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Aden, 107, 132 Mont Tomba, 158 Aden Field Force, 133 Neuve Chapelle, 107, 148 Alanbrooke, Field Marshal, 42, 92–93, Romani, 133 100, 142–143, 147, 149 Sari Bair, 125 Allenby, Edmund, General, 48, 74–76, 96, Somme, 19, 62, 66, 121, 141–142, 107, 112, 115–119, 129, 134–135, 147–148, 150, 157 140, 176, 186–187, 209–210, 215, Verdun, 141–142, 149–150, 158 221–222, 234, 242, 244–245 Vittorio Veneto, 154 Altham, Edward, Major-General, 35, 140, Beadon, R. H., 124–125 179, 195–196 Bean, C. E. W., 205, 211–212, 219, 224, Amalgamated Society for Engineers, 195, 238 201 Beauvoir De Lisle, Henry de, Anderson, Robert, 12, 68–69, 71, 98, 212, Major-General, 56, 113 237 Beeby Thompson, Arthur, 188, 189 Army Council, 30, 42–44, 166, 172, 181, Birdwood, William, Lieutenant-General, 200 39, 69, 96, 107, 134, 175, 209, Australia 211–218, 220, 222–225, 230–231, Australian Imperial Force 235–236, 239 ‘Australianisation’ policy, 220–221, Blamey, Thomas, Brigadier-General, 208, 223, 232 223 ‘self-integration’, 232–238 Boer War, 25, 32, 35, 41, 45, 98, 171, ‘The Bustard’ trench system (Lark 173, 176–177, 209–210, 213 Hill), 236, 238 Colenso, 28–29 perceptions of its discipline, 211, 214, Elandslaagte, 29, 47 229–231 Bols, Louis, Major-General, 117 War Chest Club, 98 Bonham-Carter, Charles, General, 40, 83, Commonwealth Military Force, 86, 90, 93, 231 206–207, 209 Bourgeois, Robert, General, 146–147 Royal Military College, Duntroon, 33, Brackenbury, Henry, Major-General, 28, 209–210 30 Bragg, Lawrence, 73–74, 143–144. See Baring, Maurice, 141, 163 sound ranging Bartholomew, William, Brigadier-General, Braithwaite, Walter, Major-General, 39, 56 117–118 Bridges, Tom, Major-General, 62 Battles Bridges, William, Colonel, 33, 210–213, Arras, 112, 116–117 224, 228 Beersheba, 118, 122, 124 British Army Caporetto, 111, 129 appointments Hundred Days Offensive 8, 130 Inspector-General of Overseas Forces, Pursuit to the Selle (1918), 128 210 La Malmaison, 158, 160 Inspector-General of the Forces, Messines, 58, 128 44–45, 86

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aviation, 141 Desert Mounted Corps, 116–118, Royal Air Force, 200 133, 210, 216, 221, 237 Royal Flying Corps, 114, 141–142, divisions 144, 147, 150, 236 1st Division, 88, 233–234 branches 4th Division, 118 Army Printing and Stationery Service, 7th Division, 61, 80 79 8th Division, 74, 84 Army Service Corps, 125, 172, 190, 9th Division, 66, 74–75, 150, 235 199 10th Division, 60 Geographical Section, 146 13th Division, 148 Inspectorate of Training, 64–67, 73, 17th Division, 63 81, 84, 93, 153 18th Division, 55, 80, 143 Labour Corps, 187, 197 19th Division, 62 Labour Directorate, 92, 199 21st Division, 60 Tank Corps, 131, 133 23rd Division, 80, 121, 155 Topographical Section, 143–146 27th Division, 61 Training Directorate, 40, 65, 86 29th Division, 56, 112–113, 220 Transportation Directorate, 175, 177, 30th Division, 148 199, 246 35th Division, 220 ofﬁcer corps, 21–22, 37–45, 47–49, 57, 46th Division, 67 172 48th Division, 155, 161 Special Reserve, 47, 165–167 50th Division, 60 British Army formations and units 51st Division, 97 armies 52nd Division, 127 First Army, 58, 130, 142 53rd Division, 130 Second Army, 58, 92, 144 54th Division, 96, 134 Third Army, 55, 74, 81, 116–117, 60th Division, 118, 122, 134 148, 151, 242 61st Division, 59 Fourth Army, 58, 62–63, 143, 63rd Division, 149 148–149, 151–152, 242 66th Division, 60 Fifth Army, 62, 144, 149, 208, 210, 74th Division, 118, 122, 128–129 226 1st Cavalry Division, 56 corps