Index of Searchable Terms

1914 Leave

 

aerial reconnaissance

aircraft

aerial bombing

Amiens, Battle of

ammunition parachute drops

Flying Circus

German

Gotha bomber

Hamel, at

noise

Albert

Allen, Colonel Henry A.

Allex, Corporal Jake

Allonville

American Expeditionary Forces 94, 232–3 see also United States Army

27th Division

30th Division

33rd ‘Prairie’ Division

66th Brigade

108th Engineer Regiment

131st Regiment

132nd Regiment

arrival in war zone

Australians, relationship with

awards and decorations

character of soldiers

conscription

French civilians, and

Hamel assault

Hamel, withdrawal prior to

media attention

medical personnel, assisting

Amiens

Battle of

Ancre Valley

Arlington National Cemetery

Armistice

Arras

artillery

counter bombardment

creeping barrage

Hamel plan

opening barrage at Hamel

Roman

short shelling

Assevillers

August offensive

planning

Australian Corps

1st Division

2nd Division

3rd Division

4th Brigade

4th Division

5th Brigade

5th Division

6th Brigade

9th Brigade

10th Brigade

11th Brigade

12th Brigade

13th Australian Light Horse

13th Battalion

13th Brigade

14th Battalion

15th Battalion

15th Brigade

16th Battalion

21st Battalion

33rd Battalion

34th Battalion

42nd Battalion

43rd Battalion

49th Battalion

Americans, relationship with

equipment for battle

French Army, relationship with

leadership

merger of battalions

post-war occupation

reputation

structure

Australian Flying Corps

Number 3 Squadron

Australian Mission

Axford, Lance-Corporal Thomas ‘Jack’

Europe, return to

post-war

 

bayonets

Bean, Charles

Beaurevoir Line

Bell Jnr, Major-General George

George V, visit of

Bell, Lieutenant D. E.

Bellicourt Tunnel

Belstead, Private Andy

Bentwich, Lizette ‘Liz’

Bingham, Lieutenant-Colonel J. D. Y.

Birch, Major-General Noel

Birdwood, Lieutenant-General Sir William ‘Birdie’

Blake, Major David

Blamey, Brigadier-General Thomas

Blitzkrieg (lightning war)

Borden, Sir Robert

Botha, Louis

Bouchavesnes Ridge

Boyd, Colonel Carl

Bradley, Captain Ernest

Bradley, General Omar

Brand, General Charles

Brest

British Army

III Corps

IX Corps

XIII Corps

14th Division

32nd Division

46th Division

47th Division

50th Division

58th Division

Amiens, Battle of

Fifth Army

Fourth Army

leadership

post-war occupation

reputation

restructure

structure

Third Army

Budworth, Major-General Charles

Bullecourt

Bussy-lès-Daours

Byng, General Sir Julian

 

Canadian Army

Amiens, Battle of

August offensive

leadership

post-war occupation

reputation

Carter, Captain Ernest

casualties

air

American

Amiens, Battle of

Bullecourt

burying the dead

evacuation of wounded

friendly fire

German

cavalry

censorship

Charlton, Major-General Leo

Chateau Bertangles

Chateau Molliens

Chateau-Thierry

Cheney, Major Harry

Chinese labour battalions

Chipilly Ridge

chlorine gas

Chuignes, Battle of

Churchill, Winston

Clark, General Mark

Clemenceau, Georges

Clermont-Tonnerre, Marquis de

Clissold, First Lieutenant Alfred N.

communications, battlefield

flares

reports from Hamel assault

security of information

trenches, in

Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur

conscription

Australia

United States

Cook, Sir Joseph

Corbie

counterattack

Hamel

Somme

Courage, Brigadier-General Anthony

Hamel battle plan

creeping barrage

Currie, Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur

Cutlack, Frederick

 

Dalziel, Frank

Dalziel, Henry ‘Harry’

awards and decorations

Europe, return to

post-war

Dalziel, Vic

Darke, Sergeant Frank M.

Davis, Colonel Abel

George V, visit of

De Smidt, Corporal John

Dehmesch, Leutnant Martin

Dernancourt

Dibdin, Major Edward

diggers

Drake, Agnes

 

Elles, Brigadier-General Hugh

Elliott, Brigadier-General G. E. ‘Pompey’

Emerson, Lieutenant E. K.

