Tommy (88 page)

59
Graves
Goodbye
p. 125. Some caution is required, as is so often the case with Gravesian anecdotes, but the story has the ring of truth.

60
Osburn
Unwilling Passenger
p. 117. See also Edmonds
1914
I pp. 277–8.

61
Bourne
Who's Who
pp. 49–50.

62
John Charteris
GHQ
(London 1931) p. 209.

63
Army Book 129, 3/3
^rd
Queen's, Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment Museum, Clandon Park.

64
See
King's Regulations and Orders for the Army 1912 Revised 1914,
especially paras 758–882.

65
Statistics
p. 554.

66
Graves
Goodbye
p. 142.

67
Graves
Goodbye
p. 172.

68
Dunn
The War
pp. 413–14, 497, 502.

69
Dunn
The War
pp. 236–42.

70
Crozier
Brass Hat
pp. 206–7.

71
Stanhope Papers.

72
Crozier
Brass Hat
pp. 144–5.

73
F. P. Crozier
Impressions and Reflections
(London 1930) p. 202.

74
Gumming
Brigadier
p. 96.

75
John Terraine
The Smoke and the Fire: Myths and Anti-Myths of War
(London 1992) p. 162.

76
Andrew Simpson
The Operational Role of British Corps Command on the Western Front 1914–18
(PhD Thesis, University College London 1999).

77
Terraine
Smoke
p. 163.

78
Terraine
Smoke
p. 162.

79
Adrian Carton de Wiart
Happy Odyssey
(London 1950) p. 90.

80
Feilding
War Letters
p. 313.

81
Siegfried Sassoon
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
(London 1977) p. 75.

82
Quoted in Davies and Maddocks
Bloody Red Tabs
(London 1995) p. 1.

83
Tompson Papers, Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum.

84
Quoted in Davies and Maddocks
Bloody Red Tabs
p. 6.

85
Quoted in Davies and Maddocks
Bloody Red Tabs
p. 93.

86
Charteris
GHQ
p. 118.

87
Quoted in Holmes
Little Field Marshal
p. 284.

88
Quoted in Holmes
Little Field Marshal
p. 333.

89
Terraine
Haig
p. 427.

90
Bourne
Who's Who
pp. 238-9.

91
Griffith
Mametz
pp. 206, 216, 221.

92
Quoted in Malcolm Brown
The Imperial War Museum Book of the Western Front
(London 1993) pp. 136–44.

93
Nigel Cave
Vimy Ridge
(Pen and Sword Battleground Europe Series, London 1996) p. 75.

94
Nicholson
Behind the Lines
p. 161.

95
Quoted in Prior and Wilson
Command
p. 354.

96
Feilding
War Letters
p. 226.

97
Stanhope Papers.

98
Quoted in Holmes
Little Field Marshal
p. 136.

99
Details of armbands, etc., derived from
Extracts from General Routine Orders … Part II, Quartermaster General's Branch,
SS 340, 1 January

100
A. F. Smith Papers, Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum.

101
Lord Hankey
The Supreme Command 1914–19
(2 vols, London 1961) I p. 167.

102
A senior general staff officer worked directly for a commander at any level of command: he was styled general staff officer grade I (GSO
₁
) at division, brigadier general, general staff (BGGS) at corps and major general, general staff (MGGS) at army. General staff officers (GSOs) were graded 1 (lieutenant colonels), 2 (majors) and 3 (captains), and abbreviated as GSO
₁
and so on. Other staff officers took their titles from the tripartite division of staff functions. Thus a division had, in addition to its three GSOs on the general staff branch, an assistant adjutant and quartermaster general (AA&QMG), a deputy assistant adjutant and quartermaster general (DAA&QMG), both with responsibilities for A and Q branches, and a deputy assistant quartermaster general (DAQMG) responsible for Q matters alone.

103
Martin van Creveld
Command in War
(London 1985) p. 166.

104
Nicholson
Behind the Lines
p. 65.

105
Nicholson
Behind the Lines
p. 70.

106
Nicholson
Behind the Lines
pp. 77–8. 100

107
Cumming
Brigadier
p. 92.

108
Nicholson
Behind the Lines
pp. 107–8.

109
Nicholson
Behind the Lines
p. 121.

110
Brigadier General Sir Archibald Home
The Diary of a World War I Cavalry Officer
(London 1985) pp. 103–5.

111
See Ben Fenton ‘Shamed general's battle of the Somme' in
Daily Telegraph,
16 August 1998.

112
Home Diary p. 113.

113
Stanhope Papers.

114
Nicholson
Behind the Lines
p. 151.

115
Nicholson
Behind the Lines
P. 179.

116
Stanhope Papers.

117
Bond (ed.)
Staff Officer
p. 162.

118
Simpson
Corps
p. 224.

119
Charles Carrington
Soldier From the War Returning
(London 1965) p. 104.

120
Carrington
Soldier
p. 195.

121
Crozier
Brass Hat
p. 132.

122
Bond (ed.)
Staff Officer
p. 198.

123
Bond (ed.)
Staff Officer
p. 131.

124
Bond (ed.)
Staff Officer
p. 165.

125
Cumming
Brigadier
p. 97.

126
Cumming
Brigadier
p. 116.

127
Cumming
Brigadier
p. 163.

128
Bullock Papers, Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum.

129
Crozier
Brass Hat
p. 182.

130
Priestley
Margin Released
p. 135.

131
Mottram
Personal Record
pp. 103–4.

132
Osburn
Unwilling Passenger
p. 255.

133
Jack
Diary
p. 248.

134
Charteris
GHQ
p. 185.

135
Philip Gibbs
The Realities of War
(London 1920) p. 208.

136
Charteris
GHQ
pp. 241, 243, 259.

137
Tompson Papers.

138
A. F. Smith Papers.

139
Stanhope Papers.

140
Davies Papers, Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum.

Earth and Wire

1
Field Service Regulations 1909: Part I
pp. 152–3.

2
Infantry Training 1914
(HMSO 1914) p. 12.

3
'My Experiences in World War 1 by W. G. Birley', private collection.

