25 ‘Centuries old folk song re-recorded for Help for Heroes’ in the Daily Telegraph 11 December 2009.
PART V
Chapter 23: The Rambling Soldier
1 Sitwell Great Morning p.195.
2 John Wain (ed.) The Journals of James Boswell (London 1991) p.247.
3 Wonnacott papers, British Library Oriental and India Office Collections, Mss Eur C376/2.
4 Stephen Brumwell Paths of Glory (London 2006) p.77.
5 Wolseley on Pennefather.
6 R. E. Scouller The Armies of Queen Anne (Oxford 1966) p.164.
7 Manual of Military Law 1914 p.180.
8 Ibid. p.181.
9 Todd Journal pp.7, 10.
10 Quoted in Henderson Highland Soldier p.218.
11 Houlding Fit for Service p.30.
12 Ibid. p.33 fn 60.
13 Beckles Wilson Life and Letters of James Wolfe (New York 1909) p.292.
14 Fortescue IV pp.903–7.
15 Stuart Reid and Paul Chappell King George’s Army 1740–1793 (2) (London 1995) p.3.
16 Todd Journal pp.17–18.
17 James Anton Retrospect of a Military Life (Edinburgh 1841).
18 Anton Retrospect.
19 G. Penny Traditions of Perth quoted in Helen McCorry (ed.) The Thistle at War (Edinburgh 1997) pp.48–9.
20 Todd Journal p.20.
21 London Gazette 31 May 1740.
22 London Gazette 25 October 1805.
23 Roberston Private to Field Marshal p.21.
24 Cadogan Road to Armageddon p.175.
25 Dunn The War the Infantry Knew pp.2, 6, 8.
Chapter 24: Barrack-Room Blues
1 Patrick Mileham ‘Moral Component: The Regimental System’ in Alex Alexandrou et al. (eds.) New People Strategies for the British Armed Forces (London 2002) p.73.
2 Lucy Devil in the Drum p.56.
3 Mays Fall Out The Officers p.78.
4 Houlding Fit for Service p.55.
5 ‘The Royal Artillery Barracks 1172– 1803’ based on research by the Revd. Dr Michael Gilman in Brigadier Ken Timbers (ed.) The Royal Artillery, Woolwich, A Celebration (London 2008).
6 Houlding Fit for Service p.40.
7 Maitland Hussar of the Line p.4.
8 Buckley British Army in the West Indies pp.329–30.
9 Fraser Forty Years p.80.
10 Perceptions are not always accurate, for a 2004 report by the Howard League for Penal Reform made substantial criticisms of the regime at Stoke Heath.
11 Maitland Hussar of the Line p.123.
12 Anglesey British Cavalry I p.129.
13 Ibid. I p.132.
14 Ibid. II p.315.
15 Acland-Troyte Through the Ranks p.38.
16 Ibid. pp.15–18.
17 ‘Standing Orders for the Royal Army Ordnance Corps 1929’ Appendix XVI Kit Laid Out For Inspection.
18 Wyndham Soldiers p.174.
19 French Military Identities p.101.
20 Michael Glover (ed.) A Gentleman Volunteer: Letters of George Hennell from the Peninsular War 1812–13 (London 1979) p.14.
21 Myerly Spectacle p.18.
22 The Marquess of Anglesey (ed.) Sergeant Pearman’s Memoirs: Being Chiefly, His Account of Service with the Third (King’s Own) Light Dragoons (London 1968) p.64.
23 John Fraser Sixty Years in Uniform (London 1939) p.83.
24 Wyndham Soldiers p.31.
25 H. Compton (ed.) A King’s Hussar, Being the Memoirs for 25 Years of a Troop Sergeant Major in the 14th (King’s) Hussars (London 1893) pp.29–30.
26 Field Service Pocket Book 1914 (Reprinted HMSO 1916) p.168.
27 Messenger Call to Arms p.446.
28 Maitland Hussar p.61.
29 Lucy Devil in the Drum.
30 Richards Old Soldiers p.88.
31 Maitland Hussar p.69.
32 Mays Fall Out the Officers p.173.
33 General Order of 19 March 1835 in the papers of Sir William Gomm, National Army Museum 1987-11-116-143.
34 ‘The 30th Foot in the War against Napoleon’ on Carole Divall’s very useful website http://www.caroledivall.co.uk, accessed 28 August 2010.
35 Mays Fall Out the Officers p.53.
36 ‘Sandes Soldiers Home’ in Singapore Infopedia http://infopedia.nl.sg.articles, accessed 28 August 2010.
