Index of Searchable Terms

1916 Spur

 

Accroche Wood

Acton, Sergeant Samuel

aerial support

ammunition drops

German

Hamel assault

reconnaissance flights

Somme August 1918 offensive

Agram Trench

Aisne River

Aizecourt

Albert

Allaines

Allan, Captain Herbert

Allsop, Captain Lesley

American Forces

27th Division

30th Division

106th Regiment

131st Regiment

301st Heavy Tank Battalion

Australians, relationship with

casualties

Hamel assault, participation in

Hindenburg Line, and

National Guard Divisions

Somme August 1918 offensive

Amiens

German 1918 offensive

post-Armistice parade

Ancre River

Anderson, Corporal Samuel

Anderson, Lance Corporal P. L.

Anderson, Private Arthur

Anderson, Sergeant William

Andrews, Sergeant Harold

Anvil Wood

Aquenne Wood

Archibald, Lieutenant

Arcy Wood

Argonne Forest

Armentières

Armistice

Armistice of Mudros

armoured cars

army of occupation

Arras

artillery

aerial ammunition drops

control at battalion level

counter-battery fire

creeping barrage

German

German naval gun

Hamel assault

heavy see heavy artillery

Hindenburg Line assault

Mont St Quentin assault

Montbrehain

range-finding technology

short shelling

Somme August 1918 offensive

Ascension Farm

Ascension Wood

Aubigny

Auchterlonie, Lieutenant Cecil

Auger Wood

August 1918 offensive

Blue Line

commencement of

day two

digging in

German counterattack

German retreat

Green Line

mopping up

opening barrage

planning

Red Line

second stage advance

Australian Army Corps

formation of

Australian Flying Corps (AFC)

No. 2 Squadron

No. 3 Squadron

No. 4 Squadron

Australian Imperial Force (AIF)

1st Australian Tunnelling Company

1st Battalion

1st Brigade

1st Division

2nd Battalion

2nd Brigade

2nd Division

2nd Pioneer Battalion

3rd Battalion

3rd Brigade

3rd Division

3rd Pioneer Battalion

4th Battalion

4th Brigade

4th Division

5th Battalion

5th Brigade

5th Division

5th Machine Gun Battalion

5th Pioneer Battalion

6th Battalion

6th Brigade

6th Division

6th Machine Gun Company

7th Battalion

7th Brigade

8th Battalion

8th Brigade

9th Battalion

9th Brigade

9th Machine Gun Company

10th Battalion

10th Brigade

11th Battalion

11th Brigade

12th Battalion

12th Brigade

13th Battalion

13th Brigade

13th Light Horse Regiment

14th Battalion

14th Brigade

15th Battalion

15th Brigade

16th Battalion

17th Battalion

18th Battalion

19th Battalion

20th Battalion

21st Battalion

22nd Battalion

23rd Battalion

24th Battalion

25th Battalion

26th Battalion

27th Battalion

28th Battalion

29th Battalion

30th Battalion

31st Battalion

32nd Battalion

33rd Battalion

34th Battalion

35th Battalion

36th Battalion

37th Battalion

38th Battalion

39th Battalion

40th Battalion

41st Battalion

42nd Battalion

43rd Battalion

44th Battalion

45th Battalion

46th Battalion

47th Battalion

48th Battalion

49th Battalion

50th Battalion

51st Battalion

52nd Battalion

53rd Battalion

54th Battalion

55th Battalion

56th Battalion

57th Battalion

58th Battalion

59th Battalion

60th Battalion

aggressive patrolling

Americans, relationship with

army of occupation, exclusion from

command structure

discipline issues

post-war education and training programs

recruitment

repatriation

reputation

response to Armistice

strike action

training

Avenue Cross

Axford, Lance Corporal Thomas

Ayers, Lieutenant

 

Bad Kreuznach

Baker, Lieutenant Harry

Bapaume

Barly

Barrie, Private R. E.

