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1st Battalion 90, 252, 357

5th Battalion 627

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, 6th Battalion 145

Duke of Edinburgh's Wiltshire Regiment 105

Duke of Wellington's Regiment, 10th Battalion 160

Durham Light Infantry 83, 384

2nd Battalion 89, 205

9th Battalion 208

18th Battalion (1st County) 149

19th Battalion 569

East Lancashire Regiment

2nd Battalion 530

11th Battalion (Accrington) 75, 82–5, 87, 149, 366, 379, 380, 384, 560, 628, 629

East Surrey Regiment 113, 133, 254, 270, 366, 541

1st Battalion

East Yorkshire Regiment

loth Battalion (1st Hull) 149

11th Battalion (2nd Hull) 149

12th Battalion (3rd Hull) 149

13th Battalion (4th Hull) 149

Essex Regiment 76, 116, 566

7th Battalion 156

12th Battalion 116, 156

13th Battalion 146

Gloucestershire Regiment 63, 496

1st Battalion 76, 104

2nd Battalion 104

2nd/5th Battalion 268

5th Battalion 605

6th (Territorial) Battalion 140

Gordon Highlanders 297, 536

4th Battalion 348

6th Battalion 544

Grenadier Guards 45, 77–9, 86, 87, 124, 133, 171, 204, 241, 255, 320,

1st Battalion 46, 523

2nd Battalion 46

3rd Battalion 144

Hampshire Regiment

1st Battalion 104

2nd Battalion 104

Highland Light Infantry 108, 602

17th Battalion 205

Honourable Artillery Company 125, 131, 208, 348

Irish Guards 46, 72, 133, 338, 519

King's African Rifles 201

King's Own Royal Regiment, tst/4th Battalion 218

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 16, 83, 387

2nd Battalion 264, 400

12th Battalion 149

King's Regiment (Liverpool) 42

1st/10th Battalion (Liverpool Scottish) 470

12th Battalion 58–9

King's Royal Rifle Corps 143, 347,

9th Battalion 193

12th Battalion 57, 58

16th Battalion (Church Lads' Battalion) 146

21st Battalion (Yeoman Rifles) 627

King's Shropshire Light Infantry 132, l33

4th Battalion 421

6th Battalion 57–8

Lancashire Fusiliers 93, 544, 607

1st Battalion 368, 458

2nd/8th Battalion 66

3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion 129

10th Battalion 93, 262

11th Battalion 236, 533

16th Battalion 336, 388

18th Battalion 573

Leinster Regiment, 7th Battalion 153

London Regiment 131–3, 208

1st/15th Battalion 92

1st/16th Battalion (Queen's Westminster Rifles) 41, 157, 549

1st/20th Battalion 603

2/2nd Battalion 145

2nd/16th Battalion 298

2nd/20th Battalion 303

5th Battalion (London Rifle Brigade) 15, 131–2, 208, 209, 544, 549

8th Battalion 254

11th Battalion (Finsbury Rifles)

12th Battalion 145

13th Battalion (Kensington) 131

14th Battalion (London Scottish) 46, 131, 136, 146–7, 298, 315, 316, 386, 508, 524, 552, 565, 592, 601

15th (County of London) Battalion (Civil Service Rifles) 131, 534

21st Battalion 246

22nd Battalion 132

24th Battalion (The Queens) 132–3

25th Battalion 254, 459, 492

28th Battalion (Artists' Rifles) 131, 143

Loyal (North Lancashire) Regiment 76, 359

5th Battalion 196

Manchester Regiment 72, 145, 193

2nd Battalion 383

22nd Battalion 6, 10

New Army battalions 48

Middlesex Regiment 46, 133, 543

16th Battalion 146

17th Battalion (1st Football Battalion) 146

18th Battalion (1st Public Works) 146

Norfolk Regiment 149, 154, 310

1st Battalion 92

2nd/6th Battalion (Cyclist) 92, 157–8

North Staffordshire Regiment, ist/

6th Battalion 471

Northamptonshire Regiment 93, 119

Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment (Sherwood Foresters) 300

5th Battalion 369

8th Battalion 37

12th Battalion 606

Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 57, 366

Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment 371

Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment 4, 8, 112–14, 132, 133, 199, 456, 501

1st Battalion 113, 114, 132

2nd Battalion 132

3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion 132

4th Battalion 132

5th Battalion 132

1/4th Battalion 80

1/6th Battalion 390

2/4th Battalion 80

3/3rd Battalion 199

3/4th Battalion 80–82, 85, 87

4th (Territorial) Battalion 75, 79–80

6th Battalion 361, 392

1st Volunteer Battalion 79

Rifle Brigade 112, 139, 268, 592, 593

Royal Berkshire Regiment 76, 121

1st Battalion 115, 579

2nd Battalion 292, 358

4th Battalion 606

8th Battalion 572

Royal Dublin Fusiliers 361

7th Battalion 153

8th Battalion 155

Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) 45, 133, 172, 587, 607, 614

