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British army (see also British Expeditionary Force (BEF), British Salonika Force (BSF), civil–military relations, Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF)), 1, 18–19, 41–3, 45–6, 50–1, 52, 58, 79, 90, 95–6, 104, 110, 116–17, 128, 133, 137, 140, 149, 156, 159, 160, 168–9, 171–2, 180, 228, 231, 245, 251, 280, 297, 316, 336

armies

First Army, 115, 235

Second Army, 207, 327–8

Third Army, 207, 326–7, 338–9, 359, 361–2, 363–4

Fourth Army, 189–90, 202, 204, 352, 355, 360, 362–4

Fifth Army, 233, 246, 330, 338–9, 362

Reserve Army, 189, 241

brigades

1st (Guards) Brigade, 76

Rifle Brigade, 113

Special (Gas) Brigade, 191

battalions

3rd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, 86

5th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment, 95

16th (Service) Battalion (Public Schools), Middlesex Regiment, 174

Dockers Battalion, 212

Egyptian Railway Battalion, 45

Liverpool Dock Battalion, 163

companies

5th New Zealand Light Railway Operating Company, 258–9

8th (Railway) Company, Royal Engineers, 43, 102, 126

10th (Railway) Company, Royal Engineers, 126

12th Horse Transport Company, 82–3

12th Light Railway Operating Company, 263, 268

14th GHQ Reserve Mechanical Transport Company, 362

19th Light Railway Operating Company, 245

31st Light Railway Operating Company, 261

115th Railway Construction Company, 128

116th Railway Construction Company, 128, 130

117th Railway Construction Company, 133

GHQ reserve mechanical transport companies, 338, 340

No. 5 Reserve Park, 82–3

comparisons to German army, 8, 9, 45–6

corps

II Anzac Corps, 334

IV Corps, 362

V Corps, 362, 364

VI Corps, 363, 364

X Corps, 329, 332

XIII Corps, 366

XVII Corps, 326, 364

2nd Cheshire (Railway) Engineer Volunteers, 43

Army Service Corps (ASC), 46, 141, 161, 162, 172

Canadian Corps, 334

Canadian Overseas Railway

Construction Corps, 127, 344

Canadian Railway Troops, 233

Chinese Labour Corps, 267, 270, 272

Labour Corps, 232, 272–3, 329, 343

Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), 148, 159

Royal Engineers, 25, 27–8, 43–5, 59–60, 102–3, 104, 128, 129, 131, 132, 133–4, 169, 172, 174, 232, 234, 277, 282, 326, 332–4, 335, 352–3, 364

Royal Field Artillery, 326

South African Native Labour Corps, 268–9

divisions

10th Division, 133

18th Division, 329

46th Division, 361

61st Division, 362n159

66th Division, 364

74th Division, 280–1

75th Division, 280–1

Cavalry Division, 83–4

Lahore Division, 115

Railway Operating Division (ROD), 126, 149, 157–8, 163, 203, 226, 233, 248–9, 250–1, 260, 283, 284, 307, 327, 351, 360

regiments

34th Sikh Pioneers, 115

91st (Argyllshire) Regiment, 25

125th Napier’s Rifles, 115

British West Indian Regiment, 268

Essex and Norfolk Yeomanry, 84

relations with civilian expertise, 1–2, 5, 18–19, 23–61, 66–73, 76, 83–4, 90, 96, 113–14, 122–3, 125, 133–4, 137–8, 145–8, 151–3, 158, 164, 167–8, 172–6, 194–5, 196–7, 199–201, 209, 212–13, 220–2, 228–9, 234–5, 285, 333–4, 343–4, 365–6, 367–9, 372–3

understanding of modern warfare, 5–6, 12–13, 69, 82, 95–6, 138, 168, 252–4, 334–5, 342, 369

use of railways, 25, 63–91, 104, 188–9, 209

British Association for the Advancement of Science, 265

British Expeditionary Force (BEF), 6–7, 10–11, 13, 15, 16–19, 31, 34, 37, 50–1, 56, 61, 63–7, 68–73, 75–6, 78–80, 83–5, 87–91, 97–102, 105–12, 114, 115–16, 125–6, 128, 134–5, 137–53, 155–8, 161–3, 166, 167–9, 171–93, 195–7, 199–200, 202–21, 223, 228, 230–5, 240–63, 265, 267–9, 271–6, 278, 280, 282, 283, 285, 290, 291–6, 301, 307–8, 319, 321–3, 325–35, 337–45, 347, 349–51, 353–66, 368–71

British Salonika Force (BSF), 51, 132–3, 134, 164–5, 251

Broad Street, 147

Broodseinde, 330

Brown, George McLaren, 343–4

Brown, Ian M., 17–18, 109, 146, 207, 255, 321, 326, 350

Bruay-Béthune mines, 348–9, 351–2

Brunel, Isambard Kingdom, 27

Bucharest, 305

Buckland, Reginald, 190, 205

Bud-Frierman, Lisa, 264

Buenos Aires and Rosario Railway, 134

Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway, 306

Buenos Aires Southern and Western Combine, 58

Buironfosse, 76

Burgoyne, John Fox, 26, 31

Burke, Major, 148

Burma, 171

Bury, George, 298–306, 318

Busigny, 89, 97, 98, 362

Bussoleno, 311

Butler, Richard, 292

Butterworth, Alexander Kaye, 51, 58–9, 60, 113, 118, 249 n41

Butterworth, George (junior), 58– 9n130

Butterworth, George (senior), 58 n130

Cairo, 164, 283

Calais, 127, 139–40, 155, 158, 161, 170, 176, 180, 183, 184, 194, 253, 324, 346, 349–50