battalion nucleus

Baulch, Private Edwin Eric

Bayonvillers

Bean, Charles

August 1918 offensive, on

Beatham, Private Robert

Beaurevoir

Beaurevoir Line

Belgian Army

Bellenglise

Bellicourt

Benson, Colonel

Bentley, Sergeant John

Berrell, Captain Jack

Berry, Private

Bertangles Cháteau

Bienvillers-au-Bois

Billing, Sergeant Ernest

Billon Wood

Binder, Lieutenant

Binnie, Private James

Birdwood, Lieutenant General William

Blamey, Brigadier General Thomas

Blangy

Blangy-Tronville

Blankenberg, Private John

Bois de Tailles

Bois l’Abbe

Bony

Bony Point

booby traps and mines

Boorman, Lieutenant Arthur

Bosnian Army

Bouchavesnes

Bouchavesnes-Bergen

Bouchavesnes Ridge

Boulogne

Bouzencourt

Boyd, Major General Gerard

Boyes, Sergeant William

Braithwaite, General Sir Walter

Brand, Brigadier Charles

Bray

Bretagne

bridges

prefabricated

reconstructing

British Expeditionary Force (BEF)

1st Cavalry Division

1st Dragoon Guards

2/10th London Regiment

2nd Brigade

2nd Manchesters

2nd Royal Sussex Regiment

III Corps

5th Tank Brigade

6th Battalion London Regiment

7th Brigade

7th Division

8th Battalion Rifle Brigade

8th Division

IX Corps

12th Lancers

16th Lancashire Fusiliers

17th Division

19th Division

25th Division

32nd Division

46th Division

47th Division

55th Brigade

57th Division

58th Division

74th Division

151st Brigade

173rd Brigade

Australian soldiers’ impressions of

Fifth Army

First Army

Fourth Army

German offensive, preparation for

King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

Lincolnshire Regiment

Northumberland Hussars

Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment

Royal East Kent Regiment (‘Buffs’)

Second Army

Sherwood Foresters

Third Army

British High Command

Australian contempt for

British naval blockade

Broodseinde

Brown, Corporal Wally

Brown, Private E. S.

Brunn Trench

Buckley, Corporal Alexander

Buire

Buire Wood

Bulford

Bulgaria

Bullecourt

Burke, Sergeant Major Adrian

Burrows, Lieutenant George

Bussu

Bussu Wood

Bussy-les-Daours

Butler, General Sir Richard

Byng, General Julian

 

Cabaret Wood Farm

Cachy

Cains, Captain N.

Caldwell, Captain

Cambrai

Cambrieres Wood

Canadian Corps

Somme 1918 offensive

Canal Nord

Cappy

Card Copse

Cartigny

Cartwright, Private George

casualties

airmen

American soldiers

gas attacks

German 1918 offensives

Hamel assault

Hindenburg Line assault

Mont St Quentin/Péronne assault

Montbrehain

post-Armistice

repatriation, during

Somme August 1918 offensive

tunnellers

Villers-Bretonneux

Cateaux Wood

Catorall, Private Rigby

cavalry

Célestins Wood

Cerisy

Ceylon Wood

Chapeau de Gendarme

Charleroi

Chaulnes

Chemin des Dames Ridge

Chilly

Chipilly

Chipilly Ridge

Chipilly Spur

Christmas, celebrating

Chuignes

Chuignolles

Claymore Valley

Clemenceau, Georges

Cléry-sur-Somme

Clifton, Lieutenant Cecil

Clough, Lieutenant Horrie

code, using

Collins Copse

Cologne Farm

Cologne River

Comines

communications, battlefield

communications trenches

roads, condition of

runners

secrecy

signallers

Congreve, General Walter

conscription

Cooker Trench

Corbie

Coronet Post

‘corpse factory’

Couchman, Major Frank

Courage, Brigadier General Anthony

Crank, Signaller Ronald

Crépey Wood

Croatian Army

Croft, Lieutenant Frederick

Curlu

Currey, Private William

Currie, Lieutenant General Sir Arthur

Czech Army

 

Dalgleish, Lieutenant Norman

Dalziel, Private Henry

Daours

Darmstadt Trench

Darnell, Captain

Davey, Corporal Albert

Davies, Sergeant

Dean Copse

Dean Trench

defence in depth

Delville Wood

Demobilisation and Repatriation Branch

Dernancourt

desertion

Dog Trench

Doingt

Dompierre-Becquincourt

Doullens

Downing, Captain

 

Eade, Captain

Earwaker, Lieutenant

Ebert, Friedrich

Eclusier

Elliott, Brigadier General Harold ‘Pompey’

Ellison, Private George Edwin

Elsa Trench

engineers

Entrepot Trench

Épehy

Erzberger, Matthias

estaminets

Estrées

Estrées-Mons

Étaples

Étinehem

Étinehem Peninsula

Étricourt

Evans, Jack

 

Fairweather, Captain Francis

families of soldiers, repatriation of

Fargny Mill

Fargny Wood

Ferres, Major Harold

Ferret Trench

Feuillaucourt

Feuillères

field guns

field punishment

Findlay, Major George

Finlay, Captain

Finney, Private J. S.

