Chapter 8

Cambrai,192,237,238,247,248,251,253,255

Cambrai, battle of: Tanksen masse,238,242; attack on Tunnel Trench,239-242; great advance,242-243; work of Sixty-second Division,243-244; advance of Fifty-first Division,245-246; Fort Garry Horse,246; attack of the Twenty-ninth Division on Marcoing and Mesnières,247-249; advance of Twentieth and Twelfth Divisions,249-251; German rally,253-256; attack on and capture of Bourlon Wood,257-260; fight for Bourlon village,261-264:attack on La Fontaine,265-267; great German attack,269; the Fifty-fifth, Twelfth, and Twentieth Divisions,270-275,276-278; great fight of the Twenty-ninth Division,275-276,278-282; advance of the Guards,282-286; capture of Gouzeaucourt,284; battle in Bourlon sector,288-297; retraction of British line,297; observations on Cambrai battle,297-298

Campbell, General,25

Campbell, Major,101

Canal de l'Escaut,247,255

Canal du Nord,243,291,298

Caporetto, Italian disaster at,234,236

Cator, General,92

Cavan, General Lord,137,138,145,162,163,167,181,202,214,224,237

Charlton, General,103

Chemin des Dames,64

Cherisy,76,77

Chidlow-Roberts, Captain,120

Cojeul River,25,45,50,52,66,80,85

Cooper, Colonel Elliott, V.C.,274

Cooper, Sergeant, V.C.,166

Corfe, Colonel,190

Corps, Lieutenant,291

Cousens, Captain,28

Crevecourt,248,255,279

Crow, Captain,275

Currie, General Sir A.,41

Davies, Sergeant-Major,261

De Crespigny, General,283,284

De Lisle, General,275,282

Deverell, General,79

Dove, Captain,166

Du Cane, General,61

Edwards, Sergeant-Major,291

Elles, General,238,242

Evans, Private Ellis H.,144

Fairbrass, Sergeant,291

Fanshawe, General Sir E. A.,4,5,183,196

Fayet, capture of,15,62

Fergusson, General Sir Charles,21,36,48,72

Fielding, General Lord,267

Flesquières,244,245,248,254,256,296

Fontaine, Colonel de la,154

Fontaine,256,257,258,265,266,288,289

France: co-operation with British at third battle of Ypres,134,137,156; attack and victory on the Aisne,64,234; victory at Verdun,178; sends troops to help Italy,236,237

Freeman, Lieutenant,190

Fresnoy,76,82,83-84

Gavrelle,54,65,69,70,73,81,82

Geddes, Sir Eric,3

Geddes, Captain,159

Gee, Captain, V.C.,279

General survey of early months of 1917,16-19

Germany's declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare,18

Gheluvelt,228,229

Glencorse Wood,151,153,154,159,161,173,175,176,187,198

Godley, General Sir A.,97,205

Gonnelieu,242,275,276,285,286,287,298

Gordon, General Sir Alex. Hamilton,97

Gorringe, General,174,295

Gort, Colonel Lord,140,226

Gott, Lieutenant,125

Gough, General Sir Hubert,2,4,7,16,25,58,61,96,114,133,138,155,179,181

Gouzeaucourt,275,283,284

Graham, Major,119

Graincourt,244,252

Greer, Colonel,140

Guémappe,47,49,52,68,70

Gwynn, Mr. Stephen, M.P.,103

Haig, Field-Marshal Sir Douglas,4,16,20,56,62,64,92,133,134,135,155,162,179,194,212,213,222,225,233,237,244,255,256,282,299

Haine, Lieutenant, V.C.,74,75,76

Haking, General Sir R.,237

Haldane, General Sir J.,21,30,36,40,238,239,241

Hall, Sergeant-Major,262

Harper, General,145

Harrison, Lieutenant, V.C.,82

Harston, Captain,204

Havrincourt,244,252

Henderson, Lieutenant, V.C.,67

Henty, Major,273

Hermies,242

Hermon, Colonel,39

Hickie, General Sir W.,102

Higgins, Brigadier-General,183

Hindenburg, Marshal von,15

Hindenburg Line, the,45,56,59,66,87,90,91,92,237,239,242,243,245,246,247,250,253,257,265,267,277,288,290,297,298

Hindenburg Line, the, defined,11

Hitchings, Lieutenant,82

Hoare, Captain,250

Holland, General,41,55,115

Holmes, General,101

Horne, General Sir H.,2,20,115

Houthulst Forest,134,137,202,214,226

Hull, General,27

Inverness Wood,154,159,160,162,173,175,176,189

Isonzo front, successful attack on, by the Italians,178

Italy: successful attack on the Isonzo front,178; disaster at Caporetto,234,236; effect of collapse on Western offensive,236; French and British send help,236,237