4
Roe
Accidental Soldiers
p. 42.

5
Edward Underhill
A Year on the Western Front
(London 1988) p. 18.

6
Captain John Aidan Liddell Diary, Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum.

7
George Coppard
With a Machine Gun to Cambrai
(London 1988) p. 57.

8
Coppard
Machine Gun
p. 61.

9
Burgoyne
Diaries
p. 48.

10
Hawkings
From Ypres
p. 79.

11
Hawkings
From Ypres
p. 79.

12
Roe
Accidental Soldiers
p. 91.

13
Roe
Accidental Soldiers
p. 90.

14
Jones
In Parenthesis
p. 198.

15
Jones
In Parenthesis
p. 198.

16
Captain B.C. Lake
Knowledge for War
(London 1915) p. 50.

17
Roe
Accidental Soldiers
p. 97.

18
Charles Douie
The Weary Road
(London 1929) p. 170.

19
Captain Henry Ogle
The Fateful Battle Line
(London 1993) pp. 53–4.

20
Hawkings
From Ypres
p. 89.

21
Sidney Rogerson
Last of the Ebb
(London 1937) p. 17.

22
Frank Dunham
The Long Carry
(London 1970) p. 38.

23
Ruth Elwin Harris
Billie: The Neville Letters, 1914–16
(London 199O p. 58.

24
Roe
Accidental Soldiers
p. 159.

25
Roe
Accidental Soldiers
p. 165.

26
Williamson
Wet Flanders Plain
p. 138.

27
Dunham
Long Carry
p. 35.

28
Feilding
War Letters
p. 206.

29
Burgoyne
Diaries
p. 161.

30
Reith
Wearing Spurs
(London 1966) p. 64.

31
Harris
Billie
pp. 63–4.

32
Underhill
A Year
p. 51.

33
Ernest Shephard
A Sergeant Major's War
(Ramsbury 1987) pp. 88–9.

34
Roe
Accidental Soldiers
p. 91.

35
Underhill A
Year
p. 106.

36
Gordon
Unreturning Army
p. 90.

37
Jones
In Parenthesis
p. 207.

38
Major G. O. Chambers
Field Message Book
‘Battle of Arras, Battle of Cambrai', Chambers Papers, Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum.

39
Roe
Accidental Soldiers
p. 90.

40
Tyndale-Biscoe
Gunner Subaltern
p. 83.

41
Bryan Latham
A Territorial Soldier's War
(Aldershot 1967) p. 49.

42
Quoted in Dunn
The War
pp. 209, 213.

43
Quoted in Daphne Jones (ed.)
Bullets and Bandsmen: The story of a Bandsman on the Western Front, written by his daughter
(Salisbury 1992) pp. 29–30.

44
Reith
Wearing Spurs
p. 199.

45
Jones
In Parenthesis
p. 203.

46
Quoted in Holmes
Little Field Marshal
p. 304.

47
Ogle
Fateful Battle Line
pp. 103–4.

48
John Glubb
Into Battle: A Soldier's Diary of the Great War
(London 1978) p. 54

49
Jack
Diary
p. 84.

50
Hiscock
Bells of Hell
p. 30.

51
Quoted in I. M. Parsons (ed.)
Men Who March Away
(London 1969) p. 60.

52
Crozier
Brass Hat
pp. 136–7.

53
Crozier
Brass Hat
p. 125.

54
Neville
Billie
p. 109.

55
Roe
Accidental Soldiers
p. 100.

56
Ogle
Fateful Battle Line
p. 42.

57
Hawkings
Ypres to Cambrai
p. 82.

58
Underhill
A Year
p. 56.

59
Gordon
Unreturning Army
p. 42.

60
Reginald Farrer
The Void of War
(London 1918) p. 113.

61
Campbell
Cannon's Mouth
pp. 218–19.

62
Carrington
Soldier
p. 87.

63
Statistics
pp. 64–5. Combat arms constituted: headquarters, cavalry, artillery, engineers, Royal Flying Corps, infantry, Army Cyclist Corps, Machine Gun Corps and Tank Corps. Non-combatant services constituted the Army Service Corps, Royal Army Medical Corps, Army Veterinary Corps, Army Pay Corps, Labour Corps and miscellaneous units.

64
Shephard
Sergeant Major's War
p. 80.

65
Carrington
Soldier from the Wars
p. 87.

66
Rogerson
Twelve Days
pp. xv, 5.

67
Jones
In Parenthesis
p. 200.

68
Rogerson
Twelve Days
p. 58.

69
Feilding
War Letters
p. 285.

70
Liddell Diary, Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum.

71
Arthur Smith Papers, Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum.

72
Carrington
Soldier
p. 87.

73
Rogerson
Twelve Days
p. 9.

74
Rogerson
Twelve Days
p. 26.

75
Jones
In Parenthesis
p. 202.

76
Blacker
Have You Forgotten
p. 237.

77
Lucy
Devil
p. 242.

78
Dunn
The War
p. 252.

79
Carrington
Soldier from the Wars
p. 127.

80
Hawkings
From Ypres
p. 22.

81
Carton de Wiart
Happy Odyssey
p. 91.

82
Hiscock
Bells of Hell
p. 27.

83
Roe
Accidental Soldiers
p. 87.

84
Dolden
Cannon Fodder
p. 110.

85
Talbot Kelly
Subaltern's Odyssey
p. 108.