Tommy (91 page)

144
M. von Posek
The German Cavalry in 1914 in Belgium and France
(Berlin 1932) p. 14.

145
Quoted in David Ascoli
Mons Star
(London 1981) pp. 52–53.

146
Richard Holmes
Riding the Retreat: Mons to the Marne 1914 Revisited
(London 1995) pp. 213–18.

147
Home
Diary
p. 118.

148
Lyn Macdonald
Somme
(London 1983) pp. 137–8.

149
This analysis draws heavily on David Kenyon's unpublished work.

150
Nicholson
Behind the Lines
p. 218.

151
Quoted in The Marquess of Anglesey
A History of the British Cavalry 1816–1919, Vol 8: The Western Front
(Barnsley 1997) pp. 131–7.

152
Quoted in Cusack and Herbert
Scarlet Fever
pp. 73–4.

153
Quoted in Anglesey
History of the British Cavalry
VIII p. 263.

154
Nicholson
Behind the Lines
p. 215.

155
Bickersteth (ed.)
Bickersteth Diaries
pp. 280, 289.

156
Quoted in Anglesey
History of the British Cavalry
VIII p. 260

157
For a well-researched rendition of this tragic tale see Roy F. Ramsbottom,
Marching as to War
(Tarporley, Cheshire, 2000). Also killed was Captain Philip Egerton, whose brother Rowland had been killed as a subaltern in the Royal Welch Fusiliers at First Ypres. They were the sons of Sir Philip Grey-Egerton and his American-born wife, Mae. She had earlier been courted by the novelist Anthony Hope, and is probably the model for the beautiful Princess Flavia in
The Prisoner of Zenda.
With Philip's death there was no heir to the baronetcy, and the Egertons' ancestral home, Oulton Park in Cheshire, burned down in February 1926.

158
Harry Easton Papers, Liddle Collection, Brotherton Library, University of Leeds.

159
Richard van Emden (ed.)
Tickled to Death to Go
(Staplehurst 1996) p. 52.

160
R. G. Garrod Papers, Liddle Collection, Brotherton Library, University of Leeds.

161
Van Emden (ed.)
Tickled to Death
p. 126.

162
Anglesey
History of the British Cavalry
VIII p. 18.

163
Edmonds
Military Operations
1914 I p. 353.

164
Glubb
Into Battle
p. 48.

165
Fisher
Requiem for Will
(privately printed 2002) p. 66.

166
No serious student of the war should be without Peter Chasseaud
Topography of Armageddon: A British Trench Map Atlas of the First World War
(London 1991). My own account of the growth of military survey on the Western Front is a highly abbreviated precis of the author's introduction.

167
Roe
Accidental Soldiers
p. 34.

168
Martin
Poor Bloody Infantry
p. 145.

169
I am indebted to Dr Steve Badsey for this information.

170
Captain Robert V. Dolby
A Regimental Surgeon in War and Prison
(Edinburgh 1917) p. 111.

171
Alexander Barrie
War Underground
(Staplehurst 2000) p. 26.

172
Ashurst
My Bit
p. 99.

173
Ogle
Fateful Battle Line
p. 46.

174
Dunham
The Long Carry
p. 17.

175
Quoted in Ian Passingham
Pillars of Fire: The Battle of Messines Ridge June 1917
(Stroud, Gloucs., 1998) pp. 63–4.

176
Parker
Into Battle
p. 74.

177
Adams
Nothing of Importance
p. 222.

178
Adams
Nothing of Importance
pp. 218–19.

179
Roe
Accidental Soldiers
p. 98.

180
Hawkings
From Ypres
p. 67.

181
Dunn
The War
p. 193.

182
Dunn
The War
pp. 209–17; Richards
Old Soldiers
pp. 168–70.

183
Barrie
War Underground
p. 218.

184
The best modern research now identifies twenty-four mines. Nineteen were fired, and of the remainder two survived the war. One exploded during a thunderstorm in July 1955. De-mining work recently carried out on the Western Front by the Durand Group suggests that the detonators and fuses have long since lost their efficacy, but the ammonal will still explode, though perhaps with only one-third of its former vigour.

185
Philip Gibbs.

186
Statistics
p. 185.

187
H. B. Owens Papers, Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum.

188
Dolby
Regimental Surgeon
p. 5.

189
Chapman
Passionate Prodigality
p. 211.

190
Dunham
The Long Carry
p. 185.

191
David Rorie
A Medico‘s Luck in the War
(Aberdeen 1929) p. 82.

192
Quoted in Joanna Bourke
An Intimate History of Killing
(Cambridge 1999) p. 263.

193
Dolden
Cannon Fodder
p. 29.

194
Burgoyne
Diaries
p. 61.

195
Arthur Smith Papers, Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum.

196
Gladden
Ypres 1917
p. 72.

197
Dunham
The Long Carry
p. 13.

198
Stormont Gibbs
From the Somme to the Armistice
(London 1986) p. 66.

199
Bullock Papers. And it would be wrong not to praise the courage of German stretcher-bearers who worked so well for their captors: in April 1917 Julian Bickersteth took charge of a party of 200, and wrote appreciatively that they ‘worked well'.

