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Doust, Driver Len 524
Dove, Capt. T. 58
Downs, Capt. W.O., 606
Doyle, Father Willie 155, 506
Drapeau Blanc, Le, Rouen 596
Draycott, L/Cpl 601
Dreyfus affair 25
Drinkwater, Father Francis 513, 516
Driver, Arthur 612
drunkenness 102, 115–16, 329, 330, 332–4, 420, 563, 570
Drury, Lt W. 421–2
Dublin 117, 153, 538 Dump, The 607, 609
Dunbar, Pte William 565
Dunham, Frank 254, 256, 262, 296, 299, 300, 349, 459, 469, 471–2, 475, 496, 545, 620
Dunham, Pte (Lt. Vaughan’s batman) 62, 360
Dunn, Capt. James 19, 87, 88, 91, 177, 203–4, 307, 313, 318, 358, 374, 375, 387, 392–3, 402, 403, 422, 423, 426, 498, 527, 584, 592
Dunnington-Jefferson, Lt Col 587
Durrant, Sgt A.S. 83
Dyett, Sub-Lt Edwin 566
Eagle and Child public house, Oxford 596
Eachus, Spr Stapleton Tench 20
Easter Rising (1916) 629
Eastern Front 55
Easterners school of strategic policy xix-xx
Easton, Corporal Harry 449
Eastwood, Pte 508
Eberle, Lt V. F. 349–50, 428, 545
Edge, Pte 289, 307
Edmonds, Sir James xxiv, 47, 180, 182–3, 209, 210, 218, 457, 496
Edward VII, King 118, 130, 215, 280
Edward VIII, King, later Duke of Windsor (as Prince of Wales) 78
Edwards, Lt Col F. M. 436
Edwards, Lionel 216
Egypt 84, 560
El Kantara 87
Eldridge, Lady 79
Elison, Lt 263
Ellenberger, Lt G. F. 16
Elles, Brig. Gen. Hugh 64, 428
Ellison, Gen. Sir Gerald 107
Elouges, battle of (1914) 197, 438
English Channel 479
Epagnette 20
Epehy 414
Equihen, Boulogne 604
Eric, Maj. 577
Errard de Bar le Due, Jean 194
Esher, Lord 53, 106, 107, 137
Essex Farm (Ypres) 300, 477
estaminets 594–5, 600
Etaples xxiv, 4, 7, 90, 91, 191, 194, 207, 336, 340, 346, 390, 481
mutiny (1917) 347–8, 571
Eton College 86, 134
Etonians 601–2
Evans, 2nd Lt (later Capt. )Lloyd 88, 625
Excellent, HMS (naval gunnery school, Whale Island) 114
Fagan, Brig. Gen. 279
Falkenhayn, Gen. Erich von 39, 48
Falls, Capt. Cyril xvii, xviii
Fampoux 456
Fanshawe, Lt. Gen. E. A. 222
Fanshawe, Lt Gen. G. D. H. 222, 234
Farmer, Pte Sidney 76–7
Farrer, Reginald 271
Faulks, Sebastian xvii
Fawcett, Col. Percy 184
Feetham, Edward 213
Feilding, Capt. the Hon. Henry 78
Feilding, Rollo (later Lt Col Viscount Feilding) 78
Feilding, Lt. Col. Rowland 16, 78, 92, 184–6, 187, 204, 211, 222, 257, 279, 354, 382, 392, 408, 519, 547, 559, 560–61, 565, 579, 585, 586, 600–601, 604
Festubert 35–6, 95, 247–8, 400, 457, 498
Feuerbach, Sergeant 411
Feversham, Lt Col Charles, Earl of 627
Field Service Pocket Book 245
Field Service Regulations 245, 379, 404
Fielder, Sgt Bert 528
Fielding, Maj. Gen. G. 505
Fields, Fanny 497
Fifth Gloster Gazette, The 605–8, 610
Fisher, Acting L/Bdr. 417
Fisher, Admiral of the Fleet, Lord 35
Fisher, Corporal (later Sgt) Will 95–7, 452, 617
FitzGerald, Captain 445
Flanders 15, 16, 18, 19, 23, 39, 49, 53–4, 56, 64, 213, 227, 228, 246, 249, 274, 325, 426
flash-spotting 64, 184, 452
Flat Iron Copse Cemetery 46, 152
Flers 256, 445, 627
Flers-Courcelette, battle of (1916) 44–5, 582
Flesquieres 65
Fleury 24
Flook, Private 359–60
Foakes, L/Cpl H. 53
Foch, General Ferdinand
and Allied counterattack (8 August 1918) 69
becomes Allied supreme commander (1918) 30
at Doullens conference (1918) 67
French divisions replace exhausted British ones 68
personality 67
Tout le monde a la bataille 71
