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(Royal West Kent Regiment).
Private F. Rogers, 11th (S)
Battalion, Royal Sussex
Regiment (1st South Down).
Private R. K. Rolfe, 26th (S)
Battalion (Bankers), Royal
Fusiliers.
Private H. B. Rose, 1st Battalion,
Trench Artillery; 151st Field
Artillery, 42nd (Rainbow)
Division. U.S. Army.
Rifleman W. T. Rowe, MM,
13th (S) Battalion, The Rifle
Brigade.
Rifleman C. P. J. Ruck, 3rd/2nd
Battalion, The London Rifle
Brigade.
Private E. W. Russell, 5th
Canadian Battalion (Western
Cavalry), Canadian
Expeditionary Force.
Captain F. C. Russell, 22nd
Battalion, Australian Imperial
Forces.
Private A. Ryland, 13th (S)
Battalion, The Rifle Brigade.
Major R. F. J. Sanders, TD, 16th
Heavy Battery, Royal
Garrison Artillery.
Rifleman H. F. Saunders, 16th
(S) Battalion, King’s Royal
Rifle Corps.
Rifleman F. Saville, 21st (S)
Battalion (Yeoman Rifles),
King’s Royal Rifle Corps
(Church Lads Brigade).
Gunner W. Sayers, 1st/3rd
London Regiment, Royal
Fusiliers (TF) Tank Corps.
Rifleman A. T. Sears, 11th (S)
Battalion, The Rifle Brigade.
Corporal W. H. Shaw, 9th (S)
Battalion, Royal Welsh
Fusiliers.
Rifleman H. V. Shawyer, 13th
(S) Battalion, The Rifle
Brigade.
Rifleman C. W. Shepherd, 13th
(S) Battalion, The Rifle
Brigade.
Rifleman, J. Shrimpton, 13th (S)
Battalion, The Rifle Brigade.
Signaller A. V. Simpson, 2nd/6th
Battalion, Duke of
Wellington’s (West Riding
Regiment).
Private J. Simpson, 2nd
Battalion, Grenadier Guards.
Sergeant J. Skuce, 2nd Battalion,
Irish Guards.
Captain C. M. Slack, MC and
Bar, 1st/4th Battalion, East
Yorkshire Regiment (TF)
(then Lieutenant).
Private H. J. Smith, 9th (S)
Battalion (Northumberland
Hussars Yeomanry),
Northumberland Fusiliers.
Corporal H. W. Smith, MM,
13th (S) Battalion, The Rifle
Brigade.
Rifleman R. W. Smith, 13th (S)
Battalion, The Rifle Brigade.
Corporal R. Smith, 21st (S)
Battalion (Yeoman Rifles),
King’s Royal Rifle Corps.
Warrant Officer S. A. Smith,
11th (S) Battalion, The Rifle
Brigade.
Rifleman E. G. Snell, 5th (City
of London) Battalion,
London Regiment (London
Rifle Brigade) (TF).
Corporal A. E. Somerset,
3rd Battalion, Grenadier
Guards.
Corporal R. G. Spearman, 19th
Heavy Battery, Royal Field
Artillery, Royal Garrison
Artillery.
Corporal T. A. Spencer, MM,
Royal Scots Fusiliers; 108
Machine Gun Company,
Machine Gun Corps.
Rifleman C. Spilsbury, 11th
(S) Battalion, The Rifle
Brigade.
Private F. G. Staite, MM and
Bar, 1st/8th Battalion,
Worcestershire Regiment
(TF).
Private C. S. Stevens, 1st
Battalion, Leicestershire
Regiment.
Acting Sergeant-Major W. O.
Stevenson, DCM, MM, 6th
(Renfrewshire) Battalion,
Argyll and Sutherland
Highlanders.
Bombardier B. O. Stokes, 3rd
Brigade, New Zealand Field
Artillery.
Private W. T. Stokes, 2nd/4th
Battalion, Royal Berkshire
Regiment (TF).
Corporal H. L. Stride, 13th (S)
Battalion, The Rifle Brigade.
Private G. C. Stubbs, Royal
Army Medical Corps, 12th
Field Ambulance, 4th
Division.
2nd Lieutenant J. A. Talbot, 10th
(S) Battalion, The Rifle
Brigade.
Reverend E. Tanner, MC and
Bar, Chaplain 4th Class, 2nd
Battalion, Worcestershire
Regiment.
Corporal J. H. Tansley, 9th (S)
Battalion, York and Lancaster
Regiment.
