Soldiers

  McKay, Norman, xxiii

  Mackensen, Field Marshal Freiherr Anton Ludwig Friedrich August von (Hector Macdonald), 175

  Mackie brothers (First World War), 190

  Mackintosh, Lieut. Ewart: ‘In Memoriam’ (poem), 285

  Maclean, Fitzroy, 462

  Maclean, Second Lieut. G.F., 388

  McLeod, Private Alexander, 510

  Macmillan, Harold (later 1st Earl of Stockton), 31–2

  McNaughton, General Andrew, 110

  McPherson, Hamish McGregor, 585

  McPherson, Lieut. (of 24th Regiment), 411

  MacPherson, Lieut. (of 45th Foot), 448

  Macready, Sir Nevil, 470

  Mader, Max, 414

  Maer, Lieut. Colonel Matthew, 286

  Maida (Calabria), battle of (1806), 329, 332

  Mainwaring, Lieut. Colonel (of 51st Light Infantry), 399, 581

  Maitland, Francis Hereward, 181, 251–2, 414, 518, 534

  Major, Sir John, xxviii

  major generals, 51

  majors, 51

  Malet, Captain Charles, 19

  Mallinson, Allan: The Making of the British Army, xxx

  Malmesbury, James Howard Harris, 3rd Earl of, 161

  Menin Gate, Ypres, 384–5

  Mercer, Captain Cavalié, 335, 337

  Meredith, Brigadier General Thomas, 364

  Meredyth, Lieut., xviii

  Messines Ridge (World War I), 371

  Metcalf, John, 296

  Methodism, 238–40, 250

  Mian Mir, Lahore, xix

  Middlemore, Major (of 48th Regiment), 466

  ‘Milanollo’ (march), 481

  Milbanke, Lieut. Colonel Sir John, VC, 108

  Military Corrective Training Centre, Colchester, 518

  Military Service Acts: (1916), 319; (1917), xxvii

  militia: officers, 96–100; origins and organisation, 89, 91, 94–6, 99–100; transfer to regular army, 100

  Militia Acts (1661), 20; (1662), 94; (1757), 94–5, 97; (1793), 97

  Miller, John, 297

  Miller, William (‘Billy the Bugler’), 488

  Millin, Piper Bill, 485

  Milne, Captain (Cameron Highlanders), 189

  Milne, J.W., 311

  Minden, battle of (1759), 11, 140, 153

  Mitchell, Andrew, 33

  Mitton, Agnes (née McEvoy), 299

  Mitton, Sergeant Walter, 298–9

  Mohun, Charles, 5th Baron, 563

  Mohun, John, 1st Baron, 92

  Molard, Colonel (of 6th Light Infantry), 337

  Mole, Sergeant Major Edward, 180, 457, 563

  Mole, Private Edwin, 529

  Molesworth, Major Edward, 164

  Molesworth, Field Marshal Richard, 2nd Viscount, 164

  Molesworth, Robert, 1st Viscount, 164

  Molesworth, Captain Walter, 164

  monarch: fights in battle, 16; power diminishes, 20; soldiers’ commitment to, 9–10; see also royal family

  Monash, Lieut. General Sir John, 109

  Monck, George see Albemarle, 1st Duke of

  Mond, Sir Alfred, 189

  Monmouth, James, Duke of, 16, 94, 129, 131, 133–4

  Monro, General Sir Charles, 14, 21, 282

  Monro, H.H. (‘Saki’), 313

  Mons Officer Cadet School, Aldershot, 224

  Montagu, John, 2nd Duke of, 464

  Montague, C.E., 406; Disenchantment, 317

  Montcalm, Louis Joseph, Marquis de, 440

  Montgomery, Field Marshal Bernard Law, 1st Viscount: commands BAOR, 222; and Lieut. Colonel Turner’s battalion losses, 221, 418; military policy, 120; opens new Aldershot barracks, 521; on Parachute Regiment, 368; proposes reducing foot guards, 17; Alamein to the Sangro, 45

  Montgomery-Massingberd, Field Marshal Sir Archibald Amar, 211

  Moore, Lieut. General Sir John, 39, 336, 367

  Moran, Lord see Wilson, Charles

  Mordaunt, Lieut. General Sir John, 509

  Mornington, Garrett Wellesley, 1st Earl of, 146

  Morris, Sergeant Tom, 304

  Morshead, Lieut. General Sir Leslie, 343, 367

  Mortimer, Captain Edward, 563

  Morton, Lieut. General Sir Gerald, 554

  Mountain, Sergeant Albert, VC, 272

  Mousa, Baha, xix

  moustaches, 469–71

  Mowat, Farley, 407, 419

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: ‘Non piu andrai’, 481, 491

