List of Research Sources

The list captures the majority of the specific sources used to establishthe individuals wartime travels and significant events. Each individuals page has a list of the resources used specifically for that person and these are identified with a superscript number at the end of a paragraph. The TNG database contains all the genealogical sources for life events outside the war.

  1. Family members stories, photographs, memorabilia, records, diaries and articles as per acknowledgements on individual pages
  2. Western Front Association.
  3. Passchendaele Day-by-day website .
  4. 1/4th Oxford & Bucks, 1916-1919 Roll of Honour.
  5. Full War Diary of 1/4th Battalion .
  6. Somme 1916 Gerald Gliddon.
  7. Extracted From The Regimental Chronicles Of the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Compiled by Steve Berridge.
  8. Slaughter on the Somme by John Grehan, Martin Mace.
  9. Hospital records national archives MH106/930.
  10. War Diary of 5th (Service) Bn. Oxford and Bucks LI.
  11. 123rd Battalion war diaries @ collectionscanada.ca
  12. London Gazette
  13. Fleming, John. “The Last Voyage of His Majesty’s Hospital Ship Britannic” Wordsmith, UK, 1998.
  14. Timaru Herald, Volume CV, Issue 16128, 24 November 1916, Page 7
  15. Mills, Simon. “HMHS Britannic: The Last Titan” Waterfront Publications, UK, 1992.
  16. The British Artillery bombardment before the Somme
  17. Somme 1916 Gerald Gliddon
  18. Dick Flory at the War Forum
  19. Andrew Hesketh at http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums
  20. The Long, Long Trail The British Army in the Great War, 1914-1918. :
  21. Wikipedia
  22. War Diary 7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters.
  23. CWGC Database of casualties
  24. Gommecourt
  25. Breaking the Hindenburg Line – Priestley, R. E.
  26. 6th Dorset’s War Diary and Appendices.
  27. 2nd Battalion Worcestershire Regt. War diary.
  28. Hospital records National Archives MH106/954
  29. A Short History Of The 6th Division 1914-1919, Sir Thomas Owen Marden.
  30. Annette @ the War Forum http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com
  31. War Record of the 21st London Regiment (First Surrey Rifles) 1914-1919, Naval & Military Press (Author)
  32. Royal Flying Corps (RAF) records for Francis from 1917-1918
  33. 4th Squadron War Diaries.
