The Liddle Archive: By kind permission of the Liddle Collection, Leeds University Library, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT, www.leeds.ac.uk. With thanks to Richard Davies.
Capt. D.P. Hirsch VC – GS0770; Pte W.N. Edwards – GS0506; Lt G.L. Reid – GS1337; 2nd Lt L.W. Pratt – GS1294; Capt. J.W. Tibbles – GS1603; Driver W.M. Peto – GS1256; 2nd M. Webb-Peploe – GS1699; Sgt W.A. Rigden – GS1358; 2nd Lt C.W. Walker – GS1672.
Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum: By kind permission of the Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum, Custom House, Gloucester Docks, Gloucester, GL1 2HE, www.glosters.org.uk. With thanks to George Streatfield, David Read and Graham Gordon.
The letters of 2/Lt C.W. Winterbotham, 1/5th Bttn, Gloucestershire Rgt.
Somerset Record Office: By kind permission of the Duty Archivist, Somerset Record Office, Obridge Road, Taunton TA2 7PU, www.somerset.gov.uk/archives/, and Lt Col Mike Motum, Somerset Military Museum Trust, 14 Mount Street, TA1 3QB.
Arthur Cook diary – Ref: DD/SLI/17/1/40.
King’s Own Scottish Borderers Regimental Museum: By kind permission of the King’s Own Scottish Borderers Regimental Museum, The Barracks, The Parade, Berwick-upon-Tweed, TD15 1DG, www.kosb.co.uk/museum. With thanks to the Regimental Secretary and Ian Martin.
Capt. A.J.M. Shaw, 1st Bttn, Ref – KOSB T/1/13.
Royal Engineers Museum: By kind permission of the Royal Engineers Museum, Prince Arthur Road, Gillingham, Kent ME4 4UG, www.remuseum.org.uk. With thanks to Rebecca Nash and her staff.
Lt F.J. Mulqueen; Col Logan: Memorandum on Gas Poisoning in Mines.
The Regimental Museum of the Royal Welsh: By kind permission of the Regimental Museum of the Royal Welsh (formerly South Wales Borderers & Monmouthshire Regimental Museum), The Barracks, Watton, Brecon, Powys LD3 7EB, www.rrw.org.uk. With many thanks to Martin Everett and Celia Green.
Pte C.P. Heare, 1/2nd Monmouthshire Rgt – unpublished diary, July 1913–March 1919, Acc. No. 1997.139.
The Fusiliers Museum of Northumberland: By kind permission of the Fusiliers Museum of Northumberland, The Abbott’s Tower, Alnwick Castle, Alnwick, NE66 1NG, www.northumberlandfusiliers.org.uk. With thanks to staff at the Fusiliers Museum of Northumberland.
Diary and letter of A.O. Terry, 23rd Bttn, Northumberland Fusiliers (4th Tyneside Scottish) January 1916–July 1918 [34th Division].
The King’s Own Royal Border Regiment Museum: By kind permission of Border Regiment & King’s Own Royal Border Regiment Museum, Queen Mary’s Tower, The Castle, Carlisle, CA3 8UR, www.kingsownbordermuseum.btik.com. With thanks to Stuart Eastwood and Tony Goddard.
Lt C.H.M Whiteside, 7th Bttn, Ref: 11/G2/001/29A.
The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU, www.nationalarchives.gov.uk.
In the 1920s the following officers corresponded with the official historian (Cab45), and extracts from their letters have been used in this book:
2nd Lt Eric Anderson, 108 Batt. RFA; Maj. George Walker, 59th Field Coy, REs; Maj. Percy Hastings, 1st Queens Own Royal West Kent Rgt; Capt. Charles Norman, 9th (Queen’s Royal) Lancers; Capt. and Quartermaster W.W. Finch, 1st Royal Scots Fusiliers.
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Memoirs
Adams, Bernard, Nothing of Importance, Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1917
Barnett, D.O., In Happy Memory, privately printed, 1915
Bolwell, F.A., With a Reservist in France, George Routledge, n.d.
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Butler, Partick, A Galloper at Ypres, T. Fisher Unwin Ltd, 1920
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Gyde, Arnold, Contemptible by ‘Casualty’, William Heinemann, 1916
Hancock, Reginald, Memoirs of a Veterinary Surgeon, Macgibbon & Kee, 1952
Harvey, Harold, Soldiers’ Sketches Under Fire, Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd, n.d.
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Lucy, John, There’s a Devil in the Drum, The Naval and Military Press, 1993
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Martin, Sapper, The Secret War Diary of Jack Martin, Bloomsbury, 2009
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Other Reading
Baker, Peter Shaw, Animal War Heroes, A&C Black Ltd, 1933
Baynes, Ernest Harold, Animal Heroes of the Great War, Macmillan, 1926
Cooper, Jilly, Animals in War, Corgi Books, 2000
Fairholme, Edward G., Wellesley Pain, A Century of Work for Animals, John Murray, 1924
Gardiner, Juliet, The Animals’ War: Animals in Wartime from the First World War to the Present Day, Portrait, 2006
Goring, Alan, 2nd Lt, 6th The Yorkshire Regt, extract taken from Lyn Macdonald’s They Called It Passchendaele, Papermac, 1978
Owen, Thomas, L/Cpl, 1st South Wales Borderers, extract from True World War I Stories, Robinson, 1999
Wycliffe and the Great War: A School Record, 1923. Extract of letters taken from the following former pupils: Pte Cyril Baker, A/Capt. Kenneth Jones,
Lt Melville Hastings.
Interviews conducted by the author with the following Great War veterans:
Andrew Bowie
Ben Clouting
Frank Deane
Norman Dillon
Alfred Finnigan
George Gadsby
William Golightly
Fred Hodges
Fred Lloyd
Harry Patch
Robert Renwick
Dick Trafford
Photographs
Imperial War Museum, London: By kind permission of the picture library of the Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, London, SE1 6HZ.
Q53386; Q26623; Q1629; Q3223; Q1451; Q448; CO1414; Q10958; Q11517; Q3210; Q11269; Q6400; Q11250; Q10949; Q3249; Q8715.
First Plate Section
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2. All photos – author’s collection (hereafter AC)
3. All photos – AC
4. Top – AC; bottom – Imperial War Museum (hereafter IWM)
5. Top left – IWM; top right – SC; bottom left and right – AC
6. & 7. Double-page spread – Stewart Simpson
8. Top – AC; middle and bottom – Stuart Arrowsmith (hereafter SA)
9. All photos – SA
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12. Top left – AC; top right – Andrew Read (hereafter AR); bottom – IWM
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15. Top – IWM; bottom left – AC; bottom right – AR
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A Note on the Author
Richard van Emden has interviewed over 270 veterans of the Great War and has written thirteen books on the subject including The Trench, The Last Fighting Tommy (both top-ten bestsellers) and The Soldier’s War. He has also worked on more than a dozen television programmes on the Great War, including Prisoners of the Kaiser, Veterans, Britain’s Last Tommies, the award-winning Roses of No Man’s Land, Britain’s Soldiers and A Poem for Harry.
By the Same Author
Tickled to Death to Go
Veterans: The Last Survivors of the Great War
Prisoners of the Kaiser
The Trench
Last Man Standing
All Quiet on the Home Front
Boy Soldiers of the Great War
Britain’s Last Tommies
The Last Fighting Tommy
(with Harry Patch)
Famous
The Soldier’s War
Sapper Martin (Editor)
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