Our Land at War
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Berkeley family 73
Berlin 105, 204, 205, 245, 376
Berzins, Muriel 157
Betjeman, John 92
Bettisfield, N. Wales 283
Betws-y-Coed 45–6
St Mary’s Church 46
Beveridge Report (1942) 407
‘BEWARE’ 68
bicycles 91
Big Game (race-horse) 288
‘Bigbobs’ see Landing Craft Tanks
Biggin Hill 105
Billière, Peter de la 48–9
Bingham, John (aka Jack King) 75
Bingley, Xandra, Bertie, May and Mrs Fish 97–9
Birch, Frank 205
birds 3, 96, 269
adaptability of 272
annihilation of 270
for human consumption 270–1
gannets 273
military use of pigeons 273–7
owls 272
seabirds 273
swans 278
Birmingham 32, 40, 92, 109, 114, 398, 408
Bishop’s Cleeve, nr Bath 257
Black Down, nr Bristol 111
Blackawton farm, Devon 342
Blacker, Stan 373
blackout 30–1, 404
Blackpool 155
Blaenau Ffestiniog 191
Blair, Eric see Orwell, George
Blenheim Palace 48
Bletchington, nr Oxford 38
Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire 58, 199, 203, 204–9, 274, 367, 369
Blickling Hall, Norfolk 216–17
Blishen, Edward 166–7, 168
A Cackhanded War 166
Blitz 89, 278, 281
Blizna 202
Blucke, Group Captain Bobby 237
Blythe, Ronald 19
Akenfield 9–11, 134
Bogskar (race-horse) 289
Bolton Abbey, N. Yorkshire 305–6
Bomford, Captain J. E. 161
Bond, Charles 65
Bond, Lilian 337, 338
Boots the Chemist 150–1
Borrowdale Beck, Cumbria 303
Boughton, Northamptonshire 187
Boulting, Joan 166–7
bouncing bombs 307
Boussac, Marcel 118
Boutflour, Robert 21–2
Bowood, Wiltshire 173
Boy Scouts 41, 84, 136
Boyd, Arnold 106, 122
Bradley, Jean 163–4
Bradley, General Omar 315
Bradman, Don 280
Braidwood, Emily 155–6
Brains Trust (radio programme) 152
Brasenose College, Oxford 286
Brauchitsch, Walther von 54
Proclamation to the People of England 54
Braybrooke family 198
Braybrooke, Richard Neville, 8th Lord 199
Bretherdale Moor, Westmorland 306
The Brewers’ Almanack 148
Brickendon, Hertfordshire 386–7
Brickendonbury Manor, Hertfordshire 199
Bridlington, East Riding 244
Brighton, Sussex 61, 81, 322
Bristol 32
Bristol Aeroplane Company 315
Bristol Zoo 271, 314–15, 317
Britain on Guard (MoI film) 59
British Army 291, 302
3rd Infantry Division 359–60
46th (Liverpool Welsh) Tank Regiment 313
Assault Force ‘S’ 359
Coldstream Guards 71, 161
GOC Eastern Command 332
Green Howards 280
Grenadier Guards 404
Royal Armoured Corps 291
Royal Army Ordnance Corps 288
Royal Berkshire Regiment 221
Royal Corps of Signals 87
Royal Engineers 83, 183
Royal Gloucestershire Hussars 222
Royal Norfolk Regiment 331
Royal Observer Corps 88–9
Shropshire Light Infantry 67–8
British Beekeepers’ Association 147–8
British Birds magazine 270
British Expeditionary Force (BEF) 287
British Fourth Army in Scotland 364
The British Home Guard Pocket-Book 63–4
British League of Racing Cyclists 285
British Legion 100
British Lions 286
British Museum 187, 190, 334
British Omnibus Company 164
British Restaurants 128
British Sugar Corporation 168
Brockbank, Ernest 303
Brocket family 347
Brockhall, Northamptonshire 199
Bromborough, Wirral 113
Brooklands, Surrey 398
Brothers in the Aryan World Order 369
Brown, Eric 240
Brown, George 222
Browning, Bob 40–1
Browning, Robert, The Pied Piper of Hamelin 29
