by Mark Zuehlke
Websites
http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/British_Front/Hills_01.htm, accessed August 16, 2007, reproduction of text from The War Illustrated, 11 May, 1918, Lovat Fraser, “The Epic Battles for the Hills.”
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/cvwmuploads/published/183893_4.jpg, accessed July 17, 2007.
Milne Award Citation, http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/content/collections/virtualmem/photoview.cfm?casualty=157921, accessed September 3, 2007.
Unpublished Materials
Peck, Cyrus Wesley. Cyrus Wesley Peck Fonds, MG30-E134, Library and Archives Canada.
William Rae, William, “Letter to Mother, April 28, 1915,” Col. H. M. Urquhart Fonds, Correspondence-1915-1980, Box 22, File 18, University of Victoria, Special Collections.
Twidale, Percy. Interview by Elizabeth Hazlitte, June and August 1983, Victoria BC, University of Victoria Special Collections.
Urquhart, H. M., personal diary, University of Victoria Special Collections.
Index of Formations, Units, and Corps
CANADIAN
Canadian Expeditionary Force
CORPS
Army Service Corps and Ordinance
Canadian Corps- 33, 136, 138, 143, 146, 147, 152-55, 163, 165, 167, 170, 174-77, 180, 182, 187, 188, 191, 192, 201, 203, 206, 210, 211, 214, 224-28, 235, 236, 238-40, 248, 249, 251, 254, 255
Newfoundland Medical Corps
DIVISIONS
1st Canadian Infantry Division
2nd Canadian Infantry Division
3rd Canadian Infantry Division
4th Canadian Infantry Division
BRIGADES
1st Canadian Infantry Brigade
2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade
3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade
4th Canadian Infantry Brigade
5th Canadian Infantry Brigade
6th Canadian Infantry Brigade
7th Canadian Infantry Brigade
8th Canadian Infantry Brigade
9th Canadian Infantry Brigade
10th Canadian Infantry Brigade
Canadian Cavalry Brigade
Canadian Light Horse
INFANTRY BATTALIONS/REGIMENTS
1st Canadian Mounted Rifles
2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles
4th Canadian Mounted Rifles
5th Canadian Mounted Rifles
16th Canadian Mounted Rifles
1st Newfoundland Regiment
2nd Battalion
3rd Battalion
4th Battalion
5th (Western Cavalry) Battalion
6th Battalion (Fort Garry Horse)
7th Battalion
8th Battalion
10th Battalion
13th Battalion (Royal Highlanders of Canada,)
14th Battalion (Royal Montreal Regiment)
15 Battalion (48th Highlanders of Canada)
16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish,)
49th Battalion
58th Battalion
72nd Battalion (Seaforth Highlanders of Canada)
85th Nova Scotia Battalion
91st Canadian Highlanders
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Border Regiment
Canadian Cyclists Battalion
Cameron Highlanders
Gordon Highlanders
Princess Mary’s 16th Canadian Highlanders. See also 16th Battalion
Royal Canadian Dragoons
COMPANIES (16th Battalion)
No. 1 Company
No. 2 Company
No. 3 Company
No. 4 Company
PLATOONS (16th Battalion)
No. 3 Platoon
No. 4 Platoon
No. 9 Platoon
No. 10 Platoon
No. 11 Platoon
No. 12 Platoon
No. 13 Platoon
No. 14 Platoon
No. 15 Platoon
No. 16 Platoon
OTHER UNITS
3rd Trench Mortar Battery
BRITISH
British Expeditionary Force (B.E.F.)
ARMY
First British Army
Second British Army
Third British Army
Fourth British Army
Fifth British Army
CORPS
I Corps
II Corps
III Corps
IV Corps
V Corps
XVII Corps
XXVII Corps
Royal Flying Corps
DIVISIONS
1st Division
2nd Division
3rd Division
5th Division
11th Division
28th Division
56th Division
57th Division
BRIGADES
1st Royal Munster Fusiliers
4th Guards Brigade
13th Brigade
BATTALIONS/REGIMENTS
1st Battalion
2nd East York Battalion
British Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
Coldstream Guards
Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders
Sherwood Foresters Battalion
Wiltshire Regiment
OTHER COMMONWEALTH
3rd Lahore Division (India)
ANZAC Corps
Indian Corps
Meerut Division (India)
AMERICAN
American Expeditionary Force
FRENCH
French Second Army
French Fourth Army
French Sixth Army
French Eighth Army
French Tenth Army
11th Division
58th Division
79th Régiment
GERMAN
German Sixth Army
German Eighth Army
XXIII Reserve Corps
XXVI Reserve Corps
52nd Reserve Corps
26th Infantry Division
51st Reserve Division
120th Regiment
OTHER UNITS
II Bavarian Corps
45th Division (Algeria)
Italian
Portuguese
General Index
Ranks given for individuals are highest attained as of November 1918.
