Ministry of Information 58, 59
Ministry of Labour Instructional Centre, Cairnbaan (Argyll) 172–3
Ministry of Works 204
Möhne Dam 307
Moidart 345
Moll, Richard 246
Monks Risborough Women’s Institute 136–7
Monkton Farleigh Quarry, Wiltshire 184
Monnickendam, Albert 322
Montacute House, Somerset 187
Montgomery, General Bernard 82–3
Montgomery-Massingberd, Field Marshal Sir Archibald Armar 215–16
Montreal (ship) 279
Morar 345
Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire 21
Morley Hill, nr Newcastle 403–4
Mortimer, Roger 287, 288
Moscow 62
Mosley, Sir Oswald 331
Moss, Alan 113
Moss, Dennis 113
Mottershead, George 317
Mt Snowdon 46
Much Marcle Watchers 67
Muller, George 396
Munich Crisis (1938) 188, 204, 236
Mursell, Norman 300–1
Museums and Galleries Air Raids Precautions Committee 187
music and entertainment 100–1
Music While You Work (radio programme) 99
Myles, Sandy 300
NAAFI 164, 217
Nanking University 133
Napoleon Bonaparte 142
Nash, Sergeant 223
Nashleigh Hill, Chesham 385–6
National Air Raid Precautions Animals Committee 51, 112
National Allotments Society 133
National Anthem 30
National Camps Corporation 47
National Cyclists’ Union 285
National Farmers’ Union (NFU) 92, 97, 392–3, 398
National Federation of Anglers 302
National Federation of Women’s Institutes 146–7, 154
National Fishing Association 303
National Gallery, London 187, 188–9, 192, 193
National Health Service (NHS) 407
National Hunt 289, 290
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich 334
National Pigeon Service 273
National Savings 100
National Stud 288
National Trust 187, 211–17, 229
Nazis 73–4, 75, 86, 112, 143, 165, 204, 205, 248, 355, 376
Nevett, William 288
New British Broadcasting Station 73–4
New Forest 22
New Romney, Essex 384
New Statesman and Nation 412
New Zealand Corps of Engineers 173
New Zealand Government 173
Newark Golf Club, Nottinghamshire 284
Newbold, Iris 161
Newbury race course 287, 289
Newby Hall, Skelton-on-Ure (N. Yorkshire) 73
Newcastle upon Tyne 32, 398
Newfoundland Overseas Forestry Unit 171
Newmarket race course 287–8
Newton family 355
Newton, Peter Legh, 4th Baron 211
Newton, Priscilla Warburton, Lady 211
Newton-by-Sea, Northumbria 95
Norfolk, Miles Fitzalan-Howard, 17th Duke 330
North Creake, Norfolk 157
North Wales
aircraft parts made in 321
BBC broadcasts from 321–2
diamond-cutting in 321, 322–3
military training in 321, 323–7
storage of works of art 321
North Wales Chronicle 322
Northern Ireland 23, 260
Northleigh, Devon 113
Northolt, Middlesex 397–8
Northumberland, Hugh Percy, 10th Duke 86
Northwood, London 305
Norton-on-Tees, Co. Durham 101, 241
Norway 364
Norwich 104, 109
Nudds, Angus 14, 15
Oakfield Manor, Chester 317
Obolensky, Prince Alexander 286
Old Trafford, Manchester 282
Oliver, Vic 202
Olivier, Laurence 114
Olney, Buckinghamshire 208
Olsen, Betty 157
Olympia, London 318
Operation Bodyguard (1944) 363–7
Operation Crossbow (1943) 202
Operation Loge (1940) 108
Operation Millennium (1942) 241–2
Operation Overlord (1944) 202, 205, 339, 341, 363–77, 379, 390
Operation Seelöwe (Sealion) (1940) 53, 89, 109
Operation Source (1943) 356
Operation Tiger (1943) 340
Operation Torch (1943) 329
Operation Vegetarian (1942) 359
Operation WC 371–2