Folkestone 123, 610
food 314–26, 493, 601
parcels 323–6
prices xxv, 323, 594–5
Fort Douaumont 49
Fortnum and Mason 325
Fortune, Pte George 99, 319, 573
Foulkes, Brig. Gen., Charles 419, 420, 425
Fovant camp (Salisbury) 619
Fowke, Brig. Gen. George 457
France
British, Dominion and Empire
casualties 13–14
defensive plans 26–7
French attitude to the British troops 337–8, 339
Kitchener on the German lines xix
military accord with Russia (1892) 25–6, 27
offensive plans 27
Schlieffen’s proposals 27–8
territorials in 136
Franco-Prussian War (1870–71) 22, 25, 27. 135
Franglais 495–6
Frankau, Capt. Gilbert 606
Franks, Lt Col George 447–8
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke 28
Fraser, Pte Evan 454
fraternisation 544–5
French, Pte Anthony 147, 312, 341–2, 352, 472–3, 515, 534–5, 589–90
French, Field Marshal Sir John 146, 212
adjutant of the Northumberland Hussars 128
battle of Aubers Ridge 35
battle of Loos 36
borrows money from Haig (1899) xxv
British G-in-C on the Western Front xix, 183
considers sacking Rawlinson 216
at first Ypres 279
and general staff 224–5
intrigues against Haig 215
Kitchener’s instructions 29
meeting with Joffre 36
meeting with Kitchener 32
and Le Cateau 33–4
at Mons 31
opinion of Smith-Dorrien 214–15
proposes to regroup 31–2
relationship with Winifred Bennett ao(
replaced by Haig (1915) xix, 29, 38, 215
route into the army 123
in St-Omer 193
French Army 105
1st Army 55, 56
5th Army 19o
6th Army 43, 68, 278
‘Plan 17’ 27, 28, 30
attacks in the last months of the war 71
bands and colour parties 498
battle of Loos 36
and bayonets 385
cavalry 436–7
conscription 25, 103
forward trenches 278
horses 163
major losses 30
modernised 25, 26
mutiny in (1917) 30, 53
organisation 182–3, l94
and religion 519
size of 103
songs 499
Freshwater, Gunner 417
Fricourt (Somme) 40, 45, 46, 274, 281, 282, 370, 521, 549, 584
Friedensturm (Peace Offensive) 68
Fromelles 544
Fryell, Brig. Gen. 237
Fuller, Maj. Gen. J. F. C. 64, 233
Fuller, J. G.: Troop Morale and Popular Culture xxii
fuses 401–2, 409
Fussell, Paul xxiv
Fussell, Paul, The Great War and Modern Memory xvii-xviii
Gaffikin, Maj. George 333–4
Gale, 2nd Lt Richard 532
Gallipoli xix, xx, 14, 35, 43, 97, 128, 145, 194, 198, 585
Gardiner, Corporal 300
Garr
od, Private R. G. 109, 110, 162–3, 449
Garvey, Pte Joseph 99, log, 110
gas 35, 36, 52, 247, 256–7, 369, 409, 417, 418–26, 427, 430, 457, 459, 513–550
Gascons 52
Gaskell, 2nd Lt C. H. 141, 327, 590
Gater, Brig. Gen. George 207, 208
Gays, Ernie 299
Gedye, Lt 606
Gee, Gunner 612
Gelliband, Maj. Gen. John 195
general staff 224–42
instituted 224
Army Training Directorate 107
Staff Duties Directorate 107
Military Operations Directorate 107
staff college 224, 225
blue ribbon campaign 224, 225
French on 224–5
chiefs of staff 225
uniform 225–6
headquarters 226, 227–8
corps 226–7, 233–4
messes 228–30
divisional commander 229–30
divisional chief of staff (GSO 1) 230
‘rule of differents’ 231–2
brigades 235–8
safe and predictable staff jobs 238–9
working hours 239–40
awareness of front-line conditions 240–42
George, Pte E. 629
George V, King 32, 50, 630
German Army 105
1st Army 28
2nd Army 28
3rd Army 28
54th Division 429
Guard Cavalry Division 438
26th Infantry Regiment 37
