campbell, Lt Col Ronald 345
Canadian Army 174, 180
Canadian Corps 183, 184, 198, 216 1st Division 35, 182, 198, 216, 516 2nd Brigade 198
Cavalry Brigade 445
72nd Battalion 393
1st Canadian Tunnelling Company 465
Allied counteroffensive (8 August 1918) 70
casualties in France 13
Fort Garry House 440, 443
loss of a major general 213
mining 458, 459
Vimy Ridge front line 269
Vimy Ridge taken 52
third Ypres 60, 164–5
Canche River 194, 341
Cannadine, David 626
Cannon, Capt. H. C. 199
Capper, Maj. Gen. Tommy 212, 378
Cardwell, Edward 104, 105, 107, 111, 118
Carleton, Brig. Gen. Frederick 218, 219–20
Carlisle, 9th Earl of 76
Carlton, CQMS 290
Caernafon 84
Carnoy (Somme) 248–9
Carr, 2nd Lt William 405, 484, 539–40, 574, 615, 620, 630
Carrington, Lt Charles xviii, xix, xxiv, 16, 20–21, 47, 234, 272, 276–7, 280, 285, 330, 335, 347, 348–9, 382, 383, 392, 531‘ 53D, 542, 547’ 562, 597, 598, 617, 624
Carson, Sir Edward 154
Carter, Harry 622
Cartwright, Brigadier General 67
Case, Pte Robert 18, 180
casualties
Allies 47
British xvii, 13, 33 (BEF), 35, 40, 43, 45, 47, 53, 55, 60, 67, 72, 75, 77, 85, 88, 89, 90, 105, 151, 154, 174, 275
Empire and Dominion 13–14
German 47, 55, 60
casualty clearing stations 477–8, 482, 513
Caterham 110
Catterick camp 31, 112, 148
Cavalry Training 436
Cavan, Lt. Gen. Lord 234, 564, 602
Cawley, Lord 626
Cecil, George 78
cemeteries 14, 46, 72, 114, 152, 299, 300, 371, 456, 477, 494, 627, 628
Cenotaph, Whitehall 629–30
Central London Recruiting Office (Scotland Yard) 138–9
Central Medical War Committee 467
Centre for First World War Studies, Birmingham University xxii
Ceylon Tea Planters’ Rifles 206
Chamberlain, Sgt 283
Chambers, Maj. G. O. 263, 484
Chambers, Corporal Robert 59
Champagne 18, 28, 36, 39, 237
Channel ports 33
Chant, Pte Richard 111, 112, 493
Chantilly 36, 38–9, 48
Chanzy, Gen. Antoine Eugene 135
Chapman, Capt. Guy 15, 176–7, 351–2, 389–90, 468, 514–15, 544, 548–9 551, 563, 575, 587, 614, 618, 620, 621, 625
Chappell, John 131
Charles II, King 77, 112
Charlesworth Pit 149
Charteris, Brig. Gen. John 40, 44, 49, 53, 56–7, 59, 198–9, 214, 232, 239, 240
Chasseaud, Peter 455
Chateau de Beaurepaire 39, 194
Chateau de la Bove 17
Chateau de Querrieu 194
Chattenden (Chatham) 80
Chavasse, Capt. Noel 470
Chemin des Dames 17, 49, 68, 198, 2og, 274, 278, 398, 474
Chester Farm Cemetery 300
Chorley, Lancashire 82
Christian Fellowship Neivs 520
Christian Social Union 506
Christmas truce (1914) 544
Chrystal, Sgtjock 87, 439
Church in France, The (1917 report) 522
Church of England 503–9, 514–15, 516, 518, 520
Church of Scotland 509
church parades 508
Churchill, Sir Winston 89, 128, 137, 193 The World Crisis xx
Citadel Camp (Fricourt) 281, 294
Citadel New Military Cemetery 46
Clapham Junction 271, 551
Clark, Alan: The Donkeys xxi, xxii
Clark, Revd Andrew 593, 594
class issues 96, 102–3, 307~8, 356–62, 575–6
clay-kicking 457, 459
Clayton, Revd Philip ‘Tubby’ 524–5
Cleaver, Lt Hoppy 373
Clingo, CSM 366
Clive, Capt. Percy, MP 78
Clouting, Pte Ben 449, 450
coalition government 35
Cockburn, Lt Col J. B. 204
Cockerill, Pte Cecil 360
Collings, Brig. Gen. W. A. 195
Collins, Capt. Gussy 492
Collins, Lottie 497
Collins, Lt Col Jack 232
Coltman, L/Cpl Bill 471
Committee of Imperial Defence 26, 106, 225
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
cemeteries 114, 456, 477, 494, 627