Australian and New Zealand Division, I Corps, 234 228 IV Corps, 233–234 Anzac Mounted Division, 217 VIII Corps, 126 1st Australian Division, 209–211, 213, IX Corps, 67, 119, 130 217, 226, 228, 235 XI Corps, 155 2nd Australian Division, 60, 220, 235 XII Corps, 89, 115, 120–121, 125 3rd Australian Division, 94, 209–210, XIII Corps, 130, 209 217–221, 235–238 XIV Corps, 61, 151, 155 4th Australian Division, 60, 99, 209, XV Corps, 130, 152 217, 230–231, 235 XVI Corps, 61, 89, 120–121 5th Australian Division, 217, 230–231 XVIII Corps, 80, 177 1st Canadian Division, 80, 149 XX Corps, 87, 116–118, 122, 134 New Zealand Division, 235 XXI Corps, 87, 116, 118, 133 brigades Cavalry Corps, 112, 117 28th Brigade, 235 I Indian Corps, 122 69th Brigade, 61, 72, 75 I ANZAC, 60, 205, 209, 212, 70th Brigade, 94 226–227, 230–231, 236 86th Brigade, 220 II ANZAC, 91, 99, 205, 231 87th Brigade, 220 Australian Corps, 174, 205, 208, 216, 229th Brigade, 59 223 230th Brigade, 59 Canadian Corps, 58, 60, 149, 216, 5th Cavalry Brigade, 117 219–220 10th Cavalry Brigade, 222

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British Army formations and units (cont.) committees 1st Light Horse Brigade, 211 Esher Committee (1904), 31 2nd Australian Brigade, 228 Hartington Commission (1890), 30 4th Australian Brigade, 219, 225, 228 Kirke Committee (1932), 51, 84, 120 battalions conferences Black Watch, 14th Battalion (Royal General Staff conferences, 26, 33–36, Highlanders), 128–129 46, 64–65, 84, 153, 224 Connaught Rangers, 5th Battalion, 60 Imperial conferences, 208 Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, 12th Cowans, John, Lieutenant-General, 140, Battalion, 55 168, 177, 179, 195–196, 249 King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Cox, Herbert, Major-General, 217–218, Regiment), 1/5th Battalion, 88 223 London Regiment, 2/15th Battalion, Craig-Brown, Ernest, Brigadier-General, 127 38, 82 Lovat Scouts, 130 Currie, Arthur, Major-General, 149–150, Manchester Regiment, 5th Battalion, 216, 246 97 Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 6th Battalion, Dawnay, Guy, Major-General, 65–66, 59, 128 73, 76, 94, 120, 126, 153, 240, Royal Munster Fusiliers, 2nd 244 Battalion, 60 Department of Recruiting and 3rd County of London Yeomanry, 98 Organisation, 193, 197. See Brudenell White, Cyril Bingham, Directorate of Organisation Brigadier-General, 60, 67, 69, Derby, Lord, 110–111 206–208, 210, 213–215, 220, 223, des Vallières, Pierre, General, 137, 226–228 162–163 Buller, Redvers, General, 47 Diaz, Armando, General, 156, 158–159, Burnett-Stuart, John, Lieutenant-Colonel, 161 89–90, 149 Directorate of Organisation, 193, Butler, Richard, Lieutenant-General, 34, 197–199, 246 40, 92, 151 du Peuty, Paul, Colonel, 141 Byng, Julian, General, 37, 112–113, 116, Dubail, Auguste, General, 75 119–120, 149, 216, 242 Edmonds, James, Colonel, 34, 82, 126 Cairo, 90, 108, 119, 188, 228, 234 Egyptian Army, 165, 173, 176 Callwell, Charles, Colonel, 29, 45, 80 Elliott, Harold (‘Pompey’), Calthrop, Guy, 111 Brigadier-General, 215–216 Canadian Expeditionary Force, 69 Engineering and Railway Staff Corps, Capper, Thompson, Brigadier-General, 167–170 20–21, 33–34 card indexes, 164, 192, 197–199, 202, Farmar, (Harold) Mynors, 246 Lieutenant-Colonel, 220–221, 223 Cardwell reforms, 27 Fayolle, Émile, General, 156–157, 159 Cavan, Field Marshal, 37, 40–41, 61, 72, ﬂash spotting, 55, 72, 74, 144. See Major 75–76, 151–154, 246 Henry Hemming Chauvel, Harry, Lieutenant-General, 39, Ford, Reginald, Brigadier-General, 123 117–118, 207, 210, 215–217, 219, Forestier-Walker, George, Major-General, 221–222, 237 60–61 chemical warfare, 69–71, 246 Foulkes, Charles, Colonel, 70, 247 Compagnies Z (French), 71 Franco-Prussian War, 27–28 Special Brigade, 70–71, 191 French Army Chetwode, Field Marshal, 37, 96, 98, 118, artillery 124, 222 Bull-Weiss set, 143 Clayton, Frederick, Lieutenant-General, Groupe de Canevas de Tir, 144–145 178, 246 planchettes (‘battery boards’), 144

