by Peter Parker
First World War, The (Howard) 196
First World War: An Illustrated History, The (Taylor) 181–4
Fisher, Geoffrey 153, 158
FitzPatrick, Sir Percy 50
‘Five Acts of Harry Patch, The’ (Motion) 237, 281–2
Fleet Air Arm Association 235
Fleming, Atherton 107
Fletcher, Raymond 188
Foch, Maréchal 46, 58, 120, 121, 175, 185
‘For the Fallen’ (Binyon) 8–9, 96, 215, 278, 279, 284–5, 291
Forêt de Mormal 2
Forgotten Victory (Sheffield) 20–21
Frankau, Gilbert 39
Frankling, Kendrick 104
French, Sir John 116, 117, 121, 221
Gallipoli campaign 184, 229, 284
Garbett, Cyril Forster 158
Gell, Colonel 57
general election: 1918 (‘khaki election’) 30–31; 1922 90–91
General Federation of Trade Unions 26
General Strike, 1926 265
George V, King 44, 47, 50, 51, 56, 61, 73, 160, 162, 175, 196, 264
George VI, King 130
Gloria (Poulenc) 19
Golden Hill Fort, Isle of Wight 6, 32–3, 34
Goodbye to All That (Graves) 5, 112
Goodman, Flight Lieutenant Michelle 284
Goodwin, Dennis 224–5, 226, 230, 233–4
Goodwin, Stephen 224, 225
Gough, General 178, 253
Goux, Fernand 232, 233
Grant, Eric 105
Graves Registration Commission 54–5
Graves, Charles 138, 141
Graves, Robert 5, 123, 126, 138, 186, 203
Great Pilgrimage 63, 65–6
Great War and Modern Memory, The (Fussell) 203
Great War, The (TV documentary) 189, 191–2, 195
Grenfell, Julian 202
Grierson, General Sir John 116
Grigg, Sir Edward 142–3
Haig Fund 128
Haig, Commander-in-Chief General 31, 46, 60, 83, 85, 89–90, 91, 113, 116–17, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122–3, 128, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 182, 184, 185, 186, 187, 189, 195, 196, 216, 252, 253, 256
Halestrap, Sapper Arthur 8, 9–11, 144–5, 271
Hall, Dan Llywelyn 286
Hamilton, General Sir Ian 184
Hamp (Wilson) 196–7
Hannington, Wal 42, 76–7, 78, 81.
Hardy, George 137
Hardy, Thomas 1, 96
‘Harry Patch (In Memory Of)’ (Radiohead) 287
‘Harry Patch’ (horse) 281
Hassall, Christopher 202
Haynes, Bob 246, 259, 262
Heart of London, The (Morton) 97–8
Heart’s Journey, The (Sassoon) 127
Hemmings, David 198
Her Privates We (Manning) 112
Heroes’ Twilight (Bergonzi) 202
Hilton, Stephen 223
Hindenburg Line 10
Hiroshima 18, 158
Hiscock, Eric 5
History of the Germanic People (von Ranke) 203
History of the Great War Based on Historical Documents 117, 118
Hoffman, General 174
Hogge, James 43
Holden, Charles 69
Holocaust 17–18
Holst, Gustav 168
Home Guard 137–44, 146, 149–51
Home Guard of Britain, The (Graves) 138–9
Honourable Artillery Company 219
Housman, A.E. 284
How I Won the War (film) 197–8
How to See the Battlefields (Fleming) 72
Howard, Michael 179–80, 196, 200–202
Hughes, Edwin 222–3
Hughes, Netherwood 233–4
Hussein, Saddam 294
‘I Vow to Thee, My Country’ (Spring–Rice) 167–8
Ile de France 136
Illustrated London News 49
Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front) (Remarque) 112
Immortal Heritage, The (Ware) 209
Imperial War Graves Commission (IWGC) 55, 67, 68, 70, 73, 75, 209, 210, 212
Imperial War Museum 47, 72, 204
‘In Flanders Fields’ (McCrae) 96
In Search of England (Morton) 98–9, 100
International Labour Party 42
Introduction and Allegro for Strings (Elgar) 172
Iraq war 227–8, 294
Isaacs, Betty 268
Isaacs, Fred 268
Isle of Wight 6, 32, 34
Ives, George Frederick 222
Jarvis, Michael 281
Jekyll, Gertrude 70
Jellicoe, Admiral 182
Joffre, General 117, 175, 183
Jones, David 202
Jones, Kevan 289
Jones, Marine Mkhuseli 284
