Gwyn, John: Military Memoirs, 125
Gwynn-Vaughan, Helen, 350–2
Gwynne, Llewellyn Henry, Bishop of Khartoum, 255
Hackett, General Sir John, 497
Haig, Dorothy, Countess (née Vivian), 593
Haig, Field Marshal Douglas, 1st Earl, 76, 470, 532, 593
hair: length and style, 465–9, 471
halberds, 58
Haldane, Richard Burdon, Viscount, 108, 112, 173, 383; Committee (1923), 208
Haldimand, Frederick, 323
Hale, Alfred M., 319, 463
Hales, Sir Edward, 133
half-pikes, 58
Halkett, Major General Sir Colin, 336, 338
Hall, WO2 Mike, 486
Hamilton, Alexander Hanilton Douglas, 10th Duke of, 39
Hamilton, Major General Hubert, 85
Hamilton, General Sir Ian, 196
Hamilton, Colonel Richard, 136
Hamley, General Edward, 447
Hamm, Johann Valentin: ‘Milanollo’ (march), 481
Hammond, Drummer John, 277
Hammond, T.J., 298
Hanbury-Sparrow, Lieut. Colonel Alan, 256, 413
Handcock, Henry, 163, 164
Hanover, 336, 338
Harcomb, John, 307
Harding, Sir Alan (‘John’), 108–9
Hardinge, Field Marshal Henry, 1st Viscount, 536
Hardy, Revd E.J., 250, 258
Hardy, Private (of 73rd Foot), 304
Hardy, Theodore Bayley, VC, 257
Hare, Francis, Bishop of Chichester, 237
Harford, Captain Charles, 445
Harris, Abraham (born Bevistein), 280–1
Harris, Rifleman Benjamin, xxiv, 178, 270, 293–4, 299
Harrison, Sergeant Robert, 96
Harry, Prince, 15–16
Hart, Major General Arthur FitzRoy, 170
Hart, Sir Basil Liddell, 45
Hart, Henry George, 170
Hart, Mary (née Synnot), 170
Hart-Synnot, Major Arthur Henry Seton, 170
Hart’s Army List, 170
Hastings, Sir Max, 47
Havelock, Major General Sir Henry, 545
Hawksmoor, Nicholas, 54, 501, 521
Hawley, Lieut. General Henry (‘Hangman’), 11
Hawthorne, Bugler Robert, VC, 484
Hay, Colonel Richardson Drummond see Drummond Hay, Colonel Richardson
Hay, Lord John, 349
Haydn, Joseph, 477
Healey, Denis, Baron, 32
Hearts of Midlothian Football Club, 190
Heath, Edward, 32
Heber Percy see Percy, Lieut. Colonel A.G.W.
Heber Help for Heroes (charity), xxvii, 602
Hemmington, Sergeant (30th Foot), 583
Henderson, Arthur, 29
Henderson, James, 152
Hennell, George, 152
Henry VIII, King, 54
Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, Brigadier-General John, 28
Heptune, Captain (of 49th Regiment), 151
Herbert, Sir A.P., 392
Herbert, Colonel (of 75th Foot), 489
Hermon, Lieut. Colonel Edward, 202, 204–5
Hervilly, Comte d’, 329
Heseltine, Michael, 33
Hesse-Kassell: soldiers from (Hessians), 321–2
Hibbert, Staff Sergeant Susan, 356
Hibernian Society, 275
Higgins, Thomas, 270
Hill, Major John, 403
Hill, Lieut. Colonel (of 32nd Foot), 308
Hill, Lieut. (of 58th Regiment), 445
Hill, General Rowland, 1st Viscount, 41
Hillbrook, Dr Wallace, 187
Hills, Stuart, 216–18
Hindustani language: borrowed words, 457–60
Hitchbone, Lieut. Thomas, 177
Hodge, Lieut. Colonel Edward Cooper, 149
Hodges, Corporal Fred, 319, 387
Hodgson, Thomas, 295
Hogan, George, 65
Hogarth, Corporal ‘H’., 90
Holland, John, 277
Holles, Denzil, 50
Hollins, Colonel, 84
Hollis, Sergeant Major Stan, VC, 587
Holmes, Dame Kelly, 582
Holmes, Private Percy, 386
Holmes, Major General William, 109
Holms, John, 511
Home, Lieut. Duncan, VC, 484
homosexuality, 176, 588–92
Honeywood, General Philip, 364
Honourable Artillery Company, 51
Hoon, Geoff, 435
Hopton, Sir Ralph, 93–4
Hore-Belisha, Leslie (later Baron), 210
Horner, Edward, 200
Horse Guards, Whitehall: as army’s HQ, 22
horses: for officers, 558–9
Houlding, John A., 168, 170, 304
housing and billeting, 499–502, 504, 508, 512–13
Houx de Vioménil, Comte Charles du, 329
Howard, Michael Francis, 48
Howard, Captain Sir Philip, 129
Howard, Lieutenant General Thomas, 365
