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    First day of the Somme

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      Reserve Infantry Regiment 111 (RIR111) 115, 116, 120, 121; on 1 July 246, 252–53, 256–57, 266–67, 276–81; casualties 116, 280

      Reserve Infantry Regiment 119 (RIR119) 79, 86, 89, 94, 99, 100, 105, 113, 115–16, 129; on 1 July 140, 144, 147, 149, 151, 167–68, 188, 200, 208; casualties 116, 151, 175–76

      Reserve Infantry Regiment 121 (RIR121) 80, 102, 115–16, 121–22, 129–30; on 1 July 144, 154–55, 167–68, 170, 174, 209, 383; casualties 116, 130, 155, 175–76

      Artillery (Field and Foot)

      Bavarian Field Artillery Regiment 1 (BFAR1) 93

      Bavarian Field Artillery Regiment 19 (BFAR19) 74, 92

      Bavarian Foot Artillery Regiment 10 (BFtAR10) 88

      Field Artillery Regiment 21 (FAR21) 113, 293, 298

      Foot Artillery Battery 550 (FtAB550) 88

      26th Reserve Artillery Brigade 376

      Reserve Field Artillery Regiment 20 (RFAR20) 90, 92, 105, 112–13, 122, 134, 335

      Reserve Field Artillery Regiment 26 (RFAR26) 48, 108, 112, 133, 148, 192

      Reserve Field Artillery Regiment 27 (RFAR27) 92, 133

      Reserve Field Artillery Regiment 28 (RFAR28) 114, 228

      Reserve Field Artillery Regiment 29 (RFAR29) 91, 108, 228, 258, 267

      Reserve Foot Artillery Regiment 16 (RFtAR16) 91, 120, 266

      Air Service

      Artillery Air Detachment 221 (AAD221) 74–75, 90

      Artillery Air Detachment 229 (AAD229) 90

      Field Flying Detachment 62 (FFD62) 48

      Machine-gun Units

      Field Machine-gun Platoon 55 (FMGPn55) 104

      Machine-gun Sharp-shooter Troop 73 (MGSST73) 334

      Machine-gun Sharp-shooter Troop 198 (MGSST198) 163

      Cavalry

      Württemberg Reserve Dragoon Regiment 104–105

      General Index

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      A

      Aaron, Private James 391

      Abbeville 63

      Abercrombie, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles 185, 197, 200

      Adams, Captain Douglas 154

      Adams, Lieutenant George 345

      Adinfer Wood 324

      Aeroplane Trench 271

      Aisne, Battle of 6

      Albert viii, 20, 36, 59, 63, 91, 212, 246, 322, 362–63, 370

      Albert–Bapaume road viii, 20, 29, 75, 78, 92, 130; on 1 July 175, 211, 214, 219, 226, 230, 234, 242, 249, 282, 379; assessed 384, 389

      Aldershot 3–4, 16

      Alexandra, Queen 3

      Allen, Corporal Henry 44

      Allen, Corporal Herbert 198

      Allenby, Lieutenant-General Sir Edmund viii, xvi, 20; on 1 July and assessed 325–26, 342, 352, 354, 357, 360, 379

      Allsop, Private John 56

      Amiens 19, 63, 381

      Amiens–St Quentin road 381

      Ancre British Cemetery 152

      Ancre, River and Valley xvi, xvii, 20, 42, 78–79, 80, 101, 126; on 1 July 143–144, 148, 150, 161, 167, 170–71, 178, 180–81 187–88, 190, 199, 202, 208–10, 318; assessed 363