Canal, 183

commissions, 111

conference, 292–5, 308, 310, 311, 370

Caledonian Railway, 28, 33, 39, 85, 124, 249 n41

Calthrop, Guy, 51, 124, 166, 249 n41, 285–7, 289, 318

Cambrai, 361, 362, 363

battle of, 321, 335

Cambridge University, 56

Cambridge, Duke of, 30

Cameron, J., 124

Camon, 204

Canada, 120, 127, 128, 247, 266

Canadian Pacific Railway, 102, 127, 298, 344

Candas, 127, 203

Cape Helles, 45, 95

Caporetto, battle of, 286–7, 309, 313, 335

Carlile, J. C., 160–1

Carlisle, 10

Carnegie, Andrew, 52–3, 54

Carnoy, 214

Carter Paterson, 105

Carter, E. E., 51, 153n50, 161–2, 212

Caucasus, 306

Cawkwell, William, 28

Ceinture Railway, 311

Chantilly, 323

Charing Cross, 285

Charteris, John, 269, 336

Chatham dockyards, 43, 146

Chemins de Fer de l’État (see State Railway, France)

Chemins de Fer du Nord, 102, 104, 142, 148, 153, 247, 296

Cherbourg, 28, 140, 285–90, 313

Chesney, George, 31

China, 59, 121, 225, 270

Chinese Government Railways, 121

Chipping Norton, 84

Chuignolles, 190

Chunuk Bair, 95

Church Army, 376

Churchill, Winston, 6, 17, 80

Churchward, G. J., 124

City of London Corporation, 113

Civil Service Co-operative Society, 41 n66

civil–military relations, 3, 5, 7, 17–20, 25, 32–3, 36, 41, 47–8, 51–2, 59–60, 65, 68, 76, 78, 83, 107, 112–13, 122, 125, 129–30, 146, 151–2, 163, 168, 181, 196, 200–1, 207–13, 221–5, 228–9, 231, 234–5, 239–40, 250, 278–9, 322–3, 335–6, 342–5, 357, 359, 365–6, 370–2

Clarke, Travers, 156, 336–41, 342–4, 346, 357–8, 361, 363, 365, 366

Claveille, Albert, 291, 293–6, 314, 370

Clayton, Frederick, 48, 50, 145, 151–3, 155, 162, 186, 210–13, 216–18, 222, 252, 255, 372

Clemenceau, Georges, 345, 353

Cline, Peter, 113

coal, 10, 36, 38, 84–5, 130, 139, 141, 176, 188, 204, 251, 304, 313, 315–17, 348–52, 357

Coleman, Donald, 7

Colewort barracks, 82

Collard, Albert, 174, 185–6, 228–9, 235, 372

Collinson, Alfred, 120–1

Colonial Office, 3

Committee of Imperial Defence (CID), 35–6, 45

Concordia, 232

Congo, 44

Conibear, L. W., 233

Contay, 207

Cooke, C. J. B., 124

Co-operative Wholesale Society, 41n66

course for the training of officers for the higher appointments in the administrative staff of the army, see London School of Economics

Coventry, 84

Cowans, John, 39, 64, 74, 86, 110–14, 149, 169, 171–2, 184, 188, 207–8, 210–11, 221–2, 226, 229, 247, 336 n61, 342

Crèvecœur-sur-l’Escaut, 359

Crewe works, 43

Crimean War, 2

Crookshank, Sydney D’Aguilar, 234, 335–7, 339, 342–5, 366

Cunard Company, 73

Dalian/Dalniy, 300

Damascus, 284

Daniels, Captain, 175

Dardanelles (see also Gallipoli), 133, 210, 300

Davies, G. F., 51

Dawkins, Charles, 189–90

de Candolle, Raymond, 306

de Normann, Eric, 161–2

Deerhurst, 58 n130

Dent, Charles Bayley Calmady, 171

Dent, Charles Hastings, 124, 249 n41

Dent, Francis, 126, 138, 144–53, 155, 156–66, 167, 171, 181, 196, 224, 279–80, 285, 295, 369–70, 371

Deptford Cattle Market, 113–14

Derby, 44, 260

works, 43–4, 123

Derby, Lord, 205–6, 207, 213, 221, 230, 297

Devonport, 72

Diaz, Armando, 315

Dicksee, Lawrence, 47

Dieppe, 111, 194, 203, 253, 346, 348, 350

Director-general of transportation (DGT) (see also Sydney D’Aguilar Crookshank, Eric Geddes, Philip Nash), 7, 19, 50, 164, 192, 221–4, 230–2, 234, 240–1, 243–4, 248–9, 256–7, 265, 268, 274, 276, 277, 280, 294, 307, 309, 314, 321, 322–3, 328, 333, 335–8, 340, 343–4, 369–70, 372

Doiran, 133, 165

Donaldson, Hay Frederick, 119–20

Douai, 195

Douglas, Charles, 80

Doullens conference, 345

Dover, 146, 155

Straits, 80

Drummond, Di, 24

Drummond, P., 124

Dublin, 25, 71, 72

Duff, Alexander, 39

Dunkirk, 139–40, 155, 156, 170, 180, 183, 184, 189, 194, 252, 253, 324, 346, 349–50

