Hardy, Revd Theodore Bayley 515, 518
Harfleur 182, 337, 342–3, 344–5, 579
Harington, Maj. Gen. Sir Charles ‘Tim’ 55–232
Harkness, Revd James 509
Harper, Maj. Gen. George ‘Uncle 181, 182, 228, 429
Harrison, E. G. W. 121
Harrods department store, London 141, 229
Harrowby Camp, Grantham 390
Harvey, Will 605, 610
Haspres 72
Hatton, Trooper S. F. 127–8, 135
Haumont 24
Havrincourt 237
Hawkings, Pte Frank 172, 177, 248–9, 253, 270, 285, 304, 317, 353–4, 372, 421, 463, 477, 484, 546, 573
Hawthorn Ridge 46, 458
Hay, Maj. Ian (real name Ian Hay Beith) 179, 296
Hazebrouck 68, 242
Headlam, Brig. Gen. Tommy 207–8
Heardman, L/Cpl F. 383
Hearn, Pte 298
Heath, Maj. 123
Heathcote, Brig. Gen. Charles 221
Hebuterne 253, 315, 477
Heenan, Cardinal John 506
Helfaut 350
Hellfire Corner (Ypres) 522
Helm, Revd G. F. 605
Helm, Lt Cyril 264, 387, 400, 475
Henderson, Arthur 45
Henderson, Lt Col the Hon. H. C, 128
Henencourt 521
Henriques, Lt Basil 433
Henry V, King 22
Henry, G. A. 108
Heppenstall, Walter xxvi-xxvii
Herbert, Aubrey, 338
Hermaville 228
Hertig, Capt. von 47
Heytesbury, Lt. Col. Lord 141
High Wood (Somme) 42, 91, 204, 217, 383, 440–42, 455, 456, 537
Hill 60 (Ypres) 386, 418, 457, 459, 465
Hinchcliffe, Quartermaster 291
Hindenburg, Field Marshal Paul von Beneckendorff und
replaces Falkenhayn 48
supposed ‘Lions led by Donkeys’ conversation xxi
Hindenburg Line 11, 28, 30, 50, 52, 64, 65, 70, 71, 258, 267, 537–553
Hinges Chateau 226
Hiscock, Pte Eric 171, 268, 286, 492, 530–31‘ 596 599
Hisloriale de la Grande Guerre 51
Hodges, Corporal Frederick 93–4, 119, 262, 322, 327, 501, 527, 538, 549, 572–3, 582
Hog’s Back (Guildford) 4, 23
Hohenzollern Redoubt 38
Holland, Lt Col 83
Holmes, Pte 360
Holmes, Richard: Redcoat 490
Holmes, Maj. Gen. William 213
Holyrood 154
Home, Brig. Gen. Archibald ‘Sally’ 230, 231, 436, 439, 442, 496
homosexuality 598–9
Honnechy 446
Hood, Pte 601
Hood, Pte Tom 111
Hooge (Ypres) 384, 525
Hooge Chateau (Ypres) 236
Hooge Ridge (Ypres) 458
Hooke, Enid A. 456
Hooke, Lt Col Utten Lamont 199, 456
Hornby, Capt. Charles 437, 585
Home, Gen. Sir Henry 209, 218
horses 161–5, 237, 273–4, 338, 350, 371, 396, 422, 436, 437, 440, 442, 446, 449, 450, 466, 548, 579, 603, 604, 624, 625
Horsley, Sir Victor 331
hospitals 164, 468, 478–81, 485, 509, 605, 616
Hotel du Rhin (Amiens) 592
Hotel Lion d’Or (Rheims) 190
Houplines 195, 361
House of Commons 106, 128, 155
House of Lords 102, 106, 125, 128
Howard, Pte Hon. M. F. S. 76
Howe, Lord 114
howitzers
4.5–inch 10, 175, 371, 395, 409, 410 6–inch 404
9.2–inch 371, 404, 410
Hubback, Brig. Gen. Arthur 208
Hubbard, Pte Arthur 552
Hughes, Col. Sam 216
Huguet, Col. Victor 26
Hulluch 325
Humbercamps (Arras) 493–4
Hundred Days 72, 180–81, 213, 234, 237, 273, 274, 275, 394, 434, 605, 615, 627
Hunt, Carew 619
Hunter, Charley 128
Hunter-Weston, Lt Gen. Sir Aylmer, MP 234, 496
Hurrah for the CRE! (sappers’ song) 175
Hurtgen forest 14
Husey, Brig. Gen. Ralph 208–9
Hussey, John 56
Hutchinson Committee (1905) 121
Hutchison, Lt. Col. Graham Seton 15–16, 340, 360–61, 383, 391, 392, 613
Hutton, Lt. Gen. Sir Thomas 192–3, 201
Ilkley Grammar School, Yorkshire 133
illegitimacy 101
Imperial War Graves Commission 628
Imperial War Museum, London 628
Department of Documents xxiii
