Tommy (93 page)

233
G. D. Sheffield
Leadership in the Trenches
(London 2000) p. 104.

234
Frank Gray
Confessions of a Private
(London 1922) pp. viii, ix, 56.

235
Hodges
Men of 18
pp. 174–5.

236
George Fortune account, private collection.

237
Hawkings
From Ypres
p. 60.

238
Gladden
Ypres 1917
p. 133.

239
Shephard
Sergeant Major's War
p. 97

240
T. P. Marks
The Laughter Goes from Life
(London 1977) p. 45.

241
Carr
Ploughshares
p. 118.

242
Campbell
Cannon's Mouth
p. 201.

243
Dunn
The War
pp. 497–9.

244
Chapman
Passionate Prodigality
p. 248.

245
Baynes
Morale
p. 140.

246
Campbell
Cannon's Mouth
pp. 191, 223.

247
Rogerson
Twelve Days
p. 22.

248
Crozier
Brass Hat
p. 119.

249
Campbell
Cannon's Mouth
P. 239.

250
Herbert Asquith
Moments of Memory
(London ND) p. 296.

251
Talbot Kelly
Subaltern's Odyssey
p. 159

252
Quoted in Trevor Royle (ed.)
In Flanders Fields: Scottish Poetry and Prose of The First World War
(London 1990)

253
Vaughan
Some Desperate Glory
p. 222.

254
Vaughan
Some Desperate Glory
p. 223.

255
Feilding
War Letters
p. 1.

256
Hanbury Sparrow
Land Locked Lake
p. 43.

257
Gladden
Ypres 1917
p. 80.

258
Groom
Poor Bloody Infantry
pp. 15, 24–5, 69, 83, 45.

259
Statistics
p. 235.

260
Hanbury Sparrow
Land-Locked Lake
p. 293.

261
Richards
Old Soldiers
p. 98.

262
Coppard
With a Machine Gun
p. 69.

263
Lucy
Devil
p. 95.

264
Vaughan
Some Desperate Glory
p. 114.

265
Coppard
With a Machine Gun
p. 118.

266
Moran
Anatomy of Courage
pp. 117, 130.

267
Hodges
Men of 18
p. 157.

268
Cathryn Corns ‘So Ended the Golden Age: 9th York and Lancaster on 1st July 1916', in
Battlefields Review
(Issue 27, 2003) p. 56.

269
Richards
Old Soldiers
p. 153.

270
Baynes and Maclean
Tale of Two Captains
p. 122.

271
Cusack
Scarlet Fever
p. 76.

272
Statistics
pp. 558–60.

273
Stormont Gibbs
Somme to the Armistice
p. 165.

274
Coppard
With a Machine Gun
p. 108.

275
Cusack
Scarlet Fever
p. 76.

276
Roe
Accidental Soldiers
p. 158.

277
Dunn
The War
pp. 524, 526.

278
Feilding
War Letters
p. 317.

279
Shephard
Sergeant Major's War
p. 57.

280
Feilding
War Letters
p. 247.

281
Osburn
Unwilling Passenger
p. 199.

282
Stanhope Papers.

283
Chapman
Passionate Prodigality
p. 144.

284
Questionnaire submitted to Mr K. R. Simpson during his research for
A Nation in Arms,
privately communicated to the author.