  Muir, Kim, 415

  Mulcahey, Private James, 308

  Mullins, Marjorie, 351–2

  Munro, Lieut. (of Blues), 564

  Munro, Private Patrick, MP, 29

  Munster, George Fitzclarence, Earl of, 17

  Murphy, Lieut. George, 184

  Murphy, Private (of West Riding), xxi

  Murphy, Second Lieut. (Royal Welch Fusilers), 195

  Murray, General Sir George, 77

  Murray, Major General James, 504

  music, 473–7

  mutinies, 21

  mutiny acts, 21, 302, 500

  Myatt, Revd Fran, 264

  Myers, Lieut. General Sir William, 411

  Myers, Brigadier Sir William James, 411

  NAAFI (Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes), 539–41

  Nantes, Edict of: revoked (1685), 133, 324

  Napier, General Sir Charles James, 37–8

  Napier, Colonel George, 37

  Napier, George, jr, 37

  Napier, General Sir Thomas, 38–9

  Napier, General Sir William, 37–8, 158; History of the War in the Peninsula, 38

  Napoleon I (Bonaparte), Emperor of the French, 333–4, 336

  Napoleon III, Emperor of the French (earlier Louis Napoleon), 97

  Napoleonic Wars: and deserters, 303; militia raised in, 96, 98; see also Peninsular War

  Nash, Richard (Beau), 563

  National Registration Bill (1915), 318

  National Rifle Association, 107

  National Service: ends, 224; introduced, xxvii

  National Service Act (1941), 354

  National Service League, 108

  Naval Canteen Service (NCS), 540

  Neish, Lieut. Colonel, 84

  Nelson, Major David, VC, 195

  Nelson, Admiral Horatio, 1st Viscount, 12, 327, 498

  Ness, Sergeant Major Annan, 190

  New Model Army (Cromwellian), 6, 231–2, 439

  New Zealand: buries unknown warrior, 343

  Newbolt, Sir Henry, 310

  Newburgh, Revd Robert, 233

  Ney, Marshal Michel, 3334

  Nicholson, Brigadier General John, 124–5

  Nicholson, Colonel Walter, 258

  nissen huts, 520

  Noel, Lieut. (of 31st Regiment), 445

  Nolan, Brigadier Eileen, 357

  Nolan, Major John, 27

  non-commissioned officers (NCOs): authority in barrack-rooms, 546; and bullying, 552–3, 571; Catholic, 248; commissioned as officers, 171–6, 180, 195–7, 201; from ‘junior leaders’ units, 283; stripes (chevrons), 471

  Norfolk, Bernard Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of, 112

  Norfolk, Lavinia, Duchess of, 113

  Norman, CSM Dale, 62

  Norman, Lieut. Henry, 82

  North America: German auxiliaries in, 321–3; officers’ conditions in, 557–8

  North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO): staff system, 77–8

  North, Frederick, Lord (later 2nd Earl of Guilford), 35

  Northamptonshire: militia, 95–6

  Northcote-Trevelyan report (1854), 23, 154

  Northcroft, Percival, 202

  Northern Ireland, xxviii–xxix, 222

  Northumberland, Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of, 101, 167

  Norwood, Captain John, 317

  Noyes, Revd Samuel, 236–7

  Nugent von Westmeath, Laval, Graf, 126

  numbers (soldier’s identity), 385–6

  nurses, female, 350

  Nye, General Sir Archibald, 283

  Oakley
, Captain A.G., 453

  O’Brien, Charles, 131

  O’Connor, Major General Sir Luke, VC, 173

  O’Connor, General Sir Richard, 124

  O’Connor, T.P., 174

  Oddo, Corporal Francis, 333

  Odintz, Mark, 159, 171

  O’Donnell, Cornet (deserter), 510

  Officer Cadet Training Units (OCTUs), 212–15

  officers: appointment by examination, 155; attachment to regiments, 226–7; attributes, 219–21; backgrounds, 120–1; behaviour and example-setting, 205–6; brevet promotion, 82–4; buying out, 141; cadet schools and training, 196–7, 199–201; cashiered, 140; in Charles II’s army, 125–31; class background, 159–68, 177–9, 201–4, 224–5; common language, 465; deserters, 510–11; dress and equipment, 66, 558–60, 562–3, 574; expenses, 180–2, 207–8; family continuity, 168–70; in First World War, 183–203; First World War casualties, 221; on half pay, 145–6; handle official funds, 64–5; and Ladies’ nights, 595–6; marriage and wives, 593–4, 596; messes and living conditions, 557–8, 564–9, 572–5, 596; militia, 96–9; national origins, 121–3; post-Second World War recuitment and training, 222–4; pre-First World War shortage, 182, 183; promotion from ranks, 73, 170–81, 195, 201; promotions, 40–1, 138, 143, 148–53; promotions between two World Wars, 209; publications, 44–6; ranks, 50–1; in Second World War, 210–11; selection process, 211–18; serve in foreign armies, 126–7; swords, 562; in Territorial Force, 109–11, 113–14; women, 353, 357; see also commissions