income xxv, 99, 100
see also British Army: pay
India 13, 76, 80, 104, 118, 143, 322, 467
Indian Army 13, 83, 122, 144
2nd Cavalry Division 440
Deccan Horse 440, 441
Indian Corps 457
Secunderabad Cavalry Brigade 440, 441, 442
indirect fire 395, 414, 422
infant mortality rate 101
Infantry Training 1914 245
influenza epidemic (1918–19) 625
Ingorville-Williams, Maj. Gen. Edward C. 177, 197, 213
Inland Water Transport 225
Instructions for the Training of Divisions in Offensive Action (SS 135) 408
Inverness Copse 15, 271
Ireland 231, 357, 504, 628–9
Irish, and Ltjohn 147, 148
Irish Peace Park, Messines Ridge 156, 628
Irish Republican Army (IRA) 538
Irish Home Rule issue 102, 152, 155
Irwin, L/Cpl 393
Isle of Man Volunteers 103
Italian front 14
Italy 36, 605
Jack, Brig. Gen. James 161–2, 173, 268, 279, 281, 282, 285, 291, 330, 358, 538, 576, 580 604, 6l5. 6l7
Jackson, Maj. Charles Ward 86
Jackson, Sgt Harold 627
Jackson, Lt W. 356
Jacob, Lt Gen. Sir Claude 233
James II, King of England (as Duke of York) 21, 52
Jarvis, L/Cpl Charles 451
Jellicoe, Admiral Sir John 49
Jemappes 451
Jeudwine, Maj. Gen. Hugh 231
Joffre, Gen. Joseph x, 34, 38, 592
battle of Loos 36
battle of the Somme 43–4
French G-in-C 32
meeting with French 36
meeting with Haig 39
Nivelle succeeds 49 John Bull 605
John, Maj. 576
Johnson, Maj. Alexander 221
Johnson, Brig. Gen. Arthur 208
Johnson, Jack 343
Jones, Pte David xxiv, 251–2, 262, 267, 277–304> 327–8, 378, 410, 491, 535, 599
In Parenthesis 47–8
Jones, Lt F. L. C. 586
Jones, Rifleman Percy 41, 295, 326
Jones, Sgt 318
Jowett, Capt. 582
Julian Alps 14
Junger, Lt Ernst 42–3, 406, 548
Juniper Hill, North Oxfordshire 100
K-shells 423
Kavanagh, Lt Gen. Sir Charles 442–3
Kearsley, Maj. 374
Keeling, CSM Frederick (‘Siberian Joe’) 145
Kelly-Kenny, Lt Col 113
Kemmel 321, 533
Kenmel Park 91
Kennedy, Admiral Sir William 139
Keppel, Maj. the Hon. George 563
Kerr, Meta 324
Kettle, LtTom, MP 361
Khayyam, Omar 610
Kiggell, Brig. Gen. Sir Launcelot 38, 39, 56, 189, 190, 191, 395–6
King, Tom 497
King’s Regulations for the Army xxvii, 119, 200, 365, 368, 555
Kipling, Rudyard 38, 105, 108, 117
Tommy xv
Kirk, 2nd Lt James 72
Kirke, Col. Piercy 113
Kirkpatrick, Pte John Simpson 97
Kirkwood, Lt G. N. 470
Kitche
ner, Field Marshal Lord 160
appointed Secretary of State for War (1914) 135
and battle of Loos 36
and clay-kicking 457
on the German lines in France xix
increases army size 138, 139, 140
instructions to French (1914) 29, 31
meeting with French 32
personality 138
and requisition of horses 162
and territorials 135, 137
and the UVF 154
and a Welsh Army 150
Kleinstuber, Sgt Maj. 629
Knight, 2nd Lt R. E. 610
Kokoda Trail, New Guinea 14
Koorn Spruit 213
Kruger, Sgt Maj. 430
La Bassee-Aubers Ridge (see also Aubers Ridge) 33
La Boisselle 46, 413, 458
La Boutillerie 177
La Briqueterie camp 290
La Chapelle d’Armentieres 295
La Cordonnerie (Fromelles) 280
La Panne 598
La Quinque Rue 494
Lady Egerton’s Coffee House, Rouen 600
lances 436, 440
Landon, Maj. Gen. H. J. S. 218–19, 220
Landrecies 366
Lane, Pte Hammer 464
Lang, Archbishop Cosmo 90rdon 505
Langemarck 58, 553, 578
battle of (1917) 57, 275
Langemarck Ridge 62, 360
Larkin, James 153
Lascelles, Lt Alan 164
Latham, Capt. Bryan 131, 132, 264, 617
Latham, Russell 131