      Andrews, Private Fred 155

      Appleyard, Lance-Corporal Sidney 337

      Archer-Houblon, Captain Richard 46, 56, 59

      Arras xviii, 13, 24, 29, 33, 36, 62, 77, 79, 81, 106, 214, 249, 325–26, 386, 389

      Artois 24, 77, 84

      Ashurst, Private George 111–12, 118

      Askew, Private Alfred 117, 270

      Asquith, Prime Minister Herbert 34

      Assevillers 380

      Atkins, Private John 346

      Aubers Ridge, Battle of 7, 41

      Auchonvillers 63; see also Beaumont Hamel–Auchonvillers road

      Aust, Private Walter 46–47, 52, 55

      Austria-Hungary 4–5

      Austro-Hungarian Empire 5–6, 76

      Authuille 63, 197, 209

      Authuille Wood 178, 183–85, 197, 217, 241–42, 362

      Aveluy 63, 197

      Aveluy Wood 181, 197, 198, 203

      Avoca Valley 219

      Ayre, Captain Bernard 54

      Ayre family 54

      B

      Back Trench 309

      Baden, Badeners 78, 97, 119, 144–45, 217, 253–54, 263, 266, 281, 286, 309

      Baden-Württemberg 253; see Baden and separately Württemberg

      Bailiff Wood 228, 371

      Balfour, Arthur 12

      Balkans 7

      Banwell, Second-Lieutenant Sydney 348

      Bapaume viii, 20, 25–26, 29, 31–34, 36, 76, 79, 84, 104; in bombardment 130; on 1 July 144, 211, 214, 249, 315, 357; assessed 361, 372, 381, 389; see also Albert–Bapaume road

      Bapaume–Péronne road 25, 32

      Barber, Rifleman Henry 45, 52, 57, 118, 337, 359

      Barden, Private Clifford 301, 311

      Barker, Private Albert 271

      Bastard, Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald 238

      Bates, Private Frank 349

      Battery Valley 191–92, 194, 199, 203

      Bauer, Reservist Friedrich vii, 105

      Bauer, Leutnant-der-Reserve Georg 265, 277

      Bazentin Wood 297

      Bazentin-le-Grand 26, 288, 297, 314–15, 317–18, 374–75, 383

      Bazentin-le-Petit 36, 278, 297, 311, 313

      Beaucourt 26, 80, 144–45, 180, 190, 202, 389

      Beaucourt Redoubt 144–45, 191

      Beaucourt Station 188

      Beaumont Hamel xvi–xvii, 20, 42–43, 61–62, 78–80, 96; in bombardment 113, 115–116, 127–29; on 1 July 140–41, 143–45, 147, 149, 152, 161, 164–67, 180, 186, 190, 206; assessed 361–62, 365, 367, 369–71, 389; see also Hawthorn Ridge mine, crater and redoubt

      Beaumont Hamel–Auchonvillers road 141, 149, 173

      Beauquesne 361

      Beck, Leutnant-der-Reserve Adolf 174

      Bécordel-Bécourt 249, 261

      Bécourt 63, 91, 223, 260

      Bécourt Valley 65

      Bécourt Wood 58, 219

      Beetle Alley 268, 303

      Belgium vii–viii, ix, 4–7, 14–15, 34, 361

      Bell, Private Allan 296

      Bell VC, Captain Eric 210

      Bell, Private Leslie 68

      Below, General-der-Infanterie Fritz von xi, xiii, xvii; planning and preparations 75–81, 87, 100–101, 106, 180; in bombardment 112, 116–17, 135, 137; on 1 July and assessed 363, 374–76, 380–87

      Bennett, Sergeant Thomas 43

      Bergwerk 143, 145

      Berkefeld, Gefreiter August 334

      Berlin 4, 119

      Bernafay Wood 288–89, 293, 297–99, 311, 314–15, 317–18, 374–75, 383

      Bernard, Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert 195

      Bethmann-Hollweg, Theobald von 5

      Bethune 63

      Bicknell, Lieutenant-Colonel Henry 252, 255

      Bidder, Lieutenant-Colonel Harold 283, 293

      Biefvillers 167, 194

      Bielefeld, Leutnant-der-Reserve August 91, 120, 266

      Binstead, Private Charles 66

      Birch Tree Wood 221–22

      Birch, Major-General Sir Noel 31

      Birmingham 155

      Bismarck, Otto von 4

      Blacker, Lieutenant-Colonel Stewart 188

      Blakey, Sergeant David 196

      Blenk, Musketier Karl 161

      Blighty Valley Cemetery 241

      Bloye, Bombardier Ben 47

      Bocker, Vizefeldwebel Hermann 99

      Bois Favière 315, 370

      Bois Français 249, 263–65, 273, 277

      Bönsel, Unteroffizier Walter 99

      Booth, Corporal George 240

      Borries, Generalleutnant Karl von xvii, 78, 80–81, 85–86, 137; on 1 July 322, 338, 342, 356–57; assessed 375–76