Jacob, General Sir C.,4,8,137,150,151,162,172,231

James, Colonel,272

Jarvis, Colonel,190

Jenkinson, Sergeant,221

Jeudwine, General Sir Hugh,269

Johnson, General Bulkeley,48

Kennedy, Brigadier-General,296

Kennedy, Colonel,260

Kettle, Professor,103

Kincaid-Smith, General,99

Knapp, Father,140

Korniloff, General,132

Kut, recapture of,17

La Basseville,131,132,155

Laffert, General von,98

Lagnicourt,58,60,90

Lambton, General,37

Langemarck,164,166,167,181,203

La Vacquerie,249,250,274,285,283,287,288

Leadbeater, Sergeant,118

Lees, Captain David,140

Legg, Sergeant,291

Lens,20,54,56,89,226,232

Lens, operations round,115-123

Les Rues Vertes,247,277,279,280

Leveson-Gower, Brigadier-General,168

Lipsett, General,41

Lloyd, Captain,287

Lodge, Sergeant,291

Lomax, Lieutenant,13,14

Lukin, General,36

Lumsden, Major, V.C.,13,14

McCracken, General Sir F.,21,54

Macdowell, Major, V.C.,42

McGowan, Captain,90

McGrady, Private,128

MacNamara, Major,90

MacReady-Diarmid, Captain, V.C.,292

Marcoing,247,248,253,273,276,278,288

Martin, Captain,129

Marwitz, General von,270

Matheson, General,203

Maude, General Sir F. S.,17

Maxse, General Sir Ivor,21,137,145,162,167,183,195,216,217,223,226,227

Menin Road,153,179,190,193,194,195,198,199,202,209,210,211,222,228

Mesnières,247,248,249,253,254,270,273,277,278,282,288

Mesopotamia, operations in: recapture of Kut,17; capture of Bagdad,17

Messines,44,57,95,97,98,115,134,135,179

Messines, battle of: preparations for the battle,96; composition of British line,96-97; advance of Australians and New Zealanders,97-99; capture of Messines village,98; Wytschaete captured by the Irish Divisions,102-104; general advance and capture of Messines Ridge,106-110; results of battle,110-112

Monash, General Sir John,97

Monchy,35,44,46-48,49,50,51,52

Morland, General Sir T.,96,107,138,155,190,208,210

Mœuvres,257,258,289,290

Nicholson, General,37

Nieuport,123,130

Norman, Colonel,144

Nugent, General,102

O'Brien, Lieutenant,74

Oppy,54,65,73,76,81,117

Osmond, Major,74,76

Page, Colonel,146

Parsons, Sergeant,291

Paschendaale,200,211,213,217,220,222,225,230,231,238

Pears, Colonel,280

Peddie, Major,223

Pereira, General,53,289,295

Peronne, capture of,10

Phillips, Mr. Percival, quoted,279

Phillips, Sergeant,291

Pilkem,142,143,144,156

Pinney, General,46,66,193

Ploegstrate,94

Plumer, General Sir Herbert,2,95,96,110,115,134,138,154,155,162,179,181,187,212,237

Poelcapelle,203,204,213,216,224

Polderhoek,209,210,222,228,232,298

Pollard, Lieutenant, V.C.,74,75,76

Polygon Wood,188,193,196,200,208,209

Pope, Lieutenant,60

Prioleau, Colonel,166

Pulteney, General Sir W.,238,252

Radice, Colonel,144

Rawlinson, General Sir Henry,1,2,4,8,61,114

Redmond, Major W., M.P.,103

Reed, General,149

Regiments:

Artillery—

R.F.A.,13,104,274

Honourable Artillery Company,74,221

Cavalry—

Royal Horse Guards,47

2nd Dragoon Guards,252

4th Dragoon Guards,252

2nd Dragoons,263

5th Dragoons,263

5th Lancers,251

10th Hussars,47

11th Hussars,244,263

15th Hussars,261

19th Hussars,262

20th Hussars,285

Bedford Yeomanry,263

Essex Yeomanry,47

Fort Garry Horse,246

King Edward's Horse,244

Lucknow Cavalry Brigade,10

Northumberland Hussars,276

Umballa Brigade,254

Guards—

Coldstream,138,139,140,215,266,284,285


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