1st Battalion 89, 559

2nd Battalion 458

13th Battalion 53, 333, 351

17th Battalion (Empire) 146

18th Battalion (1st Public Schools) 146

19th Battalion (2nd Public Schools) 146

20th Battalion (3rd Public Schools) 146, 204

21st Battalion (4th Public Schools) 146

22nd Battalion (Kensington) 146

23rd Battalion (1st Sportsman's) 146, 149

25th Battalion 602

26th Battalion 492

Royal Highland Regiment (Black Watch) 120, 330, 344, 539, 566

1st Battalion gi

2nd Battalion 105

Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 551

7th Battalion 402

Royal Irish Regiment 206

2nd Battalion 206

6th Battalion 153, 155

Royal Irish Rifles 31, 116, 154, 155, 170, 285, 344, 388

9th Battalion 154, 269, 333

Royal Munster Fusiliers 585

2nd Battalion 519

Royal Northumberland Fusiliers 84

7th Battalion 92

11th Battalion 92, 579

24th Battalion 348

Royal Scots (1st of Foot) 112

2nd Battalion 565

11th Battalion 380

Royal Scots Fusiliers 76

Royal Sussex Regiment 105

Royal Warwickshire Regiment 16, 46, 122, 604

1st Battalion 544

1st/5th Battalion 276

7th Battalion 62

8th Battalion 61, 62–3, 237, 311, 477

9th Battalion 61

16th Battalion 276

Royal Welch Fusiliers 91, 108, 151, 79 250–51, 308, 534, 549, 601

1st Battalion 202

2nd Battalion 22, 23, 87–9, 91, 114, 177–8, 203, 204, 265, 270, 280, 285, 289, 301, 329, 355, 356, 35, 370–71, 380, 382, 387, 388, 463, 464, 516, 517, 537–8, 540, 556, 574–5, 598–601, 614, 625

3rd Battalion 202

10th Battalion 88

14th Battalion 382–3

17th Battalion 204

Scots Guards 71, 79, 110, 133, 217, 507' 552, 618

Seaforth Highlanders 629

Somerset Light Infantry

2nd/4th Battalion 143

6th Battalion 302

South Lancashire Regiment 46, 195

5th Battalion 356

11th Battalion 92

South Staffordshire Regiment 357–8

7th Battalion 622

South Wales Borderers 91, 383

6th Battalion 582

12th Battalion 347

Suffolk Regiment 133, 297

Welch Regiment 46, 116–17, 293, 308

12th (Reserve) Battalion 90

16th Battalion (Cardiff City) 150

Welsh Guards 59, 133, 393, 394, 502, 503, 550, 618

West Yorkshire Regiment 45, 358, 566

1st/7th Battalion 372

2nd Battalion 262, 279, 281, 282, 284, 285

15th Battalion (1st Leeds) 49, 172, 400, 506

16th Battalion (1st Bradford) 149

18th Battalion (2nd Bradford) 149

Wiltshire Regiment 46, 141, 321, 401, 546

1st Battalion 141, 590

2nd Battalion 90, 91

3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion 131

Worcestershire Regiment 133, 208, 570

1st Battalion 290 8th Battalion 61

York and Lancaster Regiment 45, 72, 116

9th Battalion 582

12th Battalion 562

12th Battalion (Sheffield City) 149

13th Battalion 280

13th Battalion (1st Barnsley) 149

14th Battalion (2nd Barnsley) 149

Corps and other formations;

Cavalry Corps 163, 184, 263, 279, 438–9, 442, 443, 446, 448, 484

Royal Flying Corps 63, 362, 371–2, 374–375

Machine Gun Corps 361, 375, 390, 391, 392, 507, 6l9

86th Company 572

100th Machine Gun Company 391

37th Company 390

(Heavy) Machine Gun Corps 431, 434

Tank Corps 56, 64, 233, 390, 427, 434

G Battalion 428

H Battalion 429

Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC)162, 239, 273, 376, 424, 466–9, 473–4, 475, 478, 479, 566

