INDEX
Abadie, Colonel, [124], [126], [127]
Aisne, French attack upon the, [64]; victory, [234]
Alderman, Major, [251]
Allenby, General Sir Edmund, [2], [16], [20]
America breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany, [18]
Ancre, British advance on the, [5-8]
Antoine, General, [134], [156], [179]
Archibald, Lieutenant, [67]
Arras, [9], [10], [11], [22], [30]
Arras, battle of: preparations preceding the battle, [20-24]; attack of the Seventh Corps, [25-30]; capture of Neuville Vitasse, [27]; and of the Ibex Trench, [28]; general advance of the Sixth Corps, [30-36]; attack of the Seventeenth Corps, [36-41]; Canadian success at Vimy Ridge, [41-43]; review of first day's fighting, [43-44]; capture of Monchy, [46-48]; practical results of battle, [56]; work of the airmen, [57]; fight of the Australians at Bullecourt and Lagnicourt, [58-61]; object of battle attained, [62]; stand by the Middlesex and Argylls, [66-67]; Fifteenth Division capture Guémappe, [68-69]; storming of Gavrelle, [69-70]; H.A.C. at Gavrelle, [74-76]; loss of Fresnoy, [83-84]; capture of Rœux, [84-85]; capture of Bullecourt, [90-92]
Arras-Soissons front, German retreat on, [8-16]
Babington, General Sir J., [108], [188]
Bagdad, British enter, [17]
Baillescourt Farm, action at, [6]
Bainbridge, General Sir E., [99]
Ball, Captain Albert, [57]
Bapaume occupied, [10]
Basset, M. Serge, [117]
Battye, Colonel, [263]
Bavaria, Prince Rupprecht of, [98]
Bean, Mr., Australian chronicler, quoted, [91], [175], [220]
Beaumont Hamel, [3], [5], [37]
Bellewarde Ridge, [151]
Belsham, Captain, [67]
Benzeery, Lieutenant, [295]
Berners, Brigadier-General, [85]
Bird wood, General Sir William, [4]
Bols, General Sir L., [109]
Bourlon, [238], [257], [258], [261], [262], [263], [264], [265], [269], [282], [283], [289], [290], [292]
Bourlon Wood, [251], [254], [255], [256], [257], [258], [259], [260], [264], [267], [289], [296]
Bowell, Lieutenant, D.S.O., [119]
Bradford, General, [267]
Braithwaite, General, [243], [245]
British extend their front in France, [1]
British Armies, general disposition of, in beginning of 1917, [2]
Broodseinde, [195], [206], [211], [212], [222]
Brown, Brigadier-General, [99]
Brusiloff, General, [132]
Bullecourt, [11], [58], [87], [90-92], [237], [239], [252]
Burstall, General, [41]
Byng, General Sir Julian, [21], [115], [238], [255], [285], [296], [297], [298]
Cambrai, [192], [237], [238], [247], [248], [251], [253], [255]
Cambrai, battle of: Tanks en 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]
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]
Evans, Private Ellis H., [144]
Fairbrass, Sergeant, [291]
Fanshawe, General Sir E. A., [4], [5], [183], [196]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Norman, Colonel, [144]
Nugent, General, [102]
O'Brien, Lieutenant, [74]
Oppy, [54], [65], [73], [76], [81], [117]
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—
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]
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]
Grenadier, [139], [140], [141], [264], [266], [284], [285], [286]
Irish, [138], [139], [140], [141], [215], [260], [267], [284]
Scots, [139], [140], [264], [266]
Infantry—
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, [31], [66], [67], [193], [198], [261]
Bedford, [26], [74], [75], [160], [161]
Berkshire, [12], [146], [147], [174], [250], [273], [293], [295]
Black Watch, [31], [92], [146], [147], [199]
Border, [15], [92], [100], [104], [113], [131], [208], [228], [279]
Buffs (East Kent), [79], [251], [275]
Cambridge, [146], [147], [199]
Cameron Highlanders, [159], [185]
Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), [35]
Cheshire, [14], [100], [106], [146], [147], [160], [161], [191], [225]
Connaught Rangers, [103], [170], [240]
Devon, [84], [92], [208], [209]
Dublin Fusiliers, [85], [168], [169], [240]
Duke of Cornwall's, [70], [83], [175], [209]
Durham Light Infantry, [82], [164], [175], [189], [247]
