Tommy (89 page)

86
Rogerson
Twelve Days
p. 49.

87
Rogerson
Twelve Days
p. 52.

88
Richards
Old Soldiers
pp. 90–91.

89
Dunn
The War
p. 253.

90
Rogerson
Twelve Days
p. 58.

91
Rogerson
Twelve Days
p. 82.

92
Siegfried Sassoon
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
(London 1977) p. 87.

93
Rogerson
Twelve Days
p. 96.

94
Baynes and Maclean
Tale of Two Captains
p. 119.

95
Alan Hanbury Sparrow
The Land-Locked Lake
(London 1932) p. 257.

96
Blacker
Have You Forgotten
p. 237.

97
Graves
Goodbye
p. 86.

98
Bernard Adams
Nothing of Importance
(London 1988) pp. 107–9.

99
Percy Jones ‘The Story of the Nine Day Trench', unpublished typescript, P. H. Jones Papers, Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum.

100
Richards
Old Soldiers
p. 77.

101
Williamson
Wet Flanders Plain
p. 169.

102
Graves
Goodbye
p. 98.

103
Roland Miller.

104
Roe
Accidental Soldiers
p. 56.

105
Ogle
Fateful Battle Line
p. 96.

106
Dunham
Long Carry
p. 38. Private Bloomfield was tried for negligence. He was acquitted, and returned to his battalion in time to be crippled for life in the next attack.

107
Livermore
Long 'Un
p. 52.

108
Burgoyne
Diaries
p. 14. Private Benjamin West's temporary grave was not found after the war, and he is commemorated on Panel 21 of the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing at Ypres.

109
Burgoyne
Diaries
p. 118.

110
Dolden
Cannon Fodder
pp. 30, 34.

111
R. G. Ashford Papers.

112
Quoted in Holmes
Firing Line
p. 201.

113
Dunham
Long Carry
p. 21.

114
Terry Norman (ed.)
Armageddon Road: A VC's Diary 1914–18
(London 1982) p. 47.

115
Daphne Jones (ed.)
Bullets and Bandsmen
(Salisbury 1992) p. 72. The Canadian Medical Officer Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae was inspired to write the poem ‘In Flanders Fields' by his experiences in the field hospital at Essex Farm. The concrete bunkers which housed it have been sensitively restored.

116
Dunham
Long Carry
p. 30.

117
Williamson
Wet Flanders Plain
p. 134.

118
T. H. Davies Papers.

119
Gordon
Unreturning Army
p. 71.

120
Graves
Goodbye
p. 114.

121
Harry Ogle
Fateful Battle Line
p. 56.

122
Cathryn Corns and John Hughes-Wilson
Blindfold and Alone
(London 2001) p. 135.

123
Blacker
Have You Forgotten
p. 237.

124
Roe
Accidental Soldiers
p. 109.

125
Wade
Guns
p. 31.

126
Bernard Livermore
Long 'Un – A Damn Bad Soldier
(Batley, West Yorkshire, 1974) p. 54.

127
Hawkings
From Ypres
p. 64.

128
Jones
In Parenthesis
p. 205.

129
Roe
Accidental Soldiers
p. 95.

130
Roe
Accidental Soldiers
p. 149.

131
Ogle
Fateful Battle Line
p. 141.

132
Campbell
Cannon's Mouth
p. 41.

133
Graves
Goodbye
p. 86.

134
Blacker
Have You Forgotten
p. 65.

135
Blacker
Have You Forgotten
p. 74.

136
Shephard
Sergeant Major's War
pp. 26, 56, 57.

137
See outline pay scales in
Field
Service Pocket Book 1914
p. 179. Military pay was (and remains) more complex than it might seem, with trade and proficiency additions enhancing basic pay, and an assortment of deductions (their reason often not clear to the victim) reducing it.