Erhardt, Sergeant Albert

Eu

 

Farmar, Lieutenant-Colonel F. M.

Farrell, Lieutenant-Colonel John

Fischer, Tim

Flers

Flexicourt conference

Foch, Marshal

Foster, Lily

French Army

Hindenburg Line, assault on

Fuller, Major-General John ‘Boney’

 

Gale, Captain Carroll M.

Gallipoli

gas attacks

Gellibrand, Major-General John

George V, King

German Army

counterattack

Marne offensive

retreat

Spring Offensive

trenches

Gibbs, Philip

German soldiers, on

Hamel, reporting on

Gillemont Farm

Gilmour, Gordon

Glasgow, Major-General Thomas

Glisy

Godley, Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander

Gotha bomber aircraft

Gough, Lieutenant-General Sir Hubert

Gueudecourt

 

Haig, Field-Marshal Sir Douglas

August offensive

Hamel plan

Hindenburg Line, assault on

Monash, and

Pershing, and

Villers-Bretonneux meeting

Hamel

artillery, use of

celebrations following battle

digging in

diversionary tactics

follow up plans

Monash’s plan

mopping up

repercussions

salient

speed and success of assault

tanks, use of see tanks

units involved in battle

withdrawal and replacement of troops

withdrawal of American troops

Hamel Wood

Harding, Dwight S.

Harris, Lieutenant S. F.

Hayward, Colonel William

Hazebrouck

Hill 60

Hindenburg, General Paul von

Hindenburg Line (Siegfried-Stellung)

Allied assault on

defences

mopping up, importance of

Hindenburg Outpost Line

Hitler, Adolf

Hobbs, Major-General Sir Talbot

Hughes, Billy

 

Johnson, Private Frank A.

Johnson, Private Henry

jumping-off tape (JOT)

 

Kaiser Wilhelm II

Keane, Private Christopher

Keane, Sergeant William

Kennedy, Major B. C.

Klotz, Louis-Lucien

Kojane, Sergeant Frank A.

Krum, Sergeant James E.

 

Laemmle, Carl

Lagnicourt

Lawrence, General Sir Herbert

Le Cateau

Le Catelet

Lewis, Major-General Edward M.

Liaison Force

Linskey, Private William F.

Lloyd George, David

Lloyd, William

Lovatt, Gwen

Ludendorff, General Erich von

Luke, Captain James W. ‘Jim’

Lusitania

 

MacArthur, General Douglas

MacDonnell, Captain William

McGregor, Lieutenant-Colonel Roy

machineguns

ammunition

Lewis

Maxim MG08

Vickers

McSharry, Lieutenant-Colonel Terence

consolidation at Hamel

death

Hamel assault

summary of Hamel assault

Mallon, Captain George H.

Malstrom, Captain George N.

Marwitz, General Georg von der

Masoner, Captain William J.

Massey, William

Medal of Honor

medical teams

Mericourt

Messines

Mills Bombs

Molliens-au-Bois

Monash, Bertha

Monash, Lieutenant-General Sir John

III Corps, temporary command of

American military history, and

artillery, and see artillery

August offensive

Australian Corps, and

background

battlefield communications

Canadian forces, and

character

Currie, and

death

Flexicourt conference

George V, visit of

German messenger dog

Haig, and

Hamel plan see Hamel

Hamel victory, reporting

Hindenburg Line, assault on

Hughes and Cook, visit of

knighthood

leadership style

leadership team

leave in London

legacy

media, and

Murdoch and Bean campaign against

plans and planning

post-war

praise of American troops

sketching

smoke, use of

swastika

tanks see tanks

Villers-Bretonneux meeting

war, attitude to

Monash, Victoria ‘Vic’ (nee Moss)

Mont St Quentin

media attention

Montgomery, Lieutenant-Colonel Bernard Law, later Field-Marshal Viscount

Montgomery, Major-General Archibald

Montreuil-sur-Mer

Moriancourt

Mouquet Farm

Murdoch, Keith

mustard gas

 

Naylor, Colonel William K.

Notamel Wood

 

Obama, Barack

