by Peter Hart
Langley, Midshipman Alfred 34–35, 40–41
Langton-Jones, Lieutenant Ronald 448
Lannuzel, François 37
Lawrence, Major General Herbert 368
Leach, Able Seaman 142
Leamington Spa, Warwickshire 50
Leane, Captain Raymond 202
Leane’s Trench 203
Lecky, Second Lieutenant Charles 296, 299, 300
Left Covering Force 279, 303
Legge Valley 88, 91, 110, 182
Lemnos 23, 49–50, 234, 240, 389, 460
Lewes, Private Eric 307–8
Leymonnerie, Private Jean 253
Liberal government 237, 253
Liman von Sanders, General Otto 59, 61, 170, 214–15, 323
commander of the Turkish Fifth Army 58
identifies possible Allied landing places 60, 66
Hamilton hopes to confuse him 62, 68
defensive plan 80, 89–90
send more regiments and artillery to Anzac 118, 181
response to diversionary tactics 176, 178–79
favours night attacks 209
orders 8th Division to march north 291
reaction to Suvla landings 353–54
on improved access to arms and munitions 411
on stores abandoned on evacuation 430–31, 449
prepares to attack Sedd el Bahr 433
attack along Gully Spur 439–41
Limpus, Rear Admiral Arthur 4
Lindley, Major General John 368
Lindsay, Corporal David 317–18
Lister, Lieutenant Charles 6, 9, 12, 53–54, 55, 176, 178, 212, 267, 285–86, 388–89, 454
Lithiby, Lieutenant John 343
Little Lala Baba 333
Livingstone, Corporal Charles 195
Lloyd, Midshipman Maurice 142–43, 151–52, 154
Lloyd George, David 14, 17, 394
Lockyer, Captain Hughes 128
London, Treaty of (1913) 3, 6
Lone Pine 91, 92, 110, 191, 192, 204, 279, 292, 295, 297, 298, 299, 302, 306, 308, 422, 426, 505
Lone Pine monument 505
Loos, Battle of (1915) 366
Lord Nelson, HMS 32, 34–35, 39, 40–41, 233
Louch, Corporal Thomas 87, 116–17, 202–3
Loughran, Captain Henry 379, 380–81
Lush Wilson, Captain Herbert 223
Lynden-Bell, Major General Arthur 397–400, 410
M
McCracken, Second Lieutenant Angus 256
MacDonald, Company Sergeant Major Charles 338
McDonald, Sergeant Norman 379
Macedonia 96
McIlroy, Second Lieutenant George 422, 425–26, 429
McIlwain, Sergeant John 383
McInnes, Trooper M. 276
Mackay, Major Iven 297
McKenna, Reginald 18
Mackie, Trooper Ernie 201–2
MacLaurin, Colonel Henry 78, 114
McLaurin’s Hill 87, 116, 505
Macmillan, Able Seaman Thomas 271
MacMunn, Brigadier-General Sir George 235
McNamara, Corporal Thomas 189–90
Macnee, Corporal Henry 382
Maffett, Lieutenant Cuthbert 143, 145, 154–55
Mahmut, Major 139, 140–41, 159, 161, 166, 167, 208–9
Mahon, Lieutenant General Sir Bryan 278, 345, 355, 361, 368, 401
Maidos (Eceabat) 60, 65, 84, 90, 96, 456, 503
Majestic, HMS 33, 80, 82, 233, 234
Mal Tepe 66, 76, 88, 118, 204, 385–86
Malleson, Midshipman Wilfred 151
Mallet, Sir Louis 7
Malone, Lieutenant Colonel William 107, 198–200, 294–95, 306, 307, 308, 320, 321, 505
Malta 51
Malthus, Private Cecil 219–20
maps 64, 65
the theatre of operations 25
Anzac landing 77
Helles: the beaches and Turkish defences 120
French landing at Kum Kale 171
First Battle of Krithia (28 April 1915) 207
Second Battle of Krithia (6-8 May 1915) 217
Anzac breakout 293
Suvla: Turkish disposition 6 August 331
Suvla: the final lines 370
Marseilles 9, 51
Marshall, Major General William 129, 368
Martin, Private Robert 146
Matthews, Lieutenant Colonel Godfrey 123, 126, 128
Maude, Major General Stanley 421, 446, 447
Mauritania 254
Maxwell, Major General Sir John 22–23
Mayne, Chaplain 388–89
M’Cay, Colonel James 78, 89
Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF) 50, 51, 236, 367, 410
Hamilton commands 24, 46, 368
