Bone, Algeria 9
Boomerang Redoubt 258, 259
Border Barricade 418
Borkum island, North Sea 13
Borthwick, Trooper Alex 315
Boué de Lapeyrère, Vice Admiral Augustin 9–10
Bourne, Major G. H. 318
Bouvet 33, 36, 38–40
Bowers, Company Quartermaster Sergeant Archie 431
Boxall, Captain Caryl 152
Boyden, Corporal Rex 381–82
Boyun 90
Bradshaw, Second Lieutenant Bertie 251
Braithwaite, Major General Walter 65, 109, 360–61, 397
Bramwell, Captain Charles 261
Brazier, Lieutenant Colonel Noel 315, 316
Breslau (light cruiser) 5, 9, 11, 12, 386
Bridges, Major General Sir William 48, 78, 99, 106, 107, 114, 186–88
Brighton Beach 79, 85
Britain
takes control of Egypt and Cyprus 4
and oil 4, 18
relationship with Turkey 4
entente with Russia and France (1904) 4
Turkish warships issue 8–9, 12
declares war on Germany (1914) 9, 10
declares war on Turkey 48
British Army
I Corps 397
VIII Corps 238, 259, 279, 283, 284–85, 367, 417, 431, 432, 459, 504
IX Corps 278, 280, 281, 330, 356, 357, 367, 368, 371, 408, 414
53rd Division 358, 368
158th Brigade 358–59
1st Herefordshire Regiment 404, 405, 406
159th Brigade 358–59, 394
4th Cheshire Regiment 359
4th Welsh Regiment 359
7th Cheshire Regiment 359
54th Division 359
162nd Brigade 361
1/4th Northamptonshire Regiment 407
163rd Brigade 359–60
1/5th Suffolk Regiment 360
2nd Division 397
2nd Mounted Division 370, 373, 378
1st Brigade, 1st Royal Gloucester Hussars 375
2nd Brigade, 1st West Somerset Yeomanry 415
4th Brigade, 1st County of London Yeomanry 373, 374, 376, 377
29th Division 24, 50–51, 69, 73, 120, 126, 138, 162, 166, 175, 205, 206, 210, 215, 216, 230–31, 238, 240, 244, 259, 287, 368, 369–70, 373, 378, 433, 438, 450, 453
1/87th Brigade, Border Regiment 129, 259
11th Brigade 69
86th Brigade 70, 132, 137, 138, 206, 243, 287
1/Lancashire Fusiliers 132–37, 153, 503
2/Royal Fusiliers 128–29
Royal Munster Fusiliers 72, 154, 219
1st Battalion 140, 148, 150, 155, 158, 159, 162, 165, 166, 167, 210, 263
X Company 149, 150
Y Company 152
Z Company 148, 149
87th Brigade 129, 206, 243
King’s Own Scottish Borderers (KOSB) 123, 127, 262
1st Battalion 121, 123–28, 240, 243, 259, 260, 263
88th Brigade 138, 154, 206, 209, 243, 284, 286
1/5th Royal Scots 205, 227, 228, 243, 250
1st Royal Newfoundland Regiment 393, 446, 447
2nd Hampshire Regiment 72, 140, 152, 153, 162, 163, 164, 250
Worcestershire Regiment 219
4th Battalion 138, 153, 243
Army Service Corps 393, 395
Royal Engineers, 2nd London Field Company 131
42nd Division 23, 50, 216, 238, 239, 244, 247, 248, 250, 432
125th Brigade 284, 287
1/5th Lancashire Fusiliers 216, 224
1/6th Lancashire Fusiliers 50, 225, 391
1/7th Lancashire Fusiliers 288, 418–19
126th Brigade, 1/9th Manchester Regiment 226, 289, 290
127th Brigade 244, 245, 284, 286, 287
1/5th Manchester Regiment 239
1/6th Manchester Regiment 224, 226, 239, 244, 285, 287, 288
1/7th Manchester Regiment 239, 241, 245, 248, 249, 250
1/8th Manchester Regiment 239
South Eastern Mounted Brigade
1st West Kent Yeomanry 418, 419, 420
Sussex Yeomanry 419
52nd Division 222, 236, 237, 238, 252, 253, 272, 273, 438
155th Brigade 267, 273
1/4th King’s Own Scottish Borders (KOSB) 269, 437
1/5th King’s Own Scottish Borders (KOSB) 267
156th Brigade 260, 262
1/4th Royal Scots 392
1/8th Scottish Rifles 260, 261, 262
157th Brigade 267, 269, 273
1/6th Highland Light Infantry 273
53rd Division, 159th Brigade 394
Essex Regiment, 1st Battalion 137, 138, 153