Corporal R. Tate, 3rd Battalion,
Tank Corps.
Private W. Tate, 4th Battalion
(Pioneers), Coldstream Guards.
Private W. R. Thomas, 14th (S)
Battalion, Royal Welsh
Fusiliers.
Major A. G. C. Thompson,
Royal Army Medical Corps.
Corporal R. E. Thompson, 13th
(S) Battalion, The Rifle
Brigade.
Rifleman A. E. Thorne, MBE,
13th (S) Battalion, The Rifle
Brigade.
Lance-Corporal C. Tomlinson,
King’s Own (Liverpool
Regiment).
Corporal F. C. Toogood, 3rd
Wellington Battalion, 4th
New Zealand Brigade.
Private J. F. Tucker, 1st/13th
(County of London) (Princess
Louise’s Kensington
Battalion), London Regiment
(T F).
Corporal J. Turnbull, 8th (S)
Battalion, King’s Own
Yorkshire Light Infantry.
Corporal W. B. Turnbull, 12th
(S) Battalion, The Rifle
Brigade.
Private H. Turner, 50th
Divisional Machine Gun
Corps.
Lance-Corporal Bugler W. S.
Turner, 15th Battalion,
Highland Light Infantry (City
of Glasgow Corporation
Tramways Battalion).
Private J. E. Tyson, 3rd
Battalion, King’s Own (Royal
Lancaster Regiment).
Sergeant F. G. Udall, MM and
two Bars, 4th Battalion,
London Regiment (Royal
Fusiliers) (TF).
Corporal F. G. Vail, MD,
Machine Gun Corps.
Private A. Vanpraagh, 253
Tunnelling Company, Royal
Engineers.
Corporal E. C. Vickery, 13th (S)
Battalion (Forest of Dean)
(Pioneers), Gloucestershire
Regiment.
Major E. H. Wade, MC and Bar,
South Staffordshire Regiment,
Machine Gun Corps.
Able-Seaman J. A. Wade, D
Company, Hawke Battalion,
63rd Royal Naval Division.
Worker C. H. Wagstaff (now
Mrs Brereton), No. 26178,
Womens Auxiliary Army
Corps.
Company Quartermaster-Sergeant J. Wainwright, 5th
Battalion, Machine Gun
Corps.
Private A. E. Walker, 4th
Battalion, Northumberland
Fusiliers.
Sapper F. E. Waldron, 30th
Division, Signals, Royal
Engineers.
Sergeant R. Walker, 126
Machine Gun Corps, 42nd
Division.
Corporal J. Wallace, Oxfordshire
and Bu
ckinghamshire Light
Infantry.
Sergeant A. B. Walsh, Royal
Engineers.
Trooper H. P. Ward, Queen’s
Own Oxfordshire Hussars
and Machine Gun Corps.
Sergeant W. Ward, MM, 2nd
Battalion, Grenadier Guards.
Lance-Corporal D. A. M.
Watson, 9th, 12th and 11th
Battalions, Royal Scots.
Private F. Watts, 4th Battalion,
North Staffordshire Regiment.
Private H. W. H. Watts, 2nd
Battalion, Queen’s (Royal
West Surrey Regiment).
Acting-Corporal R. Weeber,
13th (S) Battalion, The Rifle
Brigade.
Private A. E. West, Duke of
Cambridge’s Own
(Middlesex Regiment).
Sergeant F. Wheatcroft, Machine
Gun Corps.
Rifleman F. C. White, 10th (S)
Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle
Corps.
Private W. E. White,
Oxfordshire and
Buckinghamshire Light
Infantry.
Lance-Corporal A. J.
Whitehouse, MM, Lancashire
Fusiliers.
Corporal J. E. H. Whittaker, 21st
(S) Battalion (Yeoman
Rifles), King’s Royal Rifle
Corps.
Private E. Wickens, 12th (S)
Battalion, Duke of
Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex
Regiment).
Sergeant A. E. Wiffen, 9th
Battalion, Essex Regiment.
Corporal H. G. Wild, Royal
Flying Corps.
2nd Lieutenant M. C.
Wilkinson, 25th Battalion,
Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
Trooper C. H. Williams, MM,
Royal Buckinghamshire
Hussars (TF).
Corporal E. G. Williams, 19th
Battalion, King’s (Liverpool
Regiment).
Gunner G. A. Williams, MM
and Bar, 232 Brigade, Royal
Field Artillery.