A
Adams, Lt. Charles Cecil
aerial reconnaissance
Ager, Lt. George
Ahier, Pte. Walter
Ainslie, Lt. Graham
Aisne
Aitken, Sir Max (Lord Beaverbrook)
Albert
Albert, King (Belgium)
Albert, Prince Arthur William Patrick (1st Duke of Connaught and Strathearn)
Alderson, Lt. Gen. E.A.H. “Edwin”
Allen, Lt. Ben W.
Amiens
Ancre River
Andania, HMTS
Andenne
Antheit
Argonne Forest
Arleux
Armagh Wood
armistice
Armour, Lt. Angus
Arras
Artois
Arvillers
Aubercourt
Aubers Ridge
Aunelle River
Avion
Avonmouth
B
Bailleul
Bantigny
Bapaume
Barrett, Sgt. Mathew
Bay of Biscay
Beaufort
Beaumont Hamel
Bell, Capt. David
Bell-Irving, Maj. Roderick Ogle
Bentata Tunnel
Béthune
Bevan, Lt.. Charles Stanley
Biache St. Vaast
Biddlecombe, Sgt. George Arthur
Blécourt
“Blue Bonnet over the Border” (military march)
Blue Chåteau
Boer War
Boesinghe
Bois de Bonval
Bois de Bouche
Bois de Bray
Bois de Loison
Bois de la Ville
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Bois des Cuisiniers (Kitchener’s Wood)
Bois Greneir
Bois Hugo
Borden, Sir Robert
Bosnia Trench
Bott, Lt. Col. J.C.L.
Bourlon Wood
Boyle, Lt. Col. Russell
Bramshott Concentration Camp
Bray-sur-Somme
Brazier (magazine)
Bruay
Bruges
Bruille les Marchiennes
Burgess, Sgt. Ivor
Burland, Lt. Col. W.W.
Burstell, Maj. Gen. Henry
Byng, Gen. Sir Julian, H.G.
C
Caestre
Cagnicourt
Cambrai
Campbell-Johnston, Lt. Alex
Canada in Flanders, Aitken (1917)
Canadian Orchard
Canadian Patriotic Fund
Canadian Training Depot
Canal du Nord
Candy Trench
Cassel
Cathcart, Capt. John
Cayeux
Chambers, Lt. Wallace
Champagne
Chåteau Thierry
Chaulnes
Chauny
chemical warfare
Cité Ste. Elisabeth
Clark, Lt. Col. R.P.
Cochrane, Sgt. John
Cologne
Cotton, Lt. Ross
Count’s Wood
Courcelette
Craig, Cpl. James Gordon
Creelman, Lt. Col. John
Currie, Col. John
Currie, Lt. Gen. Sir Arthur William
Cuvillers
D
D-Q Line
D-Q Switch
Daily Province
Daily Star
Dardanelles
demobilization (of Canadian troops)
Demuin
Dernancourt
Devonport
Distinguished Conduct Medal
“Dominion” (military march)
Dompiere
Douai Plain
Douve River
Drocourt-Quéant Line
Drummond-Hay, Eric
“Drunken Piper” (military march)
Duncan, Lt. Henry
Dunlop, Lt. John
Dunn, George
E
Eleu
Elliott, John
Ellis, J.R.M.
Empress of Britain, RMS
Epernay
Erquinghem
Essars
Estaires
Etaing
Eterpigny
F
Fabeck Graben Trench
Farbus
Ferdinand, Archduke Franz (Austria)
Festubert
Fisher, Lt.-Col. F.W.
Flanders
Fleming, Capt. Hamilton Maxwell
Fleurbaix
Floyd, Maj. Thomas
Foch, Gen. Ferdinand
Fortuin
Fosse Way Trenches
French, Brig. Field Marshall Sir John
Fresnes-Rouvroy Line
Fresnoy-en-Gohelle
Fresnoy-les-Roye
Fricourt
G
Galicia
Gallagher, Cpl. Edward
Gallipoli Campaign
Geddes, Capt. John
Gentelles
Ghent
Gilliatt, Lt. Edward
Givenchy
Givenchy-lèz-la-Bassée
Godson-Godson, Maj. Gilbert
Gommecourt
Goodall, Maj. Sydney
Gough, Gen. Sir Hubert
Gracie, Cpl. Harry
Grandcourt
Gravenstafel Ridge
Gray, Lt. Andrew
Griesbach, Brig. Gen. W.A.
Groat, Pipe Maj. James
Gueudecourt
H
Hague Conventions (1899, 1906)
Haig, Field Marshall Sir Douglas
Hall, Maj. John
Hamel
Harbonnieres
Hardwick, Pte. George
Hart, Lt. Edward
Hastings, Capt. Victor John
Hautecloque
Hazebrouck
Hill, Lt, Frank
Hill
Hill
Hill
Hill (Tor Top)
Hill
Hill
Hindenburg Line
Hoare-Nairne, Brig. E.S.
