Chapter 10

Queen's (West Surrey),84,91,93,109,139,142,150,163,170,196,218,219,221,223,233,244,246,273

Rifle Brigade,8,51,52,53,213,216,227,228,248,249,290,298,302,316,319

Rifles,30,162,163,182,211,218,219,220,227,228,234,248,278,279,282,290,299,315,319,320

Royal Fusiliers,13,53,54,88,89,111,164,167,170,177,182,186,196,207,209,269,270,298,304,318,319

Royal Irish,18,86,148,149,222,227,230

Royal Irish Fusiliers,53,60,230

Royal Irish Rifles,60,61,62,71,110,230

Royal Lancaster,10,14,314

Royal Scots,72,73,74,77,80,152,172,173,178,179,238,321

Royal Scots Fusiliers,13,97,136,152,172,185,186,238

Royal West Kent,91,92,109,139,140,142,196

Seaforth Highlanders,52,53,153,175,285,321

Sherwood Foresters,7,8,40,42,68,117,121,251,272,278,316

Shropshire,17,151,219,248,249,250,256,290,299

Somerset Light Infantry,51,52,53,82,221,229,250,299

South Lancashire,106,108,114,169,202,325

South Staffordshire,7,8,41,84,85,116,117,123,150,221,275

South Wales Borderers,53,56,121,129,130,156,157,162,212,234

Suffolk,9,10,72,74,89,92,109,164,177,178,208,252,267,268,273,274,314

Sussex,8,28,30,93,111,112,162,192,194,195,209,211,215,216,232,234,266,279

Tyneside Irish (Northumberland Fusiliers),72,75

Tyneside Scottish (Northumberland Fusiliers),70,72,73,75

Warwick,46,49,51,52,53,85,108,115,148,149,170,192,193,197,222,302

Welsh,121,124,125,126,128,129,156,162,234

Welsh Fusiliers,10,30,86,108,118,125,126,128,129,149,167,177,221,222,292,314

West Riding,10,120,203,302

West Yorkshire,10,13,49,50,51,70,77,83,96,151,152,179,203,255,273,274,275,292,301

Wiltshire,108,112,136,198

Worcester,55,108,112,114,120,121,163,166,169,192,218,302

York and Lancaster,49,50,51,68,82,255,284,293,301

Yorkshire,81,83,117,135,178,203,275,284,285,304

Yorkshire Light Infantry,68,77,78,81,82,219,221,247,250,298,323

Royal Engineers,92,117,149,168,183,218,220,231,245,293

Royal Naval Division,315,316,317,318,319,320

Overseas Forces—

Australians,116,161,187,188,189,190,191,192,193,194,195,196,197,198,199,200,201,202,203,231,305