37 Col O. Leathlobhair in Brian McMahon ‘Endynamited by Christ’ in http://www.sandes.org.uk, accessed 28 August 2010.
38 http://www.dunnings.net/barry/xrh, accessed 28 August 2010.
39 Holmes Dusty Warriors p.159.
40 Mays Fall Out the Officers pp.78–9.
41 Roberston Private to Field Marshal p.10.
42 Oriental and India Office Collections of the British Library, Papers of Sergeant Major George Carter, Mss Eur E262.
43 Dunn The War p.274.
44 Myna Trustram Women of the Regiment (Cambridge 1984) p.17.
45 John Clark Marshman (ed.) The Memoirs of Major General Sir Henry Havelock (London 1860) p.37.
Chapter 25: Bullies and Beast-Masters
1 Ilana R. Bet-El Conscripts: Lost Legions of the Great War (Stroud, Gloucestershire, 1999) p.147.
2 Browne Napoleonic War Journal p.48.
3 Mays Fall Out the Officers p.65.
4 John Shipp The Path of Glory p.15.
5 Tom Hickman The Call-Up: A History of National Service (London 2004) p.33.
6 Alexander Somerville Autobiography of a Working Man (London 1967) p.84.
7 Maitland Hussar of the Line p.24.
8 Ned Sherrin The Autobiography (London 2005).
9 Royle Best Years p.39.
10 Ibid. p.72.
11 Corns and Hughes-Wilson Blindfold and Alone p.360. Graves’ poem is Sergeant-Major Money and he refers to the incident in his book Goodbye to All That, although, as is so often the case with Graves, the line between history and myth is a little blurred.
12 Dunn The War p.347.
13 Robertson Private to Field Marshal p.18.
14 Dunn The War pp.100–1.
15 ‘Beasting’ in ARRSEpedia http://www.arrse.co.uk last modified 11 March 2009, accessed 31 August 2010.
16 BBC News ‘“Beasting” – part of army life?’ 31 July 2008 on http://news.bbc.co.uk accessed 2 September 2010.
17 Ibid.
18 Royle Best Years of Their Lives p.46.
19 Joanna Bale ‘A “beasting” can turn into humiliation’ in The Times 28 November 2005.
20 ‘Beasting’ http://www.arrse.co.uk
21 ‘Shoeing’ in ARRSEpedia http://www.arrse.co.uk accessed 1 September 2010.
22 Michael Evans ‘Soldiers cleared of Private Gavin Williams “beasting” death’ The Times 1 August 2008.
23 BBC News ‘Army “does not tolerate beasting”’ 1 August 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk accessed 2 September 2010.
24 Lucy Ballinger ‘Army rapped over “beasting” death …’ Daily Mail Online 1 August 2008.
25 Sheldrake’s Aldershot Military Gazette 6 and 27 April 1906. ch. 24.
Chapter 26: Oh! What a Time Those Officers Have
1 Michael N. McConnell Army and Empire: British Soldiers on the American Frontier, 1758–1778 (Lincoln Nebr. 2004) p.42.
2 William Maginn, The Military Sketch-Book: Reminiscences of the Service at Home and Abroad 2 Vols (London 1827) I pp.20–1.
3 Dansey letters, Historical Society of Delaware, Wilmington, Delaware.
4 ‘Lieutenant Walter Campbell’ in Michael Brander The Sword and the Pen (London 1989) p.70.
5 George Robert Gleig The Subaltern: A Chronicle of the Peninsular War (Edinburgh 1877) p.3.
6 Browne Journal pp.112–13.
7 Field Marshal Lord Wolseley The Story of a Soldier’s Life 2 Vols (London 1903) I pp.8–9.
8 Elizabeth Longford (Introduction) Your Most Obedient Servant: James Thornton. Cook to the Duke of Wellington (Exeter 1985) p.20.
9 F. Yeats-Brown Bengal Lancer (London 1930) pp.16–17.
10 Freddie Rawding Lif
e as a Curious Traveller (Langley Park, Durham 2009) p.13.
11 Ibid. pp.168–9.
12 Ibid. pp.221–2.
13 Ibid. p.222.
14 Percy Sumner ‘Regimental Orders for Dress, 25th Foot, 1796 and 1828’ Journal of the Society For Army Historical Research 16 1937 p.148.
