Richardson, General Sir George, 42
Richbell, Colonel Edward, 142
Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of, 143
Rickard, Lieut. Colonel V.G.H., 234
Rifkind, Sir Malcolm, 33
rifle ranges, 518–19
rifleman (rank), 69
Riley, Private Harold, 449
riots (civil): military intervention, 503–4
Ritchie, Drummer Walter, VC, 484
Riversdale, Colonel Lord, 98
Roberts, Freddie (Field Marshal’s son): killed, 595
Roberts, Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh, VC, 1st Earl: as C. in C., 41–2, 179; ambitions, 179–80; at relief of Lucknow, 274; brevet rank, 82; daughter inherits title, 159, 595; death of children, 584–5; death in First World War, 28, 82; on drink and crime, 537; and Hector Macdonald, 175; officer promotions, 179, 183; peerage, 167; and promotion from ranks, 176
Robertson, Corporal, 512
Robertson, Ensign F. von, 339
Robertson, Lieut. General James, 171
Robertson, Field-Marshal Sir William: on barrack room life, xx–xxi; as BEF chief of staff (1915), 76; on bullying, 550; and cavalry troops, 60; on church parades, 252; on deserting, 511; on Duke of Cambridge, 10; on incorrigibles, 307; near-desertion from brawling barrack room, 548; promoted from ranks, xx; as quartermaster-general, 75; as troop sergeant major, 307; on unpopularity of army, 3
Rocroi, battle of (1643), 51
Roe, Edward, 379
Rogers, Sergeant, 62
Rogers, William, 95
Rogerson, Sidney, 401; Twelve Days, 202–3
Romaignac, Colonel Chalant de, 327
Roman Catholics see Catholicism
Rorke’s Drift, battle of (1879), 479
Roscoe, Sergeant (Grenadier Guards), 472
Rose, General Sir Hugh, 176
Ross, Drummer, 275
Ross, Ralph Gore, 1st Earl of, 169
Ross, Revd Mr (of 42nd Regiment), 253
Ross, General Robert, 123
Rothschild family, 107
Rowe, Colonel Archibald, 52
Rowe, Private James, 308
Royal Air Force (RAF): strength, 210
Royal Army Temperance Association, 537
Royal Commission on Military Punishmemt (1836), xxi
Royal Commission (on Army, 1857), 154
Royal Commission on Recruiting (1859), xxvi
royal family: army connections, 18–19; as military commanders and serving officers, 11–18
Royal Hibernian Military School, Dublin (later Shorncliffe), 275–6
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (earlier College): building, 521; in First World War, 194–5; formed (1947), 223; founded, 157–8; intake and training, 223–4, 226–30; as OCTU in Second World War, 217; organisation and methods, 223; Princes William and Harry train at, 15; and public school entrants, 201; restored (1875), 155; reverts to fee-paying after First World War, 207
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich: amalgamated with Sandhurst, 223; in First World War, 194; founded, 157–8; reverts to fee-paying after First World War, 207
Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea, 275
Royal Military College Sandhurst see Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall, 274, 477
royalists: and army, 6–8; pensions, 8
Royle, Trevor: The Best Years of their Lives, xvii, 175
Russell, John, 7
Russell, Colonel John, 292
Russell, Quartermaster Robert, 510
Russell, Theodore, 135
Russell, Sir William Howard, 249
Rutherford, Lieut. John, 151
Ruvigny, Marquis de see Galway, Viscount
Ryder, Corporal John, 308
Sackville, Lieut. General Lord George (later 1st Viscount), 11, 140
St Andrew’s Day, 450
St Clair, Lieut. Thomas, 584
St Clair, William, 63
St David’s Day, 450–2
St George’s Day, 452–3
St Patrick’s Day, 449–50, 453
saints’ days (national): celebrated, 449–51
Salamanca, battle of (1912), 245, 337
Salisbury, James Brownlow Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of (1852), 99
Salisbury Plain: as army training area, 519
Salkeld, Lieut. Philip, VC, 484
Salmond, Alex, 436