Orford, Suffolk 332
Orkney 361–2
Ormskirk 26
Orwell, George 137–8, 288, 407
Animal Farm 67
Orwell, nr Cambridge 35
Osterley Park, Isleworth 62
O’Sullivan, Muriel 217
Otter, Patrick 244
Outstation Gayhurst (OSG) 207
The Oval, London 282
Owen, Colonel Charles 77
Oxford 302
Oxford Agricultural Research Institute 93
Oxford University 207, 286, 357
Paddy (pigeon) 277
Paget, Dorothy 289–90
parachutists 46, 57, 58, 60, 64, 69, 74, 107, 117–20
Paris 53, 118
Parish Invasion Committees 59
Park, Nancie 226
Parks, Joseph 303
Partridge, Frances 54–5, 116, 138–9, 317
Partridge, Ralph 116
Pas de Calais 364, 372, 376
Patton, General George S. 370
Peace and Victory Celebrations 404–5
Peak District 24
Pearl Harbor 247, 297
Peenemünde 201, 202, 380
Pendry, Gerald 26
Penn Street cricket club, Buckinghamshire 283
Penrhos College, Colwyn Bay 132, 225, 226–7, 229
Penrhyn, 5th Baronet 188–9
Penrhyn Castle 187, 188
Penychain, Pwlheli 326–7
People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) 50
Percheron Horse Society 401
Perrett, Dick 119
Perthshire 34
Pery, Anne 194–5
Pery, Michael ‘Micky’ 194–5
Pery, Patrick 194–5
Peterhead 364
Petràk, Antonin 349
petrol 2, 91–2, 313, 398
Petwood Hotel, Lincolnshire 240
Petworth Park, Sussex 296
Phipps, Sir Eric 118
Phipps, Frances 118
Phipps, Veronica 374
Phoney War 49, 87, 178
Pigeon Service Special Section (B3C) 274–5
pillboxes 70–1
Piper, John 92
Piper, Myfanwy 92
Pitchford Hall, Shropshire 73
Place, Lieutenant Basil 356
Plan Yellow 49, 73
Pleydell-Bouverie family 81
Plomley, Roy 150
Plymouth 55, 109, 223, 340
Poland 32
Poles 199, 206, 349, 351
Pollards Wood, Buckinghamshire 318
pony and traps 91–2
Pope-Hennessy, James 219
Port Bannatyne, Isle of Bute 356
Portland 104
Porton Down Research Centre 357
PPDH (Plough, Press, Drill, Harrow) 94
Preston FC 291
Pretty, Mrs Edith 334
Pride and Prejudice (film) 114
Prien, Günther 360
Priestley, J. B. 55–6, 59
Postscript radio broadcast 68–9
Primley, Paignton (Devon) 316
prisoners-of-war 87, 120–1, 168–9, 180, 392–3, 408
Pritchard-Jones Hall, Bangor 187
Procter, Susie 117–18
propaganda, German 73�
�4, 104–5
property market 396–8
Protected Areas 346, 346–50
Public Information Leaflets, No. 3 32
Pudney, John, ‘For Johnny’ 264
QL sites 367
Queen Margaret’s School for Girls, Scarborough 230–2
Queen’s Swan Marker 278
Quicksilver diversions 364–5
radio broadcasts 73–4, 99–100
Radnor, Dowager Countess of 213–14
Raeburn, John 132–3
Ramsay, Admiral Sir Bertram 371–2
rationing
for farm animals 121
food 22, 99, 123–4, 128–9, 132, 152, 270, 303, 401, 406–7
petrol 2, 91–2, 285, 287, 302, 313
Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act (1919) 96
Rattigan, Terence 264
The Raven, Poulshot (Wiltshire) 118
Read, E. C. 95
Red Cross 67, 194, 218, 261, 389
Red Cross Agricultural Fund 101
Red Cross and St John Fund 292
Red Rower (race-horse) 290
Redditch, Worcestershire 72
Redgrave, Michael 264
Redman, Jean 159
Rees, Malcolm 180–1
Reeve, Lucille 331–2, 333
Farming on a Battleground 331
Regent’s Park, London 51
Republic of Ireland 111
Ricalton, Bill 83–4
Riches, Chester 332
Richmond Golf Club 292–3
Ridge Quarry, Wiltshire 183
Ridley, Captain 204
The Ringing World 75
River Arkaig 351
River Avon 401