Chapter 27: The Sergeants’ Mess Dinner is Worth Putting Down
1 Todd Journal p.14.
2 Wyndham Soldiers pp.143–56 passim.
3 Cairns Social Life p.118.
4 Jasper Ridley The Freemasons (London 1999) p.161.
5 George Carter Journal in British Library Oriental and India Office Collection Mss Eur E262.
6 Rudyard Kipling’s Verse Inclusive Edition (London 1933) p.437.
7 Maitland Hussar p.85.
8 Hickman Call-Up p.143.
9 ‘British Military Garrison – Tipperary, Co Tipperary Ireland’ http://tipperarybarracks.webs.com accessed 22 August 2010.
Chapter 28: Campaigners Straight and Gay
1 Todd Journal p.16.
2 Maitland Hussar of the Line pp.90–2.
3 Buckler British Army in the West Indies p.165.
4 Holmes Sahib p.438.
5 Richards Old Soldier Sahib.
6 Hickman Call-Up p.201.
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid. p.205.
9 Manual of Military Law 1914 p.97.
10 Quoted in French Military Identities pp.132–3.
11 ‘Gays in the Military: The UK and US compared’ BBC News at Six 2 February 2010 in http://news.bbc.co.uk, accessed 16 September 2010.
12 Buckley British Army in the West Indies p.233.
13 Quoted in French Military Identities p.133.
Chapter 29: Officers’ Wives Get Puddings and Pies
1 Holmes Sahib p.153.
2 Holmes Dusty Warriors pp.311–12.
3 Trustram Women of the Regiment p.71.
4 Swinson and Scott (eds) The Memoirs of Private Waterfield (London 1968) p.107.
5 Smith Victorian RSM p.21.
6 Trustram Women of the Regiment pp.23–5.
7 Ibid. p.111.
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abbreviations (linguistic), 456, 461
Abercrombie, General Sir James, 466
Abercromby, General Sir Ralph, 236
Acland-Troyte, Lieut. John Edward, 181, 523
Adam, Sir Ken (born Klaus Hugo Adam), 346
Adam, General Sir Ronald, 216, 384, 390–1
Adams, Private Buck, 469, 598
Adams, George, 279
Adams, John, 6
Adams, Revd J.W., VC, 253
Adeane, Sir Michael, 19
adjutant general, 70–2
Adjutant General’s Corps, 543
adjutants: duties and status, 69–70, 72–3
Adlercron, Colonel John, 150
Adye, Major General Sir John, 169
Afghanistan: chaplains in, 234–5
Africa: troops in, 304
age: of serving soldiers, 271–86
Ainsworth, Bob, 46, 428
Airey, General Richard, 1st Baron, 77
Airlie, Lieut. Colonel David Stanley William Ogilvy, 6th Earl of, 464
Akabusi, Kriss, 582
Al Amarah, Iraq, 90
Alanbrooke, Field-Marshal Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount, 17, 113, 123
Albemarle, George Monck, 1st Duke of, 6–7, 125, 128, 231
Albert, Prince Consort, 13
Albert Victor, Prince, 14
Aldenrath, Corporal James, 332–3
Aldershot: barracks, 512, 521; church parades, 252–3; Military Detention Barracks (‘the Glasshouse’), 518
Alexander, Field Marshal Harold, 1st Earl, 123
Alfieri, Count Vittorio, 327
Algeo, Captain W.B., 61–2
Aliwal, battle of (1846), 310
Allenby, Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman, 1st Viscount, 371
Alma river, 448
Almanza, battle of (1707), 325–6
Alten, Field Marshal Charles von, 338
Alten, Major General Victor von, 338
Alvanley, Lieut. William Arden, 2nd Baron, 584
Ambrose, Stephen, 498
American War of Independence (Revolutionary War; 1775–81): conduct, 6, 12, 36–7; foreign auxiliaries in British army, 322–4; France allies with Americans, 96
Amery, Leo, 41
Amiens, Peace of (1802), 328–9
Amritsar Massacre (1919), 52
Ancell, Sergeant Sam, 9
Anderson, Private James, 389
André, Major John, 139, 327
Andrews, I.G., 387
Andrews, Lieut. Colonel, 203
Anglesey, George Charles Henry Victor Paget, 7th Marquess of, 180
Anne, Princess Royal, 16
Anne, Queen (earlier Princess), 11, 22, 134–5, 137
Anstruther, Colonel Philip, 49
Anti-Aircraft Command: women in, 354–6
Anton, James, 507–8
Anzio, 404, 406
Arassus, Charles Pierre d’, 327
Arbuthnot, Major Robert, 330
Ardent, HMS, 540