Saltoun, Lieut. Colonel Alexander Fraser, 17th Baron, 80
Salvation Army, 538
Samaritans, The (organisation), 539
Samuels, Private Troy McNeill, 347
Sandes, Elise: temperance homes, 537–8
Sandhurst see Royal Military Academy
Sandys, Captain (of Blues), 134
Sandys, Duncan (later Baron Duncan-Sandys), 44
Santocolumbo, Pietro, 331
sappers, 55; see also Army units: Royal Engineers
Sarsfield, Lieut. Patrick, 135
Sassoon, Siegfried, 188, 206; Sherston’s Progress, 74
Sauer (bandmaster), 477
Sausmarez, Major Christopher de, 162
Savill, Lieut. Colonel Kate, 417
Schaefli, Robin, 212, 400
Schellenberg, the, Donauwörth, 410
Schomberg, Frederick Herman, Duke of, 129–30, 325
Schramm, Bandmaster (Queen’s Dragoon Guards), 478
Schwoerer, Lois G., 6
Scobie, Sergeant Andrew, 395
Scotland: barracks, 501; Civil War (1640/50s), 5; militia, 97; officers from, 121–2; Presbyterian soldiers, 243–4; recruitment in, xxv; regiments, 381, 435–7; service in foreign armies, 126; union with England (1707), 121
Scotland, RSM Peter, 67
Scott, Captain John, 238
Scott, Sir Walter, 122
Scouller, R.E.: The Armies of Queen Anne, 500
second lieutenants, 56
secretary at war: office of, 22
Sedgemoor, battle of (1685), 16, 21, 132
Seed, John, 160
Seeley, John Robert: The Expansion of England, 312
Seely, Frank, 29
Seely, Jack (later 1st Baron Mottistone), 29, 43
Selway, CSM Tom, 492
Sengennydd, Wales, 317
sentries: challenge officers, 178–9
Seresniack, Private Casimir, 332
sergeant majors, 58–9
sergeants, 58–9; messes, 576–9
Servais, Antoine, 331
servicemen’s clubs, 539
Seta, Private Ends, 276
Seven Years War (1756–63), 137, 323
Sewell, Colonel Matthew, 142–3
sex, 498, 583–6, 594
Shakespeare, William, 50, 498
Shand, Bruce, 415–17
Sharpe, Tom, 547–4
Shawyer, Sergeant (of Rifle Brigade), 492
Sheldrake’s Aldershot Military Gazette, 555
Shephard, Lieut. Ernest, 56, 61–2, 196–7, 201
Shephard, Sergeant Major (Dorsets), 387–9
Sherriff, Captain R.C.: Journey’s End, 186
Sherrin, Ned, 548
Shipp, Lieut. John, 172, 299, 483–4, 547
shoeing (punishment), 552–3
Shore, Captain (of Cheshires), 448
Shortis, Major General Colin, 486
Shybell, Private Conrad, 332
Sidney, Henry, 128
Sikh War (1849), 38
Sikorsky, General Wladyslaw, 29
Simmoneit, J.: Wehrpsychologie, 214
Simmons, Lieut. Colonel George, 100
Simmons, Major George, 488
Simmons, Private, xix
Simonds, George Blackall: The Maiwand Lion (sculpture), 375
Simpson, Keith, 46
Sitwell, Sir Osbert, 497
Skinner, Revd Leslie, 260
Skippon, Sergeant Major General Philip, 92
Skirth, Bombardier Ronald: The Reluctant Tommy, xvi, 57, 60
Slack, Cecil Moorhouse, 191–2
slang, 456–7, 461–2
Slanning, Sir Nicholas, 92–3
Slater, General (formerly Private), 49
Slim, Field Marshal William, 1st Viscount, 396–7, 465
Smith, Major General Arthur, 394–5
Smith, Troop Sergeant Major George Loy, 70, 598–9
Smith, Brigadier Greg, 116
Smith, Harry, 333
Smith, Bishop John Taylor, 250, 255
Smith, Lieut. Mike, 114
smoking and tobacco, 532–3
Smyth, Major Rowland, 310
Snape, Michael, 261
Snell, Hannah, 349
Sobraon, battle of (1846), 445–8
sodomy, 588–9
Soldier’s Pocket Book (1815), 3
Solebay, battle of (1672), 130
Somerville, Alexander, 300, 547
Song of Tiadatha (parody), 66
Souter, E., 276
South Africa: German legionaries settle in, 341–2
Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of, 7
Spain: military ranks, 51; recruits in British army, 333
Spanish Succession, War of the (1701–1714), 325–6
Special Forces Support Group, 434
Special Reserve, 284, 383, 390
Spencer, Major Giles, 563
Spender, Captain W.B., 42
Spielberg, Steven, 498
Spiers, Sir Edward, 158
Spirit of the Glen: Journey (record album), 487
sport, 580–2
squadron sergeant majors (SSMs), 60, 63–4
staff sergeants, 59
Stainton, Adam, 211, 214–15
