Shot at Dawn by Julian Putkowski

Author:Julian Putkowski
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781473818156
Publisher: Pen and Sword

NOTES

1

Brigadier Sir J E Edmonds, Military Operations France & Belgium, 1916, Vol. 1.

2

Desmond Morton, The Supreme Penalty, Canadian Deaths by Firing Squad in the First World War.

3

WO329/1, Index to the Great War Medal Rolls.

4

WO95/1617, Battalion War Diary.

5

Anthony Babington, For the Sake of Example.

6

WO93/49, Summary of First World War capital court martial cases.

7

Canadian Expeditionary Force, Nominal Roll of Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Men.

8

WO95/2922, Battalion War Diary.

9

WO95/2755, Battalion War Diary.

10

Anthony Babington, op cit.

11

Brigadier-General Sir J E Edmonds, op cit.

12

CEF, Nominal Roll, op cit.

13

Sources: WO93/49, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Desmond Morton, respectively.

14

Desmond Morton, op cit.

15

WO95/2587, Battalion War Diary.

16

Allan Jobson, Via Ypres.

17

WO95/2587, op cit.

18

Lord Moran, The Anatomy of Courage.

19

WO95/2587, op cit.

20

Lord Moran in The Anatomy of Courage quotes Sir John Fortescue, historian of the British Army saying, ‘It is, I believe, a fact that even the bravest man cannot endure to be under fire for more than a certain number of consecutive days, even if the fire is not very heavy.’

21

WO95/2578, War Diary of 133 Field Ambulance, RAMC.

22

Allan Jobson, op cit.

23

J W Muirhead Papers, Imperial War Museum, reference no.P146.

24

Information supplied to the War Graves Commission, by the next-of-kin, indicates that Private Roberts was in fact 20 years old.

25

Private Roberts was also prosecuted for fraud.

26

In fact Private Roberts was executed 15 days after his trial.

27

Sunday Star – newspaper, Canada, 18 November 1984.

28

CEF, Nominal Roll, op cit.

29

WO95/3762, Battalion War Diary.

30

WO329/1, op cit.

31

WO95/2663, War Diary of the General Staff of 46 Division.

32

The cancellation of further assaults was considered by a Court of Inquiry. The transcript can be seen in WO95/2663, op cit.

33

WO95/2686, Battalion War Diary.

34

WO95/2663, op cit.

35

WO95/2663, Court of Inquiry transcript, op cit.

36

WO93/49, op cit.

37

Copies of (some) General Routine Orders can be seen in the war diary of the Adjutant-General, GHQ, WO95/26.

38

Soldiers Died in the Great War, part 31.

39

Evidence in Bacon and Langley’s Blast of War, and the allocation of army numbers suggests Wilton volunteered in early 1915.

40

Ibid.

41

Lord Moran, op cit.

42

Hugh Dalton, diary, London School of Economics.

43

Sunday Star (newspaper, Canada) 18 November 1984.

44

Desmond Morton, op cit.

45

WO95/3762, op cit.

46

Desmond Morton, op cit.

47

Alphabetical Roll, New Zealand Expeditionary Force

48

Army Service Record: Private Hughes; eyewitness account quoted by Graeme Lay in his review of Christopher Pugsley, On the Fringe of Hell – New Zealanders and Military Discipline in The First World War (Hodder & Stoughton, 1991) page 122 North & South, May 1991.

49

WO95/26, op cit.

50

WO93/49, op cit.

51

Soldiers Died in the Great War, part 70.

52

Allison & Fairley, The Monocled Mutineer.

53

WO329/1, op cit.

54

WO95/26, op cit.

55

Hansard, 23 March 1925.

56

WO95/1495, Battalion War Diary.

57

WO93/49, op cit.

58

Anthony Babington, op cit.

59

Lord Moran, op cit.

60

WO95/2362, Battalion War Diary.

61

WO93/49, op cit.

62

Ernest W Bell, Soldiers Killed on the First Day of the Somme.

63

Malcolm Brown, Tommy Goes To War.

64

WO93/49, op cit.

65

Ibid.

66

Herbert Bradley quoted in the Bradford Telegraph & Argus Weekend Extra, 27 June 1981.

67

Arthur Wild’s name, together with those of other police officers from the Bradford Force who had enlisted, appeared in the Bradford Weekly Telegraph on 3 September 1915.

68

Malcolm Brown, op cit.

69

Parliamentary attention is the reason for the inclusion of the trial transcript in file WO93/49.

70

WO95/26, op cit.

71

Anthony Babington, op cit.

72

Ibid.

73

WO93/49, op cit.

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