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