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by Lyn Macdonald


  Forward With The 5th, A. W. Keown (The Speciality Press Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, 1921)

  The History of the 15th Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry (15th Highland Light Infantry Association, John M’Callum & Co., 1924)

  The History of the 16th Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry, edited by Thomas Chalmers (John M’Callum & Co., 1930)

  The 17th Highland Light Infantry, John W. Arthur & Ion S. Munro (David J. Clarke, 1920)

  History of the 11th Battalion, The Queen’s, Captain E. W. J. Neave, MC (The Brixton ‘Free Press’, 1931)

  With the Tenth Essex in France, Lieutenant-Colonel T. M. Banks, DSO, MC, and Captain R. A. Chell, DSO, MC (Burt & Sons, 1921)

  The 11th Royal Warwicks in France 1915–1916, Brevet Colonel C. S. Collison, DSO (Cornish Brothers Ltd., 1928)

  The 15th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment in the Great War, Major C. A. Bill (Cornish Brothers Ltd., 1932)

  For the Duration, The Story of the 13th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade, D. H. Rowlands (Simpkin Marshall Ltd., 1932)

  The 4th Battalion, The King’s Own and The Great War, Lieutenant-Colonel W. F. A. Wadham and Captain J. Crossley (privately published, 1920)

  History of the 6th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment, Vol. 1 (1st/6th Battalion), Captain E. V. Tempest, DSO, MC (Percy Lund, Humphries & Co. Ltd., 1921)

  The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914–1918 (the 2nd/8th Battalion) Lieutenant-Colonel W. C. Oates, DSO (J. & H. Bell Ltd., 1920)

  History and Memoir of The 33rd Battalion Machine-gun Corps, by members of the Battalion (privately published, 1919)

  A Record of D.245 Battery 1914–1919, Sergeant A. E. Gee, MM, and Corporal A. E. Shaw (privately published, 1932)

  British Regiments 1914–‘18, Brigadier E. A. James, OBE, TD (Samson Books)

  History of the First World War, B. H. Liddell Hart (Cassell Ltd., 1970)

  My War Memories 1914–1918, General Ludendorff, Vol. 1 (Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., 1936)

  Sir Douglas Haig’s Despatches, edited by Lieutenant-Colonel J. H. Boraston, CB, OBE (J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1919)

  The Private Papers of Douglas Haig 1914–1919, edited by Robert Blake (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1952)

  Sir Douglas Haig’s Command 1915–1918, G. A. B. Dewar (Constable, 1922)

  The Man I Knew, The Countess Haig (The Moray Press, 1936)

  Twenty-Five Years with Earl Haig, Sergeant T. Secrett, MM (Jarrolds, 1929)

  Haig, Duff Cooper (Faber & Faber Ltd., 1935)

  Field-Marshal Earl Haig, Brigadier-General John Charteris, CMG, DSO, MP (Cassell Ltd., 1929)

  Le Maréchal Haig à Montreuil-Sur-Mer, Raymond Wable (privately published by the author, 1968)

  Goughie, Anthony Farrar-Hockley (Hart-Davis, MacGibbon Ltd., 1975)

  The War Memoirs of David Lloyd George (Odham’s Press Ltd., 1934)

  Tempestuous Journey: Lloyd George, His Life and Times, Frank Owen (Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., 1954)

  The Press and the General Staff, Neville Lytton (W. Collins, Sons & Co. Ltd., 1920)

  Now It Can Be Told, Philip Gibbs (Harper and Brothers, Publishers, 1920)

  The Pageant of the Years, Philip Gibbs (William Heinemann Ltd., 1946)

  World War 1914–1918, edited by Sir John Hammerton (The Amalgamated Press Ltd., 1924)

  Twenty Years After, Vols. 1–3, edited by Major-General Sir Ernest Swin-ton, KBE, CB (George Newnes Ltd., 1938)

  The Rifle Brigade Chronicle for 1918, compiled and edited by Colonel Willoughby Verner (John Bale, Sons & Danielsson Ltd., 1919)

  Unwilling Passenger, Arthur Osburn (Faber & Faber Ltd., 1932)

  Twelve Days, Sidney Rogerson (Arthur Barker Ltd.)

  Courage Past, Alex Aiken (privately published by the author)

  War Letters to a Wife, France and Flanders 1915–1919, Rowland Feilding (The Medici Society Ltd., 1929)

  Transport and Sport in the Great War Period, Captain A. O. Temple Clarke (privately published by the author, 1938)

  Machine-gunner 1914–1918, compiled and edited by C. E. Crutchley (Bailey Brothers & Swinfen Ltd., 1975)

  A Padre in France, George A. Birmingham (Hodder & Stoughton Ltd.)