Howe, Brigadier General George Augustus, 3rd Viscount, 466
Howe, General William, 5th Viscount, 36–7, 148, 151, 168–9
Huffer, Donald Breeze Mendham, 162
Hughes, Revd Frederick Llewellyn: The Chaplains in the Grand Assault, 259
Huguenots, 133, 168, 324–7
Humières, Marshal Louis de Crevant, duc d’, 136
Hunt, Henry (‘Orator’), 103
Hunter, Charles, 105
Hunter, Private William, 281–2
Hunter-Weston, Lieut. General Sir Aylmer, 30
hussars, 370
Hutchison, Lieut. Colonel Graham Seton, 202
Illustrated London News, 3
Imjin River, Korea, 412, 452
Imperial General Staff: instituted, 184
impressment, 302–8; see also Press Acts
Inchiquin, William O’Brien, 2nd Earl of, 127
India: barracks and cantonments, 520; borrowed words, 458–60; drinking in, 537; freemasonry in, 580; and hot-weather shootings, 308; regiments serve in, 376–7; women and sex in, 584–6; see also East India Company
Indian Army, 324
Indian Mutiny (1857–8): and troop shortage, 376
infantry: battalion composition, 59–60; fighting quality of soldiers, 391–3; given regional titles, 291; proposed corps of, 390; ranks and designations, 80; and rebadging (reallocation of men), 387–9, 393–4, 410; recruitment falls, 391; see also Army units: INFANTRY
Infantry Reinforcements Training Depot, 405
Infantry Training Centre, Catterick, 426, 487
Ingle, Lieut. Colonel (of Middlesex Regiment), 281
Ingolby, Lieut. Roger, 187
Inkster, Marjorie, 354
Inns of Court, 191, 195–6
Iraq: invasion (2003), 44; reserve forces in, 89
Ireland: army role in, 42–3; Catholic serving soldiers, 243–7; Civil War (1649–53), 5; in East India Company forces, 246; and Home Rule, 42; House of Commons, 39; James II in, 136; landed society, 160; memorial park near Messines, 389–90; numbers serving, 375–6; officers from, 121–4; regimental establishment, 121; regiments disbanded (1922), 390; service in foreign armies, 126; soldiers’ behaviour, 246–7; union with England (1800), 121
Irish Peace Park, near Messines, 389
Irish Republican Army (IRA), xxviii
Irwin, Lieut. General Sir Alistair, 432–6
Irwin, Lieut. Colonel A.P.B., 401
Isabella, Queen of Spain, 40
Isandlwana, battle of (1879), 445, 484
Jack, Brigadier General James, 196, 202, 401, 580
Jack Tar (sailor’s name), 4
Jackson, John, 66–7
Jackson, General Sir Mike, 223, 228, 431–2, 436
Jackson, Sergeant Thomas, 290
Jacob, General Sir Claude, 53
Jacobite invasions (1715, 1745), 100
jäger units, 323
James II, King (earlier Duke of Yo
rk): admires Louis XIV, 54; and Arabella Churchill, 8; army appointments, 136; Catholicism, 132–4; and commanders of brigades, 52; and control of army, 20; defection of army, 21, 135; deposed, 135; fights in Civil War, 11; in Ireland, 136; and legislature’s connection with army, 24–5; and Piercy Kirke, 132; size of army, 94, 137
Janvrin, Robin, 19
Jary, Sidney, 220–1
Jeffrey, Keith, 122
Jeffreys, Major ‘Ma’, 271
Jeffries, Marine Colonel John, 171
Jena-Auerstadt, battle of (1806), 335
Jenkins, Gwyn Harries, 25
Jensen, Louise, 308
Jesser-Davis, Captain C.E., 316
Jews: army service, 254; chaplains, 254; in Pioneer Corps, 346; in yeomanry, 107
Joass, Captain Alexander, 144
John IV, King of Portugal, 7
John, King, 54
Johnston, Brian, 363
Jonas, Private William, 315
Jones, Major Charles: The Regimental Companion, 81
Jones, Charles, 72
Jones, David: In Parenthesis, 590
Jones, Ensign (31st Regiment), 445
Jones, Lieut. Col. H., VC, xvii
Jones, Private (of 16th Lancers), xxi
Jones, Private (of KOSB), 391–2
Joyce, Major Eric, 45–7
Joynson-Hicks, William (later 1st Viscount Brentford; ‘Jix’), 314