Brown’s Quarry, Wiltshire 184
Brush, Herbert 135
Bruton, Chris 40
Brynamman 113
Buccleuch, Duke of 187
Buckingham Palace 223, 375
Buckland, Major T. P. 361
Buckmaster, Maurice 347
Burnt Stub, Kingston-upon-Thames 316
Busby, Matt 291
Butcher, Gordon 393–5
Butlin, Billy 238, 326
Caerlaverock, Solway Firth 272
Caernarvon 30, 191
Caernarvon Castle 187
Caledonian Canal 346
Calvert, Captain Mike 80–1, 85, 86
Cambridge University 207
Cameron, Lieutenant Donald 356
Cameron of Lochiel, Sir Donald 346–7, 352–3, 354
Cameron-Head, Christian 346, 348
Camps Act (1939) 47
Camusdarach Lodge, Road to the Isles 347, 350–1
Canada 49
Canadian Army 255
canals 92
Canberra, Australia 154
Canewdon Unique (horse) 401
Canine Defence League 50
Canterbury, Kent 109
Cape Wrath 86
Cardiff 77, 125, 252
‘Careless Talk Costs Lives’ 68
Carroll, Lewis, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 79
Casey, Marjorie 135
Castle Hayes, Tutbury (Staffordshire) 185
Castle Howard, Yorkshire 230–2
Cathcart, Emily 42
Catterick race course 290
Celeste (elephant) 314
Centenary Royal Show, Windsor Great Park (1939) 11
Central Park School, East End of London 33
Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire 289
Chamberlain, Neville 29, 165, 347
Chapman, Peggy 168–9
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire 215
Chartwell, Kent 111
Chatsworth House, Derbyshire 132, 225–9
Checkendon, Oxfordshire 16
Cheltenham 23, 224, 250
Cheltenham Corporation 140
Cheltenham race course 289, 290
Chessington Zoo 316
Chester 34
Chester Zoo 317
Chesterton, G. K. 389
Chetwode, Penelope 92
Chicheley Hall, Buckinghamshire 199
Children’s Hour (radio programme) 99–100
Chillingham Castle, Northumberland 233–4
Chiocchetti, Domenico 362
Chipperfield, Jimmy 311–12
Chipperfield, Dick 311
Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire 251
Chiswick 387–8
Chivelstone, Devon 340
church bells 75
Churchdale Hall, Derbyshire 225–6
Churchill, Sarah 202
Churchill, Winston
appoints Woolton as Minister of Reconstruction 152
destruction of V-weapons launch sites 380
election defeat 407
fancies Ming the Panda 313
German propaganda concerning 74
orders bombing of Leipzig 105
predicts displacement of population 31–2
reaction to Scapa Flow 360
safe house earmarked for 73
sets up British Restaurants 128
sets up Home Guard 61
sets up SOE 198
storage of pictures 183, 189
supports the farmers 403
‘we shall fight on the beaches’ speech 59
Churt, Surrey 143
Cinders Cottage, nr Tenbury Wells 113–14
circuses 311–12, 314, 316, 317–19
Civil Defence 221
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex 156, 326
Clark, David 29–30
Clark, Ken (young boy) 252–3
Clark, Kenneth 189, 191, 192
Clark, Tommy 30
Clifford family 187
Clifton College, Bristol 315–16
Cliveden, Buckinghamshire 13
Clough, Arthur Hugh 363
Coats, Lieutenant Colonel J. S. 71
Coats Mission 71–2
Cobb, Frank 218
Cobb, Jean 218
Cock Inn, Hanbury (Staffordshire) 186
Cockburn, Sara 34
Code, Pilot Officer 223
Coleshill House, Berkshire 81
Colet Court School, London 200
Collis, Dave 4
Collis, Eirene 15
Collis, John Stewart 15
Down to Earth 15
Following the Plough 15
The Worm Forgives the Plough 15
Colnbrook, Berkshire 159
Cologne 109, 242