  Frank Maxwell, VC, by his wife (John Murray, 1921)

  By-Ways on Service, Notes from an Australian Journal, Hector Dinning (Constable & Co. Ltd., 1918)

  Behind the Lines, Colonel W. N. Nicholson, CMG, DSO (Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1939)

  Extracts from an Officer’s Diary 1914–1918, Lieutenant-Colonel Harrison Jodston, DSO (Geo. Falkner & Sons, 1919)

  Happy Odyssey, Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, VC (Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1950)

  A Private In the Guards, Stephen Graham (William Heinemann Ltd., 1928)

  Our War, James Milroy McQueen (privately published by the author, 1921)

  Treasure Trove of Memories, Hector Macdonald (privately published by the author)

  German Spies at Bay, Sidney Theodore Felstead (Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., 1920)

  Open House in Flanders, Baroness Ernest de la Grange (John Murray Ltd., 1929)

  Quand Montreuil Était sur Mer, Jean Leroy (Quentovic)

  GHQ, Montreuil-Sur-Mer, GSO (Philip Allen & Co., 1920)

  A PILGRIM IN PICARDY, B. S. Townrowe (Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1927)

  With the British on the Somme, W. Beach Thomas (Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1917)

  England in France, Sidney R. Jones (Constable & Co. Ltd., 1919)

  Le Temps des Guerres 1914–1939, Gerard Boutet (Editions De Noel, 1981)

  L’Hécatombe Sacrée de la Flandre Française 1914–1918, (Imprimerie Desclée, Lille, 1921)

  An Der Somme. Erinnerungen der 12 Infanterie-Division an die Stellungskampfe und Schlacht an der Somme Oktober bis November 1916, Verlagsbuchhand-lung (Berlin, Ferd. Dümmlers, 1918)

  Author’s Note

  I wish to acknowledge my debt to all of the following, without whose valuable assistance this book could never have been written.

  Captain A. J. J. P. Agius, MC,

  1st/3rd (City of London)

  Battalion, London Regiment

  (Royal Fusiliers) (TF).

  Acting Corporal E. J. Albrow,

  7th (S) Battalion, Norfolk

  Regiment.

  Private J. W. Alderson, 4th

  Battalion, Grenadier Guards.

  Private F. J. Alhquist, 2nd/20th

  (County of London) Battalion,

  London Regiment

  (Blackheath and Woolwich).

  Gunner H. J. Allen, Royal Siege

  Artillery.

  Lance-Corporal J. F. E. Alpe,

  13th (S) Battalion, The Rifle

  Brigade.

  Corporal F. Arnold, 21st (S)

  Battalion (Yeoman Rifles),

  King’s Royal Rifle Corps.

  Private C. D. Ashby, 4th

  Battalion, Duke of

  Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex

  Regiment).

  Captain A. L. Ashwell, DSO,

  8th Battalion (Nottinghamshire

  and Derbyshire Regiment)

  Sherwood Foresters (TF).

  Lieutenant F. Bailey, 3rd

  Battalion, Royal Scots.

  Lance-Corporal S. F. Bailey, 1st

  Life Guards.

  Staff Sergeant W. W. Bain, 15th

  (S) Battalion, (1st London

  Welsh), Royal Welsh

  Fusiliers.

  Sergeant F. Baker, TD, 1st/5th

  Battalion, Lincolnshire

  Regiment (TF).

  Rifleman J. Baker, 13th (S)

  Battalion, The Rifle Brigade.

  Private L. M. Baldwin, MM, 8th

  (S) Battalion, East Surrey

  Regiment.

  Signaller H. J. Bale, 308 Brigade,

  Royal Field Artillery; 242

  Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.

  Gunner W. Ballard, D Battery,

  290 Brigade, Royal Field

  Artillery.

  Corporal W. Banks, 21st (S)

  Battalion (Yeoman
Rifles),

  King’s Royal Rifle Corps.

  Sergeant F. J. Bantock, Royal

  Regiment of Artillery.

  Private W. J. Barfoot, 11th (S)

  Battalion, Queen’s (Royal

  West Surrey) Regiment.

  Rifleman G. W. Barker, 21st (S)

  Battalion (Yeoman Rifles),

  King’s Royal Rifle Corps.

  Rifleman G. Barnes, MM, 13th

  Battalion, The Rifle Brigade.

  Corporal G. Barnes, 8th

  Battalion, Oxford &

  Buckinghamshire Light

  Infantry.

  Private W. S. Barnett, 8th

  Battalion (City of London),

  London Regiment. Post

  Office Rifles (TF).

  Sergeant A. A. Barron, 16th (S)

  Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle

  Corps.

  Trooper G. O. Barson,

  Household Battalion, 2nd

  Life Guards.