44th Infantry Regiment 55
57th Regiment 542
108th Field Artillery Regiment 430
224th Bavarian Reserve Regiment 382
artillery 274, 305, 405, 429–30, 545
atrocities by 550–51
and bayonets 382, 385
‘black day of the German army’ (August 8th 1918) 70, 431
blockhouses 261–2
bombardment of communication trenches 255
brigades 176
British attitude towards 536, 538
casualties 47, 55, 69
cavalry 437, 438
conscription 103, 536
defends in ever-increasing depth 278
defensive strategy 34–5
Forward, Battle and Rearward Zones 278
front line at Vimy Ridge 269
gas, use of 35, 36, 52, 247, 418, 419, 423–6
general staff 224
guns 411
Haig on xix
High Wood counterattack 204
horses 163
infantry 385, 448, 537
machine-gun companies 389
mining 457, 462
Neuve Chapelle 34
‘pampered’ storm-troops 182
as prisoners 541–2, 550–54
quantitative and qualitative superiority 65
retreat to the Hindenburg Line 50–51, 52, 258
senior NCOs 536–7
size of 103
snipers 295–6
songs 499
spring offensives (1918) 30, 60, 65–9, 93, 213, 215, 274, 279, 405, 413–14, 430, 478
‘storm-troop’ tactics 65
trench system 277
troops moved westward 50, 65
at Verdun 39, 42, 43
weakened by the Somme 47, 49
German Navy: submarine warfare 49, 54, 69
German Official History 70
Germany
Alsace and Lorraine ceded to 25
Army of Occupation in 617–18
consequence of a German victory 28–9
effects of blockade on 69
and Franco-Russian alliance 27
mobilisation and entry into Belgium (1914) 28
Schlieffen’s proposals 27–8
Gheluvelt Plateau 55, 56
Ghissignies 551
GHQ
adjutant general’s (A) branch 91
armistice 615
and campaign plans 233
and corps 182
clearing-out of 190
controls British military effort in France 189
general staff (G) branch 191
and generals’ sackings 222
intelligence staff 587
medical services 468
military secretary’s department (MS) 191–2, 203
moved from St-Omer to Montreuil 39, 193–4
and officer promotion 199
quartermaster general’s (Q) branch 191
reports and returns 186–7
tensions with army headquarters 56
Topographical Section (‘Maps GHQ’) 453
transfer of brigades 176
Gibbs, Capt. Stormont 537, 585
Gibbs, Philip 50, 240, 465
Gibraltar Farm 527
Giffard, 2nd Lt W. E. 531
Giffard, Maj. Eddie 615
Giles, Pte Reginald 76
Ginchy, battle of (1916) 383
Ginchy crossroads 291
Ginchy Ridge 310
Ginns, Corporal Ronald 321, 419–20
Gittins, 2nd Lt Herbert 196
Givenchy 36
Gladden, Pte Norman 92, 425, 471, 539, 573, 579, 604–5
Glasgow 97, 101, 102, 131, 148, 324, 349
Gleeson, Father Francis 519
Gleichen, Maj. Gen. Count (later Lord Edward Gleichen) 338, 545
Glencorse Wood 271, 377
Gliddon, Gerald 626 Gloucester Castle, SS (hospital ship) 480
Glubb, 2nd Lt John 267, 452
Godbert’s restaurant, Amiens 592
Godsell, 2nd Lt Kenneth 436–7
Goldsmith, Maj. Frank, MP 128
Gommecourt 40, 41, 46, 230, 476
Goodban, Pte Monty 375
Goodlad, Pte Alf 629
Goodwillie, Sgt 574
Gordon, Capt. 157
Gordon, 2nd Lt Huntley 178, 261–2, 271, 301, 374, 493, 522–3, 624
Gordon-Lennox, Maj. Lord Bernard 78
Gore, Gunner J. W. 66–7
Gosling, Brig. Gen. Charles 220
Gough, Lt Gen. Sir Hubert 40, 41, 54, 56–57, 59–69, 152, 209, 210, 215, 233
Gough, Brig. Gen. Johnnie 523
Gouzeaucourt 65, 503, 582
Gowk, Maj. Archie 121
Graham, Pte Stephen 71, 79, 493, 507, 531. 535. 548, 552, 605, 618
Gravelines 21
Graves Registration Commission 628
