History of the East Surrey Regt, Vol. 2, by Colonel H. W. Pearse, DSO, and Brigadier-General H. S. Sloman, CMG, DSO (Medici Society, 1923).
The Worcestershire Regiment in the Great War, by Captain H. FitzM. Stacke, MC (G.T. Cheshire).
The History of the London Rifle Brigade 1859–1919, (Constable, 1921).
The History of the Rifle Brigade in the War of 1914–1918, Vol. 1, August 1914–December 1916, by Reginald Berkeley, MC (The Rifle Brigade Club, 1927).
The War History of the Sixth Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment (T.F.) (William Heinemann, 1924).
9th Royal Scots (T.F.), B Company on Active Service: From a Private’s Diary, February-May 1915 (Turnbull and Spears, 1916).
Notes and Comments on the Dardanelles Campaign, by A. Kearsey, DSO, OBE (Gale and Polden).
With the Twenty-Ninth Division in Gallipoli: A Chaplain’s Experiences, by Rev. O. Creighton, CF (Longmans; Green and Co., 1916).
War Memoirs of David Lloyd George, Vol. 1 (Odhams Press, 1933).
1914 by Field-Marshal Viscount French of Ypres, KP, OM (Constable, 1919).
The Private Papers of Douglas Haig 1914–1919, edited by Robert Blake (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1952).
The Supreme Command 1914–1918, Vol. 1, by Lord Hankey (Allen and Unwin, 1961).
Khaki and Gown: An Autobiography, by Field-Marshal Lord Birdwood of Anzac and Totnes, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, CIE, DSO (Ward, Lock, 1941).
Experiences of a Dug-Out 1914–1918, by Major-General Sir C. E. Callwell, KCB (Constable, 1920).
Tunnellers All, by Edward Synton (Grant Richards, 1918).
War Underground: The Tunnellers of the Great War, by Alexander Barrie (Tom Donovan, 1961).
Kitchener’s Army: The Raising of the New Armies, 1914–1916, by Peter Simkins (Manchester University Press, 1988).
The King’s Royal Rifle Corps Chronicle 1915 (The Wykeham Press, 1916).
The Rifle Brigade Chronicle for 1915, 1918 and 1920 (John Bale, 1916, 1919 and 1921).
1915 Campaign in France, The Battles of Aubers Ridge, Festubert and Loos: Considered in Relation to the Field Service Regulations, by A. Kearsey, DSO, OBE (Gale and Polden, 1929).
Official History of the War: Medical Services, Vol. 2 (HMSO, 1923)
British Regiments, 1914–1918, by Brigadier E. A. James, OBE, TD (Samson, 1978).
Army Lists for 1915 and 1918.
Field Service Pocket Book 1914 (HMSO).
World War 1914–1918: A Pictured History, Vol. 1, edited by Sir John Hammerton (Amalgamated Press).
The Great War… ‘I Was There’, Vol. 1, edited by Sir John Hammerton (Amalgamated Press).
Students Under Arms, by Alexander Rule, MC, MA (Aberdeen University Press, 1934).
Behind the Lines, by Colonel W. N. Nicholson, CMG, DSO (Jonathan Cape, 1939).
By-Ways on Service: Notes from an Australian Journal, by Hector Dinning (Constable, 1918).
Mosaic of Memories, by Lieutenant-Colonel Ronald Fife, CMG, DSO (Heath Cranton, 1943).
David Graham-Pole: War Letters and Autobiography (privately published).
Fate is My Shepherd, by R. A. Chapman (privately published).
Diary of Capt. Bryden McKinnell, 10th (Scottish) Battalion King’s Liverpool Regiment (privately published).
A Frenchman in Khaki, by Paul Maze, DCM, MM with bar, C de G (Heinemann, 1934).
Van Den Grooten Oorlog, Elfnovembergroep (Volksboek, 1978).
Oorlogsdagboeken Over leper (1914–1915), Jozef Geldhof (Genootschap Voor Geschiedenis, 1977).
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. Agius, MC, 3rd (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment Royal Fusiliers (TF).
Miss Anne Armstrong.
Private G. Ashurst, 1st Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers.
Lieutenant F. R. Banks, CB, OBE, Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve.
Private F. T. Barlow, 7th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment.
Lieutenant G. Barry, MC, Platoon Commander No. 2 Company, 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards.
Rifleman J. Bassett, 8th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade.
Private Frank Bastable, 7th Battalion, Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment, 55 Brigade.
Trooper P. Batchelor, D Squadron, Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars (TY).
