Tommy (102 page)

81–mm 369

Minenwerfers
(‘minnies') 369

Stokes 369–70, 422, 425

trench 369, 370

Moss, Pte Alfred 484

Moss, Pte Arthur 559

Mottram, Capt. Ralph H. 89, 238

Spanish Farm
trilogy 530

Mount Spearmint 344

Mouquet Farm, Somme 494

Mudlark, The
607

Müller, Lt 430

Munitions Inventions Department 387

Munsey, 2nd Lt W. F. 58

Munster Alley 24

Murphy, RSM 356

Murray, Lt Gen. Sir Archibald 190

music halls 602

musketry 380

Brown Bess 365

Musketry Regulations
378

mustard gas 423–4, 430

Nash, 2nd Lt Thomas 592

National Army Museum, Chelsea, London 438

National Service League 107, 130

National Volunteers (Ireland) 153

Néry 438

Neuve Chapelle, battle of (1915) 34, 35 41, 216, 366, 404, 405, 524

Neuve Chapelle sector 68

Neuville, Alphonse Marie de:
Le Bourget
22

Neuvilly 582

Neville, Captain Billie 254–5, 258–9, 545

New Army xxii, 48, 57, 75, 83, 87, 88, 89, 106, 112

commissions 140–45, 146, 148

conditions 158–60

division commands 196

‘First New Aimy' (Ki) 138, 139

four more New Armies formed 139

inexperience of 37, 39

Irish recruits 152–6

‘Kitchener's Armies' 137

and local authorities 82, 137–8

moustache regulations 368

national pride 529

raising and training 140

recruitment 138–9, 156–7

Welsh Division 149–51

New Guinea 14

New Zealand 13

Newfoundland Memorial Park, Somme 269

Newfoundlanders 13

Neivnes Summer Annual
259

Newton, Capt. 369

Newton, Corporal 19

Nicholson, Col. Walter 135–6, 137, 181, 186–7, 221, 227–31, 234, 330, 334, 337. 354–5. 302, 442, 446–7, 521, 570, 602, 611

Nicholson, William 109

Nickalls, Brig. Gen. 212

Nieuport 60

Nissen, Lt Col Peter 336

Nissen huts 336–7, 349, 355, 478

Nivelle, Gen. Robert 49, 50, 52

Nivelle offensive (1917) 30, 52

No Man's Land xv, 3, 11, 46, 85, 266, 269–71, 286, 289, 302, 311, 313, 314. 329. 370. 384, 413. 427. 458, 464. 543, 544. 546. 547. 551. 575

Noel, Revd Conrad 511

Norfolk Committee 125

North Sea 33, 246

North-West Europe 212

North-West Frontier 80, 622

Northampton Farm 16

Northcott, Father Hubert 507

Nortlenlinghem 351

Norton Griffiths, Lt Col. John, 457

Noyon 30

Noyon salient 33

nurses 481, 482, 598

observation balloons 372, 373, 374, 531

O'Connor, Gen. Sir Richard 207

Official History (British) 383, 386, 440

Offside Leader, The
(poem) 609-10

Ogle, Capt. Harry 157, 253, 267, 270, 296, 301–2, 305–7, 319, 352–3, 360, 403, 458, 475, 482, 557–8, 567, 591–2, 600, 616

Oh What a Lovely War
(film) xxii

Oise River 49, 66, 592

Okinawa 14

Old Army 31, 75, 77–9, 86–90, 102, 198–9, 200, 358, 366, 378, 379, 420

Oliver, Sgt 19

Omdurman, battle of (1898) xx

Operation Georgette 68

Ordnance Survey, Southampton 454

Ornes 24

Ors 72

Osborne, J. B. 76

Osburn, Col. Arthur 98, 197, 239, 264, 400–401, 474, 509, 587, 596–7, 598–9

Ostend 49, 56

Oswald, Maj. K. A. 199

Ovillers 46

Owen, Lt Wilfred Edward Salter xvii, 72, 346

Owens, Capt. Henry 162, 466–7

Oxford 531, 611

Oxford University 357, 619

padres 476, 503–27, 568

Paissy 264

Pakenham, Maj. Hon. Bingo 309–10

Palestine 448

Paris 53, 68, 597

British embassy 32

proximity of the front to 30

‘red belt' around 30

Schlieffen's proposals 28

Paris Plage 348

Parisians 52

Parker, Lt Ernest 172, 179–80, 331–2, 348, 353– 460, 473, 553, 589, 590–91, 616–17