Stair, John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of, 51
Stamfordham, Arthur Bigge, 1st Baron, 18
Standard, battle of the (1138), 91
standing army: resisted, 5–6
Stanford, Norfolk, 521
Stanway, Lieut. Colonel W.H., 195
Steenkirk, battle of (1692), 137
Steevens, George Warrington, 174
Sterne, Laurence: Tristram Shandy, 455
Stewart, Lieut. Alexander, 193–4
Stewart, William, 414
Stirrup, Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock, 47
Stracey, Captain (of Scots Guards), 555
Stradling, Captain Thomas, 128
Strange, Lieut. John Stanley, 189
Strategic Defence Review, 112
Strauss, Johann, 478
Strauss, Richard, 481
Strudwick, Rifleman Valentine Joe, 278
Stuart, Sir John, 321
Stutterheim, Baron Richard von, 341–2
sub-lieutenants, 155
Sugden, Gunner Alan, 470
suicides, 307
Sulzbach, Herbert, 346
Summs, James, 349
Surtees, William, 292
Sussex, Henry Yelverton, 3rd Earl of, 96
Sutherland, Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 4th Duke of, 163
Swanton Morley, near Dereham, Norfolk, 521
swearing, 462–5
Sweeney, Donald Spence, 274
Sweeney, Robert William, 274
Sweeney, Terence, 274
Sweeney, William, 274
Sweetenham, Lieut., 177
Swing, Captain: riots, 27, 103
Swiss Legion, 340
swords: carried by officers, 562–3
syphilis, 586
Tait, Private James, 279
Talbot House see Toc H
Tangerines (officers’ association), 134
Tangier, garrison in, 7–8, 16, 127–8, 130–1, 478
Tasker, Regimental Sergeant Major (Queen’s Royal Regiment), 400
tattoo, 528
Taunton Commission (1868), 156
Tawney, Richard Henry, 312
Taylor, Olive, 352
Technical Foundation College, Winchester, 283
temperance, 537–8
Temple, William, Archbishop of Canterbury, 157
Templer, Field Marshal Sir Gerald, 124
Territorial Army (TA): absorbed into regular army in Second World War, 109–10; development, 89–91; and freemasonry, 579; liaison with employers, 115; and new regimental structures, 434; numbers at beginning of Second World War, 210; officers, 109–11, 113–14; post-1945 reconstitution and reforms, 111–12; present under-strength, 116; reorganised (1964–5), 104, 111; role and active service, 114–16; service in Iraq, 89–90; in two World Wars, 390; underfunding, 110–11
Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve (T&AVR), 111
Territorial Force (TF): in action, 108–9; established (1908), 108
Test Act (1673), 133
Teviot, Andrew Rutherford, 1st Earl of, 127
Thatcher, Margaret, Baroness, 33
Thetcher, Private Thomas, 499
Thomas, Lieut. Alan, 205
Thomas, Corporal Edward, 489–90
Thomas, Lieut. F.G.S., 207
Thomas Lobster (soldiers’ name), 4
Thorne, General Sir Andrew (‘Bulgy’), 18
Thorne, Sir Neil, 34
Thorneloe, Lieut. Col. Rupert, xxiv
Thornton, James, 567
Thornton, R.K.R., 205
Thorp, Nicholas, 475
Tidworth, Wiltshire, 512, 519, 595
Tidy, Col. Francis Skelly, 9
Times, The, xxvi, 45
‘Toc H’ (Talbot House), 257–8, 538–9
Todd, Corporal Matthew, 269, 288–90, 302, 502, 576
Todd, Corporal William, 61, 504–7, 509
Tollemache, Lieut. General Thomas, 137
Tommy Atkins: as soldiers’ name, 3–4
Torrance, Duncan Leitch, 214
Torrens, Major General Sir Henry, 52, 71, 83; Regulations for the Exercise and Field Movements of the Infantry of the Army, 71
Trafford, Major Sir Thomas, 104
Trained Bands, 91–2
training, 526–7
Trapman, Captain A.H: ‘Straight tips for Subs’, 196
Treason Club, 134
Trelawney, Charles, 136
Trevannion, Colonel John, 92–3
Trevelyan, Sir Charles, 154
Trevelyan, Raleigh, 404, 406–7
Tritton, Lieut. (of 31st Regiment), 445
troop quartermasters, 59
troop sergeant major, 59
trooper (rank), 69
Truell, Lieut. George, 452
Trumpet and Bugle Sounds for the Army, 65, 528–9, 557
trumpeters, 476
Tuckett, Captain Harvey, 564
Tulikens, Lieut. Colonel (45th Foot), 84
Tull, Second Lieut. Walter, 314, 385
