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BBC Ninety Years of Remembrance: www.bbc.co.uk/remembrance
British Light Infantry Regiments: www.lightinfantry.org.uk
Combe Down Heritage Society: www.combedownheritage.org.uk
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Television
The Last Tommy, directed by Harvey Lilley (BBC, 2005)
Private Harry Patch, directed by Jenny Walmsley and Rob Wicks (BBC, 2008)
INDEX
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Ackerley, J.R. 12, 13
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p; AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service) 144, 146, 266
‘Aftermath’ (Sassoon) 97
Aisne, Battle of the, 1914 57, 117
Albert II of Belgium, King 280
Allingham, Henry: Armistice, 1918, recalls 2; Austin, Longbridge, post-war job at 145; British Air Services Memorial, St-Omer, unveils 235, 294; childhood 225; death 286; Dennis Goodwin and 225, 226, 230; First World War 2, 225; freedom of Eastbourne, granted 235; freedom of St-Omer, granted 235; funeral 287, 288; joins up 225; Kitchener’s Last Volunteer 230; Légion d’honneur, awarded 235; meets schoolchildren 22; 90th anniversary of Armistice, attends 283; 90th anniversary of outbreak of war, attends 276; portraits of 285; public profile 234–5; Second World War, role in 145; war, opinion of 227–8
Amalgamated Society of Engineers 26
‘And there was a Great Calm’ (Hardy) 1
Anderson, Alfred 143
Anderson, Lindsay 197
Angel of the Mons, the 21, 64
Armed Forces Memorial, Staffordshire 212
Armistice, 1918, First World War 56, 61, 70, 83, 104, 129, 131, 261, 269; declared 1–23, 28, 44, 46; 80th anniversary of 270; first anniversary 50, 51; 90th anniversary of 212, 215, 216, 234, 278, 283; 70th anniversary of 269
Armistice Day 9, 63, 128, 219; Cenotaph as focus of 65, 94–8; first 50; 1945 153–4; novel (The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club) 106–11; poppies on 89, 90, 132; protests on 75, 80; Remembrance Sunday, replaced by 153–68; Second World War 132, 133; Trafalgar Day, supplants 93–4; two minutes’ silence on 50–51, 79, 105–6, 129, 130, 132, 159, 160, 163, 217–18, 284; universal observance declines, 1930s 129, 130; World Requiem performed on 91–2, 93
Army Air Corps 283
Army Service Corps 35, 83
ARP (Air Raid Precautions) 144, 149
Arras Memorial 210
Arras, Battle of, 1917 57, 103, 210, 229, 273
Arthur, Max 227
ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) 159–60
‘Attack’ (Sassoon) 190–91
Attenborough, Richard 194
Attlee, Clement 157
Aubers Ridge, Battle of, 1915 176, 196
August 1914 (Tuchman) 199–200
Babcock, John 231
Baker, Herbert 68, 69
Barnett, Correlli 19, 188, 189, 216
Barrow, Eric 104
Barton, Peter 279
BBC 11, 93, 106, 138, 140, 169, 170, 171, 189, 206, 216, 237, 270, 277, 279, 287
Beatles, The 194, 198
Beatty, Earl 60
Beckett, Francis 218
Beckett, John 42
Beharry, Lance Corporal Johnson 284
Bells of Hell Go Ting-a-Ling-a-Ling, The (Hiscock) 5
Berchtold, General von 196
Biggin Hill, Kent 35
Billington, Ada 260, 263, 266, 267
Binyon, Laurence 8, 9, 96, 215, 278, 279, 291
Blackadder Goes Forth 20
Blair, Tony 217
Blake, Robert 179
Blomfield, Sir Reginald 69, 127, 275
Blunden, Edmund 112, 126, 127, 131, 186
Boer War 9, 54, 116, 140, 142, 150, 222
Bond, Brian 19, 188, 199
Borroni, Delfino 230
Bottomley, Gordon 126
Bowie, Andrew 36
Branagh, Kenneth 19
‘Break of Day in the Trenches’ (Rosenberg) 87–8