  Officers’ Training Corps (OTC): established (1908), 184; and First World War, 184–6, 196

  Ogle, Harry, 316

  Oglethorpe, Lady Eleanor, 22

  Oglethorpe, Theophilus, 132

  Okey, Colonel John, 231

  Oldham Pals Battalion (Manchester Regiment), 189, 344

  Ompteda, Colonel Friedrich Wilhelm von, 338–9

  O’Neil, Captain Crook, xix

  O’Neile, Felix, 287

  O’Neill, Arthur, 27

  O’Neill, Private Charles, 247

  O’Neill, Lieut. Colonel John, 330–1

  Options for Change defence review (1990), 112, 424, 429–30

  Orange, William, Prince of, 338, 340

  orphans (soldiers’), 598–9

  Orrock, Captain John, 140, 148–50

  O’Sullivan, Murphy, 502–3

  Oughton, Colonel Sir Adolphus, 1563

  Oughton, General Sir Adolphus (son), 152–4

  ‘Over the Hills and Far Away’ (song), 267–8, 296, 300

  Owen, Revd John, 238–9, 242, 247

  Oxford, Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of, 138

  pace-sticks, 59

  Painter, Thomas, 292

  Pakenham, Major General Sir Edward, 39

  Palmer, General Sir Arthur Power, 580

  Palmerston, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount, 154–5

  pals’ battalions (First World War), 189–90, 313–15, 344

  Panmure, Fox Maule, 2nd Baron, 70

  Parker, Sergeant Fred (‘Spider’), 314–15

  Parks, Sergeant Ezekiel, 96

  Parliament: Armed Forces Scheme (AFPS), 34; casualties in World Wars, 27–30; and control of army, 21–2; serving officers in, 24–6, 30; see also Commons, House of Parliament Act (1911), 20

  Parliamentary Debates: Cobbett institutes, 26

  Parnell, Charles Stewart, 166

  Parry, Corporal (of KOSB), 402

  Parry, Lieut. Colonel (Cheshire Regiment), 586

  Paton, Colonel (formerly Private), 49

  patriotism, 311

  Patterson, Major General James, 271

  Paulin, Tom, 50

  Pausch, Captain Georg, 270

  Payne, Anthony, 93

  Payne, Donald, xix

  Peachey, Bugle Major (Isle of Wight Rifles), 384, 488–9

  Pearman, Sergeant John, 233, 528

  Pearson, Lieut. Hugh, 140, 149–50, 177, 179

  Pechel, Colonel Jacob de, 326

  Pechel, Jeanne Elizabeth (née Boyd), 326

  Pechel, Lieut. Colonel Sir Paul, 326

  Pechel, Admiral Sir Richard Brooke, 326

  Pechel, Rear-Admiral Sir Samuel, 326

  Pechel, Major General Sir Thomas Brooke, 326

  Peebles, Captain John, xxiii, 12, 150–1, 322, 449–50

  Peel, Lieut. (of 58th Regiment), 444–5

  peerage (British): and army officers, 159

  Peninsular War: chaplains in, 238–42; foreign troops in, 330, 333–5, 337–8; see also Wellington, Duke of

  Pennefeather, General Sir John Lysaght, 499

  Penny, Edward: painting of Wolfe’s death, 152; The Marquess of Granby Relieving a Sick Soldier (painting), 500

