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- Arthur Surfleet, ‘Blue Chevrons: An Infantry Private’s Great War Diary’ (Imperial War
Museum Collections); Quoted in Wilson,Myriad Faces of War, 358. - Ibid.
- Denis Winter,Death’s Men, 225–6.
- Wilson,Myriad Faces of War, 333. Statement of Graham Seton Hutchison, 15 July 1916.
- Surfleet, ‘Blue Chevrons,’ quoted in Wilson,Myriad Faces of War, 356.
- Sanger,Letters From Two World Wars, 31. Letter from Private Ivor Gurney to Marion Scott,
7 August 1916. - Surfleet, ‘Blue Chevrons,’ early October, 1916, quoted in Wilson,Myriad Faces of War,
359; Surfleet, ‘Blue Chevrons,’ incident during the battle of the Somme, quoted in
Wilson,Myriad Faces of War, 356. - R. H. Haigh and P. W. Turner,World War One and the Serving British Soldier(Manhattan, KS:
Military Affairs/Aerospace Historian, 1979), 15. - Haig,Private Papers, 70, 72; Carver,Seven Ages, 170–3.
- Wilson,Myriad Faces of War, 315.
- Travers,Killing Ground, 87–8, 130.
- Haig,Private Papers, 147.
- Prior and Wilson,Command on the Western Front, 147–8; see also Carver,Seven Ages, 178–9.
- Prior and Wilson,Command on the Western Front, 78. Diary entry of Sir Henry Rawlinson,
14 March 1915. - Ibid., 77–80; Wilson,Myriad Faces of War, 317.
- Travers,Killing Ground, 160.
- See PRO File WO/32/7463 for examples of Kitchener filtering recommendations.
- Desmond Morton,When Your Number’s Up(Toronto: Random House of Canada, 1993),
246–7. - Travers,Killing Ground, 154, 166–7.
- PRO File WO/32/3443. Minutes to the Second Meeting of the Victoria Cross Commis-
sion. During the discussion concerning the elective principle, the Army representative,
Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Herbert Douglas-Scott, reported that ‘in a campaign the Army
works out roughly at one [Victoria Cross] in 5,000 [men]’ but he did not cite any
formula for determining the number of Crosses granted as a hard ratio of the number
of troops involved. - Register, 172.
- The following ‘True Tale of Todger Jones’ comes from a 31 July 1995 interview with
Major (ret) Tony Astle, Acting Regimental Historian of the 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment;
as a young officer with the regiment, he knew Jones, and heard a very different version
of the deed from the man who did it. - Chester Regiment Museum File.Jones, T. A. VC, DCM, Pvt.
CHAPTER 8- David R. Woodward,Lloyd George and the Generals(East Brunswick, NJ: Associated University
Presses, 1983), 91, 142, 224–5. Lloyd George’s disapproval of Haig’s command abilities
predated his assumption of the premiership and continued to the end of the war. - The War Cabinet consisted of Lloyd George, Lord Curzon, Sir Austen Chamberlain,
Lord Robert Cecil, and Walter Long. For an insider appraisal of the creation of the
- David R. Woodward,Lloyd George and the Generals(East Brunswick, NJ: Associated University