Graves, Capt. Robert xix, xxiv, 89, 182, 196, 202, 203, 293, 296, 301, 308, 311, 329, 344–5, 355–371, 382, 383, 419, 5l4, 522, 528, 596, 617
Goodbye to All That 179
Gray, Pte Frank 572
Greenwell, Capt. Graham 141, 367, 543, 550, 619, 623
grenades 380–81, 385–9, 394
cricket ball 386–7
gas 423
ignition 387–8
Ball 387
Battye 387
Hand Grenades Nos 7–9
Oval 387
Picher 387
jam-tin 385–6, 387
mechanical 387, 388
Hand Grenade No.12 (‘Hairbrush pattern’) 388
Mills Hand Grenade No.5 (‘pineapple’) 8, 388, 389
percussion 387
Hand Grenades Nos 1 and 2 387
potato-masher 389
rifle 369, 389
No.3 (Hale’s) 389
smoke 427 ‘toffee apple1 369
Grey, Sir Edward 28–g
Grierson, Lt Gen. Sir James 215
Griffin, ex-Sgt, later archbishop of Westminster 506
Griffith, Paddy xxii, 47
Griffith, Pte Watcyn 151
Griffith, Capt. Llewelyn Wyn 151–2, 217–18, 370, 544
Grimshaw, Pte Raymond 372–3
Groom, Pte W. H. A. 380, 524, 526–7, 579–80, 605
Groser, Father John 516
Groves, Capt. P. H. C. 132
Guernsey, Capt. Lord 78
Gueudecourt (Somme) 256, 445
Guillemont 450, 473
battle of (1916) 45, 154, 204
Guinness, Maj. Hon. Walter, MP 128, 193. 233, 235–6, 407, 409, 496, 564
guns
5.9–inch 411, 498
6–pounder 430, 432
8–inch 411
9–inch naval 497
9.2–inch 10, 498
1l-inch 411
13–pounder 399, 438
18–pounder 10, 175, 371, 395, 398, 399, 404, 409, 410, 411, 438
60–pounders 10, 175, 414
75–mm field (soixante-quinze) 25
77–mm field 9, 283, 429, 444
Gurney, Pte Ivor 268
Guy’s Hospital, London 98
Gwynne, H. A. 510
Gwynne, Llewellyn H., bishop of Khartoum 510, 511, 513
Haber, Fritz 425
Haber, Ludwig: The Poisonous Cloud 425
Habnor Farm 63
Haddock, Pte James 562
Haig, Field Marshal Sir Douglas xviii, xx, xxi, 178, 188, 189, 198, 448, 469, 523, 580, 596
and Allied counterattack (8 August 1918) 69
battle of the Somme 40, 41, 43, 44
and British Legion 631
and Cambrai 233, 429, 430
and the death sentence 567
and Dominion troops, use of 180
at Doullens conference 67
Flanders offensive 53–4
French intrigues against him 215
French’s confidence in him 33
and gas, use of 420
and German submarines on the Flanders coast 49, 54
gives Churchill command of a battalion 193
and Gwynne 510
Haldane’s military adviser 107
hands over 1st Army to Monro 209
insistent on the primacy of the Western
Front 38
and Kiggell 190, 191
lavish grant to 620
lends money to French (1899) xxv and Lloyd George 49
meeting with gough 59
meeting with Joffre 39
and night attack on Somme 407
and Nivelle 49, 50
and Rawlinson 216, 222, 227
and tank use 44
and third Ypres 56, 60
opinions on Haig 171, 172
replaces French as G-in-C (1915) xix, 29.38. 215
splits his headquarters 194
Verdun 39
warning to the government 66
Haillicourt 502
Haking, Lt Gen. Sir Richard 88
Haldane, R. B. 79, 107, 128, 129–30, 133–135, 137
Hale, Pte Alfred 96, 362, 492–3, 598, 619
Halifax 99
Hallidav, Sgt Maj. 87
Hamel 46, 69
Hamilton, Capt. 573, 582
Hamilton, Maj. Gen. Hubert 212, 299
Hamilton-Gordon, Lt Gen. Alexander 230
Hanbury-Sparrow, Lt Col Alan 76, 115, 121, 292, 345, 348, 358, 366, 382, 425–6, 512–13, 532, 536, 549. 579–580, 604
Hangard 630
Hankey, Maurice 26, 45, 215, 225
Happy Valley 152
Harding, Corporal 447
Harding of Petherton, Field Marshal the Lord 131
Hardwidge, L/Cpl H. 46
Hardwidge, Corporal T. 46