Hollebeke
Holliday, Lt. W.J.
Honnecourt
Hooge (The Gap)
Hope, Maj. John
Horne, Gen. Henry
Houston, Lt. William
Hughes, Lt. Col. Garnet
Hughes, Sam
Huy
I
Indian Village
Iron Cross (insignia)
J
Jacques Cartier River
Jameson, Capt. George Willis
Joffre, Gen. J.J.
Johnston, Capt. Sydney Douglas
Jones, Capt. Cyril
K
Kay, RSM James
Kennedy, CSM Robert
Kenworthy, Lt. John Gibson
Kerans, Lt. Robert
Ketchen, Brig. H.D.B.
King Edward
Kitchener, Lord
Kitchener’s Army
Kitchener’s Wood (Bois des Cuisiniers)
L
La Boisselle
La Brique
La Chavette
Langemarck
Larkhill
Laurier, Sir Wilfred
Leckie, Maj. John E. “Jack”
Leckie, Lt. Col. Robert S
Lee-Enfield (rifle)
Le Havre
Leliefontein
Lens
Le Quesnel
Le Sare
Liévin
Lipsett, Brig. Louis
Loos
Luce River
Ludendorff, Gen. Erich
Lunn, CSM Bernard
Lynch, Maj. George
Lyons, Capt. Alan “Gus”
Lys River
Lys Salient
M
Macdonald, CSM Frank
Macdonell, Maj. Gen., Archibald Cameron
MacKenzie, Lt. Gordon
Mackie, Lt. Bill
Mackie, SM Arden
MacLaren, Maj. Joseph
MacLean, Lt. Victor Alexander
Maclean, Piper
MacLennan, Capt. Alexander
Macphail, Andrew
Macpherson, Lt. William Douglas
Maidan
Major Jack (poem)
Maple Copse
Marne
Marne River
Masnières-Beaurevoir Line
Marshall, Lt. Colin
Marshall, Lt. Col. William Renwick
Martinpuich
Mary, Princess (U.K.)
Mason, Capt. George Francis
Mason, Capt. Morton Joseph
Mauser Ridge
McConechy, Lt. Archibald
McCreary, Capt. George
McGillivray, Piper Alexander
McGregor, Capt. James Herrick
McIntyre, Capt. Robert
McIvor, Lt. James
McLaurin, Lt. Howard James
McLaurin, Pte. Douglas C.
McNab, Piper Allan
McNaughton, Lt. Col. Andrew
McPherson, Maj. Cluny
medals (military)
Mercer, Maj. Gen. Malcolm Smith
Méricourt
Merritt, Capt. Cecil M.
Merville
Messines
Messines-Passchendaele Ridge
Metcalf, Pte. James
Metcalf./Cpl. William
Meteren
Mézières
Military Cross
Milne, William Johnstone
Miraumount
mobilization (of Canadian troops)
Monash, Lt. Gen. John
Monchy le Preux
Mondoux, Pte. Jules
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Mont des Cats
Montgomery, Maj. Gen. A.A.
Mont Houy
Mont Kemmel
Moore, Capt. Don
Mordy, Maj. Arnott Grier
Morison, Capt. Frank
Morton, Lt. Arthur
Morval
Mount Sorrel
Mowatt, Sgt.
Mowat, William
Murdoch, Pte. Robert
Murphy, Maj. James
N
Nairn, Pte. George
Nelson, Sgt. Maj. David
Neuve Chapelle
Nivelle, Gen. Robert
No Man’s Land
North West Mounted Police
Noyelle
Noyon
O
Odlum, Brig. Victor
Oise River
Ovillers
Osler, Lt. Pete
Observatory Ridge
Ormond, Maj. Dan
P
Palmer, CSM George
Passchendaele
Paton, Capt. John
Patterson/Cpl. Duncan
Paul, Piper George Firth
Peck, Col. Cyrus Wesley
Pelletier, Lt. R.A.
Perley, George
Peronne
Pétain, Gen. Philippe
Petawawa
Petrie, Lt. Bill
Pickton-Ward, Lt. Espine Montgomery
Pilckem Ridge
Pimple, the
Ploegsteert
Plumer, Gen. Sir Herbert C.O.
Poelcappelle
Powell, Maj. A.T.
Pozières Ridge
Price, Pte. George
Prince Rupert
Princip, Gavrilo
Pulteney, Lt. Gen. Sir W.P.
Pys
Q
Q-L Switch
R
Rae, Capt. William
Rankin, Cpl. Stuart
Rawlinson, Gen. Henry