East Lancashire, [40], [85], [88], [203], [219]
East Surrey, [31], [83], [154], [251], [263], [264], [275]
Essex, [34], [40], [50], [51], [77], [216], [224], [250], [273], [287], [291]
Gloucester, [12], [83], [174], [191], [204], [225]
Gordon Highlanders, [31], [32], [33], [88], [159], [208], [228]
Hampshire, [40], [50], [51], [85], [104], [189], [199], [203], [216], [241]
Highland Light Infantry, [12], [13], [15], [35], [131], [186], [194], [198], [263], [294]
Inniskilling Fusiliers, [102], [103], [168], [169], [170], [279]
King's Liverpool, [148], [164], [166], [185]
King's Own Royal Lancaster, [33], [40], [47], [148], [149], [184], [263], [264], [272]
King's Own Scottish Borderers, [35], [209]
King's Royal Rifles, [14], [29], [48], [77], [124], [125], [126], [127], [128], [129], [166], [181], [189], [190], [194], [210], [249], [250], [277], [285], [287], [293], [294]
Lancashire Fusiliers, [40], [81], [100], [131], [148], [160], [161], [177], [184], [219], [225], [249], [279]
Leicester, [116], [118], [154], [246]
Leinster, [55], [102], [103], [170]
Lincoln, [104], [105], [116], [118], [210], [223]
Liverpool, [26], [27], [32], [152], [183], [194], [198], [272]
Liverpool Scottish, [272]
London Rifle Brigade, [80]
London Irish, [296]
2nd London, [80], [183], [184], [291]
3rd London, [27]
4th London, [184]
8th London, [183]
9th London (Queen Victoria Rifles), [27], [28], [80]
15th London (Civil Service), [296], [297]
15th London (Queen's Westminsters), [80], [257], [291]
15th London (Blackheath), [296]
15th London (Poplar), [296]
15th London (Post Office Rifles), [291]
15th London (St. Pancras), [296]
Manchester, [12], [13], [27], [152], [153], [219], [228]
Middlesex, [27], [28], [31], [55], [66], [67], [78], [86], [88], [169], [193], [194], [204], [210], [249], [250], [261], [262], [276], [278], [279], [280], [291], [292]
Munster Fusiliers, [103], [104], [231], [240]
Norfolk, [77], [224], [246], [250], [274]
Northampton, [55], [124], [127], [129], [152], [154], [159], [273]
North Lancashire, [100], [125], [148], [160], [184]
North Staffordshire, [8], [118], [119], [154], [191]
Northumberland Fusiliers, [39], [49], [53], [89], [131], [189], [209], [224]
Oxford and Bucks, [29], [77], [166], [174], [250], [294]
Queen's (West Surrey), [31], [154], [161], [194], [198], [208], [228], [251], [276]
Rifle Brigade, [40], [48], [55], [77], [85], [109], [154], [166], [181], [189], [210], [216], [255], [277]
Royal Fusiliers, [29], [32], [46], [66], [74], [75], [109], [176], [189], [210], [249], [250], [274], [279], [293], [294], [295]
Royal Irish Fusiliers, [102], [103], [168], [169], [170], [171], [172], [241]
Royal Irish Rifles, [99], [100], [102], [104], [160], [161], [168], [169], [172]
Royal Scots, [33], [78], [186]
Royal Scots Fusiliers, [31], [152], [186]
Royal West Kent, [190], [209], [228], [251]
Seaforth Highlanders, [38], [39], [80], [81], [186], [203]
Sherwood Foresters, [14], [70], [104], [105], [118], [119], [152], [159], [190], [225], [246]
Shropshire, [33], [166], [175], [176]
Somerset Light Infantry, [40], [80], [175], [203], [210]
South Lancashire, [100], [113], [184], [185], [272], [273]
South Staffordshire, [8], [104], [117], [208], [228], [291]
South Wales Borderers, [106], [113], [143], [161], [231], [260], [279], [282]
Suffolk, [32], [88], [198], [224], [250], [262], [263], [273]
Sussex, [31], [55], [79], [125], [164], [193], [199], [250]
Tyneside Scottish, [53]
Welsh, [106], [142], [143], [191], [260], [261]
Welsh Fusiliers, [31], [32], [66], [106], [141], [142], [143], [144], [197], [260]
West Riding, [40], [81], [189], [244], [253], [254], [265]
West Yorkshire, [32], [49], [82], [172], [189], [217], [256]
Worcester, [50], [51], [100], [161], [191], [194], [204], [214], [216]
York and Lancaster, [82], [217], [244], [256]
Yorkshire, [189], [261], [262]
Yorkshire Light Infantry, [15], [166], [209], [217], [244]
———