First Army 46
General Staff 63
Gloucestershire Regiment, 7th (Service) Battalion 319–20, 321
High Command 46, 66, 169
Inniskilling Fusiliers
1st Battalion 129
5th Battalion 346
North Staffordshire Regiment 321
6th Battalion 326
Royal Artillery 225
Royal Dublin Fusiliers 72, 162, 219, 354
1st Battalion 140–47, 149, 154, 155, 210, 262
Royal Field Artillery
147th Brigade
97th Battery 229, 230
368th Battery 256
460th Battery 225
Royal Fusiliers 132, 136, 137
Royal Garrison Artillery 36, 38, 189
Royal Horse Artillery, 15th Brigade, Y Battery 223
Sherwood Forester Regiment, 9th Battalion 332
South Lancashire Regiment 321
6th Battalion 324, 326
South Staffordshire Regiment, 7th Battalion 332
South Wales Borderers 263
2nd Battalion 129–30, 131
Territorial Army
53rd (Welsh) Division 275
54th (East Anglian) Division 275
Welsh Regiment, 8th (Service) Battalion (Pioneers) 319–20, 321
Wiltshire Regiment, 5th Battalion 326
Yeomanry Regiments 370
Yorkshire Regiment, 6th Battalion 333, 340
ill-equipped to fight at Gallipoli viii
size of 1
failure at V Beach 168–69
Helles attacks of 12-13 July 268–72
shortcomings 458–59
D-Day landings 460
British Empire 4, 18, 22, 50, 69, 223, 236, 431, 450, 453
casualty statistics 452
British Expeditionary Force (BEF) 1, 14, 63, 431, 436, 461
Brooke, Sub Lieutenant Rupert 53, 54, 55, 389, 454
Brookes, Corporal Fred 43, 196–97
Browne, Lieutenant Denis 54, 55, 247
Bruin, Private Cornelius Jean de (Dick Cooper) 52, 205–6, 227–28
Bulair Isthmus 60, 62, 65–66, 175, 176, 178, 179, 181, 276
Bulair Lines 13, 60, 61, 68
Bulair sector 283, 353
Bulgaria
independence 2
in the Balkan League 3
attacks Greece and Serbia (1913) 4
Kemal in 96
start of hostilities against 387
joins the Central Powers 411
and Turkish artillery 411
Bulgarian Army 387
Bulldog (destroyer) 334
Burge, Major Norman 390–91, 442, 445, 448, 449, 450
Burns, Corporal Daniel 348, 352
Burrows, Company Sergeant Major William 417
Buyuk Anafarta 83
Byng, Lieutenant General Sir Julian 278, 368, 413, 414
C
C Beach, Suvla 331, 345, 506
Cabinet 16, 237, 396, 401, 410, 412, 413
Caddy, Lieutenant James 423–24, 428
Cairo
ANZAC Corps in 49
‘Battle of the Wozzer’ 49
42nd Division train in 50
Caldwell, Major General Sir Charles 385, 397
Caledonia (hospital ship) 328, 329
Callwell, Charles Edward 436
&n
bsp; Camber harbour, Sedd el Bahr 28, 146, 157
Campbell, Sergeant 301–2
Campbell, Deputy Quartermaster General Walter 413, 414, 416, 441
Cape Tekke 137
Carden, Vice Admiral Sackville 15, 16, 19, 24, 26, 29
Carrington Smith, Lieutenant Colonel Herbert 140, 141, 152, 153, 157–58
Casey, Major Richard 114
Casson, Lieutenant Colonel Hugh 130
Caucasus mountains 14, 18, 19
Cayley, General 416
Cemm, Able Seaman Daniel 37–38, 40
Central Powers 2, 6, 7, 20, 411, 457, 458
CEO see Corps Expéditionnaire d’Orient
Chailak Dere 279, 303
Chanak (Çaanakale) 36, 37, 66, 206, 444, 503
Chapman, Private 190
Charing Cross railway station, London 397
Charlemagne 33, 36
Charles-Roux, Captain François 252
Chatham 345
Chelmer (destroyer) 196
Chessboard, the 181, 182, 183, 292, 308, 310, 313, 316, 317, 318, 505
Chitral Expedition (1895) 47
Chocolate Hill 280, 281, 283, 331, 345, 349, 350, 351, 355, 374, 375, 376, 506
Chunuk Bair 88, 89, 91, 93, 96, 97, 107, 109, 118, 190, 277, 279, 292, 305–8, 313, 319, 320, 323, 325, 326, 327, 456, 505
Churchill, Sir Winston
First Lord of the Admiralty viii, 8, 237
and Turkish warships issue 8–9, 457