285
R. H. D. Tompson Papers, private collection.

286
Rogerson
Twelve Days
p. xi.

287
Parker
Into Battle
p. 28.

288
French
Gone for a Soldier
p. 50.

289
Gaskell Papers, Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum.

290
Baynes and Maclean
Tale of Two Captains
p. 124.

291
Rogerson
Twelve Days
p. 103.

292
Ashurst
My Bit
p. 49.

293
Parker
Into Battle
p. 28.

294
Ogle
Fateful Battle Line
p. 31.

295
Dunn
The War
p. 247.

296
T. A. M. Nash
The Diary of an Unprofessional Soldier
(Chippenham 1991) p. 65.

297
Williamson
Wet Flanders Plain
p. 40.

298
Richards
Old Soldiers
pp. 16–17.

299
Coppard
With a Machine Gun
p. 76.

300
James Munson (ed.)
Echoes of the Great War: The Diary of the Reverend Andrew Clark 1914–18
(Oxford 1988) p. 94.

301
George Adams Papers.

302
Richards
Old Soldiers
pp. 160–61.

303
Crozier
Brass Hat
p. 239.

304
Ashurst
My Bit
p. 48.

305
Osburn
Unwilling Passenger
p. 334.

306
Rogerson
Twelve Days
p. 148.

307
Dunn
The War
p. 379.

308
Osburn
Unwilling Passenger
p. 355.

309
Jones
In Parenthesis
p. 174.

310
Hiscock
Bells of Hell
p. 76.

311
Graham
Private in the Guards
p. 183.

312
Ogle
Fateful Battle Line
pp. 64–5.

313
Ogle
Fateful Battle Line
p. 64.

314
Ogle
Fateful Battle Line
p. 127.

315
Feilding
War Letters
p. 195.

316
A. J. Arnold Papers.

317
Dolden
Cannon Fodder
p. 49.

318
Blacker
Have You Forgotten
pp. 169–70.

319
Hiscock
Bells of Hell
p. 41.

320
Nicholson
Behind the Lines
p. 256.

321
Reith
Wearing Spurs
p. 135.

322
Quoted in Fuller
Troop Morale
pp. 101–03.

323
Feilding
War Letters
p. 199.

324
Dolden
Cannon Fodder
p. 125.

325
Martin
Poor Bloody Infantry
p. 74.

326
Underhill
A Year on the Western Front
p. 19.

327
Groom
Poor Bloody Infantry
p. 64.

328
Campbell
Cannon's Mouth
p. 125.

329
Graham
Private in the Guards
p. 196.

330
‘The Fifth Gloster Gazette
(Shroud 1993) pp. iii-iv.

331
Campbell
Cannons Mouth
p. 97.

332
Reith
Wearing Spurs
p. 130.

333
Mellersh
Schoolboy into War
p. 143.

334
Crozier
Brass Hat
p. 190.

335
Crozier
Men I Killed
p. 44.

336
Norman Tennant
A Saturday Night Soldier's War
(Waddesdon, Bucks., 1989) p. 109.

Envoi

1
Douie
Weary Road
p. 12.

2
Douie
Weary Road
p. 18.

3
Richards
Old Soldiers
p. 322.

4
Seton-Hutchison
Warrior
p. 314.

5
Marks
Laughter
p. 183.

6
Crozier
Brass Hat
pp. 231–2.

7
Dolden
Cannon Fodder
pp. 178–9.

8
Dunn
The War
p. 567.

9
Richards
Old Soldiers
p. 314.

10
Chapman
Passionate Prodigality
p. 272.

11
Spicer
Letters from France
p. 125.

12
Giffard
Guns, Kits and Horses
p. 189.

13
Tompson Diary, private collection.

14
Bickersteth (ed.)
Bickersteth Diaries
p. 304.

15
Carr
A Time
p. 171.

16
Littlewood Papers, Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum.

17
Mellersh
Schoolboy into War
p. 181.

18
Ogle
Fateful Battle Line
p. 202.

19
Parker
Into Battle
p. 96.

20
Graves
Goodbye
p. 235.

21
Fisher
Requiem for Will
p. 96.

22
Bryan Latham
A Territorial Soldier's War
(Aldershot 1967) p. 128.

23
Harold Macmillan
The Winds of Change
(London 1966) p. 107.

24
Jack
Diary
p. 301.

25
Carrington
Soldier from the Wars
p. 246.

26
Chapman
Passionate Prodigality
p. 270.

27
Greenwell
Infant in Arms
p. 249.

28
Hale
Ordeal
p. 174.

29
Byrne
I survived
p. 107.

30
Dunham
The Long Carry
p. 231.

31
Coppard
With a Machine Gun
p. 135.

32
Carr
A Time
p. 173.

33
Chapman
Passionate Prodigality
p. 276.

34
Douie
Weary Road
p. 213.

35
Chapman
Passionate Prodigality
p. 270.

36
Priestley
Margin Released
p. 140.

37
Quoted in Martin Petter '“Temporary Gentlemen” in the aftermath of the Great War: Rank, Status and the ex-Officer problem',
Historical Journal
(No. 37 Vol. 1 1994) p. 130.

38
Mellersh
Schoolboy into War
p. 188.

39
Greenwell
Infant in Arms
p. xxi.

40
De Wiart
Happy Odyssey
pp. 89–90.

41
Roe
Accidental Soldiers
p. 192.

42
Carrington
Soldier from the Wars
p. 199.

43
Gordon
Unreturning Army
p. 116.

44
Chapman
Passionate Prodigality
p. 280.

45
Dunn
The War
p. 574.

46
Winter
Great War and the British People
p. 99.

47
Quoted in Winter
Great War and the British People
p. 99; and David Cannadine
The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy
(London 1992) p. 83.

48
Gerald Gliddon
The Aristocracy and the Great War
(London 2002) passim.

49
Quoted in Gannadine
Decline and Fall
p. 82.

50
Feversham was originally buried in a private grave outside the cemetery, and moved into it in 1945. I do not know whether his dog accompanied him, but cannot help hoping that it did.

51
Shephard
Sergeant Major's War
p. 75.

52
Douie
Weary Road
p. 21.

53
Carr
A Time
p. 172.

54
Douie
Weary Road
p. 4.