Flamicourt

Fletcher, Captain Harry

Flint Ridge

Flood, Lieutenant William

Florina Trench

Foch, General Ferdinand

Armistice

Somme 1918 offensive

Fouilloy

Fourteen Point Peace Plan

Framerville

French Army

German offensive, preparation for

Moroccan units

response to Armistice

Somme August 1918 offensive

French civilians

Australians, attitude towards

Frencq

friendly fire

Frise

Froissy Plateau

Fromelles

Fryer-Smith, Private Richard

Fuller, Private

Fussell, Major Lesley

 

Gaby, Lieutenant Alfred

Gailly

Galatz Alley

Gallipoli

Gareene Wood

gas attacks

Gellibrand, Major General John

Genève

Gentelles

George V, King

German Army

Allied August 1918 offensive, response to

1918 March offensive

defensive tactics

Eastern Front, on

Hindenburg Line, defence of

morale

Sixth Army

withdrawal

Germany

food shortages

German High Seas Fleet mutiny

political upheaval

Germon, Captain S. L.

Glasgow, Major General Thomas

Glencorse Wood

Glennan, Private

Glisy

Goddard, Lieutenant Colonel Henry

Godley, General Sir Alexander

Gordon, Lance Corporal Bernard

Gott Mit Uns Trench

Gottlieb Trench

Gough, General Sir Hubert

German March 1918 offensive

Gouy

Gouzeacourt

Gower, Lieutenant Hereward

Graham, Lieutenant Wally

Grand Priel Wood

Grant, Sergeant

graves

Graz Trench

Gressaire Wood

Gueudecourt

Guillaucourt

Guillemont Farm

Guillemont Trench

Guisancourt Farm

Gunter, Private Henry

Gutzer Farm

 

Haig, Field Marshall Douglas

‘backs to the wall’ speech

demobilisation and repatriation of soldiers

Hindenburg Line, and

Mont St Quentin assault

post-Armistice

Somme 1918 offensive

Hall, Corporal Arthur

Hallahan, Captain ‘Wally’

Halle

Hamel

commencement of assault

diversionary attacks

Monash’s plan

tanks, use of

Hamel Wood

Hamelet

Handel Copse

Handley Page bombers

Hangard

Hangard Wood

Harbonnières

Harburn, Captain

Hargicourt

Harnett, Captain Edward

Harris, Signaller John

Haut Allaines

Hayes, Sergeant Jack

Hazebrouck

Hazel Wood

Heath Cemetery

Hébuterne

Heilly

Hem

Henderson, Lieutenant Colonel Robert

Hénencourt

Heremene, Henri

Herleville

Herleville Valley

Herring, Brigadier Sydney

Hervilly

Hesbécourt

Hill 60

Hill 104

Hill 140

Hindenburg Line

Allied movement towards

Brown Line

commencement of assault

Green Line

Red Line

trench system

Hindenburg Outpost Line (‘Blue Line’)

capture of

commencement of assault

Hobbs, Major General John Talbot

Hockey, Private

Holnon

Hopkins, Private Arthur

howitzers

Hughes, Billy

Hun’s Walk

Hutchinson, Private Alexander

 

Inferno Trench

influenza

Ingram, Lieutenant George

intelligence, gathering

German

Irvine, Captain

Italy

 

Jaffa Trench

Jean Rouxin Mill

Jean Wood

Jeancourt

Johannes Trench

Joncourt

Joynt, Lieutenant William

 

Kaiserschlacht (Kaiser’s Battle)

Kane, Private

Kassa Trench

Kavanagh, Lieutenant General Sir Charles

Kelly, Lieutenant William

Kemmel

Kidney Trench

Knox-Knight, Lieutenant Colonel Ernest

Koros Alley

Kurilo Alley

Kuring, Major

 

