The Great Silence (48 page)

Grant, Duncan,
36

Graves, Robert: on delousing,
21
;

suffers traumas of war,
63
–5;

demobilised,
93
;

on T. E. Lawrence,
116
;

on co-habitation,
161
;

and T. E. Lawrence’s writing,
165
;

marriage,
172
;

at Oxford,
256
,
262
;

meets Hardy,
256
;

poetry,
261

Great Ormond Street Hospital: nurses die in influenza epidemic,
93

Great Purifier, The
(film),
6

Great War (1914-18): and national unity,
2
;

dead not returned to England,
5
;

casualties,
13
,
16
,
25
;

conditions and life on Western Front,
13
,
15
,
17
-23;

and military service,
13
–14;

reporting,
19
–20;

ends,
25
–34;

battlefield tours and visits,
99
–101;

battlefields cleared,
101
;

name,
127

Grenfell, Billy,
6
,
113

Grenfell, Julian,
5
-6,
14
,
113

Grenfell, Monica,
37

Grey, Sir Edward
(later
Viscount Grey of Fallodon),
25

grief: in post-war world,
4
–6

Griffith, D. W,
205
-6,
220

Gunter’s (confectioner),
153

Haggard, Sir H. Rider,
98

Haig, Douglas, 1st Earl,
252
,
271

Hall, Mrs S. C.,
224

Hammersmith Palais,
153
,
157

Hardy, Thomas,
17
,
41
,
256
,
270

Harrington, Dudley Stanhope, 9th Earl of,
252

Harrison, Ethel,
2

Hartley, L. P.,
165

Head, Henry,
245

Henson, Ellen,
68

Hitler, Adolf: at war’s end,
28
;

early political activities,
219

Hobson, Harold,
132

holidays,
133

Holland, Henry Scott, Canon of St Paul’s,
7

Holland Hannen & Cubitt (company),
227

Holtby, Winifred,
254
-7,
259
-61,
274

Home and County
(WI’s magazine),
175

homosexuality,
24
–5,
161

Honey, Edward,
138
,
140

Home, Emma (‘Aunt Em’),
195

Horne, Eric,
190
–1,
194
–7

Horne, Frank,
196

Horner, Edward,
113

Houdini, Harry,
97
,
187

House, Brigade Major Wilfred,
28

housing: shortage,
80
–1

Housing and Town Planning Act (1919),
81

Houston, Dr W. R.,
64

Howard, Donald,
140

Hudson, W. H.,
81

Hughes, Private Eric,
131

Humbert, Mr (friend of Parish family),
213

Hunstone (Buckmaster’s manservant),
193

Huntingdon, Henry E.,
221

Hurley, Frank,
151

Hutchinson, Jeremy Nicolas
(later
Baron),
39

Huxley, Aldous,
238

Hyde Park, London: disabled soldiers’ demonstration,
71
–2

illegitimacy,
124

Illustrated London News
,
47
,
63
,
152
,
160
,
171
,
217
,
258

Imperial War Graves Commission,
5

Imperial War Museum,
252

India: deaths from influenza epidemic,
95

industrial unrest,
77
–80,
129
,
137

influenza epidemic (‘Spanish flu’),
3
,
38
,
90
-5

Iolaire
, HMS,
70
-1

Ireland: claims independence,
75
,
130
;

sets up separate parliament (Dáil),
77
;

troubles,
228

Irish Republican Army,
130
,
228

Isham, Ralph,
120

Italy: Fascism in,
106

J’Accuse
(film),
219
–20

jazz,
8
,
155
-7

Jekyll, Agnes,
203

Jerome, Jerome K.,
98

John, Prince (son of George V and Mary): death,
88
-90

John, Augustus,
58
,
235
,
241
-2

John, Gwen,
58
,
242

Johnson, Captain C. D.,
82

Johnson, William,
100

Jones, Susannah,
91

Joplin, Scott,
155

Karsavina, Tamara,
216
–17

Kendall, James,
62

Kennedy, Daisy,
56

Kennington, Eric,
119

Keogh, Sir Alfred,
57

Keppel, Alice,
20

Keppel, Violet
see
Trefusis, Violet

Keynes, John Maynard
(later
Baron),
36
,
108

Khokhlova, Olga,
216

Kine Weekly
,
219

Kipling, John,
4

Kipling, Rudyard: and loss of son in war,
4
,
273
;

on war dead,
5
;

on war cemeteries,
265
;

hymn for war dead,
273
;