Sergeant Joe Beard, 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 6 Brigade.
Colonel Gordon Beith, 24th Battalion, Australian Infantry Force.
Able Seaman J. S. Bentham, Ben-bow Battalion, 1st Brigade, Royal Naval Division.
Right Commander R. D. Best, 53rd Squadron, Royal Flying Corps.
Private H. W. Bickerstaff, MM, 19th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force.
Corporal J. L. Bouch, 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards.
Private J. Bowles, 2/16th Battalion (County of London Regiment), Queen’s Westminster Rifles.
Captain G. A. Brett, DSO, MC, 23rd (County of London Regiment) (TF).
Sergeant B. J. Brookes, l/16th Battalion, Queen’s Westminster Rifles (County of London Regiment).
Private T. Brown, MM, 6th/7th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders.
Private R. Burns, 7th Battalion, Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders.
Gunner C. B. Burrows, 104 Battery 22 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.
Sergeant G. Butler, 12th Battalion, Machine Gun Company.
Private T. Campbell, 7th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders.
2nd Lieutenant G. V. Carey, A Company, 8th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade.
Private W. Carrol, 21st Battalion, Australian Infantry Force.
Petty Officer R. C. Chadwick, Royal Navy, HMS Edgar.
Trooper G. C. Chaplin, 1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry (TY).
Lieutenant (later Major-General) A. F. P. Christison, MC, 6th Battalion, Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, 45 Brigade.
Gunner S. T. Clark, 108 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.
Signaller H. J. Crask, MM, 1st Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment, 84 Brigade.
Private Η. B. Coates, 14th (London Scottish) Battalion (County of London), 1st Brigade.
Company Sergeant-Major W. J. Coggins, 4th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (TF).
Lance-Corporal G. Cole, 4th Battalion, Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment).
Private J. Cole, 2nd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment.
Sergeant W. J. Collins, Royal Army Medical Corps.
Sergeant John Combe, lst/7th (Leith) Battalion (TF), The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment).
Corporal W. F. Common, D Battery, 250 Brigade, 50th Division Tyneside.
Driver C. W. Coombs, ASC, 158 Company, 20th Division.
Mrs A. E. Cowley.
Private Tom Coy, 6th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment.
Lieutenant T. C. Cresswell, MC, Hood Battalion, Royal Naval Division.
Private G. Cribley, 8th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, 57 Brigade.
Corporal A. Critchley, MM, lst/7th Battalion, King’s (Liverpool) Regiment.
2nd Lieutenant W. Cushing, 9th (Service) Battalion, Norfolk Regiment.
Corporal G. R. Daniels, 12th (Bermondsey) Battalion, East Surrey Regiment.
Pioneer W. A. Daulman, Royal Engineers.
Private H. K. Davis, 5th (City of London) Battalion (London Rifle Brigade).
Private W. Derbyshire, 19th Canadian Infantry Battalion.
M. Pierre Dewavrin.
Mme Germaine Dewavrin.
Lance-Corporal A. F. T. Diamond, Special Gas Brigade, Royal Engineers.
Sergeant William Dixon, DCM, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
Lance-Corporal J. Dorgan, 7th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers.
Corporal W. M. Draycott, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry.
Bombardier Alex Dunbar, A Battery, Royal Field Artillery, 236 Brigade.
Sergeant S. C. Duncan, 6th Battalion, King’s Own Scott
ish Borderers.
Private H. N. Edwards, 6th (Bristol City) Battalion, Gloucester Regiment.
Driver A. A. Elderkin, 2 Brigade, 1st Canadian Division.
Lance-Corporal G. England, 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards.
Private Harry Fellowes, 12th Battalion, The Northumberland Fusiliers, 62 Brigade.
Private B. Felstead, 15th (S) Battalion (1st London Welsh) Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
Lance-Corporal J. W. Finnimore, 3rd Battalion, 1st Canadian Brigade.
Driver Rodger Fish, Motor Transport Service, Army Service Corps.
Company Quartermaster-Sergeant Gordon Fisher, 1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment (TF), 6 Brigade.
Private W. S. Fisher, 1st Hertfordshire Yeomanry (TY).
Private E. W. Ford, 10th Battalion, Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment.
Lieutenant-Commander J. C. For-ster, Hood Battalion, Royal Naval Division.
Private S. Fraser, MM, 2nd Battalion, Honourable Artillery Company (TF).
Sergeant H. G. Freestone, 1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment (TF).
Corporal F. H. Fuller, MC, 1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment (TF).
