Tommy (103 page)

tanks' involvement 375, 434

two-man foxholes 246

Sedgemoor, battle of (1684) 113

Seely, Maj. Gen. Jack 32

Segrave, Lt Col Eric 92

Seine River 337

Sellors, Revdjohn 5x7–18

Senghenydd mining disaster (1913) 95

Senlis, Picardy 228

Serbia, Serbs 28, 36

Serre 40, 46, 84, 85

Sha-ho, battle of (1904) 395

Shapton, CSM Sam 627

Sharpe, L/Cpl William 66

Sharpe, Sgt Maj. 437

Sharpies, Col. 83, 84

Sheffield 85, 158

Sheffield, Gary 180

Leadership in the Trenches
xxii

shell shock 484–5, 566, 567

shells 401–3, 405, 408, 411, 414, 415

gas 422–3

nicknames 497–8

Shephard, 2nd Lt Ernest 90–91, 259–60, 276, 310, 331, 357, 402, 418–19, 457, 573–4, 580 586, 590, 627

Sherriff, Lt R. C. xix, 144

She's The Most Distressful Country
(Irish rebel air) 155

Short, Corporal Jesse 348

Shotter, William xxv shrapnel 399–401, 401, 409, 414

Shrapnel, Lt Gen. Sir Henry, 399

sieges 245, 246, 369, 456

Simkins, Peter xxii, 181

Simons, Lt Col 219–20

Simpson, Andy 210

Sinai 194

Sinn Fein 152

Sitwell, Sir George xxv, 121, 123

Sitwell, Sir Osbert xxv, 104, 121, 123–4

Sixteen Poplars 46

Skett, 2nd Lt 284, 285

Skindles restaurant, Poperinghe 592

Skinner, CSMJ. 586

Sladen, Brig. Gen. 234

Sloggett, Surgeon Gen. Sir Arthur 468

Small Arms School, Hythe 390

Smeddle, Capt. Henry 431–2

Smith, Maj. Arthur 226, 241, 280, 471, 496 550

Smith, Bishop J. Taylor 509

Smith Pte Jimmy 299

Smith, Percy 92–3

Smith, Vic 93

Smith-Dorrien, Sir Horace 33, 35, 172, 209, 214–15, 216

smoke helmet 421

Smuts, Field Marshal Jan 215

Snailham, Pte 379

Snelling, Capt. Percy 436

Snow, Lt Gen. Sir Thomas 231

Soldier's Pocket Book
xv

Somerset House, London 147

Somme, battle of the (1916) xviii, 5, 6, 11. 30. 34, 39–48 70, 89, 92, 145, 151, 165, 172, 176, 182, 194, 205, 208, 213, 214, 220, 227, 230, 242, 262, 274, 278, 280, 281, 291, 298, 345, 349, 36l, 390, 404, 406, 415, 533, 535, 539, 552, 593, 610, 626, 629