  Private P. J. Batchelor, D.

  Squadron, Queen’s Own

  Oxfordshire Hussars.

  Sergeant H. Bartlett, 115th

  Brigade, Royal Field

  Artillery.

  Private F. H. Bastable, 7th (S)

  Battalion, Queen’s Own

  (Royal West Kent Regiment).

  Private H. S. Baverstock, 12th

  Battalion, 1st Canterbury

  Regiment, New Zealand

  Division.

  Lieutenant F. W. Beadle, 156

  Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.

  Lance-Corporal G. R. Bealing,

  MM, Duke of Edinburgh’s

  2nd Battalion (Wiltshire

  Regiment).

  Corporal J. Beament, MM, 16th

  (S) Battalion, King’s Royal

  Rifle Corps.

  Sergeant S. V. Bearup, 21st (S)

  Battalion (Yeoman Rifles),

  King’s Royal Rifle Corps.

  Rifleman S. Bell, 21st (S)

  Battalion (Yeoman Rifles),

  King’s Royal Rifle Corps.

  Private W. G. Bell, MM, Army

  Cyclist Corps.

  Private J. R. Bennett, 22nd

  Battalion, Australian Imperial

  Forces.

  Private J. Bennett, 15th (County

  of London) Battalion, London

  Regiment (Prince of Wales’

  Own, Civil Service Rifles)

  (TF).

  Lance-Corporal T. A. Bennett,

  7th (S) Battalion, The Rifle

  Brigade.

  Sub-Lieutenant J. H. Bentham,

  Hood Battalion, Royal Naval

  Division.

  Private H. W. Bickerstaff, MM,

  19th Battalion, Canadian

  Expeditionary Force.

  Private W. A. Billingham, 25th

  Battalion, Machine Gun

  Corps.

  Private F. W. Bindley, 2nd

  Battalion, Honourable Artillery

  Company.

  Private T. Bingham, 12th (S)

  Battalion, York and Lancaster

  Regiment.

  Rifleman H. Blackburn Croix

  de Guerre, 21st (S) Battalion

  (Yeoman Rifles), King’s

  Royal Rifle Corps.

  Sergeant-Major J. F.

  Blackemore, MM, 2nd

  Canterbury Infantry Battalion,

  New Zealand Division.

  Private H. Blankley, 5th

  Battalion, Northumberland

  Fusiliers (TF).

  Gunner R. Bletcher, 280 Siege

  Battery, Royal Garrison

  Artillery.

  Rifleman T. S. Bond, 11th

  (S) Battalion, The Rifle

  Brigade.

  Private G. Boss, 1st/8th (City of

  London Battalion), London

  Regiment (Post Office

  Rifles).

  Lance-Sergeant J. L. Bouch, 1st

  Battalion, Coldstream

  Guards.

  Rifleman W. Bowhill, 13th (S)

  Battalion, The Rifle Brigade.

  Rifleman A. E. Boyland, 13th (S)

  Battalion, The Rifle Brigade.

  Corporal T. Bracey, MM, 9th

  (S) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers

  (City of London Regiment).

  Major W. J. Brockman, DSO,

  15th (S) Battalion, Lancashire

  Fusiliers (1st Salford).

  2nd Lieutenant H. Brooks, 6th

  Battalion, Tank Corps.

  Lance-Bombardier J. H.

  Bromwich, 138th Heavy

  Battery, Royal Garrison

  Artillery.

  Private A. B. Brown, 21st

  (County of London), London

  Regiment (1st Surrey Rifles)

  (TF).

  Private H. R. Brown, 2nd

  Battalion, Royal Marine Light

  Infantry.

  Sergeant J. Brown, MM, 16th (S)

  Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle

  Corps.

  Corporal A. T. A. Browne, MM

  (TD), 20th (S) Battalion,

  Royal Fusiliers (City of

  London Regiment).

  Sergeant J. Bryant, MM, 8th

  Battalion, Australian Imperial

  Forces.

  Corporal A. W. Buckingham,

  70th Company Motor

  Transport, Army Service

  Corps.

  Rifleman A. E. Burroughs, 7th

  (S) Battalion, King’s Royal

  Rifle Corps.

  Gunner Charles E. Burrows, 104

  Battery, 22nd Brigade, Royal

  Field Artillery.

  Sergeant G. Butler, 12th

  Machine Gun Company, 4th

  Division.

  Lieutenant S. A. V. Butler, 3rd

  Battalion, King’s Own

  (Yorkshire Light Infantry).

  Private F. Burbeck, 2nd

  Battalion, Oxfordshire and

  Buckinghamshire Light

  Infantry.

  Private W. H. Callow, 15th (S)

  Battalion, Royal Welsh

  Fusiliers (1st London

  Welsh).