  Pennycuick, Ensign Alexander, 411

  Pennycuick, Brigadier John, 411

  Pepys, Samuel, 54, 128, 130–1, 477

  Percy, Lieut. Colonel A.G.W. Heber, 472

  Percy Tenantry Volunteers, 101, 167

  Perkins, Sergeant W.R., 26

  Peterloo massacre (Manchester, 1819), 103

  Peters, Lance Sergeant Alf, 472

  Peters, Hugh, 231

  Philby, Privates Ernest and Herbert, 385

  Philips, Major D.A., 404

  Pickford, Dorothy, 351

  Picot, Geoffrey, 214, 216–19, 221, 392, 418

  Picton, Lieut. General Sir Thomas, 152, 246, 334, 399

  Pigot, Lieut. Colonel Robert, 85–6

  pikes, 58

  Pile, General Sir Frederick, 354

  Pinkerton, Lance Corporal John, 187

  Pinney, Major General Reginald, 532

  pioneer and labour units, 344–5, 471

  pipers, 474, 485, 487

  Pitt, William, the elder (1st Earl of Chatham), 36, 152

  Pitt, William, the younger, 40, 466

  platoon: as unit, 408–9

  Platt, Corporal (12th Lancers), 417

  Player, Lieut. Colonel Donny, 217

  Plunkett, Lieut. Colonel Freddy, 203

  PMC (mess president), 565–6, 577

  Pococke, Thomas, 298

  Poles: in Chasseurs Britanniques, 332; lancers in Napoleon’s army, 333

  policing (military), 543–4

  Pollock, Bertram, Bishop of Norwich, 156

  Ponsonby, General Sir Frederick Cavendish, 18

  Ponsonby, Sir Frederick (‘Fritz’; later 1st Baron Sysonby), 18, 383

  Poole, Lieut. (of 84th Regiment), 179

  Popish Plot (1678), 133

  Portsmouth: royal emblems, 54–5

  posse comitatus, 93

  Potter, Samuel: The Art of Beating the Drum, 483

  Potts, Lieut. Robert, 151

  practical jokes, 547–8

  Presbyterian ministers: as chaplains, 243

  Press Acts, 302

  Pretty, Captain (of Ireton’s regiment), 231

  prisons: xxi; see also punishment

  private soldiers: rank and title, 57, 69

  Probyn, General Sir Dighton, VC, 14

  Procter, Douglas, 219

  prostitutes, 583–5

  Provisional Cavalry Act (1796), 102

  provost services, 543–4

  Prussia: officers, 158

  public houses, 499–501, 506–8, 562

  public schools: entrants into army, 156, 214, 223–6, 229; First World War casualties, 184–5; and OTC, 184; patriotism, 311

  Puisan, Marquis de, 365

  punishment: of ATS women, 354; of foreign troops, 332; for homosexuality, 589–90; of militiamen, 96; for murder, 583; unofficial and informal, 546–7, 550–6; of warrant officers, 64; of young soldiers, 285, 506–7; see also executions; flogging

  Purvey, Captain Mark, 493

  Pye, Colour Sergeant Frank, xvii, 60

  quartermaster general, 75–7

  quartermasters, 72–5

  Queen’s Regulations, 45–6

  Quennington, Michael Hicks-Beach, Viscount, 27

  Quintinshill railway disaster (1915), 512

  Rae, Lieut. (of Royal Scot, 7
2

  Raglan, Fitzroy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron, 77

  Raglan, Richard Henry Fitzroy Somerset, 2nd Baron, 164

  Railton, Revd David, 258

  railways: and troop movement, 512

  raising for rank, 364

  rank: badges and insignia of, 54, 56, 59, 61; brevet promotion, 82–3; designations, 50–8, 80; dual, 80–1; local, 85; and social status, 48–50; women’s, 353–4

  ration packs, 532–3

  rations: responsibility of quartermaster, 77; see also food

  Ravensworth, Henry Thomas Liddell, 1st Earl of, 104

  Rawding, Captain Freddie, 570–2

  Rayment, Private Chris (‘Ray’), 494

  recruitment: age limits, 272–4, 287; and attraction of uniforms, 292–3; and buying out and discharge, 289; and culture shock, 283; enlistment bounties, 293–6, 298; family resistance to, 299; in First World War, 271, 312–18; individual motives for, 119, 297–301; into army as whole, 390–1; into county regiments, 382; into departmental corps, 382; into Foot Guards and rifle regiments, 382; occupational and social backgrounds, 305–6; payments for, 287–8; and period of service, 378–80; physical requirements, 269–73; practice and procedures, 267–73, 287–91, 293–7; sources, xxv–xxvii; of unemployed and convicted criminals, 298, 302–6, 316–17

  red coats, 439–40

  Reddish, Arthur, 218

  Redford, Second Lieut. Arthur, 281

  Redmond, Sergeant (of 2/Royal Irish), 75

  Redmond, Willie, 27–8

  Reform Act (1832), 27

  regimental days: celebrated, 453

  Regimental Headquarters (RHQs), 427–8

  regimental sergeant majors, 63–4, 66–7

  regiments: amalgamations, 373–4, 381; bases and billeting, 504; and battalions, 374; Cardwell’s reforms, 373, 375–8; composition, 324; designations, 366; drummers, 475; and ‘Group System’, 421; marches (musical), 478–82; morale and pride, 398–405, 413–14, 418–19; nicknames, 460–2; post-1945 reductions, amalgamations and reforms, 420–37; seniority, 365; social background of officers, 160–1; system and reforms, xxviii, 374–83, 386, 393–403; uniforms and insignia, 363–4; see also Army units

  Regular Commissions Board, Leighton Park, Wiltshire, 222

  Reid, John, 33

  Reid, General John, 478

  Reserve Forces Act (1996), 89, 114

  reservists, 378–9

  Reynier, General, 329

  Reynolds, Captain John, 566

  Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 467

  Reynolds, Major General Mike, 424

  Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, 44

  Rich, Sir Robert, 475

  Richard II, King, 500

  Richards, Private Frank, 252, 388, 459–60, 532, 585

  Richards, Colonel Solomon, 136

  Richardson, Major General Frank, 398