Breen, Harold 142
Bridges, Robert 95
Britain’s Last Tommies 227, 229
British Air Services Memorial, St-Omer 235, 294
British Army: 1st Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders 36; 4th Dorsetshires 37; 5th Royal Irish Lancers 7; 7th Division 178; 8th Division 178; 8th East Surrey Regiment 216; 13th Royal Scots 230; 28th Northwest Infantry 7; 93rd Sutherland Highlanders 223; Bedfordshire Regiment 105; British Expeditionary Force 54, 60, 83, 174–80, 182, 221; Devonshire Regiment 215; Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry (DCLI) 6, 237, 244, 252, 257, 271, 275, 280–81, 290; Durham Light Infantry 145, 228; Essex Yeomanry 3; Fifth Army 120, 253; First Army 117; High Command 19–20, 118, 119, 176, 190; Irish Rifles 177; King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (KOYLI) 114, 116; mutinies, post-First World War 32–6; ‘Pals’ Battalions’ 211; Royal Army Medical Corps 103–4, 219; Royal Army Ordnance Corps 34; Royal Army Service Corps 266; Royal Auxiliary Air Force 179; Royal Corps of Signals 145; Royal Engineers 8, 9, 104; Royal Field Artillery 3, 149, 228; Royal Fusiliers 3, 75, 229; Royal Garrison Artillery 105; Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 124, 137; Royal Welch Fusiliers 126; Seaforth Highlanders 7; Somerset Light Infantry (SLI) 103, 104, 238, 244; Yorkshire Regiment 126 see also under individual battle and conflict
British Expeditionary Force 54, 60, 83, 174–80, 182, 221
British Legion 41, 83, 84–7, 90–91, 92, 105, 110, 111, 128, 157, 161, 162, 163, 167, 217, 219, 262, 281, 287, 289
British Red Cross 53–4
Brooke, Rupert 62, 96, 100, 202, 284
Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey 210
Browne, Des 15
Buckles, Frank Woodruff 230
Bülow, General von 175 Burnet, John 70
Burney, Ivor 202–3
Byng, General 34, 83
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) 169, 185n
Cannadine, Edward 77–8
Carpenter, Archdeacon Edward 163
Carter, E.R. 266–7
casualties, numbers of First World War 9, 12–13, 16–17, 52, 73, 113, 183
Cavalcanti, Alberto 149–50
Cave, Nigel 19
Cazenave, Louis de 231–2
Cement House Cemetery, Langemarck 279
cemeteries, First World War 52–5, 67–75, 104, 209, 210, 214–15, 269
Cenotaph, London 44, 47, 48–50, 56, 60, 61, 62, 63, 65, 66, 79, 80, 81, 85, 90, 91, 92, 94–6, 97–8, 102, 105, 106, 108, 110, 111, 127, 129, 130, 132, 133, 134, 156, 157, 159, 160, 161, 162, 164, 166, 221, 228, 234, 276, 282, 283, 284
Cenotaph (Moult) 96
Chamberlain, Neville 130
Chapman, Captain Guy 3, 32, 39
Charge of the Light Brigade, The (film) 198, 201
Charles, George 228
Chiarello, Francesco 230
Chilton, Charles 186, 194
Chirac, Jacques 232
Choules, Charles 5, 230, 233
Churchill, Winston 36, 112, 113–14, 122, 123, 137, 138, 139–40, 143, 150, 161, 174, 179, 182, 245
Chuter-Ede, James 157
Cinderella (Knight/Lyle) 135
Clark, Alan 174–80, 185, 186, 189
Clark, Bert 144
Clayton, Philip ‘Tubby’ 252, 278, 284
Cliveden War Cemetery, Buckinghamshire 210
Clyde Workers’ Committee (CWC) 27, 40
Collected Poems (Brooke) 126
Collected Poems (Owen) 202
Collected Works (Rosenberg) 126
Colleville-sur-Mer cemetery 269
Collins, Canon John 163
Collins, Lieutenant Norman 7
Combe Down War Memorial 105, 263–4
Combe Down Water Company 262
Combe Down, Somerset 103, 105, 146, 147, 238, 239, 240, 242, 244, 259, 261, 264, 267
Commonwealth War Graves Commission, The (CWGC) 215, 277, 280