widely disparate divisions in 47
Gallipoli landings plan 67
artillery weakness 69
need for reinforcements 215
and Birdwood 400
Mediterranean Fleet (British) 10
Mediterranean Forces 401
Mejidiye 38
Mena Camp 431
Mendere River 27, 171, 172
Meneaud-Lissenburg, Gunner Dudley 229, 230
Mesopotamia 4, 18, 450, 460
Messina, Sicily 10
Messina Straits 11
Messudieh (Fort No.7) 27
Metcalf, Midshipman John 81–82
Meugens, Captain Geoffrey 336, 339, 340–42, 344–46
Michel, Captain 257
Millar, Lieutenant John 267
Millis, Corporal Colin 375–76, 377
Milne, Admiral Sir Archibald Berkeley 10
Milne, Captain John 92
Monarch 14
Monash, Brigadier General John 115, 180, 188, 194–95, 292, 294, 303, 304, 322, 422–23
Monash Valley 100, 102, 106, 114, 181, 182, 186, 191, 316, 505
Monro, General Sir Charles 396–401, 413, 436
Montenegro 2, 3
Moor, Second Lieutenant Dallas, VC 250–51
Moorhead, Lance Corporal Eric 101, 220–21
More, Commander George 39
Morgan, Petty Officer George 40, 42
Moriarty, Private Denis 155, 209–10
Morse, Lieutenant John 151, 152
Mortar Ridge 93, 94, 299, 310
Morten, Private Jack 249
Morto Bay 67, 129, 210, 258
Mott, Major Geoffrey 324, 325
Moulouya (transport ship) 174
Mountbatten, Admiral Lord Louis 460
Muavenet-i Milliye (torpedo boat) 231
Mucip Bey, Second Lieutenant 93, 94–95
Mudros, Lemnos 23, 49, 51, 52, 66, 74, 234–35
Supply and Horse Transport Depot 235
Muharrem, Second Lieutenant 79
Mulberry harbours 461
Mule Valley 505
Murdoch, Keith 396
Mure, Captain Albert 205, 222, 227, 228, 243–44, 250
Murray, Chief of Imperial General Staff Lieutenant General Sir Archibald Wolfe 18, 435
Murray, Private Harry 106–7, 111–12, 113, 117–18, 182–83
Murray, Lieutenant General Sir James Wolfe 435
Murray, Ordinary Seaman Joe 177, 218, 245–46, 247–48
N
Nagara Point 32
Namazgah (Fort No.17) 30
Napier, Brigadier General Henry 138, 153–54
Napoleon Bonaparte 76
Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815) 1
Naval Intelligence 65
Near East, British ambitions in 20
Nek, The 99, 101, 107, 111, 190, 201, 202, 292, 305, 306, 308, 310, 313, 314, 316–19, 366, 382, 422, 423, 505
Nelson, Admiral Lord Horatio 10, 328
Nelson, Lieutenant 178
Netherlands, neutrality of 13
New Armies 16
New Army 367
Third Army 397
10th (Irish) Division 275, 278, 280, 281, 345, 350, 351, 355, 358, 361, 368
29th Brigade, 5th Connaught Rangers
382, 383
30th Brigade 345, 361
6th Munster Fusiliers 345, 346, 351, 352
31st Brigade 345, 361
5th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 351, 352, 362–65
11th (Northern) Division 275, 279, 281, 331, 332, 345, 350, 358, 368, 370, 373, 378
32nd Brigade 331, 332, 334, 338, 355, 357, 359
6th York and Lancaster Regiment 333, 372
9th West Yorkshire Regiment 348
33rd Brigade 332, 355, 357
34th Brigade 331, 334, 345–48, 350, 353, 359
5th Dorsetshire Regiment 348, 390
8th Northumberland Fusiliers 348, 349, 352
9th Lancashire Fusiliers 334, 337, 346–47, 348
11th Manchester Regiment 332, 334–46, 351, 354, 358
R Company 340
Army Service Corps 353
Divisional Troops, 6th East Yorkshire Regiment 338, 348, 355, 356–57
13th (Western) Division 275, 323, 327, 421, 432, 438, 446
38th Brigade
6th East Lancashire Regiment 408, 411, 421
6th South Lancashire Regiment 394, 404, 407, 421
39th Brigade
7th North Staffordshire Regiment 440
9th Worcestershire Regiment 390, 406
40th Brigade, 8th Royal Welsh Fusiliers 316, 447
16th (Irish) Division, Royal Irish Regiment 351
29th Division
