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Notes on Sources
The following constitutes the main sources consulted for each chapter. A comprehensive set of notes is available at www.alexandrachurchill.org.
IWM – Imperial War Museum
TNA – The National Archives
RAF – RAF Museum
ETON – Eton College Archives
MAG – Magdalen College, Oxford
HAR – Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts
NAM – National Army Museum
Introduction
Eton College Registers 1440–1919
Published lists of Etonians who fought in the Boer War, First World War and Second World War
‘The Faces of Souls in Hell’
The papers of 2nd Lt Walter ‘George’ Fletcher
IWM Marden
‘Shrapnel Monday’
Published memoirs of Lady Mary Garstin (later Mary Repington)
IWM Marden
Published memorial volume for Francis and Riversdale Grenfell, John Buchan
TNA War Diaries for 9th Lancers, 18th Hussars
‘Our Little Band of Brothers’
Private papers of 2nd Lt The Hon. John Manners
Mons, Anzac and Kut – War memoirs of Aubrey Herbert
Fifteen Rounds Per Minute – Michael Craster
‘God Won’t Let those Devils Win’
Papers of 2nd Lt Walter ‘George’ Fletcher
Papers of 2nd Lt Reginald William Fletcher
Memorial volume for Lord Worsley by his father, the Earl of Yarborough
IWM Woodroffe
IWM Fleming
‘To Die Would Be an Awfully Big Adventure’
J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys – Andrew Birkin
Papers of 2nd Lt Walter ‘George’ Fletcher
RAF – Henderson
ETON – Haldane
‘The New Argonauts’
Memorial volume to Lt Cmdr Patrick Shaw-Stewart by Ronald Knox
Memorial volume to The Hon. Charles Lister by his father, Lord Ribblesdale
Mons, Anzac and Kut – Aubrey Herbert
The Man who was Greenmantle – [––] Fitzherbert
‘I Feel an Outcast to be Alive’
Family memoirs privately published by Lady Desborough
ETON – Durnford
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p; Memorial volume to Captain Edward Kay-Shuttleworth published by his wife
‘Till Berlin’
IWM – Schack-Sommer
Regimental history of the 18th Dragoner Regiment
‘Pitifully Humorous In Its Imbecility’
Family memoirs published by the Countess of Wemyss
Memoirs of C.P. Blacker, edited and published by J. Blacker
‘We Had Not Been Taught To Surrender’
Family memoirs published by the Countess of Wemyss
TNA – War Diaries of the Royal Gloucestershire Yeomanry Hussars
Regimental histories of the Gloucestershire and Worcestershire Hussars
‘To Hugh or Blighty’
MAG – Papers of 2nd Lt Harry Cholmeley
Regimental histories of the Suffolk Regiment, as well as those of the 13th (Kensington) Battalion and the London Rifle Brigade
Peter Hart’s volume on the Battle of the Somme was also invaluable
‘The Metal is Gold and Tried in the Fire’
Private papers and memoir to Lt Marc Noble
Memorial volume to both General W.N. Congreve VC and Major W. La T. Congreve VC
Memorial volume to Captain Alexander D. Young-Herries
‘The Gambler’s Throw’
Private papers of Captain Henry Lancaster Nevill Dundas and memorial volume published by his father
Memoirs of Lord Chandos (Oliver Lyttelton)
Memoirs of C.P. Blacker, edited and published by J. Blacker
‘The Abomination of Desolation’
Memorial volume to 2nd Lt Richard William Byrd Levett
Papers of Captain Henry Lancaster Nevill Dundas
‘I Long to Fly’
Memorial volume to Captain The Hon. Eric Fox Pitt Lubbock by his mother, Lady Avebury
IWM James
IWM Hughes
HAR Papers of 2nd Lt Henry Richard Deighton Simpson
‘Am I Going to Die?’
Papers of Captain Henry Lancaster Nevill Dundas and memorial volume published by his father
NAM – Ponsonby
Papers of 2nd Lt Logie Colin Leggatt
ETON – Eton College Chronicle
Memoirs of Lord Chandos
Setting the Tone
Papers of Captain Henry Lancaster Nevill Dundas and memorial volume published by his father
Papers of 2nd Lt Logie Colin Leggatt
Reminiscences of a Grenadier – E. Fryer
Divisional history of the Guards Division
‘HELL’
Papers of Captain Henry Lancaster Nevill Dundas and memorial volume published by his father
Westminster Gazette, January 1918
Memorial volume to Lt Cmdr Patrick Shaw-Stewart by Ronald Knox
Divisional history of the 20th (Light) Division
‘Shaking the Faith’
Papers of Captain Henry Lancaster Nevill Dundas and memorial volume published by his father
The Fifth Army General H. Gough
War memoirs of G. Lewis
Peter Hart’s volume on 1918 was immensely valuable in understanding this complicated juncture of the war
Papers of Captain Ian Napier
‘Every Shot is Telling’
Papers of Lt Cmdr G. Drummond
Lusitania – an Epic Tragedy – Diana Preston
The advice of Lusitania expert Eric Sauder was also invaluable
A Girl at Eton – Elizabeth Heygate
Castles of Steel – Robert K. Massie
The Naval VCs – Stephen Snelling
‘The Light That Failed’
Papers of Captain Henry Lancaster Nevill Dundas and memorial volume published by his father
Divisional history of the Guards Division
‘Folded in the Dark Cloud of Death’