Gunner H. G. R. Williams, 5th
Battalion, London Regiment
(London Rifle Brigade).
Rifleman CQMS H. Willis, 21st
(S) Battalion (Yeoman Rifles),
King’s Royal Rifle Corps.
Lieutenant A. G. Wilson, MC,
1st/5th Battalion, Prince of
Wales’ Own (West Yorkshire
Regiment) (T F).
Private C. A. Wilson, MM, 1st
Battalion, Grenadier Guards.
Lance-Sergeant G. E.
Winterbourne, 16th (County
of London) Battalion, London
Regiment (Queen’s
Westminster Rifles) (TF).
Lieutenant T. H. Witherow, 8th
(S) Battalion (East Belfast),
Royal Irish Rifles.
Acting-Corporal L. Wolfe, MM,
6th Battalion, King’s Own
Scottish Borderers.
Sergeant A. Wolfman, A
Company, A Battalion, Heavy
Branch Machine Gun Corps
(Tanks).
Private C. T. Wood, Royal
Army Medical Corps.
Corporal H. C. Wood, MM,
East Surrey Regiment and
Royal Flying Corps.
Lance-Corporal J. D. Woodside,
16th (S) Battalion, Highland
Light Infantry.
Private F. Woolley, 2nd/4th
Battalion, South Lancashire
Regiment.
Private J. H. Worker, ist
Battalion, Scots Guards.
Rifleman W.J. Worrell, 12th (S)
Battalion, The Rifle Brigade.
Gunner G. Worsley, 276
Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.
Lance-Corporal G. Worth, 6th
Battalion, Prince of Wales’
Own (North Staffordshire
Regiment) (TF).
Gunner E. C. Wright, 62nd
Brigade, Royal Field
Artillery.
Lance-Corporal F. Wright,
Royal Warwickshire
Regiment.
Corporal G. Wright, Machine
Gun Corps.
Platoon Sergeant G. S. W.
Yarnall, 14th Battalion,
London Regiment (London
Scottish).
Corporal J. H. Yeoman, 21st (S)
Battalion ( Yeoman Rifles),
King’s Royal Rifle Corps.
Corporal R. Zealley, 18th (S)
Battalion (1st Public Schools)
Royal Fusiliers, City of
London Regiment.
Index
Abbeville, 186
Acklom, Major, 76, 77, 97
Adams, Rifleman, 24
Agius, Arthur, 32, 34–5, 57, 68–9, 203–4, 269–70, 304–5, 332
Ainger, Mr, 205, 206
Albert, 7, 80, 108–9, 111, 114, 131, 267
Ale trench, 279, 284, 286, 287
Alexandra, Queen, 217
Amiens, 8, 80–83, 267
Anzac, 115, 164–72, 173–8, 255
Archer-Shee, Colonel, 258
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 321, 341–2, 343
Armistead, Lieutenant, 253
Army School of Instruction, 22
Army Service Corps, 191–3
Arras, 35, 40
Artillery Observation Post, 63
Artists’ Rifles, 216
Aubers ridge, 32, 167–9
Australian Divisions, 115, 164–72, 173–83, 255, 261, 339
Australian Division, 1st, 177, 178, 182, 255
Australian Division, 2nd, 177, 182, 183
Australian Division, 5th, 167
Authuille, 6, 8, 38, 66
Authuille Wood, 74
Auxi-le-Chateau, 22, 23, 25–7, 203
Aveluy, 7
Aveluy Wood, 7, 52, 65, 251, 346
Bailieul, 174
Baird, Brigadier General, 142, 149, 150
Balfourier, General, 136–7
Banks, Billy, 283, 294, 298
Bapaume, 3, 37, 267, 332
Barrington, Sir Eric, 24
Barter, Sir Charles, 296
Barton, Pipe-Sergeant, 17
Barton-Smith, Charles, 146
Basin Wood, 71
Bath, Ethel, 303–4, 30
Bath, Reg, 304
Bavestock, Harry, 267, 271–2, 280, 298
Bavincourt, 90–92
Bazentin, 142, 213
Bazentin Le Grand, 137
Bazentin Le Petit, 137, 142, 145, 161
Bazentin ridge, 177
Bazentin Wood, 162
Beadle, Fred, 140–41, 142
Bealing, Roy, 97–100, 103, 211
