by Celia Sandys
193 ‘a man of’ EL, p.70
194 ‘an inability real’ ibid., p.76
194 ‘to be too’ Pakenham, The Boer War, p.318
195 ‘So, in the’, and subsequent WSC quotations, DMP, 12 April 1900
196 ‘great admiration’ letter in the possession of Mrs Doris Maud
196 ‘Oh, my poor’ DMP, 22 April 1900
196 ‘contemplated with feelings’ DMP, 1 May 1900
197 ‘the most comical’ EL, p.352
197 ‘Impossible decide here’ CAC
198 ‘as concerns the’ CAC
199 ‘raised floor of’ EL, p.360
199 ‘the pretty little’ DMP, 22 May 1900
200 ‘Well, you see’ and subsequent WSC quotations, DMP, 2 June 1900
201 ‘As we passed’ EL, p.363
202 ‘dined hastily and’ and subsequent WSC quotations, DMP, 2 June 1900
203 ‘At about half’ Frankland’s diary, quoted in RSC, p.628
203 ‘Suddenly Winston Churchill’ Goodacre’s diary, quoted ibid., p.529
204 ‘the imperious necessities’ DMP, 14 June 1900
204 ‘I propose to’ CAC
204 ‘his chances of’ Churchill, The Story of the Malakand Field Force, p.170
205 ‘I had one’ EL, p.367
207 ‘full civilian status’ ibid.
207 ‘It is my’ NAR
207 ‘This expectation, however’ EL, p.368
EPILOGUE: A Triumphal Progress
209 ‘I have about’, CAC
210 ‘I do not’ CAC
211 ‘Tomorrow we begin’ CAC
212 ‘After this, I’ EL, p.374
212 ‘A triumphal progress’ ibid., p.375
212 ‘There is a’ CAC
213 ‘trumpeters sounded the’ Halle, The Irrepressible Churchill, p.33
213 ‘I think that’ EL, p.376
213 ‘If I were’ and subsequent quotations, Randolph S. Churchill, Winston S. Churchill, Vol. II, pp.7–9
213 ‘scowled at the’ DMP, 2 June 1900
213 ‘This at the’ EL, p.373
214 ‘ended in the’ A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Vol IV, p.294
214 ‘I turned’ Churchill, ‘The Dream’, p.12
214 ‘Ah, a reporter’ ibid., p.22
214 ‘developed so far’ ibid., p.28
214 ‘England should never’ ibid., p.24
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INDEX
à Court, Col. Charles 157
Acton Homes 153, 154
Adams, John R. 124, 127, 141, 142
Adams, Lewis 141
Adelaar, Henri 100
Albert Medal 67, 68
Aloe Knoll, 155, 160
American Biograph Company, 18
Amery, Leo 13, 33, 36, 43, 170, 207
Anglo-Boer War 25–8: First (1880–81) xxvii, 175; guerrilla campaign 193, 204, 206; origins of xxv–xxxi, 10: Boer surrender 207
Apies River, 116
Atkins, John B. 22, 29, 36, 38–9, 43, 47, 56, 158, 172
Atteridge, Richard Xavier 91–2
Atteridge, William 91
Balfour, Arthur (later Earl) 212
Balmoral 119
Bam, Martha 76
Bangalore 4, 6, 182
Barnes, Lt. Reginald (later Major-Gen. Sir) 2, 30, 39, 145
Bechuanaland
xxviii
Beit, Alfred xxviii–xxix, 17–18
Belmont 92
Bennet, Lette 152
Berlein, Anthony 126
Berlein, Julius 126
Bethany 188
Beyers, Andries 152
Beyers, Anna 152
Biggasberg, 181
Bingham, Captain 4
Blaaw Kranz River, 44, 46, 51, 54
Black Watch, 134
‘Black Week’ 133–6
Blackwood, William & Sons Ltd 106, 108–9
Blackwood’s Magazine 98, 108
Blenheim Palace 3, 198
Bloemfontein xxix, xxxi, 185, 188, 189–91, 199
Blood, Gen. Sir Bindon 4–5
Blunden, Ada 126, 141, 142
Bonaparte, Napoleon 54
Borthwick, Oliver 13, 116, 132
Boshof, Mr 81
Botha, Helen 61–2
Botha, Gen. Louis 44, 46, 50, 59–61, 138, 155–7, 165, 202–4, 206, 207
Brabazon, Col. John (later Major-Gen. Sir) 15, 194–5, 197
Brewitt, Dr 35
Brewitt, Mrs 34
Brickhill, Tuffy 35
Bridge, Private 93, 101
Brindle, Father 168
British Empire 11, 207
British South Africa Company xxviii
Brockie, Annie 111
Brockie, Reg. Sgt-Major A. 92–8, 110–13, 122
Bromley, Mary 125
Brooke, Capt. 161–2, 174
Brugspruit 120
