When God Made Hell by Charles Townshend

Author:Charles Townshend [Charles Townshend]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571269495
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 2010-09-25T04:00:00+00:00

Notes – PART III: Section 3. Retooling the Army

1 Buchanan, Tragedy of Mesopotamia, pp. 86–8.

2 G. F. MacMunn, The Armies of India (London 1911), p. 129.

3 Wilson, Loyalties, pp. 186–7.

4 Cowper to Moberly, 15 Apr. 1926. NA CAB 45/90. Money letters, 24 Feb. 1916. NAM 9211-19.

5 MacMunn, Behind the Scenes in Many Wars, pp. 219–20.

6 Buchanan, Tragedy of Mesopotamia, pp. 115–16.

7 Wilson, Mesopotamia 1917–1920, pp. 93–4.

8 MacMunn to Alexander, ‘Up Tigris’, 31 Dec. 1916. IWM 76/98/1.

9 OH iii, p. 21. Col. W. H. Leland, With the M. T. in Mesopotamia (London, 1920), noted that the trucks, though apparently standard 3-tonners, were marked ‘Load not to exceed 30 cwt’.

10 Wilson, Loyalties, p. 201.

11 Maude to Whigham, 24 Sep. 1916, q. Andrew Syk, ‘Command and the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, 1915–18’, p. 121.

12 Dickson letters, 23 Oct. 1916. MECA, Dickson MSS, Box 1 file 4.

13 T. E. Lawrence, ‘Intelligence. IEF “D”’, May 1916, in Wilson, Lawrence, App. III, pp. 949–52.

14 MECA, Crowdy diary-letters, 13 Feb, 24 June 1916.

15 William Leith-Ross, ‘Tactical Side’. NAM 8312-69-10.

16 MacMunn, Behind the Scenes, p. 238.

17 Duff to Robertson, 18 Aug. 1916. LHCMA, Robertson MSS 8/1/45.

18 Robertson to Duff, 11 July 1916. LHCMA Robertson MSS 8/1/40.

19 Chamberlain to Robertson, 8 Feb. 1916. LHCMA Robertson MSS 1/13/2/1.

20 The DAQMG of 13th Division, Col. Brownrigg, testified to ‘how wonderfully accessible’ he was. Maj.-Gen. Sir C. Callwell, The Life of Sir Stanley Maude, pp. 165, 230.

21 C-in-C Force D to CGS India, 23 Feb. 1916. NA WO 158/655.

22 Omissi, The Sepoy and the Raj, p. 139.

23 Memorandum V, 15th Lancers Case. NA WO 106/5443.

24 MacMunn, Behind the Scenes, pp. 230–1.

25 Candler, Long Road to Baghdad, i, p. 234.

26 H. St J. B. Philby, Arabian Days, p. 97

27 Ibid., pp. 235–8.

28 Keary letters, 22 May 1916. IWM Con Shelf.

29 Philby, Arabian Days, p. 285.

30 Davson diary, 19 July 1916, IWM 82/25/1.

31 Mark Harrison, ‘The Fight Against Disease in the Mesopotamia Campaign’, in Cecil and Liddle, Facing Armageddon, pp. 475, 478. The Indian troops’ vulnerability to scurvy seems to have been due more to the lack of green vegetables in their diet before they arrived in Mesopotamia.

32 Roe, Diary, p. 173.

33 Ibid., pp. 175–6.

34 Candler, Long Road to Baghdad, i, p. 288.

35 Ibid., p. 290.

36 Ibid., p. 291.

37 Philby, Arabian Days, pp. 107–8.

38 Maude letter, 28 June 1916. Callwell, Sir Stanley Maude, p. 226.

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