Meeting the Enemy (55 page)

Marlow, Joyce,
Women and the Great War
, Virago, 1998

Panayi, Panikos,
The Enemy in our Midst
, Berg, 1991

van Emden, Richard,
All Quiet on the Home Front
, Headline, 2003

van Emden, Richard,
The Soldier’s War
, Bloomsbury, 2008

W. A. S. and J. D. N., eds,
Wycliffe and the War 1914–1918
, including letters of Melville Hastings, privately printed, 1923

Willis, James F.,
Prologue to Nuremberg
, Greenwood Press, 1982

Winter, John,
Death’s Men
,
Allen Lane, 1978

Archives

Author’s private collection:
Letters of Rifleman Ernest Blake; photocopied diary of Private Tom Tolson, 8th King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

Hansard:
Reginald McKenna and Joseph King (HC Debate 5/8/1914 vol. 65 c1987-90); Winston Churchill (HC Debate 15/4/1919 vol. 114 cc2713-4); Edward Shortt (18/2/1919 vol. 112 cc741-3 and HC Debate 13/3/1919 vol. 112 cc260 and 01/04/1919 vol. 114 cc1054-5 and HC Debate 15/7/1919 vol. 118 cc210-11); Caroline Hanemann (HC Debate 7/8/1919 vol. 119 cc527-8)

Imperial War Museum:
By kind permission of the Department of Documents, with grateful thanks to Tony Richards: private papers of Captain Charles Carrington – Documents 20614; private papers of Major General Sir Richard Ewart – Documents 683; account by an English Woman (Miss Waring) of the Outbreak of War in Germany, August 1914 - Documents 12426; private papers of EV Stibbe – Documents 11786; private papers of Lieutenant Thomas Hughes – Documents 12244; private papers of Richard Noschke – Documents 11229; jingoistic letter from Lotte to Dorothy September 1914 – Documents 1962; private papers of Lieutenant Colonel Sir Iain Colquhoun – Documents 6373; private papers of Brigadier General H. C. Hubert Rees – Documents 7166; Royal Dragoons Letter Book, 1914 – Documents 12546; private papers of Miss W. L. B. Tower incl. reference to 3rd Marquess of Ormonde – Documents 6322; private papers of Private Martyn Evans – Documents 9766; letter from a German soldier (Wiengartner) to the family of a wounded British soldier (Mole), March 1916 – Documents 12451; private papers of Private Samuel Fielding – Documents 12810; private papers of Major General Sir John Laurie – Documents 1713; private papers of Reverend Montague Bere – Documents 12105; private papers of Brigadier T. I. Dun – Documents 12179; private papers of Private Frank Harris – Documents 14979; private papers of Brigadier Philip Mortimer – Documents 12327; private papers of Private Percy Clare – Documents 15030; private papers of Private Arthur Wrench – Documents 3834; private papers of Captain Arthur Pick – Documents 4672; private papers of H. G. R. Williams – Documents 11514

By kind permission of the Department of Sound, Imperial War Museum, and with thanks to Peter Hart: Lance Corporal Harry Hopthrow – Catalogue Number 11581. Every effort has been made to trace copyright holders and the author and the Imperial War Museum would be grateful for any information which might help to trace those whose identities or addresses are not currently known.

The Liddle Archive:
By kind permission of the Liddle Collection, Leeds University Library,
www.leeds.ac.uk
., with thanks to Richard Davies: Private Charles Eshborn GS 0526; Reverend Henry Williams GE 37; C. A. M. Dunlop GS 0480; Lieutenant J. A. Brewster GS0196; Private Percy Ogley GS1200

The National Archives:
Kew,
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
. In the 1920s the following officers corresponded with the Great War’s official historian, Brigadier General Sir James E. Edmonds (Cab45), and extracts from their letters have been used in the book.

