by Peter Brune
telephone communication by buried cables 63–5
Templeux-le-Guerard 341
terrain choices at Ypres 67
Territorial Force, numbers (1914) 27
The Australian Corps – Ground Captured (map) 367
The Hindenburg Line, 29 September 1918 (map) 352
The Hindenburg Line (map) 273
The Outpost Line Attack, 18 September 1918 (map) 328
The Pursuit, 22–29 August 1918 (map) 213
The Western Front, March 1918 (map) 5
Thiepval, attack on (Sep 1916) 83
Third Battle of Ypres (31 Jul–10 Nov 1917) 65; artillery at 42–3; casualties 12; command lessons from 67; First AIF casualties at 70
Tivey, Brig-Gen (8 Bde, 5 Div), crosses start line (29 Sep) 330
topographical sections, establishment 40–41
Tortille River Valley 222
Traill, Lt Sydney, in action (23 Aug) 205; criticises British command (15 May) 101; favoured tougher penalties for mutineers 312; at Hargicourt (18 Sep) 286; records beginning of mutiny (21 Sep) 310; war and later life 369–70
Travers, Tim 17–18
trench mortars, use of 290
trench system bombardment, importance for Hindenburg Line crossing 317
trench systems on Hindenburg Line 270
trenches, deaths in at Hamel 127
troops, ammunition and supplies carried by 117; identification with tanks 113; long-term effects of pushing beyond limits 263–4; responses to disbandments 301–5
Tucker, Cpl W S, inventor of microphone 39
Tudor, Brig-Gen Hugh, use of predicted fire by 43
tunnel (Bellicourt to Vendhuile), Monash chooses as crossing point 315–16
Tunnel Line, one tank reaches (29 Sep) 336
tunnelling, use on Western Front 67
tunnels, on Hindenburg Line 271, 273
unification of AIF, desire for 85
Vaire Wood, as objective 104, 106
Vauvillers 156, 157, 169
Vaux, captured (28 Aug) 233; infantry-tank training exercise at 112–13; Tank Bde training ground at 105
Vendhuile 271
Verdun 6; casualties (Feb–Dec 1916) 9; German thrust (Feb 1916) 32
vertical aerial photos, use of 59–60
Vickers, Lt W A (8 Tank Btn), at Vaire and Hamel Woods 122–3
Vickers Machine Guns, supporting 7 Bde (2 Sep) 255; use at Mont St Quentin 238
Victoria Crosses, eight awarded 31 Aug–2 Sep 266
Villeret 287
Villers-Brettoneux 21, 23–4; 1 Div (AIF) arrives at (8 Aug) 170
Villers-Brettoneux Plateau, defence of 104
visual signalling 168
Wackett, Capt L J (No. 3 Squadron AFC) 326
War Cabinet, formation (Dec 1916) 13–14
‘War Experiences’, 5 Tank Bde, on shortcomings of Mk V tanks 109–110
The War of Invention, Guy Hartcup, on 106 fuse 38
Warfusée, 17th Btn at (8 Aug) 153
Webb, Maj (7 Field Coy), reconnoitres Somme canal (29 Aug) 231
Western Front, attempt to break deadlock 67; vilification of generals 62
The Western Front, March 1918 (map) 5
Weygand, General 22
Whippet Tanks 130, 163; knocked out on Le Catelet-Nauroy Line (29 Sep) 333; in Monash’s plan (18–19 Sep) 318; support attack on Estrées (29 Sep) 333; supporting 5 Div Btns (29 Sep) 332
White, Maj Gen Brudenell, appointed Chief of Staff of Fifth Army 90; assessment of Foch’s Montdidier plan 129; background 71–2; Bean’s anti-Monash letter to 96–7; supported by Cutlack, Bean and Dyson 92
Wiencourt, 2 Tank Btn at 166
Wilkins, Hubert (photographer), with Bean 91
Williams, Gnr, wounded at Hamel 122
Wilson, Gen Sir Henry (Chief of Imperial General Staff) 14–16, 22; Murdoch’s influence with 78, 93–4; warns Haig of heavy losses likely in Hindenburg Line attack (29 Aug) 269, 276
Wilson, Trevor see Prior, Robin and Trevor Wilson Command on the Western Front
‘Winter Line’, Ludendorff’s defence along 267–8
wire cutting, at Hindenburg Main Line bombardment 323
wireless stations and telegraphy 60
Ypres 4
Ypres, First Battle of (Oct 1914), British ammunition use 31–2
Ypres, Third Battle of (31 Jul–10 Nov 1917) 65; artillery at 42–3; casualties 12; command lessons from 67; First AIF casualties at 70
Zonnebeke 43
About the Author
PETER BRUNE is one of Australia’s leading military historians. He is author of the bestselling and highly acclaimed A Bastard of a Place: The Australians in Papua, as well as Those Ragged Bloody Heroes: From the Kokoda Trail to Gona Beach 1942, The Spell Broken: Exploding the myth of Japanese invincibility, Gona’s Gone: The battle for Beach Head 1942 and We Band of Brothers: A biography of Ralph Honner, soldier and statesman and is co-author with Neil McDonald of 200 Shots: Damien Parer and George Silk and the Australians at war in New Guinea and Valiant for Truth: The life of Chester Wilmont, war correspondent. His book Descent Into Hell: The Fall of Singapore – Pudu and Changi – The Thai–Burma Railway was shortlisted in the category of Australian History for the 2015 Prime Minister’s Literary Award.
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Cover image courtesy AWM, E03183. A machine gun position established by the 54th Battalion during the morning of the attack through Péronne. The photograph was taken the following day, after the capture of the town, when positions close to it had been taken. Pictured, left to right: Private Cullen, A Company, 53rd Battalion; Private A. Storen, A Company, 54th Battalion; unidentified (standing at back); Sergeant Kelly, 54th Battalion; and Private McSweeney, 54th Battalion.