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  Wellington, Kitty, Duchess of (née Pakenham), 39, 167

  Welsh, Richard, 348

  Welton, Second Lieut. P.B., 195

  Wentworth, Thomas, 5th Baron, 7

  Wentzel, Lance Corporal Sven, 90

  Werden, Lieutenant General Sir John, 135

  Wesley, John: A Word in Season, or Advice to a Soldier, 238

  West Indies: deserters and convicts in services, 303–4; drummers from, 475

  Westminster, Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of, 106, 114

  Weymouth, Thomas Thynne, 3rd Viscount (later 1st Marquess of Bath), 97–8

  Wharton, Sergeant Nehemiah, 50

  Wheatley, Ensign Edmund, 339–40

  Wheatley, Eliza (née Brookes), 340

  Wheeler, Major General Andrew, 81

  Wheeler, General Sir Roger, 224

  Wheeler, Sergeant William, 124, 240–1, 306, 330

  Whiston, Surgeon-Major P.H., 554–5

  White, Second Lieut. Peter, 391, 402

  White Plains, battle of (1776), 148

  Whitelaw, William, Viscount, 33

  Whiteley, Brigadier John, MP, 29–30

  Whitelock, Bulstrode, 5

  Whittle, Lieut. (of Royals), 210

  Widdrington, Ralph, 129

  Wigram, Clive, 1st Baron, 18–19

  wigs, 466–7

  Wilkes, John, 99

  William III (of Orange), King, 11, 21, 132, 134–7, 145, 325–6

  William IV, King: naval service, 12–13

  William, Prince (Duke of Cambridge), 15–16

  Williams, Bandmaster (Grenadier Guards), 481

  Williams, Major Dyson Brock, 189

  Williams, Private Gavin, 553–4

  Williams, CSM Jack, VC, 66

  Williams, John (of Coldstream Guards), 510

  Williams, Lance Corporal (60th Rifles), 205

  Williams, Lieut. (of 84th Regiment), 177

  Wilson, Major General Sir Archdale, 484

  Wilson, Sir Arnold, 29

  Wilson, Charles (later Baron Moran), 398

  Wilson, Harold (later Baron), 32

  Wilson, Field Marshal Sir Henry, 30, 100, 157, 282

  Winchelsea, George William Finch-Hatton, 9th Earl of, 564

  Winchester: Peninsular Barracks, 517–18

  Winchester, Statute of (1285), 91

  Windham, Lieut. Colonel Henry, 80

  Windus, Lieut. Colonel Edward, xviii, 272, 287, 409–10

  wives, 583, 593–5, 599–600

  Wolf, Jean Frédéric, 331

  Wolfe, Major General James, 11–12, 85, 152, 466, 498–9, 504, 597

  Wolseley, Field Marshal Garnet, 1st Viscount: on barrack room damage, 561–2; daughter inherits title, 159; and paternalistic supervision of troops, 545; praises Pennefeather, 499; promotions and peerage, 165, 167; put up for brevet rank, 82; and wealthy officers, 180; and William Butler, 165

  Wolverhampton Grammar School, 184

  women: admitted to armed services, 350; combatant role, 357–8; disguise as men to enlist, 348–50; effect on male behaviour, 358; in First World War, 350–3; pregnancies, 352, 594; regimental, 598–9; in Second World War, 353–6; and sex, 351–2, 357–8, 584; see also marriage; prostitutes; wives

  Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), 350

  Womens Royal Naval Service (WRNS), 350

  Wonnacott, William and Emily, 498

  Wood, Lance Corporal, xxiv

  Wood, Anthony, 5

  Wood, Field Marshal Evelyn, 252

  Wood, Francis Derwent: The Boy David (statue), 368

  Wood, Richard (later Baron Holderness), 29

  Wood, Stephen, xxv

  Woodford, Lieut. Colonel Alexander, 80–1

  Woolwich see Royal Military Academy, Woolwich

  Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, xxvii

  Wootton, Herbert, xxvi

  Worcestershire: militia, 96–8

  World War I (1914–18): army numbers, 183, 198, 271, 312; casualties, 119–20, 184–7, 221, 320; chaplains, 254–6, 259; commissions in, 183–203; homosexuality in, 590–1; Kitchener’s New Armies, 188–90, 195, 312–14; MPs serve in, 28–30; pioneer and labour units, 344; recruitment for, 271, 312–13, 316–20; under-age soldiers, 278–80; and venereal disease, 586–7; volunteers, 186–92, 312–13; women serve in, 350–3

  World War II (1939–45): chaplains, 259–61; MP casualties, 29; women in, 353–6

  Wren, Sir Christopher, 518

  Wrigglesworth, Joseph, 152

  Wright, Captain Chris, 595

  Wright, Duncan, 239

  Wyatt, James, 521

  Wyndham, Horace, xx, xxvii, 251–2, 291, 525, 534, 548

  Wyndham, Percy, 191, 581

  Y Cadet programme, 208

  Yates, Captain (of Royal Welch Fusiliers), 74–5

  Yates, Cornet John (‘Joey’), 70

  Yeats-Brown, Second Lieut. Francis, 569

  yeomanry, 102–8

  Yeomen of the Guard, 439

  Yeomen Warders, 439

  Yetchinchen, Private Nicholas, 332

  YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Association), 538

  York and Albany, Prince Frederick Augustus, Duke of, 12, 18, 22, 80, 148–9, 236–7, 469, 564

  Young, Brigadier Desmond, 205

  Young, Lieut. Peter, xxii

  young soldiers, 283–5; see also boy soldiers

  Younger, George, 112

  Zugbach, R.G.L. von, 224–6, 228–9

  OTHER BOOKS BY RICHARD HOLMES

  In order of publication

  The English Civil War (with Brigadier Peter Young)

  The Little Field Marshal: Sir John French

  Soldiers (with John Keegan)

  Firing Line

  The Road to Sedan

  Fatal Avenue

  Riding the Retreat

  War Walks

  War Walks II

  The Western Front

  The Second World War in Photographs

  The First World War in Photographs

  Oxford Companion to Military History (general editor)

  Battlefields of the Second World War

  Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket

  Wellington: The Iron Duke

  Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front

  In the Footsteps of Churchill

  Dusty Warriors: Modern Soldiers at War

  Marlborough: England’s Fragile Genius

  Shots from the Front: The British Soldier 1914–18

  Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750–1914

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