Cab45 (Cabinet Papers)
: unknown officer quoting Lieutenant George Edwards 1/6th Seaforth Highlanders; Lieutenant Bradford Gordon 9th Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry; Lieutenant Colonel John Hall, 16th Middlesex Regiment; Lieutenant Aubrey Herbert, 1st Irish Guards; Captain William Carden-Roe, 1st Royal Irish Fusiliers; Captain J. G. Smyth-Osbourne, 1st Royal Welsh Fusiliers; Colonel Roger Tempest, 2nd Scots Guards

FO (Foreign Office files)
:
FO383/17 Annie Reiser; FO383 23/81/169/207/315/521 Carl Fuchs; FO383/48/182/294 Henry Hadley; FO383/53 Hermann Waetjen; FO383/55 C. F. Just; FO383/60 Albert Cresswell/Edgar Gillon/David Russell; FO383/80 Mrs W. D. Burnyeat; FO383/80 Wilford Wells; FO383/80/151 Julia Jacobitz; FO383/80/149 Corporal Alfred Felton; FO383/81 Julius Ring, /197 William Kunz, /197 Wilhelm Roderwald, /194 Bartholomus Eid, /192 Carl Martini, /193 Henry Steinke, /442 Hubert Biskeborn; FO383/180 Lt Col. Godfrey Goodman, Captains Hans Roser/Reinhardt/Maffett; FO383/202 Mary Harthaus; FO383/203 Captain Robert Campbell; FO383/289 Captain Bushby Erskine; FO383/203/289 Peter Gastreich; FO383/292 Adam Ultsch; FO383/522 Lilian Stephan; FO383/522 Malvina Mendelssohn

MEPO (Metropolitan Police Office)
: MEPO 2/10662: attempts by Casement to form an Irish Brigade; MEPO 3/1166 German War Criminals: police enquiries and action on behalf of H. M. Procurator General for Leipzig Trials

WO (War Office files)
:
WO32/5783: interviews with Field Marshal von Ludendorff and General Hoffman by Lieut. Col. W. Stewart Roddie on Bolshevik menace; WO95 (War Diaries): WO95/2215/1 – 9th East Surrey Regiment; WO95/2695/1 – 1/5th Sherwood Foresters; W095/1971/2 – 8th Royal Munster Fusiliers; WO95/1371/1 – 1st Royal Berkshire Regiment; WO95/1972/2 – 8th Royal Dublin Fusiliers; WO95/1972/2 – 7th Royal Irish Rifles; WO95/1972 – 48 Brigade; WO95/1975/5 – 9th Royal Munster Fusiliers; WO95/1535/2 – Diary of Lieutenant James Pennycuik, held within war diary of 59th Field Company Royal Engineers; WO141/9: Formation of the Irish Brigade; WO141/36: Trial of members of German Irish Brigade; WO141/67: German Irish Brigade; WO161 Prisoner of War Interview Reports 1914-1918, interviews with the following POWs: Private John Harrison, 1st Cheshire Regiment; Private John Cooper, 1st Coldstream Guards; Captain Thomas Sotherton-Estcourt; Captain R. F. Peskett, 2nd Dragoon Guards, Lincolnshire Regiment; Private George Winkworth, Rifle Brigade; Private Charles Duder, 4th Royal Fusiliers; Captain Arthur Hargreaves, 1st Somerset Light Infantry; Private James Harrold, 2nd East Kent Regiment; Lance Corporal Herbert Lewin, 1st Royal Berkshire Regiment; Private James McDaid, 1/10th Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders; Private Thomas Dickinson, 8th Durham Light Infantry; Private George Kitson, 12th Royal Scots Fusiliers; Private Patrick Leavy, 14th Highland Light Infantry; Private Alfred Hoare, 1st Hampshire Regiment; Private James Harlock, 17th Royal Fusiliers; Private Ernest Barton, 2nd Manchester Regiment; Crewman Alfred Amey, HMS
Nomad
; Private Ernest Brown, 20th Machine Gun Corps; Private Andrew Duffy, RAMC; Private Tim Macarthy, RAMC; Private Daniel Merry, 7th Battalion Canadian Infantry; Private Patrick Cullen, 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers; Sergeant James Morrison, Royal Marine Light Infantry; CSM Alexander Gibb, 2nd Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders; Corporal Robert Steele, 5th Signal Troop Royal Engineers; Private Arthur Soder, 1st Dorset Regiment; Lance Corporal Harold Sugden, Army Service Corps attd 6th Field Ambulance; Corporal Charles Wright, 5th Lancers; Private Charles Brown, 1st West Yorks; Private Frank Barlow, 1st West Yorks; Lieutenant Patrick (Pat) O’Brien, Royal Flying Corps; Lieutenant John Howey, Royal Flying Corps; Captain Francis Don, Royal Flying Corps; Private George Wash, 8th Durham Light Infantry; Private Henry Webb, RAMC; Private James Whiteside, 36th Machine Gun Corps; Private Ernest Hart, 2nd East Kent Regiment; Captain Harold Rushworth, Royal Flying Corps; Lieutenant Harvey Frost, Royal Flying Corps; Lieutenant Geoffrey Parker, Royal Flying Corps; Private George Allen, 1st Rifle Brigade; WO339 & WO374 Officers’ Files concerning: WO339/16499 – Captain William Renwick; WO339/60685 – 2nd Lt Frederick Ruscoe; WO339/26578 – Captain David Burles; WO339/17037 – 2nd Lt John Brewster; WO374/77437 – Major Charles Yate