Buchan Observer 66
Buchanan, Molly 67–8
Buckeridge, Mr 183
Buller, Gen. Sir Redvers xxx, 14, 17, 183, 188: and armoured train incident 69, 114; and Churchill 23, 143–4; Churchill on 23, 145–6, 171; demoted 136; in guerrilla campaign 206; and Ladysmith 40–1, 135, 148–9, 154, 168, 170–80; military strategy 27, 143; and Spion Kop 150, 157–8, 160–1; voyage to South Africa 14, 21–2, 26
Buller, Lady 21
Burnham, Charles 127, 129–31, 141, 142
Byng, Col. Julian (later Field Marshal 1st Viscount) 144, 145
Caccia-Lloyd, Angela 75
Cahill, Private 93, 101
Campbell, Capt. 29
Cape Town 26, 27, 186, 207
Carolina and Pretoria Commandos 157
Ceylon 82
Chamberlain, Joseph xxviii, xxix, 10–11, 13–14, 16, 69, 146, 187, 197
Changuion, François 59
Charmley, John 114
Chartered Company xxvii, xxviii
Chesham, Charles Cavendish, 3rd Baron 17
Chieveley 46, 47, 146, 182
Childe, Major 154
Chisholm, Private Alexander 66
Christopher, ‘Pitch’ 177
Churchill, Diana 20
Churchill, Jack 169, 170, 172, 183, 209
Churchill, Lady Randolph Spencer-(WSC’s mother) 1, 2–6, 15, 29, 66, 83, 116, 169–70, 172, 182–4, 187, 197–8, 209, 211, 212
Churchill, Lord Randolph (WSC’s father) xxv, 2, 17, 57, 95, 121, 154, 214
Churchill, Randolph (WSC’s son) 60, 99
CHURCHILL, WINSTON SPENCER: active service xxv, 1, 3–8, 144–5, 151–4, 160–7, 172–7, 184–8, 193–200, 204–6; appearance 17, 22, 42, 75, 102–3; armoured train incident 43, 45–53, 64–7, 69–70, 83–4, 86, 115, 182–3, 210; attitude to war 9, 30, 32, 40, 143, 149, 212–15; captured 53–61; controversy over escape 97, 104–15; escape 92–8, 101–2, 183; heroism 3, 69–70, 210; love affairs 4, 15, 24, 61–2; on the run 116–31; personality 13, 16, 22, 27–8, 33, 34, 41, 46, 100, 110; political career 4, 8, 13, 18, 67, 197–8, 210–13; as Prime Minister 28, 40, 50, 78; as prisoner of war 57, 62–4, 70–92; return to England 209–10; reward offered for 102–3; as war correspondent 2–3, 5, 7, 8, 12, 13, 17, 83, 86, 144, 161, 178, 187; as writer 13, 42, 181–4, 209 see also individual works
Clegg, Derek 36
Clegg, Robert 36, 52
Cockran, Senator Bourke 2, 88
Coke, Major-Gen. Talbot 159, 164
Colenso 36–8, 45, 71–2, 133, 135–6, 149, 170, 171, 173, 177, 183
Colonial Conference (1907) 61
Colonial Office 14, 69
Commando (Reitz) 164
Conical Hill 155, 157, 160
Connaught Rangers 174
Conservative Party 8, 12, 197, 210–11
Cornwallis-West, Lt. George 17, 29, 209
Crisp, Charles 211–12
Crofton, Col. Maltby 157, 158, 159
Cronjie, Gen, Piet, 92
Cuba 1–3, 145, 149
Daily Graphic 2, 57
Daily Mail 13, 29, 42, 65
Daily Nation 105
Daily Telegraph 5, 65
David, Ellen 126, 141, 142
de Aar 29
de Beers xxvii
de Haas, Lodk 103–4
de la Rey, Dolf 59
de la Rey, Gen. Koos 206
de Souza, Jonathan 89
de Souza, Louis 82, 83, 87, 89, 93–4, 96, 100, 134
de Souza, Marie 82, 89, 99, 100, 100, 102
Devonshire Regiment 148
de Wet, Gen. Christiaan 192, 193, 206
de Wet, Johanna 77–8
Dewetsdorp 195, 196–7
Dewsnap, Daniel 124–5, 127–8, 141, 211
Dewsnap, Errol 125, 141
Diamond Hill 204–6, 207
Donovan, Detective 101
Doomkop xxviii, 11, 200
Dorset Regiment 163, 164
Doyle, Arthur Conan 13
Drakensberg 37, 181
‘Dream, The’ (WSC) 214
Dublin Fusiliers 43, 45, 52, 72, 152, 174, 203, 213
du Buisson, Ambassador 103
Dundee 25, 26, 40
Dundonald, Col., Earl of 144, 151, 153, 176
Dunnotar Castle, RMS 14, 15, 16, 21–7, 209
du Plessis, Daniel 76
du Plessis, Paul 75–6
Durban 26, 27, 29, 30, 40, 68, 132, 133, 136–9, 142, 169, 183, 186