achievements 47–8

Australian capture of Pozieres 43

bayonet fighting 382, 384

British casualties 7, 40, 41, 43, 45–7, 76, 90

the cavalry at High Wood 440–42

commemoration of 71

compared with Passchendaele 60

creeping barrage 407

first appearance of the tank 267, 427, 429. 433

Flers-Courcelette 44–5

German insistence on regaining

captured ground 42

Haig overrules Rawlinson 41

medical services 467, 470, 472–3, 477, 481

mining 458

Montagu-Stuart-Wortley sacked 231

no need for wire in 268–9

the old battlefield 228–9

padres 511–12

plan of attack 40, 188

Thiepval Memorial 14

trench system 249–50, 251, 255, 259, 260

Somme Times, The
608

Somme front 258, 270, 349, 450, 502, 527, 542, 549, 590

Somme River 16, 17, 21, 39, 49, 447

Somme sector 18, 313, 526, 627

sound-ranging 64, 184, 452

South Africa 13, 76, 108, 190

South African troops: casualties in France 13–14

South America 206

Southampton 4, 163, 579

souvenirs 546–7

Spanish Netherlands 19

Spears, Brig. Gen. Sir Edward 51–2, 190, 319

Special Service Party 419

Spicer, Maj. Lancelot 83, 171, 482, 614–15

Spiers, Edward 119

spirituality 503–27

St-Eloi 216, 304, 350, 457, 465

Mont 259, 350

St-Gilles church, Epagnette 20

St-Mihiel 18

St-Mihiel salient 1

St-Omer 23, 38, 39, 64, 193, 468, 511

St-Quentin, battle of (1557) 21

Stamfordham, Lord 267

Stanford, 2nd Lt H. M. 23, 328, 413

Stanhope, Lt Col Lord 171, 190, 205, 222, 230–33. 241–2, 419, 550, 556, 587

Stanhope Forbes, 2nd Lt W. A. 629

Stanton, RSM 83

Stanway, Capt. 356, 464

Starrett, Corporal David 238, 553–4

Steenbeek Stream 57, 62, 63

‘
Stellenbosched
' 214, 218

Stewart, Col. 141

Stirling Castle 16

Stirling Wood 15–16

Stokes, Lt Stephen 550

Stokes, Wilfred 369–70

Stones, L/Sgt Willie 569 Stoughton barracks, Guildford 4, 132

Strachan, Lt Harcus 443–4

Strachan, Hew:
First World War
xxii

Streets, Sgt Will 45–6

strikes 96, 108, 347, 617

Studdert Kennedy, Rev. Geoffrey (‘Woodbine Willie') 511, 518

The Unutterable Beauty
518

Stuff Redoubt (Thiepval) 529 submarine warfare 49, 54, 69

Suez canal 84

Sugden, Amy 158, 368

Sugden, Sgt Bill xxvi-xxvii, 158–9, 357, 368, 563–4

Surbiton Villas 271

surrender 547–51

surveying 453

Sutherland, Maj. 574

Swinford, Sapper (later Pte) George 91–2

Swinton, Maj. Gen. Sir Ernest:
Twenty Years After
24

Swiss border 33, 246

swords 366–7, 436, 438, 444, 445, 448

syphilis 101, 483

T-shells 423

Talbot, Lt Gilbert 525

Talbot, Revd. Neville 522, 524–5

Talbot, Sgt 352

Talbot House, Poperinghe (‘Toe H') 525

Talbot Kelly, 2nd Lt R. B. 148, 410, 417, 525, 539, 577–8

Tangiers 112, 113

tanks 44, 64, 69, 210, 267, 375, 427–34

A7V 430

Mark IV 428–9, 430, 434

Mark V 70, 431, 434

supply 431

‘whippet' light 70, 375, 431

Tanner, Revd Victor 520

Taplow Court, Buckinghamshire 626

Tarawa 14

Tasmania 195

Tawney, Sgt Richard Henry 48, 145

Taylor, A. J. P. xxiii, 209, 628

The First World War: An Illustrated History
xxi

Taylor, Pte George 523

Teed, Pte 353

telegraph 452

telephone communications 218, 226, 227, 303, 395, 398, 400, 410, 415,

Tennant, Gunner Norman 133–4, 612

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 77

Ternon, Trevor 195

Terraine, John 210

Douglas Haig: The Educated Soldier
xxii

Territorial Force 28, 75, 76, 79, 79–82, 87, 88, 89, 103, 107, 129–34, 135–8, l40, 174, 198, 368