      Bosnia and Herzegovina 5

      Bottom Wood 277, 378

      Bowles, Major John 335

      Brachat, Unteroffizier Gustav 226

      Bram, Oberstleutnant Alfons Ritter von 204

      Branson, Lieutenant Douglas 71

      B
    rasenose College 3

      Bray 45, 50, 63, 91

      Breslau Support Trench 309

      Brew, Gunner James 46

      British Expeditionary Force (BEF) 4, 6, 10, 58

      Brooke, Rupert 265, 271

      Brookes, Private Squire 43, 51–52, 56, 61, 296

      Brown, Lance-Corporal Horace 318

      Brownlee, Private Edward 190

      Brownlow, Captain Cecil 49

      Brusilov, General Aleksei 76

      Brusilov Offensive 34, 76, 361

      Buckingham Palace 3

      Bucquoy 330, 337–38

      Bulgar Point mine and crater 262, 369

      Bull, Captain Wilfred 303

      Bundy, Lieutenant Alfred 233, 237

      Bunny Alley 273

      Burke, Private Pat 272

      Burkhardt, Generalmajor Hermann Ritter von xvii, 78

      Burma 15–16,

      Burnett, Corporal Clarence 310

      Bush, Lance-Corporal William 184

      Büsing, Leutnant-der-Reserve Georg 90, 92, 134, 335

      Busl, Offizierstellvertreter Joseph 287, 293

      Buxton, Lieutenant Jocelyn 118

      C

      Caesar, Julius 20

      Calais 63

      Cameron, Brigadier-General Archibald 197, 200

      Cameron, Private Donald 118

      Cameron, Brigadier-General Neville 232

      Campbell, Major-General Sir David 251, 260

      Capper, Lieutenant Derick 40–41, 57–58, 61, 111, 118, 304

      Carden Roe, Captain William 162

      Carlisle 184

      Carnoy 62–63, 274, 284, 289, 369

      Carnoy Valley 86–87, 247, 249, 261, 262, 265, 289

      Carnoy craters 301, 304, 307–308, 319

      Carnoy Military Cemetery 54, 308

      Carnoy–Montauban road 286, 301, 304, 306, 308

      Carrington, Major Charles 332

      Cartwright, Brigadier-General George 66

      Casino Point mine and crater 305–306, 369

      Castle, The 286

      Casualties: see entries within Index of military units

      Caterpillar Valley 26, 87, 284, 297–99, 304, 310–11, 314, 317–18

      Caterpillar Valley Wood 288, 297, 299, 310–11, 315

      Cather VC, Lieutenant Geoffrey 210

      Cattell, Corporal Douglas 159

      Cayley, Brigadier-General Douglas 164

      Cemetery Trench 262

      Châles de Beaulieu, Generalleutnant Martin xvii, 78, 81, 86–87, 92, 138; on 1 July 249, 286–87, 313–14, 316, 319; assessed 375–76, 380, 382–83, 387

      Champagne 24, 81

      Chantilly Conference 10–13, 361

      Charteris, Brigadier-General John xvi, 1, 17, 35, 57, 129, 135–36, 146

      Chateau Valvion 361, 376

      Chipilly 61

      Clifton College 3

      Cloudsdale, Private Frank 274

      Coates, Orderly Sergeant Harry 337

      Codrington, Staff Captain Geoffrey 65

      Cole, Sergeant William 239

      Collet, Unteroffizier Peter 74, 98

      Collins, Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel Robert 251

      Collis-Browne, Captain John 117–18

      Colyer, Lieutenant William 69, 71, 163

      Combles 25, 26, 113, 381, 383

      Compton, Brigadier-General Charles 184

      Congreve VC, Lieutenant-General Sir Walter xvi, 72, 112, 135; on 1 July 284, 286–89, 314, 316–17, 319–20; assessed 366, 372, 374, 378, 380

