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- Brown,Book of the Western Front, 17; Philpott,Anglo-French Relations and Strategy, 25–6;
Terraine,Mons, 183–4. - Ernest Sanger,Letters From Two World Wars: A Social History of English Attitudes to War, 1914–45
(Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1993), 13. Letter from Captain Julian Grenfell, 1st Royal Dragoons,
to his parents, 3 November 1914. - Trevor Wilson,The Myriad Faces of War(New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986), 53. Corporal
John Lucy, 22 August 1914. - Sanger,Letters From Two World Wars, 10. Letter from Sub-Lieutenant Rupert Brooke to
Leonard Bacon, 11 November 1914. - Wilson,Myriad Faces of War, 46. Statement of Corporal B. J. Denore, 3–5 September
1914. - Captain Lionel William Crouch,Duty and Service: Letters From the Front(London: Hazell, Watson
& Viney, 1917), 27. Letter from Captain Lionel Crouch to his Father, 29 August 1914. - Hamilton,First Seven, 38. Julian Grenfell was the cousin of Captain Francis Grenfell, who
won the VC at Elouges, 24 August 1914. - Sanger,Letters From Two World Wars, 14. Letter from Captain Julian Grenfell to his mother,
14 May 1915. - Corelli Barnett,The Sword Bearers: Supreme Command in the First World War(Bloomington, IN:
Indiana University Press, 1963), 76, 92; Philpott,Anglo-French Relations and Strategy, 27–8. - Register, 169.
- Ibid., p. 103.
- Ibid., p. 312.
- Philpott,Anglo-French Relations and Strategy, 31–5;Wilson, Myriad Faces of War, 47–8.
- Barnett,The Sword Bearers, 94–5.
- Hew Strachan,The First World War, Volume I: To Arms(Oxford: University Press, 2001),
264. - Register, 91. Private Frederick Dobson.
- Ibid., p. 42. Lieutenant William Arthur McCrae Bruce.
- Vallentin was leading an attack at Zillebeke, Belgium on 7 November 1914 when he
was knocked down by a bullet. He got back to his feet and was immediately shot
dead. The justification for his award was ‘the capture of the enemy’s trenches which
immediately followed was in great measure due to the confidence which the men had
in their captain, arising from his many previous acts of great bravery and ability.’ - Register, 189, 319; Barnett, Britain and Her Army, 343–5.
- Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson,Command on the Western Front: The Military Career of Sir
Henry Rawlinson(Oxford: Blackwell, 1992), 12–15; William Dilworth Puleston,The High
Command in the World War(New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1934), 100–5; Peter Slowe
and Richard Woods,Fields of Death: Battle Scenes of the First World War(London: Robert Hale,
1986), 28. - Official History of the Great War(London: HMSO, 1925), 2: 235.
- Register, 185.
- Johnson,Breakthrough!, 89; Slowe and Woods,Fields of Death, 87–9; Wilson,Myriad Faces of
War, 256–8. - Register, 271.
- Brown,Book of the Western Front, 33. Letter from Captain E. W. S. Balfour, Adjutant, 5th
Dragoon Guards, to ?, 3 December 1914. - Lee Kennett,The First Air War, 1914–1918(New York: The Free Press, 1991), 153.