La Fère

La Flaque

La Motte Valley

Laffaux

Lagnicourt

Lancer Wood

Landrecies

Lawrence, Sergeant

Lawson, Lieutenant

Le Catelet

Le Fevre, Lieutenant Stanley

Le Verguier

Leane, Brigadier General Ray

leapfrogging

Lena Wood

Leus Trench

Liéramont

Lihons

Lihu Farm

Lille

Lilley, Lieutenant

Lloyd George, David

Locre

Long Wood

L’Ormisset

Loupart Wood

Loutit, Lieutenant Colonel Noel

Louverval

Lowerson, Sergeant Albert

Loxton, Sergeant Cornelius

Luc Wood

Ludendorff, General Erich

August 1918 offensive, response to

Lugos Trench

Lumbres

Lynch, Private Edward

Lys River

 

McArthur, Lieutenant

McCarthy, Lieutenant Lawrence

McCartin, Lieutenant Leo

McConnochie, Lieutenant Willie

McDonald, Major

McDougall, Sergeant Stan

McHardie, Lieutenant

machine guns

Bergmann

Lewis

Vickers

Mackay, Brigadier Iven

McKay, Sergeant Magnus

Mackenzie, Major Alexander

McKenzie, Lieutenant R. S.

McKillop, Captain

MacMillan, Sergeant Tom

McNicoll, Brigadier Walter

Mactier, Private Robert

Madame Wood

Magny-la-Fosse

Mahony, Captain Austin

Malakoff Farm

Mallard Wood

Mametz Wood

Manefield, Captain Ernest

Mannheim Trench

manpower shortage

Marcelcave

Maricourt

Marks, Colonel Douglas

Marly Wood

Marne

Marrières Wood

Marsden, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas

Marsh, Private David

Mason, Lieutenant

Massey, Corporal Sid

Maxwell, Lieutenant Joe

medical personnel

Meek, Sergeant Major Joe

Menin Road

Mercatel

Méricourt-sur-Somme

Merris

Mesnil

Messines

Meteren

Meyers, Lieutenant Ernest

Mill Ridge

Millencourt

Mills bombs

Mills, Lieutenant Anthony

Milne, Lieutenant Colonel John

minenwerfers (short-range mortars)

Moislains

Monash, Lieutenant General John

Hamel assault

Hindenburg Line assault

Hughes, message from

illness

Mont St Quentin/Péronne assault

repatriation of soldiers

Somme August 1918 offensive

strike action

tanks, use of

Mont St Quentin

assault on

German counterattacks

Montbrehain

Monument Wood

Moore, Private Charles John

Morcourt

Morcourt Valley

Moreuil

Morlancourt

Morshead, Colonel Leslie

Murdoch, Keith

Murie, Lieutenant

Murray, Private

Mushroom Quarry

 

Nauroy

Nauroy Wood

Neuve Église

New Zealand Division

‘nibbling’

Nieppe Forest

Nissen huts

Nissen, Peter

Norrie, Lieutenant Edward

Nottingham, Lance Corporal William

Nurlu

 

Oise River

O’Loughlin, Private

Omiécourt-les-Cléry

Omignon River

Operation Archangel

Operation Blücher-Yorck

Operation Castor and Pollux

Operation George

Operation George II

Operation Georgette

Operation Gneisenau

Operation Hagen

Operation Mars

Operation Max

Operation Michael

Operation Roland

Ottoman Empire

 

Palestine

Pallister, Arthur

Paris

Park Wood

Parker Copse

Parry, Second Lieutenant William

Pascoe, Lieutenant Vic

Passchendaele

Pear Trench

Pen Trench

Pentreath, Lieutenant

Péronne

assault on

German retreat

mopping up

Pershing, General John J.

Peters, Captain Charles

Picardy

Pinto, Private Reuben

Pitman, Private Earnest

Plateau Wood

Plevna Trench

Ploegsteert

Ploegsteert Wood

Plumer, General

Pollington, Captain G. D.

Polygon Wood

Ponchaux

Porter, Sergeant

Pot Trench

Pozières

Prague Trench

Price, Corporal Thomas

Price, Private George Lawrence

prisoners of war

Allied soldiers

German soldiers

Prospect Hill

Proyart

 

Quarry Farm

Quarry Knoll

Quarry Ravine

Querrieu

 

Radegonde

Radomir Trench

Rafferty, Lieutenant Rupert Anstice

Rainecourt

Rainecourt Valley

Rancourt

‘ratting’ (stealing from prisoners)

Rawlinson, General Henry

Hamel assault

Hindenburg Line, and

Mont St Quentin assault

Somme August 1918 offensive

Read, General

Reeves, Private John

Reid, Lieutenant Robert

Reid, Private Walter

Rheims

Richards, Sergeant A. H.