  34. RAF records.
  35. 59th Bn. War Diary
  36. 8th Field Coy. Engineers War Diary
  37. 8th Field Ambulance War Diary
  38. Tanks in the Great War 1914-1918 by Brevet-Colonel J. F. C. Fuller, D.S.O.
  39. The National Roll of the Great War
  40. The Long, Long Trail The British Army in the Great War- Tanks.
  41. Landships Narratives Detailed analysis of the Tanks and their battalion movements.
  42.   ‘E’ (5th) Bn. Tank Corps Diary .  Appendix
  43. The 12th Royal Lancers in France : August 17th, 1914-November 11th, 1918. by H. V. S. Charrington
  44. Bourlon Woods – Cave, Nigel and Horsfall, Jack
  45. The Story of the Twenty-First. 
  46. AWM War Diary 21st and 24th Battalions.
  47. The East Surrey Regiment 1900 – 1914.
  48. Surrey Military Records.
  49. Paul Nixon @ armyservicenumbers.blogspot.ca
  50. Forum at The Long, Long Trail The British Army in the Great War, 1914-1918.
  51. Volume V of the Annals of the King’s Royal Rifle Corps .
  52. Report of the G.O.C. 33rd Division.
  53. King’s Royal Rifle Corps-Regimental History.
  54. Wikipedia
  55. Historical Factsheet Church Lads Brigade -16th KRRC
  56. With the CLB in France-Rev. James Duncan
  57. CWGC deaths database at http://www.hut-six.co.uk
  58. The Woods And Copses: Nature’s Fortresses of the Somme on the Western Front.
  59. 11th Canadian Troops war diaryOverview 13th FA at War Time Memories
  60. Extracts from The 59th Pioneer Infantry Regiment by Brig. Gen. Kennard R. Wiggins Jr.
  61. War diary 12th Battalion Rifle Brigade – Somme October 1916
  62. The Royal Fusiliers In The Great War By H. C. O’Neill, O.B.E.
  63. The war diary of the 246th West Riding Brigade Royal Field Artillery
  64. Commonwealth War Graves Commission description of Battle of Sambre.
  65. The Long, Long Trail The British Army in the Great War, 1914-1918.
  66. Medical Evacuation
  67. The 18th Division in the Great War. By G. H. F. Nichols.
  68. War Diary 7th KOYL 1915-1918
  69. Jeremy Arter
  70. The-History of The Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry 1914-1919
  71. Military Operations France and Flanders 1914 by Brigadier-General J. E. Edmonds
  72. Company “E”, 312th Infantry, 78th Division in France.
  73. The History of the 78th Division.
  74. American Armies and Battlefields in Europe, Library of Congress 1938.
  75. War diary of 11th KORL
  76. Fricourt 1st July 1916
  77. Order of Battle-British Infantry Units.
  78. The Cornwall’s Regimental Museum.
  79. Notes from Hugo White at Cornwalls Regimental Museum
  80. The-History-of-The-Duke-of-Cornwalls-Light-Infantry-1914-1919 by E Wyrall
  81. Long Long Trail- The Army Veterinary Corps.
  82. The Liverpool Scottish Museum Trust.
  83. History of the Kings (Liverpool) regiment 1914-1919 Vol 1,II &III by Everard Wyrall.
  84. Liverpool Scottish visit to Belgium and France in 2005.
  85. Gallipoli by Peter Hart.
  86. The history of the Victorian Scottish Regiment and the 5th Infantry Battalion edited by Brigadier F.W. Speed QBE ED.
  87. Raising and Training the 5th Battalion AIF.
  88. Gallipoli 1915.
  89. TFNS War Diaries
  90. The Fiftieth Division by Everard Wyrall.
  91. The War Diaries of the 149th Brigade 50th Div.
  92. 6th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers – War Diary – May 1918
  93. David Blanchard at Twitter The Aisne 1918 @foxton44
  94. War Diary of the 16th Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers
  95. Wartime memories project 16th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
  96. Historical Records of the 16th (Service) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
  97. RAF Muster (April 1918).
  98. War Diary of 15/17th West Yorkshire LI.
  99. Accrington Pals.
  100. 11th Durham Light Infantry website
  101. Archives New Zealand
  102. Auckland War Museum
  103. The New Zealand Camps in England Author: Lt. H. T. B. Drew
  104. Title: The New Zealand Division 1916 – 1919: A Popular History Based on Official Records. Author: Col. H. Stewart
  105. The Chronicle of the NZEF 30th June 1916
  106. Official History Of The Otago Regiment, N.Z.E.F. In The Great War 1914-1918 By Lieutenant Arthur Emmett Byrne.
  107. 12th Battalion East Surrey’s war diary
  108. The War Diary of the 10th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regt.
  109. The Fifth Division in the Great War by A. H. Hussey
  110. The Birmingham Pals by Terry Carter.
  111. First World War Representative Medical Records of Servicemen NA ref.MH106/619
  112. The Keep Military Museum
  113. 1914-18 Encyclopedia-The Balkans
  114. 2nd Bn. Australian Imperial Force War Diary.
  115. 23rd Bn. Australian Imperial Force War Diary.
  116. 48th Bn. Australian Imperial Force War Diary.
  117. Royal Navy Registers of Seamen’s Services. Royal Naval Air Service RNAS. The National Archives, Kew Reference: ADM 188/628/984
  118. No 2 Construction Company by Calvin Ruck
  119. The History of The Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry 1914-1919.
  120. Robert Bell Smart the Royal Engineers Signals Unit
  121. War Diary Blog- Ernest 11th Bn. Rifle Brigade War diary.
  122. 10th Bn. Rifle Brigade War diary
  123. The History of the Twentieth Division -InglefieldJ Dockray RE Signals East Africa
  124. Order of battle of the United States land forces in the World War American Expeditionary Forces divisions Vol. 1 & 2 Center Of Military History, United States Army, Washington, D.C., 19885th Army Diary.