Tullibardine, John George Stewart-Murray, Earl of (later 8th Duke of Atholl), 177
Tumbledown Mountain, Falklands, 412
Turenne, Marshal Henri de la Tour d’Auvergne, vicomte de, 132
Turner, Brigadier A.J.D., 220–1, 418
Turnham Green, battle of (1642), 92
Tyrconnel, Richard Talbot, Earl and titular Duke of, 133
Ulster (Northern Ireland): and Home Rule for Ireland, 42–3
Ulster Volunteer Force, 42
uniforms: cavalry, 370; colours, 439–41; infantry, 384; jäger, 323; officers’, 558; and recruiting, 292–3, 300; see also dress
Union flag, 441
United States of America: status of army, 6
universities: and OTC, 184
Unknown Soldier, The, 258, 343
Urban, Mark, 168
Values and Standards (army pamphlet), 358, 591
Varah, Revd Chad, 539
Vataas, Revd Peter, 232
venereal disease, 585–8
Venn, Captain Thomas, 441, 473
Venner, Thomas, 7
Vezey, Major General Theodore, 325
Victoria Cross: posthumous awards, 163
Victoria, Queen: interest in military matters, 13; message to troops in South Africa, 311; signs commissions, 10–11
Vigny, Alfred de, 497
Villettes, Captain Henry Clinton, 327
> Villettes, General James, 327
Villettes, William, 328
Villiers, Brigadier Edward, 131
violence: and discipline, xxi–xxii; see also beasting; bullying; flogging
Vis, Rudi, 34
Volunteer Act (1804), 102
volunteer units, 100–3, 107
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire, 107
Wade, General George, 238
Wade, James, 277
Wagner, Richard, 482
Walcheren expedition (1809), 399
Waldeck, Georg Friedrich, Prince of, 136
Walker, Revd James Rowland, 250
Wall, Captain Walter, 189
Walpole, Horace, 236, 563
Walpole, Sir Robert, 4, 36
Walsh, Lieut. Colonel Cecil Vincent, 275–6
Walton, Private John, 38
War Office: established, 23
War Officer Selection Boards (WOSBs), 214–15, 222
Ward Committee (1906), 184
Ward, Ned, 232
Ward, Robert: Animadversions of Warre, 92
warrant officers (and warrants), 63–6, 380
Washington, George, 139
Waterfield, George, 598
Waterfield, Robert, 308
Waterloo, battle of (1815): 27th Regiment losses, 245; Brunswickers at, 334–5; cavalry at, 499–500; drummers at, 484; Guards at, 80–1; King’s German Legion at, 337–8
Watkins, Sergeant Major Henry, 96
Watson, Major General David, 110
Watson, Revd George, 243
Watts, Colonel William, 189
Watts, William, 95
Watts, Colonel William, 189
Watts, William (mason), 95
Wavell, Field Marshal Archibald, 1st Earl, 371, 394
Weatherall, Lieut. General Sir George, xxv
Webb, Major General James, 35
Webb, Corporal Matthew, 235
Webb, Captain Thomas, 238
Webb-Carter, Major-General Sir Evelyn, 19
Webster, Colonel James, 425
Webster, Captain William, 172
Weekly Political Register (Cobbett’s), 26–7
Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire, 225
welfare organisations, 538–9
Wellesley, Revd Gerald, 167
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of: attends Captain Cocks’s funeral, 469; and chaplains, 238–40; on chargeable wives, 598; chefs and entertaining, 567; and C.J. Napier, 38; on colonelcies, 364; on commissions and promotions, 41, 137; on composition of army, xxii, xxvi, 298; duel with Winchelsea, 564; foreign troops under, 330, 332, 334; on freemasonry, 579; grants pardons, 242; and Highland regiments, 381; interests and promotions, 146–7, 158; Irish origins, 122–3; and Lieutenant Kelly‘s marriage, 247; marriage, 39, 167; mistresses, 594; as MP, 39; and name ‘Tommy Atkins’, 3; opposes Methodism, 239; and provost service, 543; and Quartermaster Kingsley, 72; at Queen’s birthday parade, 490; on rankers not making good officers, 176; and Revd Mr Blunt, 233; Salamanca victory (1812), 245, 337; and Scottish officers, 122; title, 159; Waterloo victory, 334–5
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