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Service des renseignements de Haig, Douglas, Field Marshal, 34, 40, 42, l’artillerie, 161 56, 74, 110–111, 126, 139, 177, aviation 180, 182–183, 234, 245, 249 relationship with RFC, 131–132, 144 Haking, Richard, Lieutenant-General, 45, branches 80, 155 Bureau des calculs, 129 Haldane, Richard, 170–171 Service Géographique d’Armée, Hale, Lonsdale, Colonel, 27 144–146 Hamilton, Ian, General, 29, 47, 56, 96, Service Topographique de l’Armée 112–113, 117, 119–120, 209–211 d’Orient, 145 Hare, Steuart, Major-General, 229 relationship with Britain Harington, Charles (‘Tim’), inter-allied schools, 144, 159–160 Major-General, 39, 58–59 Italy, 154–162 Hemming, Henry, Major, 55, 72–74, Palestine and Syria, 140 242 pre-war, 138–139 Héring, Pierre, Major, 143, 147, 163 Salonika, 139–140 Hesketh-Prichard, Hesketh, Major, 130 relationship with US, 154 See sniping signalling Holland, Arthur, Major-General, 74, 114, listening sets, 142 234 French Army formations and units Howard-Vyse, Richard, Brigadier-General, expeditionary forces 40, 110, 117–118, 222, 237 Force Françaises en Italie, 145, Howell, Philip, Brigadier-General, 12, 156–162 56–57, 89, 95, 108, 121, 140 armies Hughes, William (‘Billy’), 214 First Army, 75 Hume, William, Dr, 188–189 Second Army, 149 Hunter-Weston, Aylmer, Fourth Army, 148 Lieutenant-General, 65–66, 113, Fifth Army, 152 126 Sixth Army, 144 Hutchison, Robert, Major-General, Seventh Army, 143 193–194, 197 Tenth Army, 141, 144, 152, 161–162 Hutton, Edward, Major-General, 206 corps XXI Corps, 160 Indian Army, 19, 174, 183, 213, 219 divisions divisions 47th Division, 158 3rd (Lahore) Division, 134 French, John, Field Marshal, 36, 113, 7th (Meerut) Division, 134 139, 168, 237 Italian Army Fuller, J. F. C., Major-General, 21, 45, defensive problems, 155–156, 158–159 150 Italian Army formations and units Furse, William, Major-General, 62, First Army, 161 75 I Corps, 155 VIII Corps, 155 gas, 70–71, 117, 128, 147, 161, 191 XX Corps, 155 Geddes, Eric, 164, 168, 177, 179–184, 70th Division, 155 199, 245 geological surveys, 165, 187–188 Jack, Ewen, Lieutenant-Colonel, 143, 147 Gillman, Webb, Brigadier-General, 41, Jess, Carl, Lieutenant-Colonel, 220, 223 109, 114, 120, 148, 234 Girouard, Percy, 176–177, 179–181, 184 Keyes, Roger, Commodore, 108–109 Transport Mission (1914), 179 Kiggell, Launcelot, Brigadier-General, 33, Godley, Alexander (‘Alec’), 40, 107, 126 Lieutenant-General, 56, 98, 99, Kitchener, Lord, 110, 112–113, 176, 179, 125, 209–210, 217–219, 225, 230 206, 213–214 Godwin, Charles, Brigadier-General, 222 Koe, Frederick, Major-General, 41, Gullett, Henry, 210 123–124