Corporal G. Gilbert, A Squadron, 13th Australian Light Horse.
2nd Lieutenant J. R. Glenn, 12th Battalion, Yorkshire and Lancashire Regiment (Sheffield Pals).
Private F. Gowland, 10th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, 57 Brigade.
Private J. Hardesty, 7th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancashire Regiment.
Private W. Hare, 16th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment.
Lieutenant-Colonel P. W. Hargreaves, MC, 3rd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment.
Captain George Hawes, DSO, MC, City of London Battalion, The London Regiment, Royal Fusiliers (TF).
Private W. Hay, A Company, 9th Battalion, The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment).
Private J. W. Herring, 3rd Battalion, Honourable Artillery Company (TF).
2nd Lieutenant H. C. L. Heywood, 6th Battalion, Manchester Regiment (TF).
Mevrouw Paula Hinnekint.
Lance-Corporal F. G. Hodges, 3rd Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment.
Private W. H. Hodges, Machine Gun Company.
Private H. E. W. Hollobone, 2nd Battalion, Prince of Wales’ Own Regiment.
Sergeant F. W. Horn, MM, 1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment (TF), 82 Brigade.
Major G. Horridge, l/5th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers (TF).
Private Joe Hoyles, 13th (S) Battalion, Rifle Brigade.
Private W. Jackman, 4th Grenadier Guards, 3rd Guards Brigade.
Sapper J. Johnston, 44th (Welsh) Field Company, Royal Engineers.
Sergeant Harry Keighley, 147 Brigade, Royal Artillery.
Private S. H. E. Kemp, 14th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment (London Scottish), (TF).
Bombardier W. Kemp, A subsection, 59th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.
Captain H. Kenyon, DSO, Royal Artillery, Attached 7th (Indian) Mountain Artillery Brigade.
Rifleman Ralph Langley, 16th Battalion (Church Lads Brigade), King’s Royal Rifle Corps.
Sergeant G. Leach, 12th Battalion, Rifle Brigade.
Corporal Alex Letyford, 5th Field Company, Royal Engineers.
Lieutenant D. S. Lewis, Royal Engineers, Attached Royal Flying Corps.
Private R. Lloyd, 7th Battalion, The King’s (Liverpool) Regiment.
Corporal J. V. Lowe, 10th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).
Sergeant W. F. Lowe, 10th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, 43 Brigade.
2nd Lieutenant David Lyell, 7th Battalion, The Royal Scots, 156 Brigade (TF).
Private D. Macdonald, 6th Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders).
Private W. Macdonald, 9th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders.
Miss Betty Macleod.
2nd Lieutenant J. Macleod, 2nd Battalion, Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, 81 Brigade.
Lieutenant R. Macleod, V Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, 2nd Battalion, Indian Cavalry Division.
General Sir G. Macmillan, KCB, KCVO, CBG, MC (2 Bars), 2nd Seaforth Highlanders.
Private Harry de Maine, lst/6th Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s Regiment.
Sergeant H. Mann, MBE, 2nd/4th Battalion, Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment.
Private George Marrin, 13th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, 73 Brigade.
Mrs A. Marshall (née Duff).
Trooper Peter Mason, lst/lst Battalion, Yorkshire Hussars Yeomanry.
Lance-Corporal George McGurk, lst/7th (Leith) Battalion (TF), The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment).
Sergeant Neill McKechnie, 14th Lon-dons (London Scottish).
Private W. J. McKenna, 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish), 3rd Canadian Brigade.
Sergeant J. F. McMahon, 2nd/4th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Regiment (TF).
Private H. Mellor, 2nd Battalion, The Manchester Regiment.
Gunner W. Melvin, 49 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.
Corporal H. C. Merrett, MM, Royal Engineers.
Mme Marie de Milleville.
Private L. Mitchell, 24th Battalion, Field Ambulance.
2nd Lieutenant I. Morgan, 11th Battalion, Welsh Regiment (Cardiff Pals).
Corporal E. Moss, 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards.
Corporal Frank Moylan, 7th (City of London) Battalion, 140 Brigade.
Sergeant F. N. Mumford, 7th Battalion (County of London), London Regiment.
Private E. A. Murray, 6th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders, 20 Brigade.
Trumpeter J. Naylor, XXIII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.
Private W. H. Nixon, DCM, 2nd Battalion, Cheshire Regiment.
Sergeant F. R. Oliver, 5th Battalion, Yorkshire and Lancashire Regiment.
Private S. Oncken, 14th Battalion (County of London), London Regiment (London Scottish).
