by Richard Mead
Tilly, Lieutenant Colonel G. 145
Tobruk 212
‘Tod’ (see Waddell, Maude)
Tonn, Lieutenant Colonel M. 239
‘Torch’, Operation 82, 83
Tower, Alastair (Boy’s son-in-law) 211, 231
Tower, Rupert (Boy’s grandson) 220, 222
‘Transfigure’, Operation 109, 111, 154
Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm 48
Tree, Violet 48
Tripoli 88, 205
Tucker, Major General Reuben H. 130, 131, 249
Twiss & Brownings (later Twiss, Browning & Hallowes) 3, 28, 29, 35, 43, 244
Uden 137, 149
Ultra 122
United Appeal for the Blind 212
United States-British Comrades Association 204
Urquhart, Sir Brian 60, 77, 78, 90, 105, 146, 247
on Boy’s personality and appearance 14, 68, 235, 249; serves in Boy’s HQs 67–8; concerns about complacency of senior officers 121; concerns about Panzer divisions 122–3, 156; sent on sick leave 122; rejoins HQ and leaves again 149–50; and A Bridge Too Far 229, 232
Urquhart, Major General Roy 72, 136,137, 139, 150, 155, 161, 166, 168, 227, 237, 251
appointed to 1 Airborne Division 96, 152–3, 247; wartime career 97; concerns about morale 111; and Sosabowski 112–13; on Boy’s ‘bridge too far’ opinion 115–16; on lifts to Arnhem 119–20; cut off from division 128; requests urgent relief 143–4, 146; meets Boy after withdrawal 146–7; meets Dempsey & Montgomery 148; on Boy’s support for withdrawal 143, 162; representation in A Bridge Too Far 229
Valburg 140–1, 143, 160, 164
Valkenswaard 127, 152
Vandeleur, Brigadier J.O.E. 128, 130
Vandervoort, Colonel Benjamin H. 131
Vaughan Williams, Ralph 204
Veghel 117, 137
Vienna 195
Vietnam 182
Villers Guislain 22
Von Tettau, General of Infantry Hans 130, 155, 249
Vught 126
Waal, River ix, 116, 117, 120, 130, 131–2, 137, 138, 139, 145, 149, 159, 161, 237, 238, 249
Waddell, Maude (‘Tod’) 197
governess to Daphne 47; letters from Daphne 49, 52, 54, 80, 111, 173, 179; feud with Boy 192, 202, 219, 220
Waddy, Colonel J. 229, 247
Walch, Brigadier A.G. 62, 73, 76, 96, 106, 126, 138
as Brigade Major 128 Brigade 58–9, 60; as GSO1 1 Airborne Division 67–8, 69, 71; as GSO 1 HQ Airborne Forces 87; accompanies Boy to North Africa 90; in Sicily 92, 247; accompanies Boy to India 93–4; as BGS I Airborne Corps 97, 105; on Boy’s ‘bridge too far’ opinion 116, 154; rejects criticism of ‘Market Garden’ plan 121–2; performance during ‘Market Garden’ 133, 157; as Head of Airborne Operations, SEAC 172
Wales, HRH Prince of (see Edward VIII, HM King)
Wallace, Edgar 48
Wallace, Pat 48
Walton, Brigadier B.B. 164
Ward, General Sir Dudley 35
Ward, Joan 252
War Trade Intelligence Department 28
Watson, Staff Sergeant 68
Wavell, Field Marshal Earl 169, 170, 204
Wedemeyer, General Albert C. 172–3
Weeks, Lieutenant General Lord 78, 95, 165, 238
Weir, General Sir George 55
Wellington, Field Marshal, 1st Duke of 57
Wellington, Arthur, 4th Duke of 12
Wellington College 3, 8
Wells, Colonel (US Military Attaché) 71, 78
Wemyss, General Sir Colville 189, 190, 194
Wesel 111, 112
West Downs School 7–8, 201, 210
Westmacott, Brigadier Guy 22–3, 244
Westward Television 222
Wheeler, Lieutenant General Raymond A. 171, 181
Whelp HMS 170
Whitehouse, Private Frank 19–20
Whitelands House 195, 203, 216, 219, 220
Wigram, Lord (Clive, 1st Baron) 23, 244
Wigram, Lord (Neville, 2nd Baron) 200, 244
Wildman-Lushington, Major General G.E. 167, 171
Wilhelmina Canal 117, 127
Wilkinson, Ellen 85
Williams, Evie 218, 219, 254
Williams, General Sir Guy 61
Williams, Major General Paul L. 118, 119, 154, 155, 161, 248
Williams, Major W.T. 68
Wilmot, Chester 212–13, 248, 253
Windlesham Moor 200, 205
Wingate, Major General O.C. 94, 169
Wolseley, Field Marshal Viscount 12
Wombwell, College Sergeant Major 12
Wyler 127, 137, 149, 159
Ygdrasil, motor boat (‘Yggy’) 44, 45, 50, 80, 99, 187, 191, 193, 201, 210
Ygdrasil II, motor boat 210
Ygdrasil III, motor boat 222
Yokohama 4
Ypres 11, 13, 14–15, 18, 20–1, 25, 41
Yvon, Fernande 48
‘Zipper’, Operation 177, 178, 179, 181
Zuid Willemsvaart Canal 117, 137
Zutphen 122, 156, 157
Zwolle 122