Durban Light Infantry 45, 48, 49, 50, 65, 66, 69
Dutch East India Company xxvi
East Kent Regiment (the Buffs) 189
East London 29
Edenburg 193
Edgar, Tom xxix
Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) 88
8th Division 193
Elandslaagte 43, 57, 62, 74–5
Emmott, Alfred 212
Estcourt 31, 32–6, 38–9, 43, 44, 45, 67
Estcourt Gazette 36
Everest, Elizabeth 89
1st Army Corps xxx
First World War 41, 61, 114, 164, 210
Fitzpatrick, Percy xxviii-xxix, xxx
4th Hussars 1, 15, 194
Frankland, Lt. Thomas (later Col.) 72, 78, 83, 90–1, 110–11, 203
French, Gen. Sir John (later 1st Earl of Ypres) 154, 197
Frere 46, 47, 51, 136, 139, 148, 182
Frewen, Hugh 170
Gallony, Vera 111
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (‘Mahatma’) 165
Gatacre, Lt.-Gen. Sir William 135, 188–9
Gerard, Wiliam, 2nd Baron 17
Germiston, 77
Gillespie, Dr James 124, 126, 141
Godfray, Rev. 82, 101
Goodacre, Augustus 203
Gordon Highlanders 43, 200
Gough, Lt.-Col. Hubert (later Gen. Sir) 114, 176
Gray, Trooper William Park (later Lt.- Col.) 42
‘Great Deal, the’ xxix
Great Trek xxvi
Green Hill 160
Griffith, Major Sandham 108
Grimshaw, Lt., 203
Grobelaar, Mr 91
Guelp (coaster) 186
Gunning, Dr 82, 88, 94, 101
Guthrie, Murray 16, 18
Gwynne, H.A 13
Haccquoil, Miss 101
Haggar, Jay 141
Haldane, Capt. Aylmer (later Gen. Sir); and armoured train 43, 45–6, 46, 51, 64, 69, 82, 83; autobiography 64, 114; escape 122, 129; escape attempt 92–8; and escape controvers
y 101, 106–14; as prisoner 55, 81–6, 91, 99
Hamilton, Major-Gen. Ian (later Gen. Sir) 178, 187, 188, 198–202, 205–6
Hamilton, Lady 198
Harmsworth, Alfred (later Viscount Northcliffe) 13
Harrop, Tom 125
Harrow School 90, 197
Hart, Major-Gen. Fitzroy 135, 174
Hart’s Hill 174
Hely-Hutchinson, Sir Walter 69, 138, 179, 185
Hemsley, Capt. 37
Highland Brigade 134
Hill, Col. AW. 163–4
Hill, Kathleen 103–4
Hime, Col. 138
History of the English Speaking Peoples (WSC) xxv, 9, 213–14
Hofmeyr, Rev. Adrian 82, 98, 99, 105, 112–13
Holland & Holland 54
Horseshoe Hill 173
Howard, John 123–9, 131, 138, 140–2
Howard, Lewis 141
Hussar Hill 171, 173
Hyde, George Clarence 89
Hyde, James Gage 89–90
Ian Hamilton’s March (WSC) 198, 209
Imperial Light Horse 145
Imperial War Cabinet 61
Imperial Yeomanry 194, 198
India xxv, 3–6, 11, 26
Induna (coaster) 132, 133, 136
Inniskilling Fusilliers 174
Irish Brigade 135
Irish Fusiliers 90
James, Lionel 202
Jameson, Dr Leander Starr (later Sir) xxviii, 28
Jameson Raid xxviii, 10, 11, 200, 214
Jeune, Lady Mary 10
Johannesburg 198, 200–3
Joubert, Gen. Ret 55, 56, 86, 87, 88, 94, 95, 106, 107
Jumrood Fort 26
Kappmuiden 130
Kerry, Capt. Lord 202
Killie Campbell Museum 141
Kimberley 26, 92, 134, 185, 190
Kipling, Rudyard 13
Kitchener, Gen. Sir Herbert (later Field Marshal 1st Earl) xxv, 3, 6–7, 12, 41, 187–8, 190, 206, 210
Klip River 73, 176, 177
Knowles, Yvonne 59
Knutsford, 5th Viscount 110, 114
Komatipoort 117, 127, 130, 131
Koodoespoort 118
Kroonstadt 199
Kruger, Paul xxvii–xxxi, 11, 82, 86, 193, 206, 207
Ladysmith 40, 55, 73, 143, 150, 154, 173, 175, 179–80, 183: attack on 146–8; Churchill’s attempts to reach 31, 37; relief of 135, 167–8, 170, 176–8; siege of 25, 26, 28, 41, 136, 146
Lafone, Major Edgar 184
Lancashire Brigade 154
Lansdowne, Henry, 5th Marquess of 15, 22, 136, 143
Lautré, Monsieur 201–2
Le Mesurier, Lt. Frederick 110, 122, 129
Levita, Capt. 163
Liberal Party 211
Lindley 199
Linton, Driver 152
Listening for the Drums (Hamilton) 205