Wellington, Kitty, Duchess of (née Pakenham), 39, 167
Welsh, Richard, 348
Welton, Second Lieut. P.B., 195
Wentworth, Thomas, 5th Baron, 7
Wentzel, Lance Corporal Sven, 90
Werden, Lieutenant General Sir John, 135
Wesley, John: A Word in Season, or Advice to a Soldier, 238
West Indies: deserters and convicts in services, 303–4; drummers from, 475
Westminster, Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of, 106, 114
Weymouth, Thomas Thynne, 3rd Viscount (later 1st Marquess of Bath), 97–8
Wharton, Sergeant Nehemiah, 50
Wheatley, Ensign Edmund, 339–40
Wheatley, Eliza (née Brookes), 340
Wheeler, Major General Andrew, 81
Wheeler, General Sir Roger, 224
Wheeler, Sergeant William, 124, 240–1, 306, 330
Whiston, Surgeon-Major P.H., 554–5
White, Second Lieut. Peter, 391, 402
White Plains, battle of (1776), 148
Whitelaw, William, Viscount, 33
Whiteley, Brigadier John, MP, 29–30
Whitelock, Bulstrode, 5
Whittle, Lieut. (of Royals), 210
Widdrington, Ralph, 129
Wigram, Clive, 1st Baron, 18–19
wigs, 466–7
Wilkes, John, 99
William III (of Orange), King, 11, 21, 132, 134–7, 145, 325–6
William IV, King: naval service, 12–13
William, Prince (Duke of Cambridge), 15–16
Williams, Bandmaster (Grenadier Guards), 481
Williams, Major Dyson Brock, 189
Williams, Private Gavin, 553–4
Williams, CSM Jack, VC, 66
Williams, John (of Coldstream Guards), 510
Williams, Lance Corporal (60th Rifles), 205
Williams, Lieut. (of 84th Regiment), 177
Wilson, Major General Sir Archdale, 484
Wilson, Sir Arnold, 29
Wilson, Charles (later Baron Moran), 398
Wilson, Harold (later Baron), 32
Wilson, Field Marshal Sir Henry, 30, 100, 157, 282
Winchelsea, George William Finch-Hatton, 9th Earl of, 564
Winchester: Peninsular Barracks, 517–18
Winchester, Statute of (1285), 91
Windham, Lieut. Colonel Henry, 80
Windus, Lieut. Colonel Edward, xviii, 272, 287, 409–10
wives, 583, 593–5, 599–600
Wolf, Jean Frédéric, 331
Wolfe, Major General James, 11–12, 85, 152, 466, 498–9, 504, 597
Wolseley, Field Marshal Garnet, 1st Viscount: on barrack room damage, 561–2; daughter inherits title, 159; and paternalistic supervision of troops, 545; praises Pennefeather, 499; promotions and peerage, 165, 167; put up for brevet rank, 82; and wealthy officers, 180; and William Butler, 165
Wolverhampton Grammar School, 184
women: admitted to armed services, 350; combatant role, 357–8; disguise as men to enlist, 348–50; effect on male behaviour, 358; in First World War, 350–3; pregnancies, 352, 594; regimental, 598–9; in Second World War, 353–6; and sex, 351–2, 357–8, 584; see also marriage; prostitutes; wives
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), 350
Womens Royal Naval Service (WRNS), 350
Wonnacott, William and Emily, 498
Wood, Lance Corporal, xxiv
Wood, Anthony, 5
Wood, Field Marshal Evelyn, 252
Wood, Francis Derwent: The Boy David (statue), 368
Wood, Richard (later Baron Holderness), 29
Wood, Stephen, xxv
Woodford, Lieut. Colonel Alexander, 80–1
Woolwich see Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, xxvii
Wootton, Herbert, xxvi
Worcestershire: militia, 96–8
World War I (1914–18): army numbers, 183, 198, 271, 312; casualties, 119–20, 184–7, 221, 320; chaplains, 254–6, 259; commissions in, 183–203; homosexuality in, 590–1; Kitchener’s New Armies, 188–90, 195, 312–14; MPs serve in, 28–30; pioneer and labour units, 344; recruitment for, 271, 312–13, 316–20; under-age soldiers, 278–80; and venereal disease, 586–7; volunteers, 186–92, 312–13; women serve in, 350–3
World War II (1939–45): chaplains, 259–61; MP casualties, 29; women in, 353–6
Wren, Sir Christopher, 518
Wrigglesworth, Joseph, 152
Wright, Captain Chris, 595
Wright, Duncan, 239
Wyatt, James, 521
Wyndham, Horace, xx, xxvii, 251–2, 291, 525, 534, 548
Wyndham, Percy, 191, 581
Y Cadet programme, 208
Yates, Captain (of Royal Welch Fusiliers), 74–5
Yates, Cornet John (‘Joey’), 70
yeomanry, 102–8
Yeomen of the Guard, 439
Yeomen Warders, 439
Yetchinchen, Private Nicholas, 332
YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Association), 538
York and Albany, Prince Frederick Augustus, Duke of, 12, 18, 22, 80, 148–9, 236–7, 469, 564
Young, Brigadier Desmond, 205
Young, Lieut. Peter, xxii
young soldiers, 283–5; see also boy soldiers
Younger, George, 112
Zugbach, R.G.L. von, 224–6, 228–9
OTHER BOOKS BY RICHARD HOLMES
In order of publication
The English Civil War (with Brigadier Peter Young)
The Little Field Marshal: Sir John French
Soldiers (with John Keegan)
Firing Line
The Road to Sedan
Fatal Avenue
Riding the Retreat
War Walks
War Walks II
The Western Front
The Second World War in Photographs
The First World War in Photographs
Oxford Companion to Military History (general editor)
Battlefields of the Second World War
Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket
Wellington: The Iron Duke
Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front
In the Footsteps of Churchill
Dusty Warriors: Modern Soldiers at War
Marlborough: England’s Fragile Genius
Shots from the Front: The British Soldier 1914–18
Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750–1914
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