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Lanrezac, Charles, General, 139 Machine Gun School (Camiers), 93 Lawrence, Herbert, General, 126 Machine Gun Training Centre Lawrence, T. E., 117 (Grantham), 114, 131 learned societies, 68, 147, 165, 170, 187, Mackinder, Halford, 170–172, 249 190–191 Mahon, Bryan, Lieutenant-General, 42, Institute of Chemistry, 70 139 Institution of Automobile Engineers, 190 Marshall, William, Lieutenant-General, Institution of Civil Engineers, 165–168, 177–178, 183 189, 194 Maude, (Francis) Stanley, L’Institut de France, 170 Lieutenant-General, 98, 183 Royal Geographical Society, 146 Maude, Frederick, Captain, 27 Royal Society, 70, 190–191 Maurice, Frederick, Brigadier-General, learning curve, 2, 7–9, 99 12, 36, 89, 118 Legge, James, Colonel, 206, 210–211, 217 Maxse, (Frederick) Ivor, Major-General, liaison officers, 95–96, 112, 141–142, 144, 45, 62–63, 65–67, 73, 80–81, 143, 163, 200, 250 242, 245 French officers, 141, 143 Hints on Training, 80–81, 93 in British Salonika Force, 95–96, 109 Maxwell, John, Lieutenant-General, 180, in Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 96 184, 211, 228, 231, 246 in Italian Expeditionary Force, 158–159, McNamara, Arthur, Major-General, 161 51–53, 76, 84–85 Liddell Hart, Basil, Captain, 1, 66 meteorology, 70–71 Lindsay, George, Colonel, 58 Bureau Central Météorologique, 71 Livingstone, Hubert, Brigadier-General, Bureau Météorologique du Ministère de 109, 188 la Guerre, 71 Lloyd George, David, Rt Hon, 1, 180, 246 Meteorological (Met) Office, 147 logistics military journals, 45–47 docks, 167, 174, 181, 187 Army Quarterly, 105 inland water transport, 181, 199, 246 Army Review,46 railways, 110, 166–167, 169, 172, Cavalry Journal, 45–46 175–176, 180–182, 184, 186, 194, Commonwealth Military Journal, 208 199–200 Revue d’Artillerie, 142 Cherbourg-Taranto route, 110–111 Royal Engineers’ Journal, 165 light railways, 181–182 Royal United Services Institute Journal, 45, state railways, 173, 175–177, 183–184, 165 186–187 United Services Magazine,28 roads, 180 military missions, 95, 154 LSE Army Administration Course, military publications and pamphlets 170–172, 220 Action of 6th Mounted Brigade at El Lynden-Bell, Arthur, Major-General, 12, Mughar (EEF), 131, 133 42, 91, 113, 116–117, 182–184, Artillery Notes, 115 214, 221–222 CDS1,79 Lyttelton, Neville, General, 28–29 CDS23, 148 CDS24, 148 Macauley, George, Colonel, 176, 186–187 CDS333, 148 machine guns Combined Training (1902), 32, 208 guns Field Service Pocket Book, 83, 208 Hotchkiss gun, 130–131, 133 Field Service Regulations (1909), 20, Lewis gun, 87, 114, 122, 130, 133, 31–37, 43, 48, 50, 62, 82, 83, 100, 149, 230 179, 208, 224–226, 232, 241 Vickers gun, 87, 114, 130 Infantry Training (1905), 32, 83–84, 152, Machine Gun Corps, 58, 199 226, 241 schools Mounted Action of 17th Machine Gun Cavalry Machine Gun Training Centre Squadron at El Mughar (EEF), 131 (Uckfield), 131 Notes from the Front, 224

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Notes on Artillery in the Present War, 225 Pope-Hennessy, Ladislaus, Major, 22 Notes on the Employment of Hotchkiss Prudential Assurance Company, 199 Automatic Riﬂes during Recent public schools system, 23–24, 37–39, 43, Operations (EEF), 131 56, 124, 243 Notes on the Employment of Lewis Guns in public works departments, 166, 173–175, the Desert (EEF), 80 177, 185, 187 Notes on Trench Raids, 134 SS23,79 Radcliffe, Percy de Bloxham, SS109, 83, 226 Brigadier-General, 60 SS119,63 raiding, 59, 133–134 SS135, 64, 87, 121 Railway Executive Committee, 169–170, SS143, 63–64, 72, 84, 87, 121–122, 181 150 Rawlinson, Henry, General, 56, 62–63, 74, SS144, 150–152 97, 98, 112, 124, 149, 170, 209, SS148, 63–64, 84 242 SS152, 86–87, 94, 232, 237, 244 Rawlinson Committee on Engineer SS177,64 Organisation (1919), 174–175 SS185,87 Roberts, Frederick, General, 27, 43, 47 SS191,64 Robertson, William, General, 19, 26, 36, SS192, 130 89, 96, 107, 117, 139–140, SS652 (IEF), 80 182–184, 197, 215, 231, 234 Milne, George, Lieutenant-General, 