Papers of Captain Henry Lancaster Nevill Dundas and memorial volume published by his father
Interviews with the family of Captain Henry Lancaster Nevill Dundas
Memoirs of Lord Chandos
Interviews with the family of 2nd Lt Reginald Mendel
TNA – Service files of 2nd Lt Reginald Mendel
ETON – Eton College Chronicle
Memoirs of C.P. Blacker, edited and published by J. Blacker
Plates
1. Aubrey Herbert MP. (Author’s collection)
2. George Fletcher (right) with his brother ‘Leslie’, c.1892. (Private collection)
3. A leaving breakfast at Eton in summer 1913. Major John ‘Marcus’ de Paravicini (left) and Ronnie Backus (right) are just to the left of the centre pole, their backs to each other.(Private collection)
4. From left to right: Hugh, Guy and Harry Cholmeley. The strapping on Harry’s jaw hides wounds received at Neuve Chapelle. (Private collection)
5. 2nd Lt Walter ‘George’ Fletcher, 2nd Royal Welsh Fusiliers. (Author’s collection)
6. Captain Francis Octavius Grenfell VC (left) and his twin Captain Riversdale Nonus Grenfell, 9th Lancers. (Author’s collection)
7. 2nd Lt Charles William North Garstin, 9th Lancers. (Author’s collection)
8. Detail from a fanciful portrayal of the 9th Lancers saving the guns on 24 August 1914 as it appeared in the pictorial press. (Author’s collection)
9. Lt The Hon. John Neville Manners in his cricket whites at Eton, 1910. (Private collection)
10. 2nd Lt John Reynolds Pickersgill-Cunliffe, at Eton c.1908. (Private collection)
11. Men of the 2nd Grenadier Guards are saluted by the king, August 1914. Jack Pickersgill-Cunliffe is marked by a cross. (Private collection)
12. George Llewelyn Davies, 4th Rifle Brigade. (Author’s collection)
13. Guards Grave Cemetery as it looked after the war, when Rudyard Kipling described it as ‘the prettiest cemetery on the Western Front’. (Private collection)
14. 2nd Lt Gerard Frederick Freeman-Thomas, 1st Coldstream Guards (rear) with his brother Inigo at Eton in 1912. (Author’s collection)
15. 2nd Lt Reginald William Fletcher, Royal Field Artilley. Taken at Oxford in 1914. (Author’s collection)
16. George Fletcher (right) shares his love of climbing with his brother Regie on the Isle of Skye, summer 1914. (Author’s collection)
17. Lieutenant Lord Worsley, Royal Horse Guards. (Author’s collection)
18. An officer tries to make his way down a waterlogged trench in George Fletcher’s sector at Bois Grenier, spring 1915. (Author’s collection)
19. Lt Douglas Lennox Harvey, 9th Lancers. (Author’s collection)
20. The staff of The Outsider pictured at Eton in 1906. L–R: Patrick Shaw-Stewart, The Hon. Julian Grenfell, Ronald Knox, Robin Laffan, Edward Horner, Cecil Gold and The Hon. Charles Alfred Lister. (Eton College/Private collection)
21. 2nd Lt The Hon. Gerald William (‘Billy’) Grenfell, 8th Rifle Brigade. (Author’s collection)
22. Captain The Hon. Edward James ‘Ted’ Kay-Shuttleworth, 7th Rifle Brigade. (Author’s collection)
23. 2nd Lt The Hon. Yvo Alan Charteris, 1st Grenadier Guards. (Author’s collection)
24. 2nd Lt John ‘Robin’ Blacker, 1st Coldstream Guards. Pictured just before leaving Eton in 1915. (Private collection)
25. Captain Lord Elcho (Ego Charteris), Royal Gloucestershire Hussars. (Author’s collection)
26. The Battle of Loos.
27. Captain Alexander Dobree Young-Herries, 2nd King’s Own Scottish Borderers. (Author’s collection)
28. Captain Henry Nevill Lancaster Dundas, 1st Scots Guards. (Author’s collection)
29. Major William (‘Billy’) La Touche Congreve VC. (Author’s collection)
30. Wounded men struggle across the barren landscape around Ginchy, September 1916. (Author’s collection)
31. A group of officers of the 8th Rifle Brigade 1915, including ‘Ronnie’ Backus, (back right), ‘Foss’ Prior (front right), and Arthur Sheepshanks (front centre). (Private collection)
32. 2nd Lt Richard William Byrd Levett, 1st King’s Royal Rifle Corps, pictured
in his Eton OTC uniform c. 1914. (Author’s collection)
33. Captain Ian Patrick Robert Napier (left) and Lt John Hay Caldwell, RFC, pictured outside Mr Byrne’s house at Eton c.1912. ‘Jack’ Caldwell’s body was found in the Mesopotamian desert in 1918 just a few miles from home after he crashed, fled Turkish capture and tried to find his way to British lines. (Private collection)
34. Ian Napier watches on as a mechanic works on his aeroplane on Agars Plough at Eton. (Private collection)
35. Logie Leggatt as a child in India c.1897. (Private collection)
36. Logie Leggatt at Eton in 1912. (Private collection)
37. 2nd Lt Logie Colin Leggatt, 2nd Coldstream Guards. (Private collection)
38. Lt Marc Anthony Patrick Noble, Royal Field Artillery. (Author’s collection)
39. Cambrai, 1917.
40. Lt Col Eric Beresford Greer, 2nd Irish Guards. (Private collection)
41. Example of one of Eric Greer’s sketches that appeared in the national press in tandem with Henry Dundas’ poems during the summer of 1917. (Private collection)