Colomendy, Nr Mold 47
Colwyn Bay 132, 322
Imperial Hotel 305
Colyton, Devon 41
Combe Down, nr Bath 257
Combined Operations 373
Commandos 354, 355
see also Special Forces
Communists 62
Community Feeding Centres 128
Compton, Denis 280
Compton family 73
Conscientious Objectors 165–7
Convoy (film) 115
Cooper, James Fenimore 171
Corn Production Act (1917) 10
Corsham, Wiltshire 183
Country Gentlemen’s Estate Magazine 401
country houses
as centres for clandestine military activities 198–209
given to the National Trust 211–17
loss of 197–8
as refuge for royalty 219–25
requisitioning of 215–16, 217, 225, 233–4
royal visits 219–20
shortage of servants 213–14, 218
used as schools 225–9, 230–2
Country Life 22, 27, 50, 96, 97, 145, 198, 299
County War Agriculture Executive Committees ‘War Ags’ 18–20, 21, 23, 24–5, 96, 165, 166, 270, 284, 309, 330, 333, 401, 410
Coupar Angus, Fife 168
Coursehorn, nr Cranbrook (Kent) 45
Court, Sergeant Harry 199
Cousins, Geoffrey 66
Coventry 77, 104, 109, 405
Coward, Noël 197
Cranbrook, John Gathorne-Hardy, 4th Earl 332–3
Cranbrook School, Kent 110–11
Crawford, Marion ‘Crawfie’ 224
Crediton, Devon 48
The Cricketer 280
Croft, Captain Andrew 86
Croft, Henry Page, 1st Baron 62
Crosby, Bing 265
Crosby Moor, Westmorland 306
Cross, Daphne 163
Crosthwaite, W. M. 258
Croydon airfield 105
Culloden, Battle of (1746) 352, 354
Curtis, Lettice 178–9
Czechs 199, 349, 351
D-Day 256, 257, 264, 359–60, 368, 373–7
Dad’s Army (TV series) 62, 64
Dagenham, Essex 107
Daily Express 150
Daily Mail 124
Daily Mirror 257
Daisy, Countess of Warwick 238
Dallas, Edna 161
Dalton-on-Furness, Cumbria 312
Dalwhinnie 399
Danesfield House, Berkshire 199–200, 202
Darling, Sir William 128
Dartmouth, Devon 302, 341
Datchet, Berkshire/Buckinghamshire 159
Davies, Martin 187, 189
Dawson, John 245
Day-Lewis, Cecil 69
De la Warr, Hebrand Sackville, 9th Earl 23
deception and misinformation 364
airfield camouflage 76
booby traps 80–1
deceptive lighting 367
double agents 367–70, 375–7
imaginary army 364–7, 370–1
inflatable tanks and aircraft 365–6
Patton’s command of FUSAG 370
trial exercises 366
troop build-ups 373–5
weather forecasts 372–3
Defence (Game) Regulations (1940) 304
Dench family 387
Denman, Thomas, 3rd Baron 154
Denman, Lady ‘Trudie’ 129, 154, 181, 402
Denton, Mrs 38
Deptford, London 388
Derby 155
the Derby 287–8
Derby, Edward Stanley, 18th Earl 304
Derby race course 290
Derwent reservoir, Derbyshire 307
Desert Island Discs (radio programme) 150
Devizes, Wiltshire 118, 119, 120
Devon Zoo and Circus 316–17
Devonshire, Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke 229, 305–6
Devonshire, Deborah Cavendish, Duchess 229
Devonshire, Edward Cavendish, 10th Duke 225–6, 228, 229
Devonshire, Evelyn Cavendish, Dowager Duchess 228
Devonshire, Mary Cavendish, Duchess 225, 227
dew ponds 4
diamond-cutting 321, 322–3
Dickin Medal 277
Dickinson, Emily 269
Didlock, Jean 245
‘Dig for Victory’ 68, 132–3, 150
Dinorwic Quarry, Llanberis 322–3, 324
Ditchingham Hall, Norfolk 253
Ditchling, Sussex 41
Dixon, Maggie 174
doodlebugs (or flying bombs) 379–88
Dorlin Castle, Loch Moidart 194
Dornan-Smith, Sir Reginald 92, 132
Dornberger, General 202
Dornoch Firth 359
Dorras, Renée 161–2