87th Brigade
1st Border Regiment 373
1st Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 373
33rd Brigade, 6th Lincolnshire Regiment 351
Composite Brigade 323–24
Kitchener’s volunteer army 333
on the Western Front 333
New Zealand: burgeoning sense of nationhood 453
New Zealand Defence Forces 48
New Zealanders Expeditionary Force (NZEF) 47, 48–49
Nibrunesi Point 278, 279, 332, 333, 337, 345
Nicholas, Grand Duke 1
Nightingale, Captain Guy 162–63, 164–65, 167
Nile Expedition (1884-5) 46
No Man’s Land 184, 190, 193, 194, 198, 202, 204, 217, 226, 242, 247, 248, 261, 264, 265, 271, 287, 288, 295, 297, 310, 315, 380, 437, 439, 505
Noguès, Colonel 257
Norbury, Lieutenant Allan 341
Normandy coast 460, 461
North Africa 51, 460
North Beach 279
North Sea 17, 236, 457
Novorossiysk 13
Nullah tributary 258, 262, 263
Nuri Yamut Turkish Memorial 504
Nusrat (Turkish minelayer) 33, 41
O
Observation Hill 270
Ocean 33, 40, 41–42
Odessa 13
O’Dowda, Brigadier General James 447
Ogilvy, Captain 243
O’Hara, Lieutenant Henry 210
oil issue 4, 18
Old Guard 76
Old No.3 Post 303
Olive Grove sector 185
Oliver, Captain 344, 345
Ommanney, Midshipman Owen 41
Orchard, Bombardier Albert 185–86
Orkanie (Fort No.4) 24, 27, 170–71, 172
Ottoman Empire
Young Turks’ aim to modernise 3
demise of 2, 21
population 2
Muslim character 2
European greed for 3
Overton, Major Percy 276–77
Owen’s Gully 191, 297
P
Pain, Captain 296
Palestine 449
Parker, Lieutenant 163
Parkinson, Leading Seaman James 156
Paton, Colonel 428
Payro, Seaman Sauveur 38–39
Penny, Corporal 428
Petit-Thouars, Commander 37
Pheysey, Private William 203–4
Phillipeville, Algeria 9
Pickford, Lance Corporal Thomas 289–90
Pickles, Sergeant 343
Pimple, the 346
Pine Ridge 91
Pinnacle, the 308, 326
Pinnock, Sergeant Cliff 314
Pitts, Lieutenant 31
Plugge’s Plateau (Haintepe) 79, 84, 85, 87, 102, 428, 505
PLUTO undersea pipe line 461
Pomiro, Sergeant D’Arnaud 51, 214, 218, 268
Pope, Colonel 106
Pope’s Hill 111, 180, 183, 194, 316, 317
Port Said 53
Priestman, Second Lieutenant Edmund 333, 372
Prince George, HMS 32, 35, 38, 39, 40, 188
Prince of Wales, HMS 104, 113
Q
Quadrilateral Redoubt 254, 256, 258, 264, 265
Queen, HMS 107, 108
Queen Elizabeth (super-dreadnought) 19, 30, 32, 36, 45, 109, 126, 154, 196
Quinn’s Post 180, 198, 310, 313, 318, 415
R
Rahman, Lieutenant Abdul 159
Rathfelder, Sergeant Victor 263
Ravin de la Mort 254, 255, 257
Rawlinson, Lieutenant General Sir Henry 278
Raymond, Chaplain Ernest 389
Tell England 389
Raymont, J. 443
Reed, Brigadier General Hamilton, VC 280, 282, 330
Reha, HMHS 409
Reshadieh (dreadnought battleship) 8, 9
Rest Gully 505
Rhododendron Ridge 279, 303, 305, 307, 313, 326, 505
Ribblesdale, Lord 388
Richards, Captain 183
Richardson, Lieutenant Alfred 415
Richardson, Corporal Tom 269
Rickus, Able Seaman Dick 146
Rifaat, Colonel 266
Right Assaulting Column 279, 303
Right Covering Force 279, 303
River Clyde 71–74, 140, 141, 142, 144, 145, 147–51, 153, 156, 157, 158, 160–61, 162, 164, 169, 224, 277, 503
RND see Royal Naval Division
Robertson, Chief of Imperial General Staff Lieutenant General Sir William 435–36
Robinson, Lieutenant Commander Eric 27–28, 170–71
Robinson, Captain John 440
Rockel, Captain 174
Rooth, Lieutenant Colonel Richard 146
Ross, Captain Arthur 81
Ross Battery 263
Rousseau, Captain 206
Rowatt, Corporal Thomas 225
Royal Air Force 460
Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC)
15th Stationary Hospital 105
