192 Crozier Brass Hat p. 108.
193 Crozier Brass Hat p. 111.
194 Williamson Wet Flanders Plain p. 18.
195 Parker Into Battle p. 78.
196 Vaughan Some Desperate Glory p. 228.
197 Crozier The Men I Killed
198 Manual of Military Law 1914 (London 1914) p. 1.
199 Burgoyne Diaries pp. 6, 24.
200 Dunn The War pp. 100–101.
201 Arnold Mons to Messines p. 30.
202 Stanhope Papers.
203 W. J. Albert Papers, Liddle Archive, Brotherton Library, University of Leeds.
204 King’s Regulations 1912 (Revised 1914) para 446.
205 Ogle Fateful Battle Line pp. 17–18.
206 Manual of Military Law 1914 p. 721.
207 Arthur James Moss A Diary from the Trenches (privately printed, 2002) p. 35.
208 Roe Accidental Soldiers p. 122.
209 Victor Archard Papers, Tank Museum, Bovingdon.
210 Moss Diary p. 9. I was initially sceptical about this assertion, but this is an authentic diary, not written with publication in mind, and seems an honest account. The punishment, clearly illegal in the form described, was a fusion of formal and informal penalties, and suggests a gross lack of officer supervision.
211 Turner Accrington Pals p. 116.
212 Major General Douglas Wimberley Scottish Soldier (typescript account, private collection) p. 98.
213 Feilding War Letters p. 175.
214 Manual of Military Law 1914 pp. 631–6.
215 P. J. Oldfield ‘The Field General Court Martial of 7595 Private James A. Haddock’, Stand To (no. 39 Winter 1993).
216 Carrington Soldier from the Wars p. 172.
217 Crozier Brass Hat p. 149.
218 Chapman Passionate Prodigality pp. 73–4.
219 McCleary (ed.) Dear Amy p. 158.
220 Quoted in Corns and Hughes-Wilson Blindfold and Alone p. 359.
221 Bond (ed.) Staff Officer p. 118.
222 Burgoyne Diaries p. 106.
223 Feilding War Letters pp. 175–6.
224 Dunbar Papers, Liddle Archive, Brotherton Library, University of Leeds.
225 Moran Anatomy of Courage p. 190.
226 Corns and Hughes-Wilson Blindfold and Alone pp. 319–20.
227 Corns and Hughes-Wilson Blindfold and Alone p. 343.
228 Ogle Fateful Battle Line p. 108.
229 Crozier Brass Hat pp. 82–4. There is a similar version in the same author’s The Men I Killed, though both understandably give the victim a false name.
230 Bickersteth (ed.) Bickersteth Diaries pp. 224–5.
231 Nicholson Behind the Lines p. 263.
232 For this emotive issue see G. D. Sheffield ‘The Operational Role of British Military Police on the Western Front’ in Griffith British Fighting Methods.
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.
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