Beament, Jack, 144, 148–8, 151–5, 158, 159–60
Beament, Stanley, 159–60
Beaucourt, 38, 339, 351, 352
Beaucourt Trench, 351
Beaumont Hamel, 37–9, 59, 72, 73, 113, 265, 339–48, 352, 355
Beauquesne, 41, 42–3
Beaurepaire, 40
Bécordel, 271
Bécourt, 173
Bécourt Château, 77
Bell, Frank, 26
Bell, W. G., 301–2
Bennett, Tommy, 333–4
Bentham, Jeremy, 336, 345
Benton, Lieutenant, 295, 322, 323
Bernafay Wood, 120, 290
Bienvillers, 111
Birdwood, General, 165, 183
Birkett, Sid, 26
Biss, 271, 298
Bissell, Corporal, 350
‘Black Buttoned Bastards’, 28
Boisselle, la, 38, 39, 62, 76, 77, 78, 84, 88, 97, 98, 100–104, 113, 114, 116, 121, 176, 211
Bottomley, Horatio, 179
Bouch, John, 289, 328–9
Bouleaux Wood, 268
Bouzincourt, 43, 65
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Bradley, Corporal, 260
Bréda, Comtesse de, 7–8
Bréda, Monsieur le Compte de, 7
Bresle, 96, 106, 131
Brown, Captain, 298
Brown, Jack, 143, 144, 145–8, 150–54, 158
Burrows, Charles E., 47
Burrows, Lieutenant, 58
Butler, George, 327–8
Butler, Harry, 73
Butte de Warlencourt, 339
Buxton, Mr & Mrs, 148
Calonne, 333
Cameron, General, 62
Cameron, Jack, 91
Campbell, Colonel, 288–9
Canadian Divisions, 297, 319
Canterbury Battalion, 267, 270
Cantlon, T., 86
Carmichael, Norman, 294–5, 298
Chantilly Conference, 12, 13, 340, 351, 352
Chapman, Harry, 148
Chaulnes, 8
Chell, Robert, 62, 79
Chiltern, Sergeant, 313
Chinese Labour Corps, 196–9
Church Lads Brigade, 143–8, 150–55, 158–60, 209–11
Churchill, Winston, 217–18
Clegg, Bill, 64
Coates, Harry, 57–8, 69–71
Coates, Lieutenant, 324
Cochrane Alley, 216, 217
Coldstream Guards, 272–4, 288–9, 328–9
Coles, Charles, 288
Combles, 319
Comer, A. E., 181
Contalmaison, 118, 120–24, 128, 171, 213, 325
Contay, 183
Cooban, Major, 151, 152
Corbie, 6, 259
Courcelette, 293, 297, 319
Crease, Fred, 110
Crècy, 197, 202
Cross, Jack, 24, 109–10, 111–12, 117, 123–4, 127, 129
Crosse, Captain, 287
Croucher, Sergeant-Major, 129
Cuffley, 311
Cunliffe, Sir Foster, 110, 111, 129–30
Cunnington, Clem, 75
Curtis, Charlie, 314
Darby, Fred, 100–102
Darling, Dick, 117
Daynes, Sid, 94–5
Deccan Horse, 141
Deighton, Ernest, 61, 74–6, 86–7, 96, 321, 323, 325
Delve, Professor, 202
Delville Wood, 79, 137, 138, 143, 156, 173, 177, 213, 214, 220, 231, 232, 234, 255, 268, 277, 278, 281, 284, 286–7, 291, 295
Denham, 146, 147–8
Destremont Farm, 325
Dillsen, Telly, 90–92
Divisional Artillery, 7th, 47
Division, 3rd, 137, 341
Division, 4th, 37
Division, 6th, 277, 288
Division, 7th, 137, 138, 139, 142, 149, 150
Division, 8th, 28, 321
Division, 11th, 320
Division, 14th, 288, 289, 293
Division, 16th, 248
Division, 18th, 62, 240
Division, 19th, 96–7, 105, 113
Division, 21st, 28, 140, 142
Division, 23rd, 121, 124–5, 126, 321
Division, 25th, 121, 125, 126
Division, 29th, 37
Division, 30th, 62
Division, 31st, 36–7, 60, 165
Division, 32nd, 52
Division, 33rd, 139–40, 142, 149, 232, 234
Division, 34th, 16–18, 62, 89, 106, 107, 112–13, 116, 160–61
Division, 36th, 60
Division, 37th, 22, 32, 90, 92, 106–7
Division, 38th, 121
Division, 39th, 250, 254
Division 41st, 293
Division, 46th, 32, 34, 36, 68