River Deben, Suffolk 366
River Don, Aberdeenshire 184
River Tavy, Dartmoor 301
River Thames 302
River Trent, Nottinghamshire 302
River Walkham, Dartmoor 302
road signs and barricades 71
Robertson, J. D. 282
Rogers, Raymond 172
Rolfe, Marjorie 408
Rolls Royce 398–9
Roman Hackle (race-horse) 289
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 202
Rosedale, N. Yorkshire 147
Ross-on-Wye 77, 162
Rothesay 34
Rotten Row, Hyde Park 24
Royal Agricultural College 21
Royal Air Force (RAF) 89, 103, 105, 107, 108, 109, 134, 178, 179, 185, 198, 217, 274, 276, 282, 291
Bomber Command 105, 109, 242–6, 258, 259–60
Dam Busters’ raid 307
Fighter Command 107, 108–9, 184
Intelligence Branch 200
Satellite Landing Grounds (SLGs) 239
Royal Air Force (RAF) bases
Bardney, Lincolnshire 238–9, 409
Bassingbourn, nr Cambridge 236
Binbrook, Lincolnshire 243
Carnaby 246
Church Fenton, Yorkshire 244
Coningsby 410
Daws Hill, Nr High Wycombe 257–8
Digby 235, 409
Driffield 244–5
Elvington, nr York 246
Great Ashfield, nr Bury St Edmunds 261
Great Dunmow, Essex 238
Hemswell 410
Leeming, nr Catterick 244
Lindholme 410
Lissett, nr Bridlington 246
Ludford Magna, Lincolnshire 236–7, 238
Manby 410
Marston Moor 245
Martlesham Heath, Suffolk 286
Medmenham 200, 201–3, 379
Metheringham, Lincolnshire 239–40
Pocklington 245
Waldringfield, Suffolk 366
Woodbridge, Suffolk 262
Royal Air Force (RAF) squadrons
158 Squadron 246
167 Squadron 223
617 squadron 242–3, 307
Royal Australian Air Force 460 Squadron 243
Royal Blue (pigeon) 277
Royal Navy 71, 104, 302, 354, 360
606 Royal Marine Flotilla 373
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 319
Royal Ordnance Factory, Pembrey (Carmarthenshire) 113
Royal Parks 24
royal retreats 72–3
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon 73
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) 50, 312
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) 273
Rulers of the Sea (film) 114
Ryan, Eileen 33–4, 107
Ryan, Gerard 34
Sackville, Charles Sackville-West, 4th Earl 214
Sackville-West, Vita 42–3, 163, 412–13
The Land 17, 412
St Andrews Golf Club, Fife 284–5
St Ives, Hintingtonshire 88
St James’s School, Muswell Hill 100
St John’s Wood Home Guard platoon, London 67
St Margaret’s, nr Dover 54
St Mary’s Church, Banff 29
St Mary’s Church, Fairford 75
St Mary’s Church, Tyneham 337
St Paul’s Cathedral 29
St Peter’s school, Broadstairs (Kent) 48–9
Salford, Lancashire 128
Salisbury Cathedral 75–6
Salisbury Plain 239
Sandringham, Norfolk 219, 223, 391
Sangret, August 255
Savoy Hotel, London 129
Scapa Flow 71, 103, 117, 360
Schmidt, Wulf (‘Agent Tate’) 369–70
Schofield, Mary 156, 164–5
Scottish Command 346
scrap metal 71
Seal, Basil 39
Seeby, Mabel 100
Seeby, Percy 100
Selfridges, London 134
Sevenoaks Rural District 111
Sgurr of Eigg 349
Shap Moor, Westmorland 306
Sharpe, Norman 64–5, 95
Sheean, Vincent 54, 71
Sheffield 32, 56, 223, 307, 396
Sheffield University 412
Shelburne Cooperative Dairy, Campile (Wexford) 111
shepherds 6–7
Shepperton Studios 111
Sheridan, James 284
Shinwell, Emanuel ‘Manny’ 411–12
Shobrooke House, nr Crediton (Devon) 48–9
shore defences 70–1
Shropshire Light Infantry 67
Sikhs 92
Simpson, Keith 375, 385, 406
Sinclair, Admiral Sir Hugh 203
