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The Last Veteran

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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

 

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