138
Alexander Barrie
War Underground: The Tunnellers of the Western. Front
(Staplehurst 2000) p. 40.

139
A. V. Bullock Papers.

140
French
Gone for a Soldier
p. 54.

141
Adams
Nothing of Importance
p. 86.

142
Livermore
Long 'Un
p. 58.

143
Dolden
Cannon Fodder
p. 77.

144
Roe
Accidental Soldiers
p. 34.

145
Dunn
The War
p. 300.

146
Burgoyne
Diaries
p. 62.

147
Roe
Accidental Soldiers
p. 99.

148
Dolden
Cannon Fodder
p. 100.

149
Dolden
Cannon Fodder
p. 69.

150
Dolden
Cannon Fodder
p. 79.

151
Dolden
Cannon Fodder
pp. 82–3.

152
Coppard
With a Machine Gun
p. 44.

153
Burgoyne
Diaries
p. 190.

154
Rogerson
Twelve Days
p. 50.

155
Hawkings
From Ypres
pp. 36, 75.

156
Roe
Accidental Soldiers
p. 43.

157
Blacker
Have You Forgotten
p. 70.

158
Dunn
The War
p. 471.

159
George Fortune account, private collection.

160
Ogle
Fateful Battle Line
pp. 35–6.

161
Quoted in Moynihan
Armageddon
p. 21.

162
Richards
Old Soldiers
pp. 66–7.

163
Burgoyne
Diaries
p. 96.

164
Ronald Ginns Papers, Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum.

165
Baynes and Maclean
Tale of Two Captains
p. 136.

166
Hodges
Men of 18
p. 106.

167
Edmund Blunden
Undertones of War
(London 1965) p. 98.

168
Martin
Poor Bloody Infantry
p. 79.

169
Quoted in James Sambrook (ed.)
With the Rank and Pay of a Sapper
(London 1998) p. 51.

170
Adams Papers, Liddle Archive, Brotherton Library, University of Leeds.

171
Reith
Wearing Spurs
p. 68.

172
Burgoyne
Diaries
p. 84.

173
Livermore
Long 'Un
pp. 54–5.

174
Roe
Accidental Soldiers
p. 44.

175
Dolden
Cannon Fodder
p. 48.

176
Dolden
Cannon Fodder
p. 48.

177
Jones Papers.

178
Jones
In Parenthesis
p. 203.

179
Bullock Papers, Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum.

180
Hodges
Men of 18
p. 105.

181
Jones
In Parenthesis
p. 206.

182
Ginns Papers Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum.

183
Jones
In Parenthesis
p. 75.

184
H. M. Stanford Letters, private collection.

185
Quoted in Moynihan
Armageddon
p. 22.

186
Graves
Goodbye
p. 85.

187
Crozier
Brass Hat
p. 123.

188
Carrington
Subaltern's War
p. 83.

189
Richards
Old Soldiers
pp. 100–1.

190
Nicholson
Behind the Lines
p. 291.

191
Thomas Penrose Marks
The Laughter Goes from Life
(London 1977) p. 124.

192
Vaughan
Some Desperate Glory.

193
Reith
Wearing Spurs
p. 53.170

194
Burgoyne
Diaries
p. 31.

195
Underhill
A Year
p. 26.

196
Ernest Parker
Into Battle 1914–18
(London 1984) p. 36.

197
Burgoyne
Diaries
p. 151.

198
Livermore
Long 'Un
pp. 6r-2.

199
Guy Chapman
Passionate Prodigality
p. 205.

200
Crozier
Brass Hat
pp. 128–9.

201
Crozier
Brass Hat
pp. 72–3. George Gaffikin died bravely at the head of his company when the 36th Division stormed the Schwaben Redoubt on 1 July 1916.

202
Nicholson
Behind the Lines
p. 291.

203
Carrington
Soldier from the Wars
P. 99

204
Ashurst
My Bit
pp. 111–13.

205
Lucy
Devil
pp. 81–3.

206
Richards
Old Soldiers
p. 14.

207
Edward Gleichen
The Doings of The Fifteenth Infantry Brigade
(Edinburgh 1917) p. 14.

208
Aubrey Herbert
Mons, Anzae and Kut
(London 1920) p. 20.

209
De Boltz Papers, Liddle Archive, Brotherton Library, University of Leeds.

210
Abraham Papers, Liddle Archive, Brotherton Library, University of Leeds.

211
Roe
Accidental Soldiers
p. 39.

212
Abraham Papers, Liddle Archive, Brotherton Library, University of Leeds.

213
Dolden
Cannon Fodder p. 112.

214
Douglas Gill ‘Mutiny at Etaples Base in 1917' in
Past and Present
No. 69 p. 89.

215
Douie
Weary Road
p. 39.

216
Livermore
Long 'Un
p. 46.

217
French
Gone For a Soldier
pp. 26–7.

218
Livermore
Long 'Un
pp. 46–7.

219
Dolden
Cannon Fodder
p. 14.

220
Reverend Pat Mc Cormick ‘My Diary of the War to November 1916', Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum. Shine in this context means noise, as in Kipling's lines: When shaking their bustles like ladies so fine,
The guns of the enemy wheel into line
Shoot low at the limbers and don't mind the shine
For noise never startles the soldier …

221
Baynes and Maclean
Tale of Two Captains
p. 95.

222
Graves
Goodbye
p. 159.

223
Graves
Goodbye
p. 195.

224
Hanbury Sparrow
Land-Locked Lake
p. 213.

225
Calloway, Quoted in Alan Wilkinson
The Church of England and the First World War
(London 1978) p. 44.

226
Blacker
Have You Forgotten
p. 157

227
De Boltz Papers, Liddle Archive, Brotherton Library, University of Leeds.

228
Seton-Hutchison
Warrior
p. 224.

229
Henry Williamson
Love and the Loveless
(London 1958) p. 252.

230
H. Owen and J. Bell (eds)
Wilfred Owen: Collected Letters
(London 1967) p. 521.

231
Carrington
Soldier from the Wars
p. 245.

232
C. T. Mason ‘War Journal', private collection p. 85.

233
Parker
Into Battle
p. 86.

234
Percy Croney
Soldier's Luck
(London 1965) p. 173.

235
The BBC series
The Monocled Mutineer
gave a starring role to Percy Topliss, although there is no evidence that he was within a hundred miles of Etaples at the time.

236
Corns and Hughes-Wilson
Blindfold and Alone
p. 393.

237
Carrington
Soldier from the Wars
p. 199

238
I. G. Andrew Papers, Liddle Archive, Brotherton Library, University of Leeds.

239
Dunham
Long Carry
p. 92.

240
V. F. Eberle
My Sapper Venture
(London 1973) p. 103.

241
Livermore
Long 'Un
p. 55.

242
Reith
Wearing Spurs
p. 49.

243
Roe
Accidental Soldiers
p. 83.

244
Chapman
Passionate Prodigality
p. 18.

245
French
Gone for a Soldier
p. 37.

246
Ogle
Fateful Battle Line
pp. 34–5

247
Parker
Into Battle
p. 45.

248
Hawkings
From Ypres
p. 65.

249
Roe
Accidental Soldiers
p. 24.

250
Burgoyne
Diaries
p. 156.

251
Burgoyne
Diaries
p. 160.

252
Tyndale-Biscoe
Gunner Subaltern
p. 113.

253
Graves
Goodbye
pp. 106–7.

254
Campbell
Cannon's Mouth
pp. 28–30.

255
Blacker
Have You Forgotten
pp. 230–1.

256
Quoted in Dunn
The War
p. 109.

257
Beckett and Simpson
Nation in Arms
p. 82.