Earl, H. D., 124

East Africa, 51, 278–9

East Indian Railway, 209

eastern command, 84, 146

Edgerton, David, 9

Edinburgh, 23, 52, 54

Edmonds, James, 17, 228, 239

Egypt, 51, 128–31, 134, 159, 164–5, 251, 278–84, 286–7, 315, 318, 344

Egyptian army, 44, 103, 129

Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF), 129–32, 134, 164, 280–4

Egyptian public works ministry, 130

Egyptian railway and telegraph

administration, 103

Egyptian State Railways, 129, 130–1, 133–4, 164, 279, 281, 282

El Arish, 132

Engineer and Logistics Staff Corps, 32

Engineer and Railway Staff Corps (ERSC), 30–3, 38, 41, 58–9, 60, 68, 126, 142, 146–7, 161, 226, 315, 368

entente cordiale, 38, 66

Entre Ríos Railway, 134, 194

Ernest Fayle, Charles, 154

Esher, Lord, 8, 201

Estaires, 172

Étaples, 351, 353

Eu, 348

Ewart, Spencer, 66

Exeter, 95

Fairfax, Bryan, 270–1, 275

Falls, Cyril, 325–7

Farnborough, 76, 84, 119

Fay, Sam, 3–4, 32, 37, 81, 158, 166, 228–30, 235, 297, 298, 317, 335, 336–7, 342–4, 361, 363–4, 367, 369

Fay, Samuel Ernest, 4n11

February Revolution, 303

Fecamp, 253

Ferdinand I, 277

Fernandez, Corporal, 175

Field Service Regulations (FSR), 105–8

Fienvillers, 203

Findlay, George, 32–3

Fisher, Lord, 26

Flanders (see also Passchendaele, Ypres), 19, 95, 100–1, 135, 137, 171, 190, 196, 200, 256, 295, 298, 307, 314, 319, 322, 323, 327, 329, 331, 350, 353, 356, 360, 371

Fleetwood, 171

Fletcher, Lionel, 73–4

Flood-Page, Francis, 161

Foch, Ferdinand, 156, 345–7, 356

Focşani, armistice of, 306

Folkestone, 145, 146, 155, 160

Forbes, William, 126, 148

Ford, Henry, 54

Fosseux, 245–6, 339, 359

Fowler, Henry, 119–20, 124, 134

Fox, Aimée, 13

Fox, Frank, 336

France, 2, 10, 16, 17, 19, 25, 38, 43, 51, 64, 66, 73, 76, 77, 78–80, 84, 88, 95, 97, 101–2, 103, 104–6, 108–12, 125–7, 131–2, 134–5, 137, 138–40, 145, 148, 150–1, 154, 156, 158, 160, 163, 167–8, 170–6, 179–84, 186, 188, 190–1, 193–7, 200–1, 204–6, 208, 212, 213–25, 227–30, 232–4, 240–5, 247–50, 254, 256, 260, 265, 267, 276, 278, 279, 282–3, 285, 288–9, 290–1, 293, 295, 298, 300, 307–13, 315–19, 322, 324, 335–7, 342–4, 350–1, 356, 360–1, 363, 365, 369–71, 376–8

Franco-British relations, 13–14, 29n25, 38, 66, 78, 80–1, 87–8, 96–8, 100–2, 108–9, 111, 114, 125–6, 131, 133, 134–5, 138–41, 145, 146, 155–8, 166, 168, 169, 171, 173, 181, 185–8, 196–7, 201, 240, 246–8, 290–8, 307–8, 309, 311, 314, 319, 351–3, 369–70

Franco-Prussian War, 31, 32, 38, 42, 106–7

Freeland, Henry, 101, 208–10, 215

French army, 19, 38, 66, 73, 78, 80, 81, 87–9, 90, 96, 97, 100–1, 102, 105, 106–9, 112, 114, 131, 133, 134–5, 138, 139–41, 142, 147, 157–8, 173, 179, 180, 186, 188, 190, 209, 213, 241, 243, 291, 294–5, 308, 313, 319, 323, 340, 356, 370

First Army, 307, 355

Sixth Army, 204, 241

Tenth Army, 241, 353

11th Division, 88

French navy, 285

French Revolutionary Wars, 2

French, John, 64, 75, 80–1, 88, 100–1, 105, 110–12, 116, 133, 142, 173, 207

Frévent, 353

Fricourt Cemetery, 204–5

Frise, 193

Froissy, 190

Frontiers, battle of the, 89, 147

Gallipoli, 11, 130, 133, 137

Gamaches, 102, 348, 352

Gaza, 280, 283–4

Geddes, Alice, 54

Geddes, Auckland (junior), 112, 201, 215, 234, 257

Geddes, Auckland (senior), 52, 54, 59–60

Geddes, Eric, 7, 17–19, 51–9, 61, 77, 96, 112–14, 117–19, 126, 130, 134, 164–5, 166, 167–8, 171–2, 192, 196, 197, 199–201, 205–9, 211, 213–35, 239–46, 248–50, 252, 254–7, 260, 264–5, 274, 276, 277–81, 285, 290–9, 301, 307–8, 310, 314, 319, 321–6, 328–9, 333, 335–7, 339, 343–4, 352, 356–7, 365–6, 367, 369–72, 375–8

General headquarters (GHQ), 6–7, 19, 51, 52, 99, 101, 104–7, 109, 111, 114, 135, 142, 152, 161, 163, 168, 173, 178, 179, 183, 185–6, 189, 196, 200, 201, 205–8, 210, 211, 213, 215–16, 222, 239, 243–5, 247, 249, 290, 308, 310, 314, 316, 336–8, 343, 358, 371

George V, 98, 195, 199, 229

German army, 8, 15, 19, 20, 45–6, 67, 78, 83, 89–90, 97, 99, 100–1, 102, 115–16, 139, 141–2, 143, 151, 192, 195, 203, 217, 234, 248, 252–3, 268, 286, 311, 316, 319, 321–2, 325–9, 331–3, 335, 337–40, 345, 346–56, 358, 360, 361, 363–4, 369, 371