Royal Engineers, [47], [101], [104], [105], [141], [161], [216], [241], [284]
Tunnelling Companies, [22], [241]
Royal Naval Division, [53], [54], [70], [74], [226], [227], [298]
Overseas Forces—
Australians, [5], [10], [11], [14], [58], [59], [60], [61], [76], [90], [91], [92], [97], [98], [101], [127], [128], [156], [187], [188], [193], [194], [196], [197], [198], [205], [206], [220], [223], [227], [229]
New Zealanders, [97], [98], [99], [101], [114], [131], [132], [155], [156], [205], [211], [223], [224], [299]
Canadians, [21], [38], [41], [42], [43], [54], [55], [73], [82], [83], [84], [116], [117], [121], [122], [123], [226], [227], [228], [229], [230], [231], [232]
Newfoundland Regiment, [50], [215], [216], [248], [278], [282]
South Africans, [37], [52], [53], [185], [186], [187]
Reutel, [208], [209], [210], [221]
Ritchie, General, [195]
Ritchie, Captain, [141]
Robertson, Colonel Forbes, V.C., [51], [280]
Robinson, Captain, [291]
Rœux, [48], [52], [65], [68], [72], [73], [80], [84], [85]
Romilly, Colonel, [140]
Russell, General Sir A., [98]
Russia: revolution in, [17], [65]; collapse of, before Central Powers, [132]; effect of revolution in, on Allied offensive in the West, [235]
Rutter, Lieutenant, [67]
St. Eloi, [97]
St. Julien, [145], [146], [147], [156], [158], [174], [182], [192], [195]
Scarpe River, [31], [36], [37], [40], [50], [52], [68], [69], [72], [76], [78], [79], [84], [86]
Selency, capture of guns at, [12-14]
Sheepshanks, Colonel, [277]
Shepherd, Private, V.C., [250]
Shute, General, [106], [124], [131]
Sinai Peninsula, progress in, [17]
Slade, Captain, [164]
Smith, Colonel, [27]
Snow, General Sir T., [21], [25], [45], [65], [76], [238], [252], [269], [270]
Steenbeek, the, [143], [146], [147], [163], [166], [184], [189]
Stone, Captain, [295]
Stonebanks, Lieutenant, [176]
Strachan, Lieutenant Henry, V.C., [246]
Strickland, General, [123], [124]
Symon, Captain, [159]
Taylor, Colonel, [144]
Tollemache, Colonel, [129]
Valentin, Lieutenant, [295]
Verdun, French victory at, [178]
Villers-Guislain, [237], [272], [273], [275]
Vimy Ridge, [21], [41-43], [54], [94], [134]
Wallace, Lieutenant, V.C., [274]
Wambach, Private, [129]
Ward, Captain, [129]
Warden, Colonel, D.S.O., [263], [264]
Watson, General, [41]
Watts, General Sir H., [137], [145], [147], [149], [162], [167]
Westhoek, [151], [159], [160], [161], [162]
Wiart, Colonel Carton de, [85]
Williams, General, [109]
Wilson, President, [18]
Woolcombe, General, [238], [288], [296]
Woolley, Lieutenant, [190]
Ypres, [57], [94], [95], [133], [134], [154], [162]
Ypres, third battle of: British and German preparation before the battle detailed, [133-136]; French co-operation, [134], [137], [156]; advance of the Guards, [138-141]; advance of the Welsh Division and capture of Pilkem village, [141-145]; capture of St. Julien, [146], [147]; advance of Fifty-fifth and Fifteenth Divisions, [147-150]; of Second Army Corps, [150-155]; first day's operations reviewed, [156-157]; German counter-attacks, [158-159], [160-161]; attack of Fourteenth Corps, [163-167]; capture of Langemarck, [164]; losses of the Irish Divisions, [168-172]; work of the Field Artillery, [175]; engagement of the Second Army, [179]; September [20], [180-192]; advance of the Fifty-fifth Division, [183-185]; advance of the Ninth Division, [185-187]; of the Australians, [187-188]; German counter-attack, [192-195]; advance renewed on September [26], [195-200]; attack of October [4], [202-212]; further British advance, [213-222]; advance of Territorials, [218-220]; H.A.C. at Reutel, [221]; action of October [12], [222-224]; action of October [26], [225]; fine fighting by the Canadians, [226-231]; capture of Paschendaale, [230]; general results of the third battle of Ypres, [232-233]
Yser River, fight of the King's Royal Rifles and the Northamptons at, [123-130]
Zonnebeke, [169], [170], [172], [181], [202], [214]
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