attack on Turkish forts 13
on Jellicoe 17
a member of the War Council/Dardanelles Committee 17, 253
and Fisher 19, 457–58
forms the RND 52
loses position in the Admiralty 237, 397
Monash on 294
opposes evacuation 397–98
aims to remove Turkey from the war 457
responsibility for Gallipoli’s failure 460, 462
rebirth as a war leader in the Second World War 460
Clark, Midshipman Edwin 104
Clayton, Captain Harold 133, 135
Clifford, Corporal Godfrey 418, 419–20
Colne (destroyer) 78, 303
Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, London (later Friern Hospital) 57
Combined Operations Command 460
Committee of Imperial Defence 16, 46, 48
Committee of Union and Progress 2
Conqueror 14
Conservative Party 237
Constantinople (later Istanbul) 386, 401, 449, 456
British Naval Mission 4, 12
German Embassy 5
Russia aims to occupy 20–21
British Embassy 53, 388
German Military Mission 58
capture of 254
Contan, Sergeant 428
Cooke, Lieutenant Charles 393, 395
Cooper, A.E. 454–55
Cooper, Dick see Bruin, Private Cornelius Jean de
Cooper, Brigadier-General Richard Joshua 327–28
Corbet, Lieutenant 155
Cornwallis, HMS (pre-dreadnought) 130, 131–32, 143, 146, 152, 154, 157
Coronel, Battle of (1914) 14–15
Corps Expéditionnaire d’Orient (CEO) High Command 386
1st Division 51, 215–16, 239
1st (Métropolitaine) Brigade 51, 175, 205, 210
1st Régiment de Marche d’Afrique 51, 52, 257
Légion Étrangère (French Foreign Legion) 52, 205, 206, 228
175th Régiment 51, 208
1st Battalion 253, 255
3rd Battalion 51, 214, 218, 268
39th Régiment d’Artillerie 213, 240, 246, 255, 265, 386
Coloniale Brigade 51, 174, 210, 433
4th Régiment Mixte Coloniale 51
6th Régiment Mixte Coloniale 51, 170, 172, 173, 174, 255, 257
2nd Division 216, 239, 265, 387
3rd (Métropolitaine) Brigade, 176th Régiment 257
10th Division 387
1st Régiment du Génie 418, 438
8th Artillery Regiment 172
30th Regiment, 52nd Battery 211, 228, 266
military efficiency 51
training at Mudros 52
in First Battle of Krithia 208, 209
on the right flank at Helles viii, 206, 210, 216
Royal Navy support 211–12
ground regained in counter-attack 212
in Second Battle of Krithia 216–19
at Haricot Redoubt and Kereves Dere (21 June) 254–58
capture of the Quadrilateral 264–65
keen to remove remaining division and artillery 432–33
casualty statistics 453
re-occupation of Sedd el Bahr 456
Corrie, Captain 235
Cosgrove, Corporal William 165–66
Courtney’s Post 181, 191, 200, 422
Cowey, Lieutenant Robert 102
Cox, Brigadier General Vaughan 303
Crawford, Lieutenant Andrew 314–15
Crawley’s Crater 419
Cregan, Dr 395
Crewe, Marquess of 18
Crimean War (1853-6) 64, 66
Croly, Captain Arthur 116
Crookenden, Captain Arthur 359, 394
Cunningham, Major William 319, 320–21
Curzon, Lord 412
Cut, the 336, 506
Cyprus 4
D
D-Day landings (1944) 460–62
Daily Telegraph newspaper 234
Damakjelik Bair 303, 304, 323, 326, 378
Dardanelles Army 401, 402
Dardanelles Commission 396
Dardanelles Committee
previously the War Council 237
membership 237
discusses the campaign’s progress 253
sends out more divisions 253–54, 272
dismisses Hamilton 396
superceded by the War Committee 400
Dardanelles Narrows 19, 58, 62, 76, 386, 456, 503, 504
launch of attempt to force the Narrows (18 March 1915) 32–33
minefields 43, 45
Hamilton’s plan 68
Royal Navy’s scheme 399
Dardanelles Straits
Allies aim to control vii
entrance to 12, 13, 24, 28, 170
navy ordered to strike at Turkish forts 13