Territorial Force Nursing Services 481

Territorial Year Book, The
130

Thermit bombs 424–5

Thesiger, Maj. Gen. George 212

Thiepval 40, 526

Thiepval Memorial, Somme 14, 628

Thirsk, Sgt 411

Thomas, Lt F.G. S. 622

Thomas, Corporal Reginald (John) 596

Thompson, Flora:
Lark Rise to Candleford
100

Thornton-Smith, Capt A. D. 57, 59

Thorout 54

Tickler's jam (‘pozzy') 317–18, 319–20

Tillett, Ben 508

Tilques 350

Tilton, Sister May 481

Times the
, 35, 138–41, 200, 311, 605

Toe H 525

Todhunter, B. E. 161

Tolkien, LtJ. R. R. 533

‘Tommy Atkins' xv-xvi

Tompkins, Lt 126

Tompson, Capt. Reginald 22–3, 192, 212, 240–41, 587–8, 615

Touvent Farm, Somme 40

Tower Hamlets 271

Tower Hamlets ridge 15

Trades Union Congress 508

Training and Employment of Divisions, The
(Pamphlet SS 135) 367–8

Transloy-Bapaume road 283

transport lines 335

Travers, Tim xxii

Treffry, 2nd Lt 473–4

Tregaskis, Lt Arthur 46

Tregaskis, Lt Leonard 46

trench fever 469

trench journals 605–10

Trench Supply Department 370, 387

trench warfare 245–66

aid posts 264–5

and blockhouses 261

communication trenches 252–5, 275, 305, 308–9, 388

conditions 247–g

digging trenches 305–7

dugouts 257–61

fatigues 295

fire trenches 247, 250, 252

firestep 250–51

food 314–26

funk holes 257, 306

German snipers 295–6

‘going over the top' 251, 275

Grecian key design 251–2

increasing use of the grenade 380–81, 385

infantrymen 274

informative signs 256–7

latrines 262–3, 277> 284– 288

laying out a trench system 249–50

line-holding 275, 276–7, 278, 283

listening posts 252

lying trenches 246

pattern of rotation 274, 275–6, 279, 280

precedence for 245–6

raiding 311–14

rats 286–7

reserve trenches 295

reversing trenches 251

revetting of trench sides 249

scale and duration 246

sentry duty 301–3

the smell of the line 285–6, 290

social community 531–2

stone-built
sangars
249

supervision trenches 252

trench names 253, 256

trench periscopes 295

trench stores 265, 275, 284, 303

trench-mortar dugouts 264

watches 292–3

Trench Warfare Department 387

Trinity College, Cambridge 357

Trones Wood 281

truces 544, 547

Trumpeter, The
(song) 147–8

Tuchman, Barbara xvii, 96

Tudor, Brig. Gen. Hugh ‘Owen' 64, 233

Tunnel Trench, British attack on (1917) 537

tunnelling companies 311

Turks 194, 448

Turp, Farrier Sgt 445

Tyndale-Biscoe, Harold 143

Tyndale-Biscoe, Lt Julian 142–3, 203, 263, 354–5, 415

Tyne Cot memorial 59, 628, 629

Tyne Electrical Engineers 133

Ulster 120, 152

Ulster Tower 154

Ulster Unionists 135

Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) 153–4

West Belfast Regiment 154

Ulstermen 102, 153–4, L55 577

underclass 97–8

Underhill, 2nd Lt Edward 247, 259, 260–61, 271, 331, 528–9, 542, 604

unemployment 108, 620, 630

Union forces (American Civil War) 246

United States of America

and the 1918

German offensive 277

enters the war 54, 65, 68–9

Meuse-Argonne battle 71

United States Army 163, 376

University of Leeds xxiii

Ushant, battle of (1794) 114

Vailly-sur-Aisne 451

Valenciennes 21

Valois 20

Vauban Marshal Sebastien le Prestre de 21, 194

Vaughan, Lt Edwin Campion 61–2, 331, 360, 433, 542, 546, 553, 578–9, 581

Vaux 24

venereal disease 117, 483–4, 596

Verdun 18, 24, 542

battle of (1916) 18, 35, 39, 42, 43, 48, 49.52

Vermelles 298

Versailles, Treaty of (1919) xxiii

Victoria, Queen 105, 113

Victory Medal 630

Vietnam War (1961–70) xxi

Villers-Bretonneux 68, 430

Villers-Guislain 256

Vimy Ridge 16, 36, 312–13, 350

battle of (1917) 52–3, 269

Vimy Sector 180, 372, 421

violence 102

within the Army 555–6

Voller, Pte H. W. 606

voluntary recruiting 89–90

Volunteer Decoration 126

volunteers 90, 126, 128, 131, 134, 138, 153, 310–11, 027

Voormezeele 353, 463

Vosges, the 18, 52, 249

Wade, Gunner Aubrey 63–4, 303, 414, 596

Walker, Pte Johnny 298

Walker, Revd Michael Stanhope 512

Walkey, Pte 603

Wambergen, Lt Meyer Zu 542

War Cabinet 54, 67, 215, 225

war literature xvii-xxiv

War Office xv, 82, 106, 121, 135, 142, 144, 177, 231, 506

ammunition supply 35

Committee on Shell Shock (1922) 330, 485

and mining 457

and New Armies 139

and territorials 136, 137, 140

and use of gas 419

and weapon inventions 387

Wareham, Capt. 582

Warley Barracks 156

Wars of the Roses (1453–85) 626

Waterloo, battle of (1815) 104, 120, 182, 365, 396

Waterloo station, London 132

Watney, Lt Col. Frank 79

Watson, W. H. L. 311

Watson-Smythe, Lt ‘Teddy' 355–6

Watter, Lt Gen. von 429

Watts, Capt. A. R. E. 496

Watts, Maj. Gen. Herbert 6, 207

Watts, Sgt 573

Wavell, Field Marshal Lord 120

weapons
see under
individual types

Webber, Lt Henry 46

Weetman, Capt. W. L. 37–8

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of 21, 104, 107–8, 118, 119–20, 182

Wellington Barracks 129

Welsh Division New Year Souvenir, The
608

Welsh National
Eisteddfod
503

Welsh National Executive Committee 149, 150

Welsh nationalism 150

Welton, RQMS 356

West, Pte B. 297

Western Command Gas School 421

Western Desert 207, 622

Western Front

architecture 19–20

attack/defensive strategies 34–5

bayonet fighting 382

British C-in-Cs xix

casualty clearing stations 478

casualty statistics 13, 14

cavalry 375

Churchill's comments xx

corps commanders 210

the costliest theatre for British troops 14

created by the war's opening campaign 25

decorations 584

Haig's insistence on its primacy 38

horses 163

importance of 29–30

length of 15

Liddell Hart's comments xx line of field fortifications 32–3, 246

maps 453

motivation 489

mutinies 347

post-war appearance 23–4