New Zealanders,202,234,241,242,243,244,245,287,288,289

1st Canadians (Ontario),278

2nd Canadians,14

3rd Canadians (Toronto),27

7th Canadians (British Columbia),26,27,278

10th Canadians,26

13th Canadians (Royal Highlanders),16,27,202

14th Canadians (Montreal),25

15th Canadians (48th Highlanders),25,202

16th Canadian Scottish,16,27

22nd Canadians,15,204

27th Canadians (Winnipeg),15,278

29th Canadians (Vancouver),15

31st Canadians (Alberta),15,278

49th Canadians,22

52nd Canadians (New Ontario),25,205

60th Canadians (Montreal),205

60th Canadians (New Brunswick),16

60th Canadians (Nova Scotia),16

Princess Patricia's,22,24

Royal Canadian Regiment,22

Canadian Mounted Rifles,23

Newfoundland Regiment,46,54,55,301

South Africans,137,153,155,171,172,173,175,176,286

Richebourg,28-30

Rickets, Colonel,128

Ripley, Colonel,271

Robertson, General Sir William,5,308

Rolls, Major,186

Romani, battle near,328

Roumania declares war against the Central Powers,329

Rushton, Lieutenant,90

Ryder, Private, V.C.,270

St. Eloi,12-16

St. Pierre Divion,316

Salonica,3; operations round,329

Sarrail, General,329,330

Sawyer, Major, V.C.,284

Saye, Lieutenant,90

Schwaben Redoubt, the,61,263,266,268,272-275,276

Serbia overrun by Central Powers,2

Serre,46,49-53,86,311,313

Shute, Major,64

Sinai peninsula, operations in,328

Smith, General Douglas,227

Smith, Colonel,134

Smuts, General Right Hon. Jan,3

Snow, General Sir T.,34,39,45

Somerset, Lieutenant,110

Somme, battle of the: disposition of the British Armies,34-36; preparations preceding the battle,36,37; German anticipation of Allied attack,37; work of the Royal Flying Corps,38,39; attack of the Seventh and Eighth Corps at Gommecourt, Serre, and Beaumont Hamel,39-56; general failure of attack,56; attack of the Tenth and Third Corps at Beaucourt, Thiepval, Ovillers, and La Boiselle, fails,58-75; attack of the Fifteenth and Thirteenth Corps at Fricourt, Mametz, and Montauban,76-101; capture of Fricourt,77-84; of Mametz village,84-86; of Montauban,86-98; operations of the French Army,98-100; review of the first day's fighting,100,101; its decisive importance,101; capture of La Boiselle,107-109; siege and reduction of Ovillers,109-116; operations at Contalmaison,116-124,131-133; capture of Mametz Wood,124-131; capture of Trones Wood,134-143; assault on and capture of villages of Bazentin-le-Petit,145-149; and Bazentin-le-Grand,151-153; operations at Longueval,153-155; cavalry advance,150,157; fighting at High Wood,166-168; South Africans in Delville Wood,171-176; capture of Delville Wood,180-183; capture of Longueval,171-180; operations before Guillemont,183-187; capture of Pozières village and ridge,189-202; advance towards Thiepval,197-201; capture of Courcelette,204; further fighting at High Wood,207-213,231-234; operations on fringe of Delville Wood,212-213,218-223,231-234; attack on and capture of Guillemont,214,217,227-231; attack on Ginchy,222-223; storming of Ginchy by Irish Division,230-231; assault on and capture of Martinpuich village,237-240; capture of High Wood,240-241; advance of the New Zealanders,242-243; capture of the village of Flers,243-247; debut of the Tanks,241,244,245,247,249,259-261; assault on and capture of Thiepval,264-272; fall of Schwaben Redoubt,272-275; taking of Stuff Redoubt,275-279; Germans driven finally from Thiepval Ridge,279; capture of the villages of Eaucourt and Le Sars,282-285; capture of Guedecourt,288,289; capture of Morval and Lesboeufs,291-294; fall of Combles,295; general observations on the fighting in the Somme valley,306-309

Stern, Colonel,260

Stokes, Lieutenant,211

Stuff Redoubt, the fighting for,275-279

Swinton, Colonel,260

Tanks, the, first appearance of,241,244,245,247,249; commendation by Sir Douglas Haig,261;264,269,272,283,285,288,293,320

Tempest, Colonel,254

Thicknesse, Colonel,53

Thiepval,58-68,86,156,197-201,202,203,204,205,237,263,264-272,276

Thompson, Captain,269

Torrie, Colonel,326

Tovey, Corporal,270

Townshend, General Sir Charles,2

Trenchard, General,38

Trentino, Austrian attack in,328

Trones Wood,135-143

Trotter, Colonel,134

Usher, Colonel,24

Venezelos,330

Verdun,1,3,11,23,33,37,99,327

Vimy Ridge,19

Webber, Lieutenant,169

Wedgwood, Colonel,108

White, Captain, V.C.,275

Williams, Brigadier-General Victor,24

Wood, Colonel,53

Wulverghem,20

Wynne-Finch, Adjutant,254

Ypres,4,7-11,16-17,21-28

THE END

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