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by Paul Ham


  Davidson, Brigadier John

  Davidson, Private G. L.

  Davies, Will

  Dead Mule Corner

  Dearden, Captain Harold

  Death of a Hero

  Declaration of the London Naval Conference (1909)

  Decoteau, Private Alexander

  Delville Wood

  Derby, Lord

  deserters and desertion

  Despenser, Henry le

  d’Espèrey, General Franchet

  Devonport

  Dickebusch

  Dickes, Leutnant

  Dikkebus

  Diksmuide

  Directorate of Grave Registration and Enquiries

  DNA testing

  Dominions see also by name of country

  cultural differences

  Doudney, Reverend Charles

  Douglas, Lance Sergeant Donald Gordon

  Doullens

  Doyle, Father William

  Duck Lodge

  ‘dugout disease’

  Duncan, Reverend George

  Dunkirk

  Dunn, Sergeant-Major

  Eastern Front

  Eckardt, Heinrich von

  Eden, Anthony

  Edmett, Lieutenant Arthur

  Edmonds, Brigadier General Sir James

  Edward VII (King)

  Egerton, Corporal Ernest Albert

  Eksteins, Modris

  elastic defence

  Eliot, T. S.

  Elliott, Major General Harold Edward ‘Pompey’

  Elverdinghe

  Erzberger, Matthias

  Étaples

  exhuming remains

  Falkenhayn, General Erich von

  Falls, Cyril

  families

  letters from the front

  multiple deaths

  returning soldiers, and

  seeking news of loved ones

  Farrell, Brigadier General Dr Patrick

  fatalism

  fear

  Feilding, Major General Sir Geoffrey Percy Thynne

  field services

  First Aid Nursing Yeomanry

  Fisher of Kilverstone, Admiral Lord ‘Jacky’

  flame throwers

  Flandern I-Stellungen (Flanders Position 1)

  Flandern II-Stellungen (Flanders Position 2)

  Flandern III-Stellungen (Flanders Position 3)

  Flanders

  monuments

  Flanders Offensive (1917) see also Third Ypres

  discontinuance

  German knowledge of

  Haig, and

  obstacles

  opposition to

  War Policy Committee discussions

  Foch, Marshal Ferdinand

  Foertsch, Feldgeistlicher K.

  food shortages

  Britain

  Germany

  Forstner, Oberstleutnant Freiher von

  Fowke, Brigadier General G. H.

  France

  defensive war

  war aims, changing

  French, Field Marshal Sir John

  French Army

  casualties at Third Ypres

  mutiny

  supreme command

  Third Ypres

  Fresnoy

  Freud, Sigmund

  Freyberg, lieutenant general Sir

  Bernard

  Frezenburg Ridge

  Friendship’s Corner

  Fromelles

  Frontschwein (frontline hogs)

  Frothingham, Paul Revere

  Fuller, Major

  funkholes

  Fussell, Paul

  Gallaher, Charles

  Gallaher, David

  Gallaher, Douglas

  Gallaher, Henry

  Gallaher, William

  Gallipoli

  Gallwey, Private

  Garrard, Lieutenant William

  Garter Point

  gas

  chlorine

  diphenylchloroarsine

  mustard

  phosgene

  training drills

  gas gangrene

  Geddes, Auckland

  Geordie

  George V, King

  German aggression

  German Army

  1918, in

  attitude to Dominion soldiers

  Bavarian Army Group

  casualties

  courageous acts

  defensive positioning (elastic defence)

  disciplinary issues

  fighting withdrawal

  Flanders Offensive, knowledge of

  food shortages

  Fourth Army

  Haig’s misconceptions

  morale

  Passchendaele, interpretation of

  rations

  returning soldiers

  scorched earth policy

  soldiers (Fritz, Hun)

  training

  uniforms and equipment

  Germany

  armistice with Russia

  economics

  famine and food shortages

  Social Democratic Party (SDP)

  war aims, changing

  Geyer, Captain Hermann

  Gheluvelt (Geluveld)

  Gheluvelt Plateau

  Gibbs, Philip

  Gillies, Professor Harold

  Givenchy

  Glaeser, Ernst

  Glencorse Wood

  Godley, General Sir Alexander John

  Godwaersveldt

  Goering, Hermann

  Gold, Lieutenant Colonel Ernest

  Golden Spurs, Battle of the

  Goodbye To All That

  Gordon, Huntly

  Gosse, Captain Philip

  Gotha bombers

  Gough, General Hubert de la Poer

  character

  Currie and

  military career

  Spring Offensive

  Third Ypres

  Grant, Allan

  Grant, Sister Elsie

  Gravenstafel

  Gravenstafel Junction memorial

  Graves, Robert

  Great Hog Murder (Schweinemord)