Journey from Obscurity (Owen) 202
Journey’s End (Sherriff) 112, 170
Jutland, Battle of, 1916 226, 229
Kee, Robert 187, 199–200
Kellaway, Albert 104
Kennedy, Michael 173–4
Kenyon, Sir Frederick 68–9, 70
King and Country (film) 197
King’s England, The 101–2
King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (KOYLI) 114, 116
King’s Pilgrimage, The 73
Kipling, Rudyard 55, 69, 95–6
Kirk, Tom 136
Kitchener, Lord 54, 117, 121, 183, 184, 193–4, 201, 217, 229
Kitchener’s Last Volunteer (Allingham/Goodwin) 230
Kluck, General von 175
Korean War 162, 169, 292
Kuentz, Charles 272–3, 274–5, 276
Künstler, Franz 231
Labour Party 26, 76
‘Land of Hope and Glory’ (Elgar) 172–3, 174
Langemarck German Military Cemetery 273–4, 279–80
Langemarck, Battle of, 1917 22, 253–7, 271, 277
Lansbury, George 76
Last Fighting Tommy, The (Patch/Van Emden) 230, 277, 278, 279, 282, 283–4, 290
‘Last Post’ (Duffy) 287
Last Post: The Final Word from Our First World War Soldiers (Arthur) 227
Last Tommy, The (TV documentary) 11, 271–2, 276
Laurie, John 141
Lawton, Harold 144
Lennon, John 198
Lester, Richard 197
Levy, S.I. 65
Lewis, C. Day 4, 88, 202
Liddell Hart, B.H. 112, 114–17, 118, 123, 179, 180, 182, 188, 189–90, 257
Liddle, Peter H. 204
Lister, T.F. 83–4
Littlewood, Joan 185, 185n, 187, 189, 194
Lloyd, Fred 143, 276
Lloyd George, David 28, 29, 30, 31, 34, 44, 46, 56, 76, 77, 91, 112, 118–21, 122–3, 143, 174, 179, 182
Local Defence Volunteers (LDV) 137–42
London Ambulance Column 69
London and South Western Railway’s War Memorial 211
London District Council of Unemployed 80–81
London Guild of Registered Plumbers 242
‘London Stone’ (Kipling) 95–6
London Transport Museum 213
Long Trail, The (Brophy/Partridge) 202
Loos, Battle of, 1915 18, 39, 118, 121, 174, 179, 182–3, 196, 295
Lorimer, Sir Robert 70
Losey, Joseph 196–7
Louth, George 74
Lucas, Sydney 231
Lush, Leslie 103–4
Lush, Lewis 104
Lutyens, Sir Edwin 44, 49, 56, 61, 68, 69, 92, 94, 96, 97, 104, 157, 210
MacCarthy, Maud 92
Macdonald, Lyn 205, 206
Machen, Arthur 64
Macmillan, Kenneth 19
Magic Flute, The 19
Maltese Cross 49
Marne, First Battle of the, 1914 175
Marshall, Arthur ‘Smiler’ 143
Marshall, Private Albert 3
Mary, Queen 51, 62
Matthews, Morgan 212
Maxwell-Davies, Sir Peter 282
McCrae, John 88, 96
McCullin, Don 285
‘MCMXIV’ (Larkin) 293
Mee, Arthur 101–2
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (Sassoon) 112
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (Sassoon) 112
Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, Thiepval 104, 210
memorials, First World War 102–3, 104, 105, 209–11, 220–21, 263–4, 278–9
‘Men Who March Away’ (Hardy) 96
Men Who March Away (Parsons) 202
Menin Gate, Ypres 8, 11, 103, 127, 210, 271, 275, 278, 279
mental health problems, First World War veterans 36, 131, 261
Metropolitan Police Force of London 28
Meuse-Argonne Cemetery 269
Michael, Moina 88
Middlebrook, Martin 204–5, 206
Military Service Act, 1916 27, 242
Milner, Viscount 50
Ministry of Food 29
Minotaur, HMS 223
Mond, Sir Alfred 44
Monitor 172 Mons 18, 21, 182
Morning Post 54
Morris, Lionel 103, 104
Morton, H.V. 25, 97–102
Moult, Thomas 96
Mud, Blood and Poppycock (Corrigan) 20
Munitions of War Act, 1915 27, 29
mutinies, British Army post-First World War 32–6
National Association of Discharged Sailors and Soldiers 41, 82, 83
National Committee for the Care of Soldiers’ Graves 55
National Federation of Discharged and Demobilised Sailors and Soldiers 41–3, 50, 82, 83, 84