Lawrence, Lt Gen. Sir Herbert 190–91, 194, 214, 222
Lawrence, Col. T, E. xx
Lawson, Maj. Algy 224
Le Bourget 22–3
Le Gateau 296, 593
battle of (1914) 31, 33–4, 86, 206, 215–371, 396–7
Le Havre 4, 30, 191, 336–9, 347
Le Marchant Barracks, Devizes 105
Le Transloy 290
Leach, Lt T. H. de B. 429
Leahy, Father 519
Leary, Corporal 472
Lee, GSM 538
Lee, Sgt G. 46
Lee, Corporal R. F. 46
Leeds 85, 149
Leese, Peter 485
Leeson, Father 514
Lehr Regiment 383
Leighton, Frederick, Lord 131
Leinster Farm 271
Leipzig redoubt 46
Lens coalfield 16
Leuze 615
Leuze Wood 145
Level Crossing Cemetery 456
Lewis, Col. Isaac Newton 392
Liberal government (1906–14) 104
Liddell, Capt. Aidan 247, 279, 375, 382
Liddell Hart, Capt. Sir Basil xx, xxi
Liddle Collection, Brotherton Library, University of Leeds xxiii
lightning bombardment 34
Lille 30
Lille University 465
Lilliers 193
Lindsay, Maj. Gen. George ‘Boss’ 390
Lipsett, Maj. Gen. Louis 213
literature 604–10
Littlewood, Maj. Martin 424, 471, 475–6, 616
Livens, Maj. William 424
Livens projector 424, 425
Livermore, Pte Bernard 297, 303, 312–13, 324–5. 332–3, 341, 342–3, 350, 372, 421
Lloyd, Capt. M. K. 629
Lloyd George, David
favours a Welsh Army Corps 149–50
on generals 209, 211–12
and Haig 49
Minister of Munitions 35, 370
and Monash 198
meets Nivelle 50
‘Peoples’ Budget’ (1906) 102
his protege, Phillips 218
succeeds Asquith as prime minister 49
and third battle of Ypres 55
War Memoirs xx, 212
Loch, Maj. Gen. Lord 78
Lochnagar Crater, Somme 71, 458
Locre 297, 519
Lomax, Maj. Gen. Samuel 212
London
bombed by Zeppelins and 90thas 372
Somme explosion heard in 458
armistice (1918) 616
Blitz 163
London Gazette, The 140, 199
London Mail 605
London Opinion 605
London Scottish Regimental Gazette, The 607
Longavesnes 207
Longford, Brig. Gen. the Earl of 128
Longueval 441
Longueval Ridge, Somme 41, 42, 44–5, 95. 151
Loos 502
Loos, battle of (1915) xx, 30, 36–8, 147, 148, 171, 176, 179, 193, 196, 198, 212, 215, 247, 274, 278, 280, 325, 349– 378, 388, 419 420, 468, 473, 543, 5B6, 579, 587, 603, 628
Loos front 323
Lords Lieutenant of counties 126, 130
Lorimer, Sgt Maj. 625
Lorraine 25, 27
‘Lost Generation’ 625–30
Louden, Father Stephen 509–10, 519
Louis XV, King of France 17
Louvemont 24
Louvignes 551
Lowe, Brig. Gen. A. C. 208
Lucy, Col. Denis 109
Lucy, Sir Henry 621
Lucy, Lt. Col. John 31, 109, 116, 118, 119, 285, 337, 358, 366, 379, 580, 581
Ludendorff, Lieutenant General Erich von 53
on Allied tank superiority 434
assists Hindenburg 48
and German offensive (1918) 65, 68–9
on Germany’s ‘black day’ 70
Mons meeting 65
and operational level of war 68
supposed ‘Lions led by Donkeys’
conversation xxi
Lumbres 23
Lumsden, Brig. Gen. F.W. 205, 213
Lusitania, RMS 511
Lutyens, Lt Lionel 396–7
Lycett, Capt. T. 58
Lydd, Kent 401
Lyddite 395, 401
Lyndhurst, New Forest 132
Lyon, Sapper Jack 459–60
Lys River 195, 591
Mc Cormick, Revd Pat 343–4, 369, 517
McCrae, John: In Flanders Fields 477
Macdonald, Lyn 440
Macdonald, Ramsay 607
McFadzean, Rifleman Billy 388
MacFarlane, Maj. 577
Macfie, CQMS Scott 42
machine-guns
Lewis 9, 265, 369, 392–3, 394, 398, 414, 462
Vickers 365, 369, 390, 392, 393
Machine-Gun School, Grantham 207
McKenzie, SgtJ. R. 431
Mackie, 2nd Lt Jim 143
Mackinnon, Gen. Sir Henry 196