Double Cross Committee 367–71, 376
Dove Farm, Akenfield (Suffolk) 19–20
Dover, Kent 68, 104, 366
Drayton House, Northamptonshire 187
Dreher, Hauptmann Johann 246
Dublin 112
Dudley Zoo 314
Dulwich College Preparatory School 45
Dunain House, Inverness 348
Duncan’s Loch 355
Dunkirk 53, 76, 281, 287
Dunnington Lodge Farm, nr York 246
Dunphie family 357
Dursley, Gloucestershire 40, 224
Dymchurch, Essex 384
Eaker, Lieutenant General 258
East, Clarrie 245
East Grinstead, Sussex 381
East Kent Hunt 296
East Kirkby (Lincolnshire) 76
East Quantockshead (Somerset) 76
Eastbourne 61, 81
Eastlays Quarry, Wiltshire 184
Easton Lodge, Essex 238
Eaton Hall, Cheshire 300
Eden, Anthony 60, 61
Eder Dam 307
Edinburgh 34, 347
Edinburgh Zoo 312
Edman, E. L. 225, 228
Edward VII 238
Egton High Moor, nr Whitby 307
Eisenhower, Dwight D. ‘Ike’ 255–6, 340, 370, 375, 376
Elephant & Castle, London 41
Elgar, Edward, Dream of Gerontius 73
Elizabeth, Princess 224, 288, 371
Elizabeth, Queen (later the Queen Mother)
appear
ances on balcony of Buckingham Palace 404
attends Centenary Royal Show 11
furnished with own bodyguard 71–2
given a ration book 124
royal retreats 73
shows remarkable resilience 223
thanks the Land Girls 163, 164
valedictory message to Lady Denman 402
visits round the country 48, 114, 381
Elmers’ School, Buckinghamshire 206
Emergency Powers (Defence) Act (1939) 17
English Championship (fishing) 302
Enigma code 205, 206, 209
Eppynt Mountain, Breconshire 296
Epsom race course 287
The Estate Magazine 217–18
Eton 324
evacuations 54
camps 47–9
first wave (mainly children) 31–47
numbers displaced 49
results of 49–51
second wave (mainly adults) 54–7
Evans, Captain Bennett 395–6
Evans, Francis 12
Evesham, Worcestershire 401
evictions
farm land 329–34
lost villages 334–43
in Scotland 359–62
Exeter 109, 368
Fairbanks, Douglas 114
Fairfax-Lucy, Colonel Sir Henry William Cameron-Ramsay 214–15
Fairford Park (Oxfordshire) 75
Farmers’ Club 395
The Farmers’ Weekly 13, 17, 19, 25, 92, 148, 384, 397, 399–400, 402–3, 405
farms, farming
affect of war on 7, 399–400
agricultural machinery 93–4
between the Wars 10–11
bombing of 105–7
child labour 4, 5, 12, 105, 180–1
and Conscientious Objectors 166–8
curious incidents 97
difficulties of rural life 113–16
food production 59, 92, 94–9, 137–42, 305, 329, 390–3
fuel shortages 92
Government interventions 17–27
harvesting and threshing 4–6, 12–14, 25–6, 403–4
increased efficiency 400–1
Land Girls 153–65
language 15–16
mechanisation 11–15
military training on 330, 333–4
ploughing and sowing 14–15, 21–4, 403–4
problems facing (1944) 395–6, 398
return to normal 409
safeguarding of property 30, 70, 77
sales and dispossessions 20–1, 26–7
shortage of manpower 407–8
use of prisoners-of-war 392–3, 408
wages 9–10
Farnham, Surrey 383
Fascists 62, 74
Fauld gypsum mine, Tutbury (Staffordshire) 185–7
Fawcett, Dr Hugh 394
Fearby, N. Yorkshire 176
Fearn, Tarbat Peninsula 359
Ferguson, Harry 93
Ferne House, Wiltshire 51
Ferrymoor Common (Yorkshire) 94
FIDO (fog-dispersal system) 246
Field, Captain Norman 82–3
field sports
angling 301–4
deer 308–10
game birds 304–8
hunting 295–9
shooting 299–301
see also sport
Fifth Columnists 74, 277
Fildes, Dr Paul 358