  Great War

  blame, questions of

  modern interpretations

  necessary, as

  papal plea to cease hostilities

  revisionist historians

  tactical lessons

  Green, Corporal Harold

  Greene, Graham

  grenades

  Grenadier Guards

  grief

  Grieve, Captain Robert

  Griffiths, Major John Norton

  Grigg, John

  Guards Division

  guilt

  Lloyd George

  Häbel, Fusilier Guard

  Hague, Pierre de la

  Haig, Doris

  Haig, Field Marshal Sir Douglas

  Anzacs, on

  attacking v defensive war, on

  background

  ‘backs to the wall’ order

  Calais conference (1917)

  Canadian troops and

  character

  command, in

  conditions at the front, awareness of

  congratulations, message of

  death

  discontinuance of Flanders Offensive

  Flanders Offensive see Flanders

  Offensive French command, under

  Gough, relationship with

  Lloyd George, relationship with

  Messines

  military man, as

  Nivelle Offensive

  post-war

  religion

  Somme, interpretation of

  War Policy Committee, appearance before

  writing history

  Haig, Henrietta

  Haig, John

  Haig, Rachel (née Veitch)

  Haldane, Viscount

  Hamel

  Hanebeek Wood

  Hankey, Maurice

  Haringhe

  Harington, Major General Sir Charles ‘Tim’


  Harkeness, Private William

  Harris, Dr John Paul

  Harris, Lieutenant Russell

  Hart, Basil Liddell

  Hart, Private Leonard

  Hastings, Sir Max

  Hattersley, Roy

  Hawkings, Frank

  heavy artillery

  howitzers

  Krupp guns

  ‘minenwerfers’

  Ordnance BL 60-pounder

  Stokes mortar

  Heider, Leutnant

  Hell Farm

  Hellfire Corner

  Henderson, Admiral Reginald

  Henderson, Arthur

  Henderson, G. F. R.

  Herbert, A. P.

  Hertfordshire Regiment

  Herwig, Holger

  Higginson, General

  Hill 60

  recapture by Germans

  Hill 70

  Hinchcliffe, Padre S.

  Hind, Dorothy

  Hind, Private Neville

  Hindenburg, General Field Marshal Paul von

  Hindenburg Line

  Hitler, Corporal Adolf

  Hodgkins, Brigadier General

  Hollandscheshuur

  Hollebeke

  Höllwig, Leutnant

  Holmes, Private Thomas

  Holtzendorff, Admiral Henning von

  Home Rule

  homosexuality

  Honfleur

  Hooge

  Hooge Chateau

  horses

  casualties

  hospital ships

  hospitals

  Houthulst Wood

  Howse, Major General Sir Neville

  Hughes, Billy

  human agency

  Hurley, Captain Frank

  Hutt, Private Arthur

  Hyde, Robin

  idealism

  identification of corpses

  imperialism

  In Parenthesis

  Indians

  industrial unrest

  Britain

  Germany

  Inverness Copse

  Iraq

  Irish

  Third Ypres, at

  Iron Cross

  Ison, Corporal John (‘Jack’)

  Isonzo River

  Italy

  Italian Plan

  Jacka, Captain Albert

  Jacob, Lieutenant-General Claud

  Jagow, Gottlieb von

  Jansen, Cornelius

  Jeffries, Captain Clarence Smith

  Jellicoe, Lord

  War Policy Committee

  Joffre, Marshal Joseph

  Jones, David

  Joss, Private C. J.

  Jünger, Leutnant Ernst

  Kaiser

  Kennedy, Lieutenant Malcolm

  Kerensky, Alexander

  Kerensky Offensive

  Keynes, John Maynard

  Kiggell, Lieutenant General Lancelot

  Kinchington, Sergeant Major P.

  King, Lieutenant Colonel George

  King, Lieutenant P.

  King’s Royal Rifle Corps

  Kipling, Rudyard

  Kitchener, Field Marshal Horatio Herbert (Lord Kitchener)

  Klerken Ridge

  Knox, Major General Sir Alfred

  Kohl, Reserve Leutnant Hermann

  Kohlmüller, Major Hans Ritter von

  Kolmich, Obergefreiter (Lance Corporal)

  Kotthoff, Reserve Leutnant

  Kressenstein, Reserve Leutnant Freiherr Kress von

  Kruisstraat

  Kuhl, General Hermann von

  La Basse Ville

  Laffert, General der Kavallerie Maximilian von

  Langemarck

  German mass grave

  Lansing, Robert

  Larson, Harold Leslie (‘Les’)

  Le Brun, Private Reginald

  Le Havre

  Le Plantin

  Leahy, Corporal Alfred

  Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

  Lens

  letters home

  reporting deaths

  Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery

  Lille

  Lilliers

  Lincke, Major

  Lincolnshire Regiment

  Livermore, Private Bernard

  Lloyd George, David

  background

  Calais conference (1917)

  casualty rates, and

  chancellor of the exchequer

  character

  convoy system

  failure to act

  Flanders Offensive

  government, reorganisation of

  Haig, relationship with

  Italian Plan

  memoir

  military strategy

  Nivelle, relationship with

  politician, as

  Rome conference (1917)

  self-exculpation

  Supreme War Council

  War Policy Committee see War Policy Committee

  Lloyd, Richard

  Lockey, Private W.