National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire 282–3
National Portrait Gallery 285–6
National Relief Fund 87 National Service, abolition of 168–9
National Union of Ex-Servicemen (NUX) 42, 83, 84
National Union of Police and Prison Officers 28
Navy and Army Canteen Board 83
Nazi Party 17, 144, 156, 158
New Radnor war memorial 220
New Zealand Field Artillery 2
News Chronicle 142
Newton, David 223–4
Nichols, Robert 5
‘Nimrod’ (Elgar) 291
1914–1918: Voices and Images of the Great War (Macdonald) 205
No More War Movement 128
Norton-Griffiths, Lieutenant Colonel Sir John 42
Oborne, Corporal John 37, 144, 276
Officers’ Association 83, 84
Oh! What a Lovely War (film) 194–5, 198, 201
Oh What a Lovely War! (play) 20, 185–6, 187, 188, 194
‘Only an Officer’ (Frankau) 39
Osborne, Captain Frederick 75
Out of Battle (Silkin) 203
Out of the Mist (Elkington) 59
‘O Valiant Hearts’ (Arkwright/Hopkins) 167, 264
Overseas YMCA War Workers 88
Owen, Harold 202
Owen, Wilfred 7, 127, 171–2, 190, 202, 213
‘Pals’ Battalions’ 211
Pantling, Private John 33–4
Parr, Private John 214
Passchendaele, Battle of, 1917 (Third Battle of Ypres) 18, 22, 118, 119, 120, 149, 183–4, 187–8, 191, 196, 206, 215, 228, 252–3, 255, 257, 269, 270, 272–3, 277, 290–91
Passionate Prodigality, A (Chapman) 3
Patch, Dennis 263, 266, 267–8
Patch, Fred 103, 104
Patch, George 239, 242, 263, 270
Patch, Harry 6, 144, 267; apprentice plumber 37–8, 238, 241–2; Armistice 6, 261; Armistice Day/Remembrance Sunday, opinion on 110, 221, 276, 285; autobiography 230, 277, 278, 279, 282, 283–4, 290; bad dreams concerning First World War 261; basic training 242–3; birthplace 103; British Legion, involvement with 86, 262; Charles Kuentz and 272–5; childhood 236–41; comes across dying soldier 254; Combe Down, Somerset and 103, 105, 146, 147, 238, 239, 240, 242, 244, 259, 261, 264, 267; in Compton Dundon 266; demobilisation 32, 33, 261, 262–3; dies 286–7; Downing Street, visits 282, 285; general election, 1918 and 31; embarks for France 243–4; faith 261–2; fame 276–7; fear during First World War 249, 251; Festival of Remembrance, 2008, attends 285; FHM agony uncle 281; Fletcher House 268, 269, 280, 285, 286, 289; freedom of the city of Wells 280; funeral 287–91; Gobowen 263; goes into battle 253–4, 278; haunted by images from war 254–5, 261, 269–70; honorary degree from University of Bristol 280; invalided back to Britain 258–61, 278; Isle of Wight, exercises on 6, 32, 260–61; joins up 32, 242, 291–2; Knight of the Order of Leopold 280; Langemarck Cemetery, visits 279–80; Langemarck, Battle of 253–7, 277; Last Veteran, becomes 236; Légion d’honneur 285; Lewis gun team, role in First World War 243, 244–5, 246–8, 254, 255, 257–9, 274; long silence over war 74, 192, 262, 267, 275; marriage, first 38, 74, 260; marriage, second 268; ninetieth anniversary of the Armistice, attends 283; Normandy, visits 268–9; 100th birthday 270; 111th birthday 285; ‘pacifist’ 228; ‘Patch’s Pride’ (cider) 280–81; plumber 262–3, 265, 266–7; portraits of 285–6; public profile 234; relatives and friends killed in war 103–4, 259; reasons for war, on 261; retires 267; royal family, meets members of 282; Second World War 145–6, 147–8, 266; shelling, remembers 250; shoots German 255; ‘Shot at Dawn’ campaign, supports 282; state funeral discussed 13–16; Steenbeek memorial 278–9; The Last Tommy 271–2; Veterans 270; war, views on nature of 23, 228, 261, 275; war record, on difficulty of relating to official 256; William Stone, opinion of Last Veteran status of 284; Wills Memorial Tower, reopens, 2008 280; Wills Memorial Tower, works on 264, 280; wounded 6, 22, 257–61, 271; Ypres, visits 271, 277–8