Parker, Corporal Matty 332

Parkin, Private 493

Parliament Act (1911) 102

Parliamentary Recruiting Committee 139

Partridge, Eric 495

Passchendaele xviii, 54, 604

battle of (1917)
see
Ypres, third battle of

Passchendaele Ridge 60, 62

paternalism 577–8

Paterson, Lt Col 443

patriotism 528, 529–30, 603

Patterson, 2nd Ltjohn 566

Patterson, Pte Jackie 449

Peace, Charley 496

Pearce, Lt 258

Pearson, Private 119

Peel Trench 24

Pennycuik, Brig. Gen. James 162

‘Peoples' Budget' (1906) 102

Pereira, Brig. Gen. George 204, 212, 222

Peronne 21, 22, 51

Perry, Maj. ‘Long' 229

Pershing, Gen. John J. 68

Petain, Marshal Philippe 52, 53, 54, 67

Peterloo Massacre (1819) 127

Peters, Col. 378

Petersburg, Virginia 246

Petit Bois mine 464, 465

Petrie, Maj. P. C. 134

Peule 21

Peyton, Maj. Gen. W.G. 220

PH (Phenate-Hexamine) Helmet 421

Philby, Pte, Ernest 46

Philby, Pte Henry 46

Philip II, King of Spain 21

Phillips, Maj. Gen. Ivor 217–18, 222

Phillpotts, Brig. Gen. L.M. 47

Picardy 16, 19, 228, 249, 286

Piggott, Capt. Clive 308

Pike, Lt Col. Eben 78

Pilcher, Maj. Gen. 230

Pilckem Ridge 275

Pilkington, Sir Thomas 143–4

‘Pimple' depot, Le Havre 341–2

Pinney, Maj. Gen. Reginald 178, 329

Pitman, Colonel 161

Ploegsteert 533, 545

Ploegsteert Wood, (Ypres) 247, 494

Plum and Apple
(1st Division's newspaper) 439

Plumer, Gen. Sir Herbert 35, 54, 55, 56, 59, 60, 209, 215, 232, 236, 458, 460, 496, 510, 567

Plummer, L/Cpl 353

Plumstead, Private 602–3

Plunkett, Lt Col. Freddy 206

Poelcappelle, battle of (1917) 60

poetry 609–10, 631

Poincare, President 24

Pollard, Capt. Alfred 622

Fire Eater
622

Pollard, Pte 84

Polygon Wood 59, 403

Pont de Nieppe 591

Pontavert 165

Poole, 2nd Lt Eric 566–7

Pope and Bradley (Bond Street outfitters) xxvi

Poperinghe 4, 525, 567, 591, 592, 599

Portuguese division 68

Portuguese embassy 113

Potijze/Potyze Chateau, (Ypres) 307, 512

Pozieres 43, 45, 71, 180

Pozieres Mill site 43

Prescott, John 212

Priestley, Lt J. B. xvii, xxv, 96–7, 159–60, 238, 541, 621–2

Prioleau, Lt Col R. U. H. 58

Prior, Robin xxii, 42, 441

prostitution 117, 118, 483–4, 596, 597

Prussians 543

Psichari, Ernest 27

Pullen, Ted 157

Pulteney, Lt Gen. Sir William 216–17, 496

Pumphrey, Capt. 332
Punch
126, 239, 258

Punjab Open polo tournament 114

Purfleet Demobilisation Camp 620

Puymarais, Col. de 21

Pytchley Hunt 161

Quebec 105

Queen Alexandra Field Force Fund 325–6

Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Services 481

Queen Charlotte
(flagship) 114

Quetta 31, 355

Quilter, Maj. Sir Cuthbert, 128

‘Race to the Sea' 32–3

Railton, Revd. David 524

Railway Transport Officers (RTOs) 339–40

railways 339–40, 452, 479–80

Rain brothers 156–7, 549

Ransomes of Ipswich 369

rationing 98

Ravensworth, Earl of 128

Rawcliffe, Lt 84

Rawlinson, Gen. Sir Henry 171, 209, 496

and the 3rd Army 36

Allied counterattack (8 August 1918) 70

battle of the Somme 4, 39, 40, 41, 194, 227, 442

champions night attack 407

French considers sacking him 216

and Loos 267

and tanks 44

and third Ypres 56, 188–9

restructured 4th Army 69, 188, 431

sacking of Butler 221–2

Sassoon on 211

Raybould, Private 601

Read, Capt. Herbert 598

Red Cross 254, 341, 482

Redmond, John 152, 153, 155

Redmond, Maj. Willie, 155

Reeve, Pte H. 348

Reith, Ltjohn 131, 257–8, 266–7, 323–4, 331, 350–51, 520–21, 603, 611, 624

Reitz, Lt Col. Denys 76

religion 503–27

Remarque, Erich Maria:
All Quiet on the Western Front
xix

Remembrance Day 628, 629–30

Rennie, Maj. Gen. Tom 212

Repington, Lt Col Charles 35, 200

Reunion t 446

revolvers, Webley 366

Rheims 36, 190

Rhineland territory 617–18

Ribbans, Gunner 70, 434

Ribecourt 443

Richards, Pte Frank 19–20, 106, 108, 115–19, 178, 288–9, 295–6, 320, 330, 337–8, 464, 494–5, 507–8, 551–2, 580, 583, 593, 595, 596, 613, 614