Sinclair, Evelyn 204
Sitwell, Edith 150
Sitwell, Osbert 150
Sitwell, Sacheverell 150
Skegness 326
Skipton Castle, Yorkshire 187
Slapton Sands, Devon 338–43
Smith, Emma 92
Snadden, W. Mcn. 399–400
Snowdonia 313–14, 324–7
SOE see Special Operations Executive
South Africa 49
Southampton 104, 109, 369
Southend, Essex 56
Spanish Civil War 62
Spean Bridge, nr Achnacarry 355
Special Forces 346–55
see also Commandos
Special Operations Executive (SOE) 81, 198, 199, 347, 349, 369
Special Training Schools 199
damage and vandalism of houses 352, 354–5
eccentrics in 349–50
effect on local civilians 350–1, 353–4
fire damage 352–3
intense training 348–9, 351
requisitioning of houses in the far North 346–55
separation of nationalities 349
testing of anthrax 357–9
Xcraft submariners 355–6, 357
Spetchley Park, Worcester 73
spies
Crypto-Fascist network 74–5
invasion mania and 57–60
Spondon, nr Derby 101
sport
effect on raising money for charity 292
bicycle racing 285�
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cricket 279–83
football 281, 291
German reaction 293
golf 283–5, 292–3
greyhound racing 290–1
horse racing 287–90
rugby 286
Wartime Cup Final 281
see also field sports
SS (Schutzstaffel) 274
Stalin, Joseph 202
Stallard, Percy 285
Stanford Training Area, Thetford (Norfolk) 330–1
Station X see Bletchley Park
Stevenson, Robert Louis, In the Highlands 345
Stewart, Charles Edward 354
Stitt, James 306
Stitt, William 306
Stoke City FC 291
Stollery, Alan 37
Stonor Park, Chilterns 308
Stopford-Sackville family 187
Storrington, Sussex 61
Stourhead, Wiltshire 212–13
Stranks, Mabel 81
Stumm, Baron Gustav Braun von 109
Sun Chariot (race-horse) 288
Sunday Pictorial 60
Sunningdale golf club, Berkshire 284
Surrenden, Maidstone 308
Surtees, R. S., Jorrocks 295
Sutton Hoo, Suffolk 334
Swallow, John 41
Swann, Dennis 41
Swanscombe, Kent 379
Swansea 104, 109, 113, 368
Swinton estate 176
Sylvia (Jewish child evacuee) 34
Tain, Tarbat Peninsula 359, 360
Tait, T. S. 47
Tarbat Peninsula 359
Tate, Mrs Mavis 290
Taylor, Bessie 337
Taylor, Mrs 38
Teheran Conference (1943) 202
Terry, Eileen 408
Thatched Barn, Borehamwood (Hertfordshire) 199
Thetford, Norfolk 330
They Can’t Ration These 142
Thickthornes farm, Lincolnshire 239
Thistley Green, West Row (Suffolk) 393
Thomas, Mabel 159
Thompson, Leonard 9–10
Thorne, General Andrew 80
Thornton-le-Moor, Lincolnshire 100
Thurgarton, Nottinghamshire
Coach and Horses 56
Hill Farm 56
village school 56
Tiergarten Zoo, Berlin 312
Tiger Moths 178
Tillage Act 20
Timber Corps, Oakhampton (Devon) 174
timber production 171–7
The Times 50, 372
Tinker, J. J., MP for Leigh (Essex) 24
Tirpitz (battleship) 356
Tockwith, Yorkshire 245
Tolleshunt d’Arcy, Essex 36–7
Tolman, Vera 332, 333–4
Tonbridge, Kent 285–6
Torcross, Devon 339
Totman, Gladys 56
Totnes race course 290
Traigh House, Road to the Isles 347, 349
Tre Evan, Llangarron (Herefordshire) 77
Trecwn, Fishguard 184
Truman, Harry 409
Trumpington, nr Cambridge 100
Tryfan mountain peak 46
Tudor, Owen 288
Tunnel Quarry, Wiltshire 184
Turing, Alan ‘the Prof’ 205–6
Turner, Captain Jack 171–2
Twatt airfield, Orkney 362
Tyneham Village, Dorset 335–8
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