Second Army, 346–7

Eighteenth Army, 346

XV Army Corps, 90

XVI Army Corps, 90

XXI Army Corps, 90

German navy, 80

German spring offensives (1918), 143, 233, 243, 287, 311, 316, 321, 335, 337, 339–42, 345–52, 356, 358, 360, 366

German unrestricted submarine campaign, 251, 271, 281, 282, 283, 285, 289, 308, 324

Germany, 7–8, 9, 19, 25–6, 34, 65, 67, 76–7, 78, 125, 156, 217, 269, 281, 290, 356, 365

Gheluvelt Plateau, 330

Gibb, Alexander, 194

Gibb, George, 41, 55–6, 58, 121, 264–5

Gilbreth, Frank and Lilian, 118

Girouard, Éduoard Percy Cranwill, 102–11, 114–15, 118, 121, 141, 145, 180

Glasgow, 23, 71

Glasgow and South-Western Railway, 124

Glover, George Tertius, 307n119

Goa, 120

HMS Goliath, 95

Gough, Hubert, 246, 330–1, 333, 346

Gourvish, Terry, 40, 53

Graham, Dominick, 42

Grand Fleet, 26–7, 85

Grand Quartier Général (GQG), 100–2, 105, 107, 135, 140, 142, 186, 311, 370

Granet, Guy, 164, 166, 225–8, 235, 249–50, 278, 287, 308, 309, 335, 369

Grangemouth, 85

Great Central Railway, 3, 37, 39, 122, 124

Great Eastern Railway, 67, 68, 84, 95, 122, 124, 140, 148, 249n41

Great North of England Railway, 28

Great Northern Railway, 33, 39, 41 n66, 67, 84, 121, 122, 124, 249 n41

Great Northern Railway (Ireland), 33–4, 307 n119

Great Southern and Western Railway (Ireland), 124

Great Western of Brazil Railway, 134

Great Western Railway, 10, 39, 47, 67, 81, 84–5, 95, 122, 124, 128, 134, 233

Great Western Railway Magazine, 95

Greece (see also Macedonia, Salonika), 131–3, 284

Greenhalgh, Elizabeth, 14, 96, 370

Gresley, H. N., 124

Grey, Edward, 69, 117–18

Grierson, James, 66

Grieves, Keith, 18, 117, 209–10, 214, 235

Griffin, Nicholas, 271

Grimsby, 37

Guernsey, 176

Guillemont, 241

Gully, James, 95

Haifa, 281

Haig, Douglas, 6–7, 19, 48, 80–1, 88, 190, 199–200, 201–2, 205–8, 212–13, 215, 220–3, 230–2, 233–5, 241–4, 249–50, 280, 281, 291–5, 297, 307, 321, 323, 325, 328–9, 331, 335–7, 339, 342, 343, 345, 347, 351, 353, 366, 372

Haldane, Richard, 45–6, 48, 69

Hall, C. M., 129

Hammond, F., 95

HMS Hampshire, 120

Harding-Newman, J. C., 216–17

Harris, Paul, 15

Harrison, Charles, 59

Harrison, Frederick, 32–3, 48

Harrisson, Geoffry, 232

Harrods, 105

Hazebrouck, 127, 158, 327, 340, 345, 349–50

Hazelton, P. O., 51

Hell Fire Corner, 332

Henderson, Brodie, 194

Henderson, D., 39

Henniker, A. M., 16–17, 111, 115, 146, 181–2, 195, 196, 216, 217–18, 276, 285, 353, 357, 362

Herbert, Sidney, 30

Heywood, Anthony, 304

High Wycombe, 84

Highland Railway, 27, 85

Hill 60, 95

Hill, A. J., 124

Hill, W. J., 245

Hilsea, 82

Himalayas, 54

Hindenburg Line, 321, 325, 360–1

Hirson, 89

Hockley, 84

Hodgkin, Adrian, 175, 178, 190–2, 325 n11

Hogge, James, 23

Holland, Gerald, 114, 167–8, 170–6, 178–93, 196–7, 216, 295, 323–4, 360, 369–70, 371

Holmes, Henry, 72

Holt, Follett, 120–1, 134, 194

Holt, Richard, 73

Holyhead, 171, 174, 193

Home Office, 3, 39

Homs, 281

Hughes, G., 124

Huguet, Victor, 78, 88, 201

Huish, Mark, 28

Hull, 36, 37, 175

Hull and Barnsley Railway, 215

Humber, 29

Humphreys, Sapper, 175

Huskisson, William, 25

Hutchinson, H. D., 48

Iaşi, 305

Imperial Railway Office, 26

India, 52, 54–5, 58, 59, 112, 121, 128, 129, 133, 171, 208–9, 257, 280, 284, 335

India Docks, 120

Indian army, 54–5, 58

Indian State Railway, 134

inland water transport (IWT), 114, 130, 166, 167–93, 196–7, 216, 221, 228, 240, 265, 282, 323–4, 360, 371

Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), 24, 29, 185, 227

Inter-allied Transportation Council (IATC), 313–19, 336, 337, 371

Ireland, 25, 33, 63, 82, 121, 149

Irwin, Commodore, 285

Ismailia, 130–1

Isonzo, 286–7

Italian army, 286–7

Italy, 11, 51, 284–6, 310–11, 313, 315–17, 318, 336, 371

Jaffa, 281–2

Japan, 54, 300

Jeffery, Keith, 77, 325–6

Jerusalem, 282, 283–4

Joffre, Joseph, 101, 140, 207, 247, 290, 323

Johannesburg, 270

Johnson, Marr, 77, 88, 106–7, 109

Johnson, Rob, 283

Jones, Harry, 29

Jones, Spencer, 138

SS Juno, 154

Kaledin, Aleksei, 306

Kem, 301

Kempshall, Chris, 14

Kharkov, 277

King George V Dock, 227

Kingston, 102

Kirkpatrick, Cyril, 227

Kitchener, Lord, 54–5, 64, 100, 102, 103, 111, 112–14, 116, 120, 123, 140, 142, 172, 205, 282, 367