‘Mary Postgate’,
85

Kitchener, Horatio Herbert, 1st Earl,
189

Labour Party: in 1918 election,
74
–5;

programme,
75

Ladd, Anna Coleman,
52
,
54
–5

Lady
(magazine),
171
,
177
,
179
,
190

Lamb, Henry,
240

Lambourne, Amelius Mark Richard Lockwood, 1st Baron,
187

Lane, Archie,
59
,
62

Lane, Sir William Arbuthnot,
56
-7,
136
,
160

Lansdowne, Maud Evelyn Hamilton, Marchioness of,
7

La Rocca, Nick,
156
,
251

Lavery, Sir John,
111
,
136

Law, Andrew Bonar,
75
,
146
,
162

Lawrence, D. H.: on battlefield illumination,
16
;

and Armistice celebrations,
36
-7;

at Garsington,
249
–50;

Women in Love
,
250

Lawrence, Frieda,
36
,
249

Lawrence, Thomas Edward (Lawrence of Arabia): fame and cult,
114
–22;

hatred of the physical,
120
;

writes account of war,
164
;

loses manuscript,
165
;

motorcycle-riding,
165
–6

Lax, Revd William, Mayor of Poplar,
122

Leak (Lewis’s dress buyer),
208

Leicester, Thomas William Coke, 3rd Earl of,
231

Leigh Pemberton, John,
51

Leighton, Roland,
32
,
261

Lenglen, Suzanne,
105
,
249

lesbianism,
161

Lewis, Cecil Day,
100

Lewis, Isle of,
70
–1

Liberal Party: and ‘Coupon Election’ (1918),
74

Life Without Servants
(by ‘A Survivor’),
207

limblessness: compensation for,
47
–8

Lindsay, Norah,
251

Liverpool: housing shortage,
80
;

unrest in,
130

Lloyd George, David
(later
1st Earl): on ‘war to end all wars’,
9
;

predicts imminent end to war,
17
;

and Armistice (1918),
29
;

Armistice Day speech at Guildhall,
40
;

promises ‘Land fit for Heroes’,
44
,
69
,
71
;

and ‘Coupon Election’ (1918),
74
–5;

and delays to demobilisation,
76
;

and industrial unrest,
79
–80,
137
,
257
;

proposes trying Kaiser,
83
;

disparages Germans,
85
;

and Paris Peace Conference,
107
;

and Peace Parade,
108
,
121
;

and Lutyens’

design for Cenotaph,
109
;

attends Lowell Thomas’s talk and show on Allenby and Lawrence,
118
;

proposes role for Prince of Wales,
128
;

and act of remembrance (two-minute silence),
140
–1,
147
,
149
;

welcomes Prince of Wales back from overseas tour,
162
;

and Nancy Astor’s entering Parliament,
171
;

approves unknown soldier grave,
266
–7

Lloyd, Stuart,
12
,
49
-50

Lockers Park school, Hemel Hempstead,
38

London: bombed in Great War,
31
,
121
–2;

housing shortage,
80

Londonderry, Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquis of,
126

Londonderry, Edith, Marchioness of,
152
,
190

Longford Hall,
231

Lopokova, Lydia,
36
,
216

Lord Richard in the Pantry
(play),
158

Louth, Lincolnshire: flood,
230

Lowther, James William
(later
Viscount Ullswater),
170

Lucille, Madame (couturier),
173

Lumley, Herbert,
60

Lusitania
(ship),
84

Luton: town hall burnt by ex-servicemen,
121

Lutyens, Sir Edwin,
52
,
109
,
145
,
263
-5

Lutyens, Revd William,
22

Macarthur, Mary,
74

McEvoy, Ambrose,
58
,
106
,
242

Mackintosh, Captain Angus and Lady Maud (
née
Cavendish),
223

Macmillan, Lady Dorothy
(née
Cavendish),
223
,
228

Macmillan, Harold
(later
1st Earl of Stockton),
223
,
228