MacKintosh, Ewart Alan: In Memoriam, Private D. Sutherland 578
Maclaren, Capt. 283, 289, 290
Maclean, Joseph 291–2, 321, 344, 541, 584, 590
Macmillan, Harold, 1st Earl of Stockton xvii, 143–4, 617
Macready, Lt Gen. Sir Nevil 368
Mahon, Lt Gen. Sir Bryan 194–5
Major, Corporal Arthur 286
Malakoff Farm 59
Malay States Volunteer Rifles 208
Mametz Wood 628
battle of (1916) 41, 46, 151–2, 217–18, 241, 275, 382, 441 Manchester Guardian 277
Manning, Pte Frederic 559
Her Privates We 491–2
Manning, Brig. Gen. W. H. 201
Manual of Military Law, The 555, 558, 561, 563
Maple Lodge 271
Maple Redoubt 294
mapping 453–6
bingo system 454–5
grid-reference system 455–6
Marcoing 443
Maria Theresa, Queen of Hungary 20
Maricourt 39, 46
Marks, Pte Thomas Penrose 330–31, 547–8, 574– 6l3
Marlborough, first Duke of 20
Marne, first battle of the (1914) 32
Marne River 31, 254, 438
marriages, wartime 597
Marseilles 84
Marshall, L/Cpl 84–5
Marshall, Lt Col James 72
Marshall, Pte 560
Martin, 2nd Lt Bernard 1
6–17, 144, 172, 322–3, 426, 427–8, 454, 479, 508, 530, 543, 604
Martin-Leake, Lt Col. Arthur 470–71
Marwitz, Gen. von der 28
Masefield, John 18–19, 23, 24, 46, 50–51
Masnieres 443, 444
Mason, Capt. Cyril 347, 358, 359
Mason, Pte 575–6
Massingham, H.J. 100
Masterman, C. F. G. 626
The Condition of England 504
Masterson, ex-L/Cpl, later archbishop of Birmingham 506
Matania, Fortunino: The Last Absolution of the Munsters 519
Matheson, Lt Col 370
Maubeuge 21, 615
Maudslay, Edith 163
Maxims of London xxvi
Maxse, Lt Gen. Sir Ivor 196–7, 393, 394
Maxwell, Brig. Gen. Frank 213
Maxwell, Gen. Sir John 620
Mayne, Private 586
medication 469, 470, 474, 511
melenite 395
Mellersh, 2nd Lt H. E. L. 173, 482, 530, 611, 616, 623
Melton, Sgt 19
Menin 21
Menin Gate (Ypres) 14
Menin Road xxi, 33, 55, 236, 458, 476, 551. 575
Mercer, Maj. Gen. Malcolm 213
merchant shipping 49
Mesopotamia 302
Messines Ridge 464, 465, 601
battle of (1917) 54–5, 136, 155, 233, 236. 439– 459– 492 571
Irish Peace Park 156, 628
Meuse River 18
Meuse-Argonne, battle of (1918) 71
M’Ewen, Maj. Revd Dr Bruce 507
Meynell Hunt 161
Middle East 214, 624
Middleton, Corporal 319
military doctrine 376
military prisons 558, 564
military revolution 375–6, 485
Military Service Acts 90
militia 123, 125–6, 128, 129
Millbank Hospital, London 616
Miller, CSMJim 357
Miller, Lt Roland Brice 86–7, 296
Milne, Maj. Gen. George 192
Milner, Lord 67
Minden Magazine, The 607
Minden regiments 601
miners
militant 627
strike (1898) 108
volunteering by 149
mining, military 456–65
Miraumont, Somme 300
Mitchell, 2nd Lt Frank 430, 431
Moltke, Gen. Helmuth Johannes Ludwig von 28, 39
Monash, Lt Gen. Sir John 198
Moncel, battle of (1914) 197
Monchie, Gunner 417
Monchy Breton 494
Monchy-le-Preux 21, 52
Monck, Gen. George 77
Monmouth, Duke of 113
Monro, Gen. Sir Charles 36, 209
Monro, L/Sgt H. H. (Saki) 45
Mons 65
Battle of (1914) 20, 30–31, 139, 206, 365, 541, 625
Retreat from 31, 190, 289, 348, 579, 615
Mons Star 630
Mons-Brussels road 437
Mons-Conde Canal 30, 451
Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Capt. Lord Francis 78
Montagu-Stuart-Wortley, Maj. Gen. the Hon. Edward 231
Montague, C. E. 277, 508, 529, 531–2, 533.535
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