Knaresborough, Lord, 118

Knox, Alfred, 304

Kola, 301

Kriger-Voinovskii, E. B., 301–3

Kut Al Amara, 137

La Capelle, 76

Labouchere, Henry, 27

Lamacroft, Walter, 95

Lamarque, Jean Maximilien, 25–6

Lamotte-en-Santerre, 190

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 28, 33, 39, 122, 124, 126, 249–50 n41, 257

Laon, 98

Lawson, H. M., 273

Le Havre, 73, 76, 86, 89, 97, 102, 139, 141, 186–7, 203, 210, 253, 348

Le Hénaff, J. H. F., 109

Le Treport, 253, 350

Lee, Ivor, 163, 268–9

Leeds, 10, 244, 251

Leggett, Major, 149

Le-Roy Lewis, Herman, 52 n104

Liddell Hart, Basil, 6

light railways, 54, 103, 130, 143, 164–5, 207, 214, 216, 220, 228, 232, 233, 235, 240, 243–6, 247, 248, 257, 260–3, 266, 268–9, 279, 282, 322, 326–7, 329–32, 334, 338–9, 344, 350, 357–9, 364

Lille, 101

Lindemann, Marc, 4

Lindsay, Alexander, 269–71, 273, 274

Lindsay, William Bethune, 334

Lindsell, Wilfrid, 342, 369

Liphook, 84

Liverpool, 25, 37, 71, 72, 163

Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 24–5, 27

Lloyd, Nick, 328

Lloyd George, David, 4–7, 17, 18, 19, 51–2, 113, 117–18, 120, 121, 137, 189, 199, 200–2, 205–8, 213, 215, 219–23, 225–7, 229–31, 235, 242–3, 251, 255–6, 258, 275, 280–1, 283, 284, 290–4, 297, 298, 306, 308, 310, 314, 336, 365, 367, 369, 372

Lloyd’s, 34–5, 174, 175

locomotives, 3, 29, 42, 82, 90, 105, 125, 132, 158, 164–5, 182, 184, 195, 204, 220, 231, 244–6, 248–51, 254, 257, 263, 278, 282–4, 287–9, 293–5, 299–300, 303, 305–6, 307, 309, 316, 318, 330, 339, 358, 368, 371, 376–7, 379

London, 10, 24, 27, 31, 33, 36–7, 44, 45, 71, 81, 84, 95, 97, 103, 111, 114, 121, 147, 152, 153, 155, 158, 159–60, 163, 164, 200, 206, 207, 210, 212, 214, 220–5, 230, 234, 249, 276, 281–3, 299, 300, 314, 316, 335, 337

London and North-Western Railway (LNWR), 10, 28, 32–3, 39–40, 41 n66, 43, 48, 51–2, 67–8, 71, 81, 84, 95, 120, 122, 124, 128, 146–8, 171, 174–5, 192, 232, 245, 249 n41, 250–1, 285, 325, 360

London and North-Western Railway Gazette, 67–8

London and South-Western Railway (LSWR), 33, 39, 58, 67, 70–2, 84, 85, 89, 97, 121, 122, 251

London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LBSCR), 84, 122, 126, 148, 277, 286

London, Chatham and Dover Railway, 31

London School of Economics (LSE), 46–51, 60, 145, 153 n50, 169, 368

Longmoor, 44, 45, 174, 176, 191

Longpré, 348, 352–3

Longueau, 190, 204

Loos, battle of, 137

Luck, Cyril, 174, 192, 360

Ludendorff, Erich, 322, 347, 353

Ludlow, W. R., 332

Lyautey, Hubert, 296

Lys, 167

Macauley, George, 129, 134, 164, 282–3, 284

Macedonia (see also Salonika), 11, 16, 131, 133, 134, 290, 313, 318

Mackinder, Halford, 46–51

MacLeod, Christine, 7

Maidenhead, 84

Mametz, 214

Manby, Charles, 29–30

Mance, Henry, 79, 81, 86, 122, 124, 208–10, 228, 235, 239–40, 372

Manchester, 23, 25, 33, 37

Manchester and Birmingham Railway, 28

Manchester and Leeds Railway, 28

Manchester Ship Canal, 120

Manning-Wardle Locomotive Company, 251

Mantua, 287

Mapplebeck, Corporal, 175

Mar Piccolo, 286

Marcosson, Isaac, 264

Marne,

battles of the, 99, 141, 353

retreat from the, 102

River, 167, 188

Marœuil, 195, 245

Marseille, 101n24, 164, 284, 316

Marsh, Sapper, 175

Martainville, 268–9, 353

Marwood, William, 39–40

Matheson, Donald, 124, 249n41

Maubeuge, 89

Maxwell, Ronald, 104–5, 107–11, 139–40, 142, 152n50, 181, 183, 186, 188, 205–7, 210–11, 213, 215, 216, 230–1, 243, 247, 336, 372