assistant director of medical services (ADMS) 175

field ambulances 175

3rd Cavalry Field Ambulance 467

NO.1 Field Ambulance 512

South Midland Field Ambulance, l/1st Battalion 601

Army Service Corps 163, 187, 273–4, 288, 431, 586

Corps of Military Police 102, 505, 520, 567, 570–72, 595

‘battle police' 570, 571

Labour Corps 238

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) 597, 615

Women's Forage Corps 163

Voluntary Aid Detachment 481

Officer Training Corps (OTC) 123, 134, 140, 141, 142, 357

British Columbia 198

British Empire 13, 529, 608

British Expeditionary Force (BEF) 28, 77, 93, 104, 182, 341, 393, 514

casualties 33

and Cavalry Corps 438

cavalry officers 209–11

components of 174

and death sentences 567

Empire and Dominion contingents 13

first battle of Ypres 33

horses 163

Kitchener's instructions to the C-in-C 29

battle of Loos 36

battle of the Marne 32

machine guns 389

and mining 457

medical services 468, 478, 485

Mons 30–31, 139

size of 33

‘teeth to tail ratio' 191

the Somme 47

survey officers 453

and Territorial Force 130

under severe pressure at Ypres 279

British Legion 631

British War Medal 630

Britton, Sgt Don 424

Broadwood, Lt. Gen. R. G. 195–6, 213

Brock, Maj. Gen. Sir Isaac 105

Brock Barracks, Reading 105

Brodrick, William St John 106

Brooks, 2nd Lt Gerry 428

Brophy, John 495

Brotherton Library, University of Leeds xxiii

Brown, Billy 296

Brown, Lt E. D. 58

Bruce, Brig. Gen. 212

Brunton, Sgt D. 446, 448

Brusilov, General Aleksey 44

Brusilov Offensive (1916) 44

Bryant, Capt. 438

Buck, Sgt 127

Buck, Trooper 127

Buckingham Palace, London 133

Budworth, Maj. Gen. 189

Bulford Camp 141

Bullock, Pte Albert 62–3, 237, 311–12, 327. 378 38o 426, 472, 477, 480–81, 482

bully beef 318, 320–21, 322, 469, 544, 546, 560

Bully Grenay 512

Burgoyne, Capt. Gerald 170–71, 248, 257, 297–8, 314, 316–17, 321, 324, 331, 332, 354, 386, 401 546, 555–6 564

Burnley Lads' Club 82

Butler, Lt Gen. Sir Richard 221–2

Butterworth, Lt George 45

Byng, Gen. Sirjulian 64, 198, 209, 210

Cabinet 28, 29, 106, 107

Calais 191, 337

Anglo-French meeting (1915) 36

Allied conference (1917) 50

strike at army base 347

Caley, Hugh 80

Caleys (court dressmakers), Windsor 80

Calloway, Lt R. F. 345

Calvey, Driver 433, 434

Cambrai 21, 64, 65, 207, 553, 629

battle of (1917) 65, 157, 208, 210, 217, 233, 237–8, 256, 274, 399, 428, 429, 430, 442–3, 630

Cambridge University 357

library 607

Cambrin 296, 527
camouflets
462, 464

Camp 34: 281, 289

Campbell, Capt. 443

Campbell, Gen. Sir David ‘Soarer' 197–8, 201–2, 207, 2ii
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437

Campbell, Jack xxiv

Campbell, 2nd Lt P. J. 86, 272, 307–8, 355, 373, 411–14, 4l6 448, 468–527, 574–7, 597–605, 611

Campbell, Lt Col Ronald 345

Canadian Army 174, 180

Canadian Corps 183, 184, 198, 216 1st Division 35, 182, 198, 216, 516 2nd Brigade 198

Cavalry Brigade 445

72nd Battalion 393

1st Canadian Tunnelling Company 465

Allied counteroffensive (8 August 1918) 70

casualties in France 13

Fort Garry House 440, 443

loss of a major general 213

mining 458, 459

Vimy Ridge front line 269

Vimy Ridge taken 52

third Ypres 60, 164–5

Canche River 194, 341

Cannadine, David 626

Cannon, Capt. H. C. 199

Capper, Maj. Gen. Tommy 212, 378

Cardwell, Edward 104, 105, 107, 111, 118

Carleton, Brig. Gen. Frederick 218, 219–20

Carlisle, 9th Earl of 76

Carlton, CQMS 290

Caernafon 84

Carnoy (Somme) 248–9

Carr, 2nd Lt William 405, 484, 539–40, 574, 615, 620, 630

Carrington, Lt Charles xviii, xix, xxiv, 16, 20–21, 47, 234, 272, 276–7, 280, 285, 330, 335, 347, 348–9, 382, 383, 392, 531‘ 53D, 542, 547' 562, 597, 598, 617, 624

Carson, Sir Edward 154

Carter, Harry 622

Cartwright, Brigadier General 67

Case, Pte Robert 18, 180

casualties

Allies 47

British xvii, 13, 33 (BEF), 35, 40, 43, 45, 47, 53, 55, 60, 67, 72, 75, 77, 85, 88, 89, 90, 105, 151, 154, 174, 275

Empire and Dominion 13–14

German 47, 55, 60

casualty clearing stations 477–8, 482, 513

Caterham 110