Communal Cemetery, Ors 72
Compiegne 17
Congreve, Capt. Billy 214, 299–300, 384, 53e. 542
Congreve, Lt. Gen. Sir Walter 214, 233, 384
Connell, Pte 602
conscription 25, 103, 106, 130, 138, 156, l63, 334, 467–8, 536
Conservative government 106
Contagious Diseases Act (1864) 117
Conwy River 91
Cook, Sgt 343
Coppard, Cpl George, 247–8, 316, 320, 361–2, 390, 392, 501, 546, 548, 580, 581, 585, 593, 620
Corbie (Somme) 22, 23, 525–6, 631
Coucy le Chateau 22
Couin casualty clearing station 477
Coulson, Sgt. Leslie 145
County Territorial Associations 130, 136, 137
courts martial 302, 334, 368, 484, 558, 561–4, 569, 571, 598
Craiglockhart Military Hospital, Edinburgh 485
Crawshay, Lt. Col. ‘Tibs’ 204
Crecy, battle of (1346) 150, 380
creeping barrages 5, 40, 58, 406–9
Creveld, Martin van 227
Crichton, Maj. the Hon. Hubert 77–8
crime 102, 570
Crimean War (1853–6) 182, 457
Croft, Lt Col 380
Croft, Sgt 111
Croisilles, battle of (1917) 3, 207
Croney, Pte Percy 116, 156, 348
Cropper, 2nd Lt 288
Cross, Sgt Jo 424
Crow, Pte Arthur Arnold 76
Crowther, Pte John Vivian 118
Croydon 79, 82, 132
Crozier, Brig. Gen. Frank 154, 171, 204–7, 235, 237–8, 268–9, 329–30, 333–4’ 3H 516, 545, 551–4, 562, 567–70, 576, 577, 595, 597–8, 611–12, 614
Crozier, Rifleman James 568
Crucifix Alley 17
Crucifix Corner 204
Cuckle, Pte Louis 629
Cuinchy 240–41, 543
cuirassiers 436, 437
Culme-Seymour, Capt. 573
Cumeries 24
Cumming, Brig. Gen. Hanway 6, 205, 207, 229, 236–7, 278
Cuninghame, Capt. A. K. S. 46–7
Cunningham, Revd B. K. 511
Cupola huts 349
Curragh Mutiny (1914) 102, 152
Curragh of Kildare 112, 117, 118, 153
Currie, Lt. Gen. Sir Arthur 198
Cusack, Pte John 97~8, 108, in, 584, 585
Custer, General George 83
Cyril’s restaurant, Poperinghe 592
Dagger, or London in the Line, The 607, 608
Daglish, Pte 439 Daily Mail 414
Dalmeny, Capt. 231–2
Daours 229
Davidson, Archbishop Randall 506
Davidson, Lt. Gen. Tavish 189
Davies, Revd Harold 242, 300–301, 503,
Davies, Maj. Gen. Joseph 216
Davies, Maj. Gen. R. H. 197
Dawes, CSM 332–3
Dawson, Lt Col 392
de Boltz, Corporal Clifford 157, 338–9, 345, 357
de Lisle, Brig. Gen. 585
de Miremont, Maj. Count 203–4
de Wiart, Lt. Gen. Sir Adrian Carton 76, 211, 285–6, 360, 374, 623–4
Dead Horse Corner Gazette 608
Dead Mule Corner 24
Dean, Corporal 262
Dean, Lt Col 582
Dearden, Harold 473
death
accidental 296–7
avoidance humour 300
burials 297–301
death penalty 302, 558–9, 562–70
death rate 625–6
funerals in peacetime 101–2
decorations 582–8, 630
Delville Wood (Somme) 17, 42, 145, 256, 472
demobilisation 617–22
Denmark, Sgt 411, 416
Deolali (Bombay) 495
Derby, Lord 196
Dernancourt (Somme) 254
Desborough, Billy 626
Desborough, Ivo 626
Desborough, Julian 626
desertion 271, 504–5, 545–6, 562, 564, 565. 566
Dewing, Col. R. E. 572
Dickebush 491
Dickebush Huts 254
Dickens, Maj. 573
Direct Hit, The 607
Division in Attack, The 408
Dixon Pte (Bernard Adams’ servant) 360
Docherty, Pte John 566
Dolby, Pte Harold 479
Dolby, Capt. Robert 455, 467, 499, 540–41
Dolden, Pte Stuart 146–7, 286–7, 298, 313. 315. 325, 340, 38–7, 508, 589, 604, 614
Dominions
casualties 13
friction with British contingent 14
divisions 180–81
and Lloyd George 198
Doolan, CSM 93
Douaumont 24
Doudney, Revd Charles 164, 512, 520
Douie, Capt. Charles 252, 341, 357, 521, 526, 527, 605, 613, 614, 620–21, 630
Doullens 21
Doullens agreement (1918) 67
Doullens church 19