Maybury, Henry, 232, 239–40, 242–3, 343, 363–4

McCrae, Meighan, 314

McCririck, J. W., 175

McKinlay, William, 174, 175

McLellan, William, 281 n14

Mehmed V, 129

Menin Road, 332

merchant navy, 175

Merridale, Catherine, 304

Mersey,

ferries, 175

port, 163

Merz and McLellan, 281n14

Mesopotamia, 208, 230, 244, 278–9, 344

Messines, battle of, 321, 327–8, 329–30, 332

Meuse, 168–9

Micklem, Henry, 44, 45n81

Micklem, Ralph, 44–5

Midland Railway, 10, 33, 39, 41n66, 43–5, 84, 119, 122, 123, 124, 134, 157, 179, 226–7, 249, 257–62, 360, 368

Miles, Herbert, 48

Millar, Robert, 33–4

Milne, George, 165, 279

Milner, Lord, 285, 298, 317, 337, 342–3

Ministry of Armaments, 351

Ministry of Food, 3

Ministry of Munitions, 3, 5, 113, 116–21, 123, 134, 137, 200, 202, 209, 225, 232, 250, 276, 288, 296–7, 333, 361, 369

Ministry of Shipping, 3, 317

Ministry of Transport, 77

Ministry of Ways and Communications, 301–3

Modena, 311

Mons, 89, 359

battle of, 65, 89

retreat from, 98–9, 109–10

Mont Cenis tunnel, 311, 313

Montagu, Edwin, 225

Montauban-de-Picardie, 241

Monthuis, 309, 337–8

Montreal, 102

Montreuil-sur-Mer, 216, 337–8

Moore, John, 189

Moore, Major, 141

Moore, William, 23

Morgan, Charles Langbridge, 286

Morocco, 37

Moselle, 188

Mottistone, Lord (see Jack Seely)

Murman Railway, 301–3

Murmansk, 299–303

Murray, Archibald, 279–81, 283

Murray, Valentine, 101, 102, 135

Napoleonic Wars, 2, 25–6, 29

narrow gauge railways (see light railways)

Nash, Philip, 209, 215, 224–5, 307, 308–9, 310–18, 328, 329, 331, 335, 337, 347–52, 371, 379

Needham, Evelyn, 89n95

Neele, George, 28

Neillands, Robin, 64

Nekrasov, Nikolai, 303

Netherlands, 140, 178

Neustadt, Richard E., 14n52

Neuve Chapelle, battle of, 115–16, 137, 154

Neuve Maison, 76

New York, 52

New Zealand, 129

Newcastle upon Tyne, 227

Newhaven, 71, 72

Newport, 194

Newton Abbot, 95

Nicholson, William, 68, 75

Nigeria, 59

Nile

River, 44

Delta, 130

Nine Elms, 251

Nivelle, Robert, 291–3, 308

No. 10 Stationary Hospital, 170

Northcliffe, Lord, 225, 229

North-Eastern Railway, 10, 33, 39, 41, 47, 48, 55–9, 60, 63, 113, 117–20, 122, 124, 134, 171, 209, 215, 224, 225, 227, 249 n41, 264–5, 274, 281 n14, 307 n119, 319, 343, 360

traffic apprenticeship scheme, 56–7, 224, 225

North-Eastern Railway Magazine, 63, 367

North-Western Railway, 128, 208

Nubian Desert, 103

Nuneaton, 84

Oakley, Henry, 32–3

Ohis, 76

Oise, 323

Omdurman, battle of, 103

Orkney, 85

Osborne, Herbert Delano, 335

Ostend, 115, 140

Owen, Douglas, 47

Oxford, 84

Oxford Military Academy, 52, 201

Paddington, 95

Paget, Cecil, 157–8, 217–18, 226, 249, 260, 360

Paish, George, 55, 265

Palestine, 11, 131, 164, 251, 280–4, 344

Paraná, 194

Paris, 28, 98, 100, 104, 204, 248, 311, 317, 348, 351

Passchendaele (see also Ypres, third battle of Ypres), 6, 322, 333, 334, 366

Peel, Robert, 24–5

Pennsylvania Railroad, 309

Penzance, 29

Permanent Railway Council, 33

Péronne, 192–3, 339

Pershing, John, 309, 314

Pershore, 84

Persian Gulf, 128

Pétain, Philippe, 345

Peterkin, Millicent, 170

Peto, Samuel Morton, 2

Petrograd, 301–4, 305

Petrol Committee, 3

Philipps, Owen, 73

Philpott, William, 14, 78–9, 292, 297

Pickersgill, W., 124

Pitman, Horace, 174

Pittsburgh, 52–3

Plateau line, 204

Plews, Henry, 33–4

Plumer, Herbert, 327–8, 330–1, 333

Plymouth, 95

Poelcappelle, 332

Poincaré, Raymond, 345

Polygon Wood, 330

Pönitz, Karl Eduard, 26

Pont de Metz, 102

Poperinghe, 127, 207

Port Murman, 301

Port of London, 227

Port Said, 131

Port Sudan, 44

Port-le-Grand, 353

Portsmouth, 36, 82

Portuguese army, 340

(General) Post Office, 40, 74

Potton, 67

Powayan Steam Tramway, 54, 257

Pratt, Edwin, 15, 149, 157, 166

Prior, Robin, 335

Proctor, Tammy, 4

Proven, 327

Provisional government, 303, 306

Proyart, 190, 241

Prussian army, 26, 42

Qantara, 131, 164, 280, 281–2, 283

Queenstown, 71, 72

Rafa, 282, 283–4

Ragueneau, Camille, 291, 293–6

Railway Clearing House, 47, 165

Railway Department, 27, 39

Railway Executive Committee (REC), 23, 32, 38–40, 59, 60, 68, 79, 81–2, 89–90, 121–3, 126, 134, 142–3, 147–9, 157, 158–9, 161, 165, 208, 226, 249–51, 288–9, 368, 377