Argyll, General John Campbell, 2nd Duke of, 563
aristocracy: and officers, 159–64, 167
Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme (AFPS), 34
Armed Services Forum, 46
Armit, WO3 ‘Muscle’, 65
Armitage, Second Lieut. Douglas William, 184
arms plotting, 430
Army Acts: (1881), 21; (1913), 289; (1955), 21
Army Board of the Defence Council, 23; Executive Committee, 433
Army Canteen Committee, 539
Army Council: created, 22–3
Army Discipline and Regulating Act (1879), 21
Army Enlistment Act (1870), 378
Army Foundation College, Harrogate, 283
Army Officer Selection Board (AOSB), 223, 226
Army Regulation Bill (1871), 155
Army of Reserve (1803), 97
Army Rumour Service (website), 34, 47, 264, 357
Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming, 487
Army Training Regiments, 284, 286
Army units:
ARMOURED: Royal Armoured Corps, 64, 373, 430; Royal Tank Regiment, 65, 371, 373, 481
CAVALRY: 1st Royal Dragoons (Royals), 132, 172, 365–6, 367; 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys), 372; 2nd Queen’s Dragoon Guards, 369; 3rd Dragoon Guards, 180, 503; 5th (Royal Irish) Dragoons, 245; 7th (Princess Royal’s) Dragoon Guards, 369; 9th Light Dragoons, 370; 10th (or Prince of Wales’s Own) Royal Regiment of Light Dragoons (Hussars), 370; 11th Hussars (‘Cherry Bums’), 292, 477–8; 12th Lancers, 415–17; 13th Light Dragoons, 172; 13th/18th Hussars, 448; 15th Light Dragoons, 370, 441; 15th/19th King‘s Royal Hussars, 103–4, 371, 373; 16th/5th Queen’s Royal Lancers, 13, 245, 448; 18th Light Dragoons, 370; 19th Hussars, 371; 19th Light Dragoons, 370; 20th Hussars, 371; 21st Lancers, 371; Blues and Royals, 15; Cheshire Yeomanry, 103; Heavy Brigade, 371; Horse Grenadier Guards, 79–80; Horse Guards (‘the Blues’), 7; Imperial Yeomanry (IY), 107–8; King’s Royal Hussars, 478; Life Guards, 79; Light Brigade (later Light Division), 70, 367, 371; Manchester and Salford Yeomanry, 14; Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars, 448, 453; Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, 487
FOOT GUARDS: height requirement, 271; inter-war promotions, 209; ranks, 80–2; recruitment, 382; regiments raised, 7; Coldstream Guards, 6–7, 80–1; Grenadier Guards, 7, 473, 475; Scots Guards, 221
INFANTRY: 1st Foot (Royal Scots), 20–1, 304, 365, 374, 449, 476–7; 2nd Foot (Queen’s Royal Regiment), 365, 374, 446–7, 460, 478; 3rd Foot (East Kent; Buffs), 171, 365, 440, 473–4; 5th Foot (Royal Northumberland Fusiliers), 202, 377, 440, 446, 451; 7th Royal Fusiliers, 313, 423–5, 428, 433, 4
52–3; 8th (King’s Liverpool Regiment), 384; 9th (Norfolk), 440, 460; 10th (Royal Lincolnshire) Regiment, 447; 11th Foot (Devonshire), 335, 381, 440, 504; 12th Foot (East Suffolk), 335, 504, 506; 13th Foot, 272; 14th Foot (Prince of Wales’s Own Regiment of Yorkshire), 448, 481; 15th Foot (East Yorkshire), 448; 16th London (Queen’s Westminster Rifles), 410; 17th (Royal Leicesters), 377, 460; 18th Royal Irish Regiment, 246, 424; 19th Foot (Prince of Wales’s Own Regiment of Yorkshire; Green Howards), 365, 374, 427, 429–30, 433, 448; 20th Foot (Lancashire Fusiliers), 366; 21st Foot (Royal Scots Fusiliers), 366; 22nd Foot (Cheshire Regiment), 373, 425, 448–9; 23rd (Royal Welch Fusiliers), 76, 168, 305, 366, 374, 425, 450, 468, 513; 24th Foot (South Wales Borderers), 410–11, 479, 484; 25th (King’s Own Scottish Borderers), 374, 382, 402; 26th (Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)), 425; 27th (Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers), 245, 273, 366, 375, 423; 28th Foot (Gloucestershire), 399, 412, 460; 29th Foot (Worcesterhire), 19, 429, 447, 563; 30th Foot (Cambridgeshire), 536; 31st (East Surrey; ‘Young Buffs’), 365, 400–1; 32nd (Duke of Cornwall’s) Light