The National Army Museum:
NAM 1999-11-216-1 – War Diary, 1 Infantry Labour Company, Middlesex Regiment, 5 March 1917–30 January 1918; NAM 1999-11-216-2 – War Diary, 2 Infantry Labour Company, Middlesex Regiment, 2 April 1917–30 November 1917

Regimental Museum of the Royal Welsh:
Private Charles Heare, 1/2nd Monmouthshire Regiment

Society of Friends:
Annual reports of the Friends Emergency Committee

Surrey History Centre:
By kind permission of Surrey History Centre: Captain Wilfred Birt – ESR/25/Birt/4; Captain William Morritt, 1st East Surrey Regiment – ESR/25/Morrwg

The Tank Museum, Bovington:
Driver Ernest Reader – WW1/Readerer

Trustees of the Army Medical Services Museum:
Diary of Capt. Henry Wynyard Kaye, MD, RAMC – RAMC/739

Interviews conducted by the author

Soldiers and Seamen: Able Seaman Alfred Bastin, Royal Naval Division; Lance Corporal Andrew Bowie, 1st Cameron Highlanders; Lance Corporal Vic Cole, 7th Royal West Kent Regiment; Private Bill Easton, 77th Field Ambulance RAMC; Private George Gadsby, 1/18th London Regiment; Lieutenant Richard Hawkins, 11th Royal Fusiliers; Private Walter Humphreys, 1/15th London Regiment; Private Jack Rogers, 1/7th Sherwood Foresters; Private Ernest Stevens, 20th Middlesex Regiment; Private Frank Sumpter, 1st Rifle Brigade

Civilians: Percy Johnson; Elfreda Druhm

A Note on the Author

Richard van Emden has interviewed more than 270 veterans of the Great War and has written fourteen books on the subject including
The Trench
 and
The Last Fighting Tommy
, both of which were Top Ten bestsellers. He has also worked on more than a dozen television programmes on the First World War, including
Prisoners of the Kaiser
,
Veterans
,
Britain’s Last Tommies
, the award-winning
Roses of No Man’s Land
,
Britain’s Boy Soldiers
,
A Poem for Harry
and, most recently,
War Horse: The Real Story
. He lives in West London.

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Prisoners of the Kaiser

The Trench

Last Man Standing

All Quiet on the Home Front

Boy Soldiers of the Great War

Britain’s Last Tommies

The Last Fighting Tommy
(with Harry Patch)

Famous 1914–1918

The Soldier’s War

Sapper Martin

Tommy’s Ark

The Quick and the Dead

First published in Great Britain 2013

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