ambulance trains for the continent sub-committee, 148, 157, 158–9

Belgian railways refugee sub-committee, 149

railway recruitment sub-committee, 126–7, 157

railway war manufactures sub-committee, 122–3

Railway Gazette, 166, 367

Railway Inspectorate, 27–8

Railway Magazine, 199

Railway Regulation Act (1840), 27

railway transport establishment, 97, 101, 108, 178, 210, 224, 343

Rang-du-Fliers, 351

Raven, Vincent, 119–20, 124, 134

Rawlinson, Henry, 346–7, 355, 362, 364

Reading, 84

Red Cross, 148, 160, 376

Redman, A. S., 123, 124

Redmayne, Richard, 351 n118

Ree, Frank, 39

Remington, 52–3

Rhineland, 90

Ribot, Alexandre, 296

Richborough, 185, 187, 193–4, 324

road stone, 15, 130, 163, 176, 183, 189–90, 214, 216, 219, 243, 246, 294, 334

Robb, Frederick, 98, 104, 110, 211

Robert Hudson, 244

Roberts, Lord, 64

Robertson, John Kerr, 185

Robertson, William, 98–101, 104–6, 108–11, 139–40, 152, 168, 172, 212, 213, 216, 292, 294, 306, 342

Robinson, J. G., 124

Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway, 54–5, 208

Roisel, 339

rolling stock, 29, 35–6, 42, 57, 58, 70, 79, 82, 88, 90, 103, 105, 125, 132, 159–60, 164–5, 178, 182–4, 186, 187, 190, 195, 204, 217, 233, 244–51, 254, 255, 257, 258, 260, 262–3, 276, 278, 279, 282, 284, 287–91, 294, 295, 299–300, 303, 309, 315–17, 318, 322, 325, 326, 334, 339, 340, 348, 358, 365, 368, 371, 376–8, 379

Romani, battle of, 131

Romania, 277, 298, 305–6, 318

Romarin, 263

Rome, 285

Rostov-on-Don, 306

Rosyth, 194

Rouen, 51, 73, 86, 89, 139, 141, 186, 187, 203, 212, 253, 307, 348, 350

Roulers, 328

Rowland, Emmanuel, 95

Rowland, M. C., 231

Royal Aircraft Factory, 119

Royal Arsenal (see also Woolwich), 103, 105, 119–20, 122

Royal Engineers Journal, 24, 104

Royal Indian Marine, 171, 174, 360

Royal Mail, 73

Royal Military College, 102

Royal Navy (see also Admiralty, Grand Fleet), 7, 19, 26, 29, 33, 35, 41, 45, 63, 80, 84, 85, 153, 162–3, 171, 175, 252, 274, 281, 285, 297, 324

Royal Statistical Society, 264

Royal United Services Institution, 239–40

Royden, Thomas, 73–4, 211–12

Rubik’s cube, 12

Ruck, R. M., 48

Runciman, Walter, 23

RUSI Journal, 342

Russia, 16, 120, 298–306, 318

Russian army, 299

Russian Civil War, 306

Russo-Japanese War, 54–5

Rylands and Sons, 41 n66

St Etienne, 307

St Leonards-on-Sea, 193

St Mary’s church, 58n130

St Omer, 170, 216

St Omer en Chaussée, 102

St Pierre Brouck, 183, 186

St Quentin, 361, 363

Canal, 170, 359, 361

St Roch, 203

St Valery, 253, 347

Salisbury Plain, 82

Salonika (see also British Salonika Force (BSF)), 130, 131–3, 134, 159, 161, 164–5, 278–9, 284, 286, 287, 288, 315

Sambre,

battle of the, 363

River, 168–9

Sari Bahr, 95

Sarrail, Maurice, 133

Savona, 311

Scapa Flow, 26, 85

‘Scene Shifter’, 195

Scheldt, 80, 168

scheme ‘X’, 346

scheme ‘Y’, 346

scheme ‘Z’, 350

Schlieffen plan, 77

School of Military Engineering, 24, 44

Schuster, Felix, 48

Scooter, Charles, 33

Scott, Philip, 51

Sea of Japan, 277

Second World War, 45

Seely, Jack, 69, 73

Seine, 186, 188, 340

Selle, battle of the, 361–2

Serbia, 132, 133

Sevastopol, 2

Showalter, Denis, 26

Simpson, L. S., 157–8, 281, 350–1

Sinai, 131

Small Heath, 84

Smith, Frederick, 28

Smith, George Murray, 226–7

Smith, Herbert Guthrie, 123, 124

Smith, Richard, 268

Somme

battle of the, 6, 19, 51, 96, 119, 125, 137, 138, 140, 157, 168, 185–9, 192, 200, 202–8, 212, 217, 224, 234, 241, 244, 246–8, 255–6, 260, 276, 290, 300, 318, 321, 323, 325, 328, 334, 340, 346, 363, 365, 371

German retirement on the (1917), 192–3, 325

River, 167, 179, 180, 187, 190, 197, 203, 323, 324, 325, 327, 347–53

Soquence, 187

South Africa, 44, 59, 128

South African War, 9, 41, 43, 70, 97, 103–4, 115, 116, 169, 171, 208, 232, 270

South-Eastern and Chatham Railway (SECR), 68, 84, 122, 126, 138, 140, 142–7, 149–50, 152–5, 157, 159–63, 165–6, 167, 194, 210, 249, 288

South Manchurian Railway, 300

South Shields, 36

Southampton, 37, 70–2, 76, 80–1, 83, 85–7, 163, 194, 234

Sowerby, Maurice, 132

Spiers, Edward, 103

Staff College, Camberley (see Army Staff College)