41, Rosenthal, Charles, Brigadier-General, 109, 114–115, 132, 139, 245 223, 225, 233–235 mining, 81, 243, 246 Field Work Notes,93 Salmond, Geoffrey, Brigadier-General, Mining Notes, 81, 93, 243–244 114 schools, 81, 93 Sandeman, Edward, 189 Ministry of Munitions, 181, 194–195, 201 Sarrail, Maurice, General, 139–140 Monash, John, Major-General, 94, 99, Scott, Philip, Colonel, 124, 172 214, 216–219, 221, 223, 225–226, Scott-Moncrieff, George, Major-General, 228, 235–238 108, 133, 165–166, 196 Montgomery (Montgomery-Massingberd), Sellheim, Victor, Colonel, 212, 220, 229 Archibald, Major-General, 58–59, Shea, John, Major-General, 37, 63, 62–63, 66, 148–153, 246 148–149, 153, 240 Munro Ferguson, Ronald, 215, 220, shipping, 107, 110–111, 123, 178 223–224 losses, 110 Murray, Archibald, General, 98, 116, 176, U-boat threat, 108–110 182, 185–187, 189, 215, 221, Shoubridge, Herbert, Major-General, 230–231 80–81 Muscular Christianity, 23 Shute, Cameron, Major-General, 65–66, 149 Nicholson, William, General, 46, 57 Signalling, 59, 64, 130, 142, 230, 243, North West Frontier, 26, 29, 47 246 Tirah Expedition, 28, 47 Signal Notes, 142 Northcliffe, Lord, 25, 177 Simpson-Baikie, Hugh, Brigadier-General, 112 O’Connor, Richard, Lieutenant-Colonel, Smith, Sydenham, Major-General, 115 40, 160 sniping, 122, 129, 130 sound ranging, 73–74, 143–144, 147, 178 Paul, Ernest, Brigadier-General, 91, Spencer-Browne, Reginald, Colonel, 108–109, 133, 185–187, 189, 196 229–230 Pearce, George, Senator, 68–69, 209–211, Spens, James, Major-General, 228 215, 217–219, 229–231 sports, 23–25 Plumer, Herbert, General, 112, 156–159, cricket, 23 209 ﬁeld sports, 40–42, 45

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Stanhope Memorandum (1888), 26 Mena House school (Cairo), 90–92, Stuart-Wortley, Richard, 110, 114 Brigadier-General, 180, 246 Senior and Junior Staff Schools Suez Canal, 98, 107, 182, 185–186, 188 (Cambridge University), 91–93, Swinton, Ernest, Captain, 45, 80 100 Senior Staff School, 90, 231 training schools, 48–49, 64, 85–94, 97, Staff College (Camberley), 88, 138, 99–101, 114, 131, 135, 145, 170, 208 159–160, 163, 212, 224, 227–232, Staff College (Quetta), 88, 208 234–236, 241–244 Trenchard, Hugh, Brigadier-General, 141 in the British Expeditionary Force, Tudor, Henry, Major-General, 74, 75, 112 86–87 tunnelling, 81–82 First Army Sniping School (Linghem), 130 Uniacke, Herbert, Major-General, 66–67, RE Training School (Rouen), 93 149 Royal Engineers’ Schools, 93–94 US Army, 192–193, 195 in the British Salonika Force Army Infantry School, 48, 87, 114, Vitaï Lampada,24 121 Army Lewis Gun School, 130 Walker, Harold (‘Hooky’), Major-General, Lewis and Vickers Gun School, 87, 217 114 water supply, 174, 186–189 in the Egyptian Expeditionary Force In the EEF, 124, 186, 188–189 School for Young Ofﬁcers (Desert Wavell, Archibald, Lieutenant-Colonel, 96 Mounted Corps), 236–238 Weston Jarvis, Alexander, Australian and New Zealand Training Lieutenant-Colonel, 98 Centre (Tel-el-Kebir), 228–230 Wilkinson, Spenser, 30, 31 Imperial School of Instruction Willey, Vernon, Major, 196 (Zeitoun), 230, 237 Wilson, Henry, Brigadier-General, 138, Senior Ofﬁcers’ Course (Heliopolis), 140, 234 93, 114 Winterbotham, Harold, Colonel, 55, Trench Warfare School (El Arish), 121 74–76, 143, 145–147, 234 in the Italian Expeditionary Force, 159 wire roads, 132–133 Trench Mortar School (Teolo), Wolfe Murray, James, Lieutenant-General, 160–161 112 staff training, 88–92 Wood, Evelyn, Field Marshal, 37 Junior Staff School, 90 learner system, 88–90 Ypres, 60, 144