200
French
Gone for a Soldier
pp. 85–6.

201
Parker
Into Battle
p. 31.

202
Harold Dearden
Medicine and Duty
(London 1928) p. 190.

203
Blacker
Have You Forgotten
pp. 129–30.

204
Osburn
Unwilling Passenger
pp. 134–5.

205
Rogerson
Last of the Ebb
p. 74.

206
Helm Papers, Light Infantry Office (Yorkshire).

207
Dunham
Long Carry
p. 140.

208
M. W. Littlewood Papers, Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum.

209
Bickersteth (ed.)
Bickersteth Diaries
pp. 106–7, 111.

210
Hawkings
From Ypres
p. 99.

211
Rorie
Medico's Luck
p. 7.

212
Dolby
Regimental Surgeon
p. 18.

213
A.J. Arnold Papers, Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum.

214
Martin
Poor Bloody Infantry
p. 163.

215
Roe
Accidental Soldiers
p. 192.

216
Ogle
Fateful Battle Line
p. 63.

217
Bullock Papers.

218
May Tilton
The Grey Battalion
(Sydney 1934) pp. 203, 185, 263.

219
Mellersh
Schoolboy Into War
pp. 95–6.

220
Spicer
Letters from France
p. 75.

221
Ogle
Fateful Battle Line
p. 61.

222
Bullock Papers.

223
Much of this reflects the excellent article by Geoffrey Noon, ‘The Treatment of Casualties in the Great War' in Griffith
British Fighting Methods.

224
Sir W. G. Macpherson
Medical Services: General History Vol I
(London 1921) p. 201.

225
G. O. Chambers Papers, Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum.

226
Roe
Accidental Soldiers
p. 122.

227
Carr
Ploughshares
p. 54.

228
Peter Leese
Shell Shock
(London 2002) p. 176.

Heart and Soul

1
Jones
In Parenthesis
p. 201.

2
Manning
Her Privates We
p. 147.

3
Quoted in Lyn Macdonald
They Called it Passchendaele
(London 1978) p. 74.

4
Hiscock
Bells of Hell
p. 86.

5
Baynes and Maclean
Tale of Two Captains
p. 5.

6
Dunham
The Long Carry
p. 198.

7
Fussell
The Ordeal
p. 43.

8
Fussell
The Ordeal
p. 100.

9
Graham
Private in the Guards
p. 78.

10
Barbusse
Le Feu
pp. 23–4. Author's translation.

11
Chant Papers.

12
Rogerson
Twelve Days
p. 107.

13
Chapman
Passionate Prodigality
p. 45.

14
Jones
In Parenthesis
p. 219.

15
Richards
Old Soldiers
p. 12.

16
John Brophy and Eric Partridge
The Long Trail: What the British Soldier Sang and Said in the Great War of 1914–18
(London 1965) pp. 85–6.

17
Arthur Smith Papers, Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum.

18
Brophy and Partridge
Long Trail
p. 208.

19
Roe
Accidental Soldiers
p. 29.

20
A company quartermaster sergeant in the infantry, with his three stripes topped by a crown, held the
rank
of colour sergeant but the
appointment
of CQMS. His rank equated to that of staff sergeant elsewhere.

21
Dunn
The War
p. 427.

22
J. Gibbons
Roll on the Next War
(London 1935) p. 32.

23
Dolby
Regimental Surgeon
p. 206.

24
Coppard
With a Machine Gun
p. 52.

25
Hodges
Men of 18
p. 108.

26
Dudley Ward
Welsh Guards
p. 24.

27
Bickersteth (ed.)
Bickersteth Diaries
p. 175.

28
Dudley Ward
Welsh Guards
p. 393.

29
T. H. Davies Papers, Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum.

30
Alan Wilkinson
The Church of England and the First World War
(London 1978) p. 7.

31
Quoted in Wilkinson
Church of England
p. 149.

32
Bickersteth (ed.)
Bickersteth Diaries
pp. 193–4.

33
Wilkinson
Church of England
p. 5.

34
Bickersteth (ed.)
Bickersteth Diaries
p. 138.

35
Quoted in Wilkinson
Church of England
p. 44.

36
Graham
Private in the Guards
p. 253–5.

37
Richards
Old Soldiers.

38
Martin
Poor Bloody Infantry
p. 18.

39
Dolden
Cannon Fodder
p. 12.

40
Montague
Disenchantment
(London 1922) p. 80.

41
Siegfried Sassoon
Memoirs of a Fascinating Man
(London 1971) p. 247.

42
Quoted in Wilkinson
Church of England
p. 39.

43
Louden
Chaplains in Conflict
p. 27.

44
Statistics
p. 190.

45
Louden
Chaplains
caption to illustration, page unnumbered.

46
Quoted in Wilkinson
Church of England
p. 127.

47
Bickersteth (ed.)
Bickersteth Diaries
p. 67.

48
H. C. Jackson
Pastor on the Nile
(London 1960) p. 161.

49
Michael Moynihan
With God on Our Side
(London 1983) pp. 15–16.

50
Quoted in Louden
Chaplains
p. 60.

51
Bickersteth (ed.)
Bickersteth Diaries
p. 138.

52
Quoted in Wilkinson
Church
p. 43.

53
Jonathan Horne (ed.)
The Best of Good Fellows: The Diaries and Memoirs of the Rev Charles Edmund Doudeney
(London 1995) p. 137.

54
T. H. Davies Papers, Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum.

55
Hanbury Sparrow
Land-Locked Lake
p. 160.

56
T. H. Davies Papers.

57
Canon F. H. Drinkwater Papers, Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum.

58
Bickersteth (ed.)
Bickersteth Diaries
p. 153.

59
Bickersteth (ed.)
Bickersteth Diaries
p. 257.

60
Graves
Goodbye
p. 158.

61
Chapman
Passionate Prodigality
p. 117.

62
Bickersteth (ed.)
Bickersteth Diaries
p. 181.

63
French
Gone for a Soldier
pp. 80–81.

64
Drinkwater Papers.

65
Crozier
The Men I Killed
pp. 76–7.

66
Quoted in Wilkinson
Church of England
p. 140.

67
Dunn
The War
p. 556.

68
Reverend Pat Mc Cormick
My Diary of the Great War to Nov 1916,
Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum.

69
Reverend John Sellors Papers, Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum.

70
Quoted in Louden
Chaplains
p. 49.