  Rifleman T. E. Cantlon, 18th

  and 21st Battalions (Yeoman

  Rifles), King’s Royal Rifle

  Corps.

  Corporal C. G. Capel, 1st

  Battalion, Oxfordshire and

  Buckinghamshire Light

  Infantry.

  Rifleman N. Carmichael, 21st (S)

  Battalion (Yeoman Rifles),

  King’s Royal Rifle Corps.

  Rifleman C. Carter, 5th (City of

  London) Battalion, London

  Regiment, (London Rifle

  Brigade) (TF).

  Private W. F. R. Carter, 7th (S)

  and 9th (S) Battalions,

  Leicestershire Regiment.

  Private E. S. Cecil, 2nd Battalion,

  Hampshire Regiment.

  Captain Leonard Chamberlen,

  MC, 13th (S) Battalion, The

  Rifle Brigade.

  Private W. Chambers, 1st

  Battalion, (Nottinghamshire

  and Derbyshire Regiment),

  Sherwood Foresters.

  Rifleman A. L. Chapman, 21st

  (S) Battalion ( Yeomans Rifles),

  King’s Royal Rifle Corps.

  Rifleman S. F. Charrington, 13th

  (S) Battalion, The Rifle

  Brigade.

  Private H. M. Chaundy, MC,

  Motor Transport, Army

  Service Corps (later

  Lieutenant).

  Pioneer G. T. H. Cheeseman,

  7th Signal Troop, 3rd Cavalry

  Division, Royal Engineers

  (Signal Service).

  Colonel R. A. Chell, DSO,

  MC, 10th (S) Battalion, Essex

  Regiment.

  Corporal R. T. Chiffey, 33rd

  Division, Royal Engineers

  (Signal Service).

/>   Private J. J. Christie, 8th (S)

  Battalion, Gordon

  Highlanders.

  Private Percy Clark, 5th

  Battalion, Cheshire Regiment

  (TF).

  Acting Lance-Corporal F. B. J.

  Cleary, 1st/5th (City of

  London) Battalion, London

  Regiment (London Rifle

  Brigade) (TF).

  Private J. Clements, Royal

  Marine Light Infantry.

  Sergeant H. B. Coates, 14th

  (County of London)

  Battalion, London Regiment,

  (London Scottish) (TF).

  Sergeant F. H. Cobb, 18th (S)

  Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle

  Corps.

  Company Sergeant-Major W. J.

  Coggins, D C M, 1st/4th

  Battalion, Oxfordshire and

  Buckinghamshire Light

  Infantry (TF).

  Rifleman W. F. Coldrick, 13th

  (S) Battalion, The Rifle

  Brigade.

  Corporal C. F. Cole, 2nd/21st

  (County of London)

  Battalion, London Regiment

  (1st Surrey Rifles) (TF).

  Sapper A. E. Comer, 1st Field

  Company, Royal Engineers.

  Corporal W. E. Cook, Royal

  Engineers.

  Corporal F. H. Corduker, 21st

  (S) Battalion (Yeoman

  Rifles), King’s Royal Rifle

  Corps.

  Rifleman A. W. C. Corkett,

  11th (S) Battalion, The Rifle

  Brigade.

  Trooper J. Cowling, 18th

  Hussars.

  Lieutenant T. C. Cresswell, MC,

  Hood Battalion, Royal Naval

  Division.

  Gunner A. E. Crook, J. Battery,

  Royal Horse Artillery.

  Sergeant J. T. Cross, 13th (S)

  Battalion, The Rifle Brigade.

  Private R. T. Crowe, 2nd

  Battalion, The Highland Light

  Infantry.

  Private Frederick Darby, DCM,

  10th (S) Battalion,

  Worcestershire Regiment.

  Sergeant William Darlington,

  18th (S) Battalion, Manchester

  Regiment.

  Corporal L. A. Darnell, 11th

  Battalion, Sussex Regiment.

  Sergeant E. J. Davidson, MM,

  Royal Engineers.

  Corporal W.J. Davies, 18th Field

  Ambulance, Royal Army

  Medical Corps.

  Private J. Dearman, 266th Field

  Company, Royal Engineers.

  Private E. Deighton, 8th (S)

  Battalion, King’s Own

  Yorkshire Light Infantry.

  Private J. W. Dicker, 13th (S)

  Battalion, The Rifle Brigade.

  Sergeant R. Dickson, MM,

  3rd Battalion, Grenadier

  Guards.

  Corporal H. Diffey, 15th (S)

  Battalion (1st London Welsh),

  Royal Welsh Fusiliers.

  Corporal A. W. Dunbar, 236

  Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.

  Sergeant-Pilot G. F. Duncan,

 

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