Infantry, 162, 367, 383; 33rd Foot (Duke of Wellington’s Regiment; West Riding Regiment; ‘the Havercake Lads’), 169, 220–1, 297, 375, 418, 439–40, 446; 35th (Royal Sussex), 381; 37th/67th (Royal Hampshire) Regiment, 273, 376, 380, 383, 443, 460; 38th Irish Brigade, 485; 38th Regiment (Staffordshire), 480; 39th (Nottinghamshire), 141–2, 376; 40th Foot (2nd Somersetshire), 325; 41st (Welsh) Regiment, 189; 42nd (Black Watch), 394–6, 420–2, 429, 432, 435, 449, 474, 502; 43rd (Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry), 367, 381, 404; 44th (Essex) Regiment, 335; 45th Foot (Sherwood Foresters; Nottinghamshire), 429, 448; 47th Foot (Loyal North Lancashire), 440; 48th Foot (Northamptonshire Regiment; Steelbacks), 335, 410, 460; 49th/66th (Royal Berkshire) Regiment, 375, 403, 410, 418, 445, 447–8; 50th Foot (Queen’s Own Royal West Kent; ‘the dirty half-hundred’), 440; 51st (King’s Own Yorkshire) Light Infantry, 314, 367; 52nd Light Infantry, 367, 487; 56th Foot (‘Pompadours’), 292; 57th Foot (West Middlesex; ‘the Die-Hards’), 314–15, 410, 440, 460, 482; 58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment, 444; 60th (Royal American) Regiment (earlier 62nd; then King’s Royal Rifle Corps), 31, 292, 304, 323–4, 329, 366, 374–5; 62nd Foot (Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment), 141, 447; 63rd (Manchester) Regiment: 24th Battalion (Oldham Pals), 189; 65th/84th (York and Lancaster Regiment), 377, 425, 460; 68th Foot (Durham Light Infantry), 411, 448; 70th Foot (Surrey), 411; 72nd (Seaforth Highlanders), 446; 74th (Highland Light Infantry), 381, 446; 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment, 381; 76th Foot, 245, 446; 79th (Cameron Highlanders), 274, 310, 503; 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment, 245, 423, 460; 88th Foot (Connaught Rangers), 245–6, 475, 478; 92nd (Gordon Highlanders), 84–5, 381; 93rd Foot (Sutherland Highlanders), 144, 243–4, 269, 274–5, 294; 93rd/86th Foot (Royal Irish/Ulster Rifles), 411, 423; 95th Foot (Sherwood Foresters; Derbyshire), 448; 95th Rifles (Rifle Brigade), 292, 366; 98th Foot, 270; 101st (Royal Munster Fusiliers), 233–4, 366; 102nd Foot (Royal Dublin Fusiliers), 145, 366; 131 Queen’s Brigade, 375; 169 Queen’s Brigade, 375; Artists Rifles (28th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment, 188; Devon and Dorset Regiment, 434, 444; Fraser’s Corps of Infantry (later Royal African Corps), 304; Fusilier Brigade, 423; Greek Light Infantry, 329; Home Counties Brigade, 423; Inns of Court Regiment, 191; Isle of Wight Rifles (Hampshire), 384; King’s Division, 434; King’s German Legion (KGL), 335–42; Light Infantry Regiment, 423–4, 433–4; London Irish Rifles, 402; London Rifle Brigade, 187, 410; Mercian Regiment, 373, 448; Prince of Wales’s Division, 434; Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment (‘Tigers’), 89, 229, 376, 424, 429, 446–7, 494; Queen’s Lancashire, xix; Queen’s Regiment (Home Counties Brigade), 423–5; Rifle Brigade, 375; The Rifles (formerly Royal Green Jackets and Light Infantry), 226, 228–9, 324, 434, 493; Royal Anglian Regiment, 423–5, 428–30, 433, 448; Royal Green Jackets, 324, 423–4, 427, 433–4; Royal Gurkha Rifles, 346; Royal Irish Rangers, 423–4; Royal Regiment of Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire, 424, 434; Royal Regiment of Scotland, 434, 436, 487; Royal Scots Borderers, 434; Royal Ulster Rifles, 423; Royal Welsh Regiment, 434; Royal West India Rangers, 304; Royal York Rangers, 304; Ulster Defence Regiment, 424; Ulster Division, 36th, 42; Watteville’s Regiment, 329; Wessex Regiment, 479; York Chasseurs, 304; Yorkshire Regiment, 433–4, 481
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