  London

  bombing of

  London Territorials

  Longstaffe, Private P. H.

  Loos

  Lossberg, General Fritz von

  Lovie Chateau

  Lower Star Post

  Lowther, Brigadier General

  Ludendorff, General Erich

  defensive war

  Spring Offensive

  Lusitania

  Lvov, Prince Gregory

  Lyautey, General Hubert

  Lynch, Private Edward

  Lyndon-Bell, Major General Arthur

  Lys valley

  McCudden, James

  Macdonogh, Lieutenant General George

  McGee, Sergeant Lewis

  machine guns

  aircraft, on

  Lewis

  MG08

  Vickers

  MacKay, R. L.

  McKenzie, Lieutenant Hugh McDonald

  Maclean, Private Joseph

  Macleod, Colonel

  MacMillan, Margaret

  McNab, Chris

  Maedelstede Farm

  Malcolm, Neill

  Malmaison

  Mannix, Daniel

  Mannock, Mich

  manpower

  Britain and Allies

  Germany

  Marlborough, Duke of

  Marne

  Marx, Karl

  Mary, Queen

  mateship

  Maurice, Major General Frederick

  Maxse, General Sir Ivor

  Maxwell, Rifleman J. E.

  media reporting

  censorship

  medical advances

  medical personnel

  medium field artillery

  18-pounders

  German 77-millimetre Feldkanone

  ‘Memorial Tablet’

  Menin Gate

  Menin Road

  Mernagh, John

  Messines Ridge

  1918, in

  aircraft, use of

  artillery barrage

  German withdrawal

  infantry charge

  ‘jump off’

  mine explosions

  recapture by Germans

  tanks, use of

  tunnelling

  Meuse

  Mexico

  Micheler, General Joseph

  Middelkerke

  Milner, Alfred (1st Viscount Milner)

  Minty’s Farm

  missing, soldiers reported

  Mobbs, Lieutenant Colonel Edgar

  Mona’s Queen

  Monash, General Sir John

  Australian Corps

  Mons

  Montreuil

  Montreuil-sur-Mer

  Moore, Captain F. L.

  Moorslede

  Morgan, Kenneth O.

  Morrison, Brigadier General Edward

  Mount Sorrel

  mules

  Mullin, Sergeant George

  munitions and arms see also bombs, machine guns, rifles

  production see war in
dustries

  Musolf, Fusilier Guard

  National War Aims Committee

  Nazis

  nervous disorders see psychological disorders

  ‘New Army’

  New Zealand Army

  see also Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (Anzacs)

  Bellevue Spur

  Maori burial services

  memorials

  Messines, at

  returning soldiers

  structure

  unity of command concept

  Newfoundland

  Nicholson, Colonel Walter

  Nicolson, Norman

  Nieuport

  Nine Elms British Cemetery

  Nivelle, General Robert

  Calais conference (1917)

  character

  unity of command

  Nivelle Offensive

  German response

  Nonne Bosschen (Nun’s Wood)

  Northamptonshire Regiment

  Northcliffe, Lord

  Notts & Derbyshire Regiment (The Sherwood Foresters)

  oath

  obituaries

  O’Grady, James

  O’Hara, Theodore

  O’Kelly, Acting Captain Christopher Patrick

  ‘Old Contemptibles’ see British Expeditionary Force (BEF)

  Ontario Farm

  Oosttaverne Line

  Operation Alberich

  Operation Michael

  Ostend

  Ottomans

  war aims, changing

  Ouderdom

  Owen, Wilfred

  Paddebeek

  Painlevé, Paul

  Palestine

  papal plea to cease hostilities

  Paris Inter-Allied Conference (1917)

  Passchendaele

  100th anniversary

  1918, in

  capture of

  First Battle

  German interpretations of

  Haig’s justification for

  holding

  memorials

  military relevance

  modern

  mythical power of

  recapture by Germans

  revisionist historians

  withdrawal

  Passchendaele Museum

  Passchendaele Ridge

  reasons for taking

  Passchendaele-Staden ridge

  Passingham, Ian

  patriotism

  Peace Note (1916)

  peace overtures

  Pearkes, Major George

  Peckham

  Penrose, Lieutenant Harry

  Pétain, General Philippe

  Petit Bois

  Petty-Fitzmaurice, Henry (Lord Lansdowne)

  pigeons, using

  Piketty, Thomas

  Pilckem

  Pilckem Ridge

  pillboxes

  plastic surgery

  Ploegsteert Wood

  Plumer, General Herbert

  Messines

  military man, as

  Third Ypres

  Plymouth

  Poelcappelle

  Poincaré, Raymond

  Poinneo, Corporal R. G.

  political change

  Polygon Wood

  Polygonebeek valley

  Poperinghe

  rest and rehabilitation centre

  post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD)

  Potsdam House

  Pour le Mérite

  Pozières

  prisoners of war

  British soldiers

  German soldiers

  profiteering

  propaganda

  anti-German

  Prost, Antoine

 

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