Carden’s plan 16, 19
attack across the canal launched 23
forts battered in 25 February attack 26
fighting at Sedd el Bahr and Kum Kale 27–29
chaotic withdrawal 29
howitzer fire 30–31, 35, 36, 43
plan for battle of 18 March 32–33
Carden replaced by de Robeck 32
Allied fleet passes into the Straits 33, 34, 35
French ships under pressure 37–38
fate of the Bouvet 38–40
Lord Nelson hit 40–41
Inflexible and Irresistible hit 41
withdrawal of Allied ships 41, 42
perceived threat of floating mines 41, 45
Ocean hit and abandoned 42
assessment of the battle 43–44
Haig’s view of the operation 46
physical dominance of 58
proposed renewed assault on 399–400, 412–13
potential U-boat usage 401, 413
Dardanos (Fort No.8) 27, 37
Davidson, Captain Alexander 130, 131–32
Davidson, Captain George 160, 164, 269–70, 392
Davies, Lieutenant General Sir Francis 284–85, 286
Davis, Lieutenant Harold 375
Dawnay, Major Guy 367
de la Touche, Captain Rageot 39
de Lisle, Major General Henry de Beauvoir 287, 368, 369, 373
de Robeck, Vice Admiral John 32, 36, 41, 45, 46, 399
De Tott’s Battery 67, 129, 130, 131, 206, 211
Dead Man’s Ridge 184, 313, 317, 318
Decauville light railway 438
Def
ence 11
Denham, Midshipman Henry 335
Denton, Major 87
Destroyer Hill 303
Dignam, Captain 192
diseases 230–31, 283
Dix, Commander Charles 80, 81, 82
Djemal Pasha (Ahmad Djemal) 3, 7
Dodecanese Islands 3
Dodge, Johnny 53
Dolan, Lance Sergeant Thomas 337
Dongola (hospital ship) 105
Doughty, Corporal Ralph 251, 271–72, 291
Doughty Wylie, Lieutenant Colonel Charles (Dick) 73, 158, 162–63, 164–65, 167–68, 454–55
Doughty Wylie, Lily 73
Douglas, Major General William 284
Drake-Brockman, Major Edmund 87
Dreadnought 15
Drewry, Midshipman George 71–72, 74, 147, 149, 151, 161
Drysdale, Lieutenant Donald 349–50
Dublin, HMS 27, 124
Duff, Lieutenant Patrick 225
Duke, Private Charles 105–6, 190, 298, 300–301
Duke of Edinburgh 11
E
Eades, Sergeant Cecil 221
East Mediterranean Fleet (British) 15
East Mudros Military Cemetery 389
Eastern Expeditionary Force 397
Eastern Front
munitions needed to feed Russian guns vii
and the Schlieffen Plan 1
Battle of Tannenberg 14
Eastern Mediterranean Forces (EMF) 413, 414, 416, 441
Eastern Mediterranean Squadron (EMS) (British) 63, 71
Eaton, Company Quartermaster Sergeant F.L. 338–39, 342, 346
Eden Palace Hotel, Cairo 49, 431
Edwards, Private A.H. 428, 429
Egerton, Major General Granville 273
Egypt
Britain takes control of (late 19th century) 4
ANZAC Corps deployed in 23, 24, 48–49, 87
Monro in 399
Cabinet fears effect on Egypt of acknowledging defeat 412
Ellis, Sergeant 317
Entente Powers 6, 7, 457
Enver Bey (Ismail Enver) 3, 6, 7, 12, 14, 18, 59, 189, 209
Eren Keui Bay 33, 41, 266, 503
Erin (dreadnought battleship) 8
Essad Pasha 178
Euphrates river expeditions (1915) 18
Euryalus, HMS 132, 133, 153
Evans, Private Sydney 259
Ewart, Lieutenant Gneeral Sir John 278
Ewing, Chaplain John 392
Ezine 60
F
Fahrettin Bey, Lieutenant Colonel 110
Faik, Captain 79, 83, 85, 86
Fanshawe, Major General Edward 368
Farm Plateau 326
Fasih, Second Lieutenant Mehmed 409, 410
Feizi Bey, Colonel 323, 353–54
Fenwick, Lieutenant Colonel Percival 103–4, 194
Feodosia 13
Ferrier, Corporal ‘Sid’ 383, 384
Fetherstonhaugh, Major Edwyn 146
Feuille, Lieutenant Henri 211, 217–18, 228, 266, 433–34
Fig Tree Spur 243
Fildes, Private Herbert 49–50, 91–92
Findlay, Major James 260–62
Fir Tree Spur 219, 258, 260, 262, 284