Sergeant F. M. Packham, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment, 2nd Brigade.
Corporal D. A. Pankhurst, Royal Field Artillery.
Private R. L. Ponsford, 24th Battalion, Australian Dental Corps.
Lieutenant J. D. Pratt, ‘U’ (University) Company, 4th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders.
Captain (later Brigadier) Rathbone, 6th Battalion, Royal North Lancashire Regiment.
Lieutenant-Colonel W. J. K. Rettie, LIX Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.
Lieutenant W. O. Rhodes, 6th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment.
Rifleman R. H. Rickets, lst/6th County of London Battalion (London Regiment).
Corporal H. E. Rickman, 15th Battalion (Civil Service Rifles), County of London Regiment.
Lance-Corporal G. Ε. Rippon, 2nd Battalion, King’s Own Yeoman Light Infantry.
Major F. A. de V. Robertson, 59th Royal Scinde Rifles, Frontier Force, Lahore Division.
Corporal F. W. Rozee, 4th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade.
Private C. H. Russell, 14th (County of London) Battalion (London Scottish), 1st Brigade.
Lance-Corporal E. J. Sarah, MM, Royal Engineers.
Private Norman Scott, 6th (Victoria) Battalion, 2nd Australian Brigade.
Private W. H. Shaw, 9th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 58 Brigade.
Private A. Simpson, 5th Battalion (TF), The Yorkshire Regiment.
Private C. Singleton, 15th Battalion, County of London Regiment (Civil Service Rifles).
Mrs Ella Smith (née Plenderleith).
Private H. F. Smith, 3rd Canadian Infantry Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force.
Lieutenant R. E. Smith, 7th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers, 45 Brigade.
Private W. Spencer, 4th Battalion, Grenadier Guards, 3rd Guards Brigade.
Private Carson Stewart, 7th Battalion, Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, 44th Brigade.
Rifleman F. J. Stratford, 2nd Battalion, The Rifle Brigade.
Signaller J. E. Sutton, 9th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery.
Major A. Taylor, MC, lst/4th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment.
Private J. Taylor, Royal Scots Lothian Regiment.
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bsp; Gunner Norman Tennant, 11th Howitzer Battery, West Riding Brigade (TF), Royal Artillery.
Private A. Truswell, 11th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment).
Corporal W. Turnbull, lst/4th Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers.
Sergeant F. G. Udall, MM (2 Bars), 4th (City of London) Regiment, Royal Fusiliers (TF), Lahore Division.
Private J. W. Vaughan, Princess Patricia’s Light Infantry, 80 Brigade, 27 Division.
Private R. C. Vodrey, Royal Marine Light Infantry.
Corporal G. Voller, lst/8th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment (TF).
Corporal J. A. Watson, 13th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.
Lieutenant A. B. White, 186 Company, Royal Engineers.
Driver H. Whitehead, Royal Field Artillery, 2nd Northumbrian Brigade.
Corporal J. H. Whymark, 2nd/4th Battalion, Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment.
Corporal A. Wilson, lst/5th Battalion (TF), West Yorkshire Regiment.
Corporal G. E. Winterbourne, 1st Battalion, (County of London Regiment), Queen’s Westminster Rifles.
Private W. Worrell, 12th Service Battalion, The Rifle Brigade, 60 Brigade.
Lieutenant C. S. Wynn, The Suffolk Regiment.
Index
Achi Baba 346–7, 356, 361, 363–5, 379, 433, 454
Adamson, Capt. 288
Agar-Robartes, Capt. the Hon. Thomas 429–32, 501
Agius, Capt. Arthur J., MC in Flanders 43–5, 47–8
at Gallipoli 596
at Loos 523, 526–7, 530, 560
in Malta 38–40
at Neuve Chapelle 57–8, 88, 90–1, 93–4, 96–7, 125–7, 139
AIF
5th Battalion 432
21st Battalion 434–5, 438–9
24th Battalion 435, 583–4
Alderson, General 201–3, 246
Allardyce, Sgt. 413
Allenby, Gen. Edmund Henry Hynman 14
Alsace 261–2, 322
Amlinger, Musketier Pieter 187
ammunition, shortage 153, 379
in Flanders 3, 64–6, 71
in France 472
Gallipoli campaign 312, 363, 365, 379, 405, 440
and Neuve Chapelle 84, 136–7, 141–2
and political crisis 311–18
and Ypres 236–9, 279, 297, 312
Anderson, General 107
Andrews, L/cpl. W.L. 83–4, 89–90, 91–2, 93, 97–8, 135
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