Communist Party of Great Britain 42
Comrades of the Great War 42, 83
Condon, Private John 215
Conrad, Joseph 97
Contrary Experience, The (Read) 202
Cooper, Duff 121, 122
Coppin, Ronald 165–7
Corrigan, Gordon 19
‘Counter-Attack’ (Sassoon) 191
Courtenay, Tom 197
Crime Act, 1885 28
Crompton, Rookes Evelyn Bell 223
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 169
Culloden 170, 198
Cummings, Kenneth 135–6
Curzon, Lord 44
Dad’s Army 140–43, 149–50
Daily Express 80, 92, 98
Daily Herald 79, 130
/> Daily Mail 93
Daily Mirror 235–6
Daily Telegraph 57, 234
Dannatt, General Sir Richard 289
Dartmoor Cemetery near Albert 214
Daubeny, Captain C.J.O. 104–5
Daubeny, Captain C.W. 104
Davidson, Archbishop Randall Thomas 56
Davies, Jack 271
Days of Hope, The (Macdonald) 205
D-Day 147–8
Death of a Hero (Aldington) 112
Death of Innocence, The (Macdonald) 205
Death’s Men (Winter) 205–7
Defence of the Realm Act, 1914 28, 29
Deighton, Len 195
Despatches (Haig) 113–14
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz 215
Devonshire Regiment 215
Diary of an Unknown Soldier 170
Directorate for Graves Registration and Enquiries (DGRE) 55, 69, 70, 71
Donkeys: A History of the B.E.F. in 1915, The (Clark) 174–80, 185, 186, 196
Duchy Farm New British Cemetery 277
Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry (DCLI) 6, 237, 244, 252, 257, 271, 275, 280–81, 290
‘Dulce et decorum est …’ (Owen) 190
Duncan Smith, Iain 13, 15
Durham Light Infantry 145, 228
Dye, Air Vice-Marshal Peter 294
Earl Haig Appeal 89–90
Eden, Anthony 138, 142
Elder, William 143
Elegy for Strings (Kelly) 284
Elgar, Edward 172–3
Elizabeth II, Queen 159–60, 212
Ellingworth, Charles 223
Ellison, Private George Edwin 7, 214
Emden, Richard van 227, 229, 230, 270, 278, 279
Empire Festival of Remembrance, 1927 92
Empire Services League 83
employment: during First World War 26–8; officer class post-war 38–9; postwar 37–41, 43, 67, 76–82; strikes, post-war 40–41; strikes during war 26–8; trade unions and 26–8, 40, 43; unemployment benefit 38, 41, 43
End of War, The (Read) 126
English Poetry of the First World War (Johnston) 202
Enigma Variations (Elgar) 172
Essex Yeomanry 3
Eton College, memorial cloister at 211
Falklands War, 1982 283, 292, 293–4
Fallen, The (Matthews) 212–13
Falls, Cyril 123–6
Farrar-Hockley, General Sir Anthony 188
Festival of Remembrance, 2007 93
FHM 281
fiction, First World War 124–5
Finnigan, Alfred 149, 228
First Day on the Somme, The (Middlebrook) 204–5
First World War: adoption as a national trauma 16–19; Anglocentric view of 20; Armistice see Armistice; battles of see under individual battle and area name; blame for 174–92; burial of fallen soldiers 51–66; casualties, number of 9, 12–13, 16–17, 52, 73, 113, 183; cemeteries 52–5, 67–75, 104, 209, 210, 214–15, 269; Christmas Truce, 1914 274; conditions in 248–51; demobilisation from 31–6; food shortages and rationing during 29; literature 20, 124–7, 202–3, 214; memorials 102–3, 104, 105, 209–11, 220–21, 263–4, 278–9; mental health problems suffered by soldiers of 36, 131, 261; ‘missing in action’ 53–4; mutinies in British Army after 32–6; pensions for soldiers of 36, 48, 129, 131; Official History of 116–17, 118, 183; revisionist historians’ view of 19–21; in school curriculum 213–14 ; social and political unrest after 25–43; veterans see veterans; wounded 6, 22, 36, 131, 250–51, 255