88th Field Ambulance 391, 409, 417, 435
89th Field Ambulance Brigade 160, 164, 392
No.13 Casualty Clearing Station 328, 393
Royal Engineers 69, 405
No.2 Field Company 439, 441, 444
Royal Marine Light Infantry (RMLI) 23
Chatham Battalion 52
Plymouth Battalion 28–29, 52
13 Platoon 28
14 Platoon 28
Royal Marines 43, 188, 197
Royal Military College of Australia, Duntroon 48
Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) 156
Armoured Car Division 72
3 Squadron 65, 156
Royal Naval Division (RND) 24, 238, 246, 258, 388, 432, 438, 443, 450
1st Naval Brigade 52, 212, 270
1st (Drake) Battalion 270, 271
2nd (Hawke) Battalion 270, 434, 450
4th (Collingwood) Battalion 246–47
5th (Nelson) Battalion 270, 391, 442, 445, 448, 449, 450
2nd Naval Brigade 245
Hood Battalion 53, 54, 55, 176, 212, 218, 246, 247, 248, 267, 286, 388, 432, 442, 443, 444
Anson Battalion 156, 247
Royal Marine Brigade 238
Chatham Battalion 183, 184
Plymouth Battalion 67, 121–24, 127
Portsmouth Battalion 183, 270
formed by Churchill 52
lack of training 52, 54
Antwerp episode (1914) 52
pride in being different 54
and Hamilton’s Gallipoli landings plan 68
carries out Ha
milton’s diversionary plans 175–78, 181
assigned to hold the Anzac line 181
lack of a proper artillery element 215
Third Battle of Krithia 239
serves on the Somme 450
Royal Navy
1st Cruiser Squadron 11
control of the seas 5, 12, 17
and British ultimatum to Germany 10
aims at shore targets in the Dardanelles 24, 26
pre-deadnoughts 34
and plan to crash through the Narrows 68
submarine campaign 68
observation officers 90
underpins ANZAC Corps’ presence at Anzac 195
U-21 sinks the Triumph 196–98
support to the French 211–12
loss of Goliath, Triumph and Majestic 231–34
orders armoured motor lighters 277
considers making a dash through the Straits 399, 412
shells abandoned stores depots 429
and D-Day 460
Ruef, Colonel 173–74
Rumania 2, 7
Rumili Medjidieh (Fort No.13) 30
Rumming, Petty Officer Geoffrey 156
Russell’s Top (Yuksek Sirt) 84, 85, 86, 99, 101, 111, 114, 180, 201, 316, 422, 423, 428, 505
Russia
entente with France and Britain (1904) 4
Germany declares war (1914) 7
declares war on Turkey (1914) 13
appeals for aid against Turkey 14, 18
aims to occupy Constantinople 20–21
and Gallipoli campaign vii
Russo-Japanese War (1904) 47
Russo-Turkish War (1877-8) 14
Ryland, Lieutenant Geoffrey 43, 70, 280–81
S
S Beach 67, 119, 121, 129–31, 132, 206
Sahin, Private Adil 83
Sainpère, Captain 258
St Omer, France 431
Saint-Louis (pre-dreadnought) 255
Salisbury, Major Alfred 191
Salonika 6, 96, 387, 395, 400, 412, 413, 449, 460
Salonika Force 401
Salt Lake 280, 281, 331, 336, 340, 347, 373, 414, 421, 506
Sami Bey, Colonel Halil 60
Samothrace 403
Samson, Able Seaman George 74, 147, 154
Sanderson, Sergeant 316
Sarajevo: assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1914) 5
Sari Bair Ridge (Kocacimen Tepe; Hill 971) 66, 78, 88, 89, 96, 277, 279, 280, 282, 283, 303, 306, 321, 323, 385, 397, 505
Sari Tepe 121
Sarikamis, Turkey 14, 18
Savige, Second Lieutenant Stanley 422–25, 427–28
Savoie 173, 175
Savory, Second Lieutenant Reginald 242, 321–22, 326–27
Sazli Beit Dere 279, 303, 305
Schlieffen Plan 1
School of Musketry, Hyde 397
Scimitar Hill 354, 355, 357, 358, 369, 370, 506
attack on 369, 370, 373, 376, 384
Scott, Private George 49, 412, 431
Scrubby Knoll 78, 91, 115
Scurry, Lance Corporal William 416, 424, 427
Sea of Marmara 13, 46, 68, 386, 400