  125. Labour Corps diaries;60 Gp Diary, 38 Gp Diary.,
  126. VI Corps Diary.
  127. XVII Corps Diary.
  128. 3rd Army Diary.
  129. IV Corps Diary.
  130. XIII Corps Diary.
  131. XV Corps Diary.
  132. King’s Royal Rifle Corps-Regimental History.
  133. The Thirty-Third Division in France and Flanders 1915-1919-Seton Hutchinson.
  134. Volume V of the Annals of the King’s Royal Rifle Corps.
  135. Royal Fusiliers In The Great War by C. O’Neill
  136. Ypres And The Great War by Simon Farr.
  137. National Roll of the Great War 1914-1918.
  138. The War Diary of the 2nd Bn. Northamptonshire Regt.
  139. History of the Cheshire Regt. in the Great War – Crookenden
  140. Intelligence Briefing For The 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division in Holland
  141. A brief record of the advance of the Egyptian expeditionary force under the command of General Sir Edmund H. H. Allenby … July 1917 tFrom 2nd Bn. Wiltshire Regt Archives. SBYRW : 24099, SBYRW : 24100, 24101 and SBYRW : 4309.
  142. Military History Journal – Vol 2 No 1-The Society for Military History
  143. 1st Bn. Wiltshire’s war diary October 1918
  144. http://alh-research.tripod.com/Light_Horse
  145. Trove Digitised Newspapers
  146. The 12th (Eastern) Division in 1914-1918
  147. The Royal Fusiliers in the Great War
  148. The U.S., Adjutant General Military Records, 1631-1976 Name: William H Blenko Report Year: 1917-1918 Service State: Ohio
  149. Correll’s History of the AEF Air Service
  150. 24th RF war diary translation Andy Pugh..
  151. War diary of 158 Brigade RFA at National Archives WO95/538
  152. The Highland Light Infantry Chronicle.
  153. Westlake’s ‘Battalions on the Somme’.
  154. 13th Battalion Middlesex Regiment – War diary.
  155. The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Chronicle, 1916-17. Vol 26: compiled and edited by Lieut.-Colonel A.F. Mockler-Ferryman: London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1918
  156. History of the Second Division 1914-1918: Everard Wyrall: London: Thomas Nelson and Sons 1921
  157. Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum59th Division movements from http://www.1914-1918.net/59div.htm.
  158. 59th Division: 1915-1918 By Lt Col E.U. Bradbridge..
  159. The 35th Division.
  160. The 140th Infantry From Doniphan to Verdun: the Official History of the 140th Infantry.
  161. Ohio State Records.
  162. American Armies and Battlefields in Europe, Library of Congress 1938.
  163. Stars and Stripes MagazinDerbyshire Territorials.
  164. War Diary of 1/5th Sherwood Foresters.
  165. The Territorial Divisions, 1914-1918 by John Stirling.
  166. The breaking of the Hindenburg line. the story of the 46th (North Midland) Division / with an introduction by G. F. Boyd.
  167. The 46th (North Midland) Division at Lens in 1917. By Pat S. C. Campbell-Johnston.e.
  168. The official roster of Ohio soldiers, sailors, and marines in the World War 1917-1918.
  169. War Diary of the 1st Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
  170. The Fiftieth Division by Everard Wyrall.
  171. The 1/5th Border Bn.
  172. The Territorial Divisions 1914-1918 by J Stirling
  173. The Times 1915 report on the Landing at Suvla.
  174. http://www.kaiserscross.com/
  175. Order of battle of the United States land forces in World War American
  176. Expeditionary Forces divisions Vol. 2 Center Of Military History, United States Army, Washington, D.C., 1988
  177. The Second Division, Syllabi Of The Histories Of Regiments and Separate Organizations.
  178. Aisne-Marne Offensive, 18 July – 6 August 1918, Group Research – Group VII- Captain Zeidner.
  179. US Militaria Forum
  180. Ninth Infantry Toulon – Troyon
  181. Manchu.org website
  182. Company “E”, 312th Infantry, 78th Division in France
  183. The history of the 78th Division.
  184. History of the 353rd infantry regiment, 89th division, National Army.
  185. Kansas State History Society-World War I Bounty Claims Records
  186. Kansas State History Society-World War I Bounty Claims Records
  187. History of the 7th Infantry Division
  188. Maurice de Castelbled: History of the AEF
  189. War Diaries of 8th Bn. Berkshire Regiment
  190. Camp Funston Military Records, 1914-1919.
  191. History of Company D 314th Engineers.
  192. 41st Division History.