      Conn, Private Albert 265

      Connaught Cemetery 186, 195–96

      Contalmaison 28–29, 31, 84, 91, 108; on 1 July 211–12 222, 228, 232–33, 278, 297, 371, 373; assessed 378; see also Fricourt–Contalmaison road

      Contay 63

      Conyers, Rifleman Frederick 117

      Conzelmann, Leutnant-der-Reserve Friedrich 102, 170

      Cook, Sergeant Arthur 169

      Coom, Private Colin 46, 50, 52, 59

      Coppard, Corporal George 57, 71

      Corbett, Private William 55, 219, 224

      Cornes, Captain Hugh 318

      Courcelette 104, 389

      Cousins, Lance-Corporal John 43–44, 301–304

      Crawley ridge 272

      Croft, Brigadier-General Henry 59, 117

      Crook, Private Wilfred 71, 160

      Crosbie, Brigadier-General James 163

      Crozier, Lieutenant-Colonel Frank 60, 67, 72, 138, 191, 195

      Crucifix Trench 259–60, 275

      Curlu 32, 134, 363–64, 375, 380, 382–83

      Currie, Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur 250

      D

      Damon, Private Alfred 172, 173

      Dantzig Alley (North) 262, 268, 272

      Dantzig Alley (South) 273

      Dantzig Alley British Cemetery 256, 302

      Danzig 75

      Davies, Major-General Francis 17

      Day, Private Walter 164

      de Lisle, Major-General Beauvoir 126, 146, 162, 164–65

      Delville Wood 297

      Demmel, Leutnant-der-Reserve Franz 103

      Devennie, Private James 193

      Deverell, Brigadier-General Cyril 261, 263, 265

      Devonshire Cemetery 265

      Dickens, Major Cedric 336–37

      Dickens, Charles 337

      Dickins, Lieutenant-Colonel Vernon 337

      Dickinson, Lieutenant Ambrose 225

      Dirr, Unteroffizier Matthias 100

      Dixon, Lieutenant Norman 62

      Dobbie, Major William 132

      Dompierre 380

      Donaghy, Private Jim 193–94

      Doullens 63

      Downman, Lieutenant Theodore 349–50

      Drake-Brockman, Major Guy 274

      Dublin Redoubt 284, 288

      Dublin Trench 289, 291, 294, 300

      Dunedin 391

      Dunn, Private Harold 300

      Durrant, Corporal Arthur 61, 160

      Dyke, Private Edward 225

      E

      Easton, Private Thomas 58, 227–28

      Ebbetts, Corporal Roland 336

      Eberle, Reservist Christian 93

      Edward VII, King 3–4, 339

      Egeren, Gefreiter Hugo van 342

      Egypt 7 141 212 324

      Eiser, Feldwebel Karl 91, 93, 108, 113, 115, 120, 258, 267, 278

      Ellis, Private Bert 160

      Elstob VC, Captain Wilfrith 55

      Ely, Captain Denis 275

      Englebelmer 197–99

      England, Private Arthur 46, 51, 54, 60, 62, 117, 119

      Estrées 363, 380–82, 385

      Euston Road Military Cemetery 171

      Evans, Lieutenant Alfred 48

      Evans, Lieutenant Samuel 345

      Eversmann, Infanterist Theodor 121

      F

      Falfemont Farm 289

      Falkenhayn, General-der-Infanterie Erich von xi, xvii, 14–15, 75–77, 80, 106–107, 136; on 1 July and assessed 267, 380–81, 383–87, 389

