Awarded for Valour_ A History of the Victoria Cross and the Evolution of the British Concept of Heroism

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provided by the school’s budget for the Cadet’s Rifle Club. The initial issue for the club
was 6000 rounds; the cadets bought an additional 14,000 rounds. Riflery, however,
was not part of the Sandhurst curriculum until after 1902, while the cadets still spent
three hours a day on riding and sword drills. See also Major Darrell D. Hall, ‘Field
Artillery in the British Army, 1860–1960: Part II 1900–1914’,Military History Journal, vol.
2 no. 5 (June 1973); Hubert C. Johnson,Breakthrough! Tactics, Technology, and the Search for
Victory on the Western Front(Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1994), 4–6, and Spiers,Army and
Society, 247.



  1. Ian Beckett, ‘The British Army, 1914–1918: The Illusion of Change,’ in John Turner,
    ed.,Britain and the First World War(London: Unwin Hyman, 1988), 101–2; Skelley,The
    Victorian Army at Home, 287, 297.

  2. Malcolm Brown,The Imperial War Museum Book of the Western Front(Osceola, WI: Motorbooks
    International, 1994), 9; Luvaas,Education of an Army, 313.

  3. Ernest W. Hamilton,The First Seven Divisions(New York: E. P. Dutton, 1916), 10.

  4. William James Philpott,Anglo-French Relations and Strategy on the Western Front(London:
    Macmillan, 1996), 11–12. This role was more or less stumbled upon as a result of inco-
    herent pre-war planning on the part of both government and military leadership. French
    leadership was far less sanguine concerning the combat effectiveness of the BEF, considering
    its initial contribution more of a morale boost than anything else.

  5. J. M. Bourne,Britain and the Great War, 1914–1918 (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1989),
    13–15.

  6. ‘Mons,’Times, 22 August 1914, p. 5.

  7. David Ascoli,The Mons Star: The British Expeditionary Force, 5th Aug.–22nd Nov. 1914(London:
    Harrap, 1981), 62–5; Hamilton,First Seven, 15–27. For a much more colorful account
    of the Battle of Mons, see A. Corbett-Smith,The Retreat From Mons by One Who Shared in it
    (London: Cassell, 1916), 69–87.

  8. Register, 87.

  9. Ibid., p. 121.

  10. John Terraine,Mons: The Retreat to Victory(London: B. T. Batsford, 1960), 99.

  11. Register, 152.

  12. Terraine,Mons, 108.

  13. Brigadier General James Edward Edmonds, ed.,Military Operations, France and Belgium,
    1914 (London: Macmillan, 1922), 77. Lance-Corporal Charles Alfred Jarvis and Captain
    Theodore Wright both won Crosses for their efforts to destroy the bridges.

  14. Daniel David,The 1914 Campaign: August–October, 1914(New York: Military Press, 1987),



  15. Register. 11, 130.

  16. Hamilton,First Seven, 44–6; Terraine,Mons, 125.

  17. Register, 341.

  18. Ibid., pp. 11, 341.

  19. Terraine,Mons, 141.

  20. Peter Liddle,The Soldier’s War, 1914–1918(London: Blandford Press, 1988), 32–3.

  21. Ascoli,The Mons Star, 108–9.

  22. Register, 342.

  23. Edmonds,Military Operations, 236–7.

  24. Terraine,Mons, 192.

  25. Ascoli,The Mons Star, 133–5.

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