Patch, Roy 266, 268
Patch, William 103, 239, 241, 242, 263
Patriot’s Progress, A (Williamson) 112
Peace Day, 1919 44, 45–8, 50, 51, 91
Peace Pledge Union 128
Pearce, Stanley 103, 104
Penguin Book of First World War Poetry 203
pensions, First World War veteran 36, 48, 129, 131
Perry, Jim 140
Pershing, General 46, 97
Picault, Pierre 232
Pike, Joseph 96
Pilckem Ridge, Battle of, 1917 253, 271, 272, 275
pilgrimages to First World War battlefields/cemeteries 11, 55, 63, 65–6, 70–75, 214, 268–9, 271, 277–80
Ploegsteert Memorial 210
‘The Plumber’ (Clark) 287
Poelkappelle British Cemetery 214–15
Poems (Owen) 127
Poems 1913–1925 (Read) 126
Poems 1914–1927 (Graves) 126
Poems 1914–1927 (Read) 126
Poems 1914–1930 (Blunden) 126
poetry, First World War 20, 125–7, 202–3, 214
Police Review 28
Pomp and Circumstance (Elgar) 172, 173
Ponticelli, Lazare 231–2, 233
Poppy Appeal 87–90, 108, 128, 129, 132, 283
Porteous, Lieutenant Norman 230
Portsmouth Grammar School 282
Potter, G.A. 163–4
Powers, Gladys 231
Price, Private George Lawrence 7
Prior, Robin 19
Punch 88
Radiohead 287
Raglan, Lord 201
Railton, David 55–6, 59, 62
Rainbird, George 181
Rayns, Ted 144
Read, Herbert 126, 202
Real War 1914–1918, The (Hart) 112, 114–17, 118, 123, 174
Red Cross 55
Redgrave, Vanessa 198
Redwood, John 94
Reisz, Karel 197
Remembrance Sunday 153–4, 157–9, 161, 162–8, 217, 218, 221, 281, 284, 285
Revenge, HMS 5, 224
Rice, George 145
Richardson, Tony 197, 198
Richter, Hans 172
Ridley, Arnold 141
Rifle Brigade Official History 176–7
Roberts, William 228
Rome/Roome, John 223
Room with a View, A (Forster) 19
Rosenberg, Isaac 87–8, 12
6, 203
Roses of No Man’s Land, The (Macdonald) 205
‘Roses of Picardy’ (Weatherly) 237–8
Ross, Jim 287–8, 290, 291
Ross, John Campbell 231
Royal Air Force (RAF) 2, 4, 34–5, 145, 147, 226–7, 236, 288
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 Flying Corps 4, 137, 226, 228
Royal Fusiliers 3, 75, 229
Royal Garrison Artillery 105
Royal Horticultural Society garden, Hyde Hall, Essex 211–12
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 124, 137
Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) 145, 225, 226, 230
Royal Naval Benevolent Trust 83
Royal Naval Reserve 136
Royal Navy 5, 136, 235, 266
Royal Welch Fusiliers 126
Russell, Ken 172, 173, 174
Ryle, Dean Herbert 56, 65
Sagittarius Rising (Lewis) 4, 88
Sarkozy, Nicolas 232
Sassoon, Siegfried 5–6, 67, 74, 97, 112, 123, 127, 186, 190–91, 202, 213, 236, 284
Satar, Yakup 231
Sayers, Dorothy L. 106–10, 111, 128–9
Schellenberg, Walter 144
Schlesinger, John 197
Sculls 264, 265
Seaforth Highlanders 7
Sebastopol, Siege of, 1854–55 223
Second World War 4, 13, 17, 102, 132–4, 135–51, 153, 154, 158, 168–9, 171, 179, 212, 220, 231, 266, 268, 273, 292
Selected Poems, The (Sassoon) 126
Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Beatles) 194
Sheffield, Gary 20–21, 185, 199
shell shock (‘neurasthenia’) 36, 53, 131, 250, 283
Sherriff, R.C. 112, 170, 213
Shot at Dawn campaign 282–3
Sir Douglas Haig’s Command (Boraston) 113
social and political unrest after First World War 25–43
SOE (Special Operations Executive) 144, 145