Richardson, Lieutenant John

Rifle Pit Trench

Riqueval Bridge

Rivery

Rixon, Sergeant James

Robbins, Sergeant Fred

Robert Wood

Roberts, Corporal John

Robertson, Lieutenant Lubin

Rochford, Private John

Roisel

Ronssoy

Rosenthal, Major General Charles

Rosières

Royal Engineers

Royal Flying Corps

Royal Horse Artillery

Roye

Rule, Lieutenant Edgar

runners

Rupprecht, Crown Prince

Russian Revolution

 

Sadlier, Second Lieutenant Cliff

Sailly-Laurette

Sailly-le-Sec

St Denis

St Germain Wood

St Martin’s Wood

St Omer

St Quentin

St Quentin Canal

St Quentin Tunnel

Saulty

Save Trench

Schulz, Lance Corporal Boyce Vincent

Scott, Private Vere Stanley

Scutari Trench

Sequehart

Sexton, Sergeant Gerald

Shaw, Lieutenant Bernard

shell holes

Shelley, Max

signallers

Silesie Trench

Simpson, Lieutenant

Small, Lieutenant Charles

Small, Lieutenant George

Smith, Commander Frank

smoke, use of

snipers

Soissons

Somme

August 1918 offensive see August 1918 offensive

battlefields

Sopwith aircraft

Souastre

South Guillemont Trench

souvenirs

Spoil Bank

Spur Wood

Square Wood

Statton, Sergeant Percy

Steen, Captain

Stevens, Private

Stewart, General James

Stokes mortars

Stokes, Sergeant Charlie

Storkey, Lieutenant Percy

Stosstruppen (stormtroopers)

Stranlund, Lance Corporal Olaf

Strazeele

stretcher-bearers

Strickland, General Edward

Styles, Private Lesley

supplies and equipment

battle, during

food, provision of

Germany, shortages in

United States, from

Susan Wood

Suzanne

Swinburne, Captain

 

tactics

aggressive patrolling

‘defence in depth’

leapfrogging

‘nibbling’

‘peaceful penetration’ (trench raiding)

Tailles Wood

Tambling, Captain Richard

tanks

anti-tank weapons

‘Buffoon’

German

Hamel assault

Hindenburg Line assault

infantry training to work with

Mark IV

Mark V

resupply

Somme August 1918 offensive

Whippet

Templeux-le-Guérard

Thiepval

Tincourt

Tovell, Private Tim

Towner, Lieutenant Edgar

Trébuchon, Augustin

Tucker, Private Henry

tunnellers

Turkish Army

Turpin, Private

 

Uber Alles Trench

United States see also American Expeditionary Force (AEF)

entry into war

peace plan

Upchurch, Corporal Wilfred

 

Vaire-sous-Corbie

Vaire Wood

Varna Trench

Vauvillers

Vaux-sur-Somme

Vaux Wood

Vauxhall

Vendelles

Vendhuile

Verdun offensive

Vermand

Vermandovillers

Versailles

Treaty of

Very Lights

Vierstraat

Vignacourt

Villeret

Villers-Bretonneux

Australian National Memorial

battles

POW cages

Vittoria Veneto, Battle of

Vraignes

 

Wackett, Wing Commander Lawrence

Waite, Lieutenant

Walker, Sergeant Major George

Wallach, Captain Clarence

Warfusée

Warfusée-Abancourt

Wark, Major Blair

Warneton

Watou

weather

Weatherby, Lance Corporal Cecil

Weathers, Private Lawrence

Wells, Private Robert

White, General Cyril

Wiancourt

Wignall, Sergeant

Wilder-Neligan, Lieutenant Colonel Maurice

Wilhelm, Kaiser

Wilkinson, Lieutenant Norm

Willow Trench

Wilson, Sergeant Bill

wire

cutting barbed wire defences

post-Armistice removal of

Wolfsberg

Woodrow Wilson, President

Woods, Private James

Woodward, Captain Oliver

Wytschaete

 

Yassa Trench

Young, Corporal ‘Jock’

Ypres

Salient

 

Zillebeke

Zombor Trench

Zonnebeke