  193. Worcestershire Regiment in the Great War Vol 1-2, Fitz M. Stacke, Luton: Andrews UK:2013
  194. 54th Infantry Brigade France. March 1919.
  195. The Royal Fusiliers In The Great War By H. C. O’Neill, O.B.E..
  196. Mississippi State Service Records.
  197. The 25th Division in France and Flanders; Kincaid-Smith, M.
  198. Essex Yeomanry war diaries.
  199. 42nd (East Lancashire) Infantry Division
  200. Notes on  Commander Locker Lampson.
  201. Dunsterforce Persia Baku Oil Fields.
  202. War Diaries of Permanent Base Engineering Unit and 1st Canadian Filed Ambulance.
  203. The war history of the 14th Battalion, the London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), by Captain F. Clive Grimwade.
  204. Grenadier Guards War diary.
  205. Vol 1. The Grenadier Guards in the Great War 1914-1918  Frederick Ponsonby
  206. The 74th (Yeomanry) Division in 1914-1918
  207. The Great War Forum http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com.
  208. The Bedfordshire Regiment War diaries.
  209. Birmingham Pals by Terry Carter.
  210. The Woods and Vol 2. And Copses: Nature’s Fortresses of the Somme on the Western Front.
  211. The Battle of the Somme: the Battle of Guillemont, 3-6 September 1916.
  212. War diary of 1st Devon Battalion of the 95th Bde 4th Oct 1917.
  213. Accrington Pals at La Becque 28th June 1918.
  214. 4th Battalion Coldstream Guards War Diary extracts for Sept.1916 and 1918.
  215. The Coldstream Guards 1914-18 by Lieut. Colonel.Sir John Ross.
  216. The Royal Field Artillery in Worcestershire Battle of Aubers Ridge, Edward Hancock, Havertown: Pen and Sword:2005.
  217. Most Unfavourable Ground, Niall Cherry.
  218. 1915 Campaign in France: The Battles of Aubers Ridge, Festubert and Loos. by A Kearsey.
  219. . How Jerusalem Was Won, by W.T. Massey.
  220. The History of the Sixtieth Division.
  221. The 2nd Bn. Suffolks War Diary
  222. The 47th (London) Division, 1914-1919 edited by Alan H. Maude.
  223. Liverpool Pals by Graham Maddocks.
  224. War diary for the 17th Bn.
  225. Wikipedia
  226. History of the Kings (Liverpool) regiment 1914-1919 Vol 1,II &III by Everard Wyrall
  227. 55th Division Headquarters Diary for September 18. WO 95 2906-4
  228. Gregson, Adrian (2004) The 1/7th Battalion King’s Liverpool Regiment and the Great War – the Experience of a Territorial Battalion and its Home Towns. PhD thesis, Coventry University in collaboration with National Museums on Merseyside.
  229. War Diary of 55th Div RFA-Oct-Nov 1915.
  230. War Diary of 1/ 2nd West Lancs Brigade-Oct-Nov 1915.
  232. The Thirty-Fourth Division 1915-1919 J Shakespear.
  233. History of the Cheshire Regt. in the Great War – Crookenden.
  234. The 1/5th South Lancashire war diary.
  235. Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War, By Colonel G. W. L. Nicholson, C.D.
  236. Courage on the Battlefield, Canada’s Military Heritage, Volume 2, Arthur Bishop, McGraw-Hill 1993
  237. The History of the Queens Victorian Rifles 1792-1922
  238. Diary of the 10th Gloucestershire Regiment.
  239. 13th Battalion Middlesex Regiment – War diary.