Richardson, Lt 288–9

Rickman, Lt Col A. W. 84, 366

rifles 377–81

Ariska 380

breech-loading Snider 126

cavalry 436

dummy 379

Lee-Enfield 130, 216

Long Lee-Enfield 377, 380

muzzle-loading Enfield 126

Ross 216, 380

Short Lee-Enfield (SMLEs) 9, 106, 130, 365, 377, 380, 381

Riley, Capt. H. D. 82, 85

Rimington, Maj. Gen. M. F. 121

Ripon 84

Rivers, Dr William Hales 485

Robbins (OsbertSitwell's servant) 124

Roberston, CSM 147

Roberts, Capt. F. J. 606

Roberts, Field Marshal Lord 106, 229

Robertson, Pte K. A. 605–6

Robertson, Major General Philip 230, 6i 1

Robertson, Field Marshal Sir William 38, 43, 19, 67, 121–2, 171, 190, 193, 212–13

Robinson, Corporal Buggy 284, 288, 289, 317

Robson, Pte 366

Roclincourt 349

Rodin, Pierre-Auguste:
La Defense
24

Roe, Lt F. P. 140–41, 172, 246, 248, 249–50, 252, 255–6, 270, 286, 296, 302–5, 313, 314, 317–18, 320, 325, 351–354, 422, 453–4, 462–3, 480, 484, 559, 585, 624

Rogerson, Capt. Sidney 165, 254, 262, 277, 278–9, 281–3, 285, 287–92, 307, 327, 330, 357, 474–5, 493, 498, 527, 535–6, 538, 570, 576 588–9, 590, 597

Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholics 504, 506, 508, 509, 512–15, 519

Romani, battle of (1916) 194

Romania 48

Rome, Lt Col Leslie 446

Rorie, Col. David 478

Ross, Capt. 362

Ross, Capt. ‘Potty' 560

Roubaix 206

Rouen 62, 191, 238, 325, 336, 337, 338, 343, 380, 484, 494, 596, 600

Rouen cathedral 20

Roulers 49, 54, 56, 60

Roupell, Brig. George 366

Roussillon Barracks, Chichester 105

Royal Army Medical College, Millbank, London 466, 507

Royal Commission on the South African War (1903) 106

Royal Guernsey Militia 153

Royal Irish Constabulary 622

Royal Marines 116–17

Royal Military Academy, Woolwich 122, 137, 202–3, 245

Royal Military College, Sandhurst 120, 122, 123, 137, 202–3, 207, 216, 288, 455. 496

Royal Naval Division 513, 566

Royal Navy

continued naval blockade 65, 69

loses arguments in Committee of Imperial Defence 26

war plan 26

warship-building programme 26

Rubinstein, Capt. R. F. (‘Fibulous') 606

Rugby school 141, 630

Ruggles-Brise, Maj. Gen. H. G. 192

rum ration 329–32

Rumbold, L/Cpl 262

Ruilly 444

Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria 22, 55

Russell, G. W. E. 627

Russia

Brusilov Offensive 44

departure from the war 65

growing war-weariness in 50

military accord with France (1892) 25–6, 27

military dead in WWII 14

mobilisation after assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand 28

and passive defence strategy 36

Russian army 25–6, 55

Russian labourers 23

Russo-Japanese War (1904–5) 27, 246, 266, 395

Ryecroft, Maj. Gen. 222

Sailly la Bourse 494

Sailly-au-Bois 477

Sailly-sur-la-Lys 196

Sains 21

St Barnabas Church, Ranmore, Surrey 626

St Denis,
SS (hospital ship) 479

St John's church, Valetta, Malta 20

St-Julien 275

St Machar's Cathedral, Old Aberdeen 507

St-Nazaire 479

Salamanca, battle of (1812) 105

Salisbury Plain 80

Salonika xix, 220

Salvation Army 341, 509

Sambre Canal 72

Sambrook, Sapper Arthur 323

sandbags 303–5, 461

Sandy Times
607

Sankey, Capt. 582

Santerre 72

Santerre Plateau 67

Sarajevo 28

Sassoon, Lt Siegfried xvii, xxiv, 211, 290–91 314, 359–60, 485, 508, 538, 584, 585, 588

The Redeemer
532

Sauchy-Cauchy 21

Saulcourt 236

Sausmarez, Maj. Christopher de 77

Saxony, Saxons 543, 544, 553

Scarpe River 21

Schlieffen, Gen. Count Alfred von 27

Schlieffen Plan 28

Schwaben, Redoubt 46

Scotland, RSM Peter 148

Scott, Canon 516

Scott, CSM 281, 330, 357, 538

Scott, W. R. 356

Scottish Women's Hospital 468

Scottish Wood 304

Second World War 89, 120, 358, 624

Allied generals housed in chateaux 170

artillery 397

compared with WW1 xvii, xx, 14, 138, 191, 212

London Blitz 163

military secretary's department records destroyed 192

strategic bombing on Germany 69