junior leaders units, 283
Jupe, Sergeant Adolphus (‘Dolph’), xvi, 384
Kander, Francis, 331
Karno, Fred, 457
Keegan, Sir John, 226
Keenan, Private (of 95th Foot), 448
Keir, Lieut. General Sir John, 49, 207–8
Kellett, Lieut. Colonel Orlando Edward (‘Flash’), 29–30, 217
Kelly, Father (chaplain), 241
Kelly, Lieut. (of 40th Regiment), 247
Kempt, General Sir James, 161, 400
Kendall, Kenneth, 363
Kennedy, Lieut. Colonel, 203
Kennedy, Geoffrey Studdert (‘Woodbine Willie’), 257
Kennedy, Captain Lord Hugh, 213
Kennedy, J.R., 209–10
Kenny, Lieut. Henry, 150
Kent, Field Marshal Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of, 12, 468–9
Kenyon, David, 371
Kerby, William, 290
Kerr, Major General Lord Mark, 269
Kersh, Guardsman Gerald, xvii, 213–14
Key, Revd Thomas Milward, 236
Kidston, Lieut. Colonel George, 417
king see monarch
King, Rifleman Bernard Wiliam, 256
King, Captain Richard, 56
Kinglake, Alexander William, 499
King’s Mountain, battle of (1780), 408
Kingsley, Quartermaster John Foster, 72
kingsman (rank), 69
Kinloch, Lieut. Charles, 147
Kipling, John (Rudyard’s son), 193
Kipling, Rudyard: xix, 378, 580, 598; The Absent Minded Beggar, 107; Barrack Room Ballads, 3; Danny Deever, 537; ‘The Drums of the Fore and Aft’ (story), 482
Kirke, Charles, 283, 582
Kirke, Lieut. General Percy (or Piercy), 131–2, 136–8, 376
Kirke, Lieut. General Percy (son), 138
Kirkland, Colour Sergeant (of 80th Regiment), 447
Kirkland, Sergeant Major (of 39th Regiment), 154
Kitchener, Field Marshal Horatio Herbert, 1st Earl: Churchill criticises, 44–5; freemasonry, 580; instructions to Sir John French, 319; and no-prisoners policy in Boer War, 342; and Prince of Wales’s army service, 14; raises New Armies in First World War, 188, 312; and reducing venereal disease, 586
Kleinstuber, Sergeant-Major W.G. (of Cameronians), 489
Kneller Hall see Royal Military School of Music
Knight, Ian, 484
Knollys, Francis, 1st Viscount, 18
Knott, Lieut. Colonel Thomas, 187
Korean War (1950–3), 222, 262, 412, 452
Krauel von Zizkaberg, David, 159
La Boissanade, Samuel de Pechels, Seigneur de, 326
Lacy, Franz Moritz, Graf von, 126
Laidlaw, Piper Daniel, VC, 485
Laing’s Neck, battle of (1881), 444
Lambert, Lieut. George, 177–8
lance corporals, 68
lance sergeants, 68
lancers, 370–1
landed gentry, 160–1
Landon, Major General J.H.S., 271
language, military, 454–65
Lanier, John, 137
Lascelles, Sir Alan (‘Tommy’), 19
Lascelles, Lieut. Colonel (Worcesters), 85
‘Last Post’ (bugle call), 491, 494, 528
Lawrence, Sergeant William, 240, 444
Layton, Leslie, 202
Leake, John, 540
Leaney, A.R.C., 260
Le Cateau, battle of (1914), 84
Lechmere, Edmund, 98
Lechmere, Colonel Nicholas, 97–8
Lee, Lieut. Herbert, 185
Leeds, Drummer John, 484
Leete, Alfred, 312
Leighton, Frederic, Baron, 188
Le Marchant, Major General John Gaspard, 157–8
Lennox, Colonel Charles (later 4th Duke of Richmond), 564
Lennox, Lieut. Colonel Lord George, 138, 364
Leon, Cornet Baron, 370
Lernon, Désiré, 331
L’Estrange, Lieut. Colonel Guy, 103–4
Le Vesconte, Milly, 355
Lewis, Drummer (30th Foot), 583
Lewis, Dr Julian, 34
Lewis, Captain Rowland, 150
Liardet, Major General Claude, 110
Lichfield, Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of, 363
Liddell Hart, Basil see Hart, Sir Basil
Liddell lieutenant generals, 51
lieutenants, 50
light companies (infantry), 59–60
light dragoons, 370
light infantry, 367
Ligonier, Edward, 2nd Earl, 327
Ligonier, Field Marsh al Louis Jean, 1st Earl, 12, 326
Lillie, Major Frederick, 187
Lindam, Major Ole, 339
Lindsay, Martin, 391, 398, 402
Linklater, Private Eric, 206