      Farrer, Private John 184

      Fay 380, 384

      Fayolle, General Marie-Emile xviii, 18, 24, 26, 32, 39, 363, 380–81, 384

      Fell, Brigadier-General Robert 270

      Fellows, Corporal Harry 261

      Fenton, Captain George 66

      Festubert, Battle of 7

      Fickendey, Vizefeldwebel Albert 84

      Fiedel, Leutnant Paul 74, 103, 227

      Fife, Lieutenant-Colonel Ronald 256, 270

      Fischer, Reservist 154

      Fischer, Schütze Christian 217, 238, 240–42

      Fisher, Sergeant Alex 41, 261

      Fisher, Lance-Corporal Edward 305

      Flanders 11, 20, 26

      Flavel, Corporal Thomas 47

      Fleetwood, Private Robert 294

      Foaden, Lance-Corporal John 336

      Foch, General Ferdinand xviii, 13, 24, 29, 32, 39

      Foncquevillers 63 322 324

      Foncquevillers Military Cemetery 348, 355

      Foncquevillers–Gommecourt road 343–45, 354

      Forceville 67

      Forster, Captain John 229

      Forstner
    , Hauptmann Kurt Freiherr von 330

      Fort Douamont 14

      Foulkes, Colonel Charles 304

      Frank, Private Thomas 57, 293

      Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria 5

      Fraser, Sergeant Alexander 151

      Fraser-Harris, Second-Lieutenant Alfred 295

      Fraser-Tytler, Lieutenant-Colonel Neil 110–11, 118

      French, Field Marshal Sir John 3, 10, 19

      Frick, Leutnant-der-Landwehr Alfred 228

      Fricourt xvi–xvii, 26, 29, 42, 48, 61–62, 64, 72, 77–78, 80, 91–93, 95–97, 106; in bombardment 113–16, 125, 127–28, 134, 137; on 1 July 246–47, 249–53, 255–59, 263, 266–74, 276–79, 281, 288, 314, 316, 357; assessed 361, 363–64, 366–71, 373–74, 377–79, 381–87; see also Fricourt–Mametz salient

      Fricourt Farm 249, 259–60

      Fricourt New Military Cemetery 270

      Fricourt–Mametz salient 78, 137, 246–47, 250, 252–55, 261, 267, 279, 281, 357, 374; see also Hill 110, Mametz–Montauban ridge, Fricourt and Mametz

      Fricourt Soldatenfriedhof 281

      Fricourt Spur 20; on 1 July 212, 215, 218, 220–22, 231, 233, 249, 251, 257–60, 266–68, 275–77, 279; assessed 361, 383

      Fricourt Wood 247, 262, 273, 276

      Fricourt–Contalmaison road 259–60, 275–76

      Frisch, Vizefeldwebel Georg 74, 101

      Frise 380

      Fritz Trench 268, 272

      Fuller, Private Sydney 313

      G

      Gaffiken, Major George 191

      Galicia 76, 106, 137

      Gallipoli 41, 56, 141, 143

      Garde Stellung 335–36

      Garrand, Driver Charles 54

      Geiger, Leutnant-der-Reserve Emil 114, 170

      Geiger, Leutnant-der-Reserve Wilhelm 115, 120

      George V, King 4, 10, 13, 210, 339, 355

      German Tambour, The 253; see separately Tambour, The

      Gerster, Leutnant-der-Reserve Matthaus 79, 90–91, 96–97, 113–16, 120–22, 127, 130, 133–34, 140, 147–48, 200

      Gibbon, Major John 147

      Gibbs, Major Alfred 117, 182

      Gibbs, Philip 2, 16, 246–47

      Gillon, Captain Stair 162

      Ginchy 31, 113, 381, 383

      Ginchy–Bazentin-le-Grand ridge 26

      Girdwood, Major Austin 178, 199

      Givenchy, Battle of 7

      Glasgow 209

      Glasgow, Brigadier-General William 118, 251, 269–70, 369

      Glatz Redoubt 284, 290, 292

      Glenn, Lance-Corporal James 159

      Glory Hole, The 53–54, 97, 230

      Glover, Second-Lieutenant George 154

      Goat Redoubt 180, 187

      Godley, Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander 16

      Goebel, Lance-Corporal Richard 302

      Goebelbecker, Grenadier Emil 102, 264, 315

      Gommecourt xvi–xvii, 20, 27–29, 42, 49, 77–78, 92, 97; in bombardment 112, 115–16, 127, 134, 137; on 1 July 250, 321–22, 324–27, 329, 333–36, 338, 342–44, 352, 355–57; assessed 359, 361–65, 368, 370, 375–76, 382, 387, 389

     


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