Starling, John, 163, 268–9

State Railway, France, 307

Stavros, 164–5

Steenwerck, 327

Stephenson, George, 27

Stevenson, David, 78–9, 96–7, 290, 338

Stewart, John W., 266, 280–3, 344, 346, 372

Stewart, Theodore, 275–6

Stokes, Alice (see Alice Geddes) Stokes, Claude, 54

Stoneman, Mark, 67

Stour, 185

Strachan, Hew, 17, 46

Streidinger, Oscar, 51

Stuart-Wortley, Richard Montagu, 112– 13, 172, 174, 207–8, 209, 218, 221, 224, 226, 229–30, 239, 372

Sudan, 44, 134, 282

Sudan Government Railways, 132, 133

Sudan Military Railway, 103, 134

Suez Canal, 128–31, 134, 280

Suez Canal Company, 129, 130

Supreme War Council (SWC), 309–10, 313–16, 347, 350, 351–2

Surrey Docks, 47

Suttie, Andrew, 293

Swabey, Wilfred, 51

Swansea, 10

Swindon works, 95, 123

Szlumper, Gilbert, 250 n41

Taff Vale Railway, 124

Tagg, George, 174

Tagliamento, 286–7

Tancarville Canal, 186–7

Taranto, 285–90, 313

Tasli, 164

Taylor, A. J. P., 78–9, 91

Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 49, 53, 118

Tempest, Percy, 142–6, 166, 167

Tetley-Stephenson, Wilfred, 47, 51

Thames,

dockyards, 147

estuary, 36

River, 30, 175, 227

Thiepval, 59n130, 217

Thomas, Albert, 296

Thompson, Julian, 65

Thompson, Rob, 355

Thornton, Henry, 249 n41

The Times, 1, 116, 229, 251

Tipperary, 149

Tompson, R. H. D., 85, 97–8, 106

Townshend, Charles, 137

Townshend, G. R., 48

train control system, 179, 226, 257–63

Transvaal, 270

Travers, Tim, 6–7

Trench Warfare Department, 3

Trevithick, A. R., 124

Tripoli, 281

Troup, Edward, 39

Turnbull, Robert, 249n41

Turner, George Henry, 33

Twiss, John, 97, 102, 108–9, 145, 180–1, 188, 217, 231, 244

Ugolini, Laura, 3

Ulrichsen, Kristian Coates, 130

Ulster, 23

Underground Electric Railways Company of London, 41

Underwood, Commander, 253–4

United States of America, 7–8, 9, 41, 52–4, 118, 120, 121, 165, 209, 247, 255, 264, 308, 318, 322

University of Birmingham, 47, 351 n118

Urals, 304

Urwick, Lyndall, 86, 99

van Creveld, Martin, 12, 15, 77

Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 58 n130

Vaux, 97

Ventimiglia, 311

SS Vera, 97

Verdun, 167, 310, 345

battle of, 187, 241, 246–7, 248, 318

Versailles, 314

Vickers, Sons and Maxim, 41n66

Villers-Bretonneux, 190, 241, 339, 347

Vimy, 323

Virginia, 53

Vladivostok, 300–1

Vologda, 300

von der Marwitz, Georg, 346

Wace, Edmund, 272, 274–5

Waghorn, William, 127–8

wagons (see rolling stock)

Walker, Herbert, 89–90, 249

war book, 74

War Cabinet, 283, 288, 292, 303

War Office, 1, 3, 30, 32–4, 37–9, 41, 45, 46, 48, 52, 64, 65–6, 68–72, 74, 75, 81, 83, 96, 112, 119, 122–3, 124, 126, 132, 148, 152–5, 162–4, 168, 170–2, 174, 178, 185, 194, 200, 201, 206–8, 210, 212, 215, 220, 225–6, 228–9, 231, 235, 239–40, 244–5, 247, 250, 276, 278, 283, 309, 314, 315–16, 343, 377

War Railway Council, 33–4, 39

Ward, Edward, 46, 48, 51

The Wash, 30

Waterloo, battle of, 25

Watson, Arthur, 249n41

Watson, E. A., 124

Watson, Henry, 59

Watt, Henry, 23

Webb, Arthur, 279

Webb, Sidney, 47, 48

Wedgwood, Ralph, 56, 224–5, 227, 271–5, 343, 360, 363, 372

Wellington, Duke of, 24–5, 26

West, Fred, 152–3

Westminster, 40, 52

Weston, E. G., 174

White Star Line, 73

Whitehall (see also War Office), 51, 64, 113, 117

Wilgus, William John, 17 n61, 308–9

Williams, R. H., 174–5

Williams, Rhys, 286

Williams, Ronald, 212

Wilson, Bertram, 48, 49

Wilson, Henry, 8, 38, 64–6, 68–72, 74–5, 77–81, 83, 87–8, 90–1, 221, 239, 304–5, 346, 368

Wilson, Trevor, 335

Winnipeg, 298

‘with France’ (WF) scheme, 19, 64–5, 69–70, 74–81, 83, 87, 91, 106, 146, 368

Woodroffe, C. R., 190, 214, 244

Wool Transport Office, 3

Woolwich (see also Royal Arsenal), 48, 52, 103, 118, 119–20, 146

Worcester, 83–4

Yelverton, B. J. D., 160–1

YMCA, 376

York, 33, 56, 58, 265

York railway and lecture debating society, 57

Ypres, 95, 110, 126, 158, 167, 175, 202, 307, 327, 332, 345

First Ypres, 100–1, 110, 148

Third Ypres, 246, 263, 283, 307, 321, 327, 328–35, 338, 358–9, 365

Zagazig, 129, 130–1

Zeebrugge, 115

Zeneghem, 183–7, 324

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