Liu Dien Chen, First Class Ganger, 345
Lively, RSM Bernard, 486
Livermore, Bernard, 411
Liverpool Pals (1914), 93
Llewellen-Palmer, Tim, 415
Llewellyn, Ensign (of KGL), 339
Lloyd, Captain Thomas, 563
Lloyd-Jones, Captain John, 188
logistics: and quartermasters, 75–6
London: Trained bands, 91–2; volunteer units, 101
London Gazette, 510–11
Longbon, Drummer Philip, 510
Longford, Brigadier General Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of, 108
Longmoor Military Railway, 512
Longmore, Colonel John, 394
Lord, Sergeant Major Jackie, 224
Lords, House of: members serve in World Wars, 28
lords lieutenant, 112–13
Losson, Private, xix
Lough, Colonel (of Whittington Baracks, Lichfield), 573
Louis XIV, King of France, 54, 133–5
Lovat, Simon Fraser, 17th Baron, 485
‘Love farewell’ (song), 493
Lowry, Robert William, 10
loyalty: to comrades, 406–13
Lucas, William, 597
Lucknow: siege and relief of (1857), 274–5, 367–8
Lucy, Corporal Denis, 197, 297
Lucy, Lieut. John, 197, 201, 297, 401, 515, 531
Luddites, 103
Lukowiak, Ken, xvii–xviii, 33
Lumley, Lieut. General Henry, 237
Lumley, Joanna, 347
Lyttelton, Humphrey, 363
Maastricht, siege of (1673), 131
Mabbott, Regimental Sergeant Major (12th
Lancers), 416
Manningham, Colonel Coote: Regulations for the Rifle Corps, xxiv, 308, 414
Manton, Joe, 564
Manual of Military Law: on billeting, 501; on discipline, 21; on officer behaviour, 175; on quartermasters, 73
Margesson, David, 390
Markham, Francis, 473
Marlborough, dukes of, 105
Marlborough, George Spencer, 4th Duke of, 35
Marlborough, John Churchill, 1st Duke of: at Sedgemoor, 132; behaviour in battle, 237; on brevet promotions, 84; and chaplains, 237; commissioned in 1st Guards, 8, 130; commissions officers, 22; and development of army, xxiii, 244; earldom, 136; employs foreign troops, 324; and engineers, 56; and fall of James II, 134; impregnates Barbara Villiers, 131; losses at the Schellenberg, 410; professionalism, 131; promotes Rowe, 52; rise to prominence, 137
Marlborough Lines, near Andover, 71
Marlborough, Sarah, Duchess of, 134, 464
marriage, 583, 593–600; breakdowns, 262
Marsden-Smedley, George, 186
Marsh, Corporal Steve, 90
Marshall, Second Lieut. Douglas, 189
Marshall-Cornwall, James, 311
Martin, Lieut. Charles, 478
Martin, Private (of Essex Regiment), 281
Martini-Henry rifle, 58
Mary II (Stuart), Queen, 11, 21, 134–5
Mary (of Teck), Queen of George V, 14
Massey, Lieut. William Glynne, 163
Masters, John, 397–8
Masterson, Sergeant Patrick, 245
Matania, Fortunino: The Last Absolution of the Munsters (painting), 234
Mates, Michael, 33
Mawhood, William, 166–7
Mawhood, Lieut. William (son), 166–7
Maxwell, General Ronald, 76
May, Major Tim, 105
Mayhew, Henry: London Labour and the London Poor, 584
Maynard, Lieut. Alfred, 187
Mays, Spike, xxii, xxvi, 210, 278, 415, 491, 516, 535, 536, 542, 547
Meadows-Taylor, Captain Philip, 593
Melvill, Lieut. Teignmouth, 445
Memoirs of a Sergeant (anon.), 300
McAlister, Colour Sergeant, 311
Macartney, Major General George, 364
McBean, Major General William, VC, 173
McCabe, Captain Bernard, 173, 178, 445–6
McCracken, Brigadier General (7th Infantry Brigade), 85
McCrae, Sir George, 190
McCreery, Lieut. Colonel Dick, 415–17
Macdonald, Major General Sir Hector (‘Fighting Mac’), 174–6
Macdonnell, Major General Archibald, 110
Macdonnell, General Sir James, 80–1
McFadden, CSM Richard, 315
McFie, Dugald, 421
McGill, Sergeant Willie, 297
McGrigor, Sir James, 518
McGuire, Ensign (of 100th Foot), 564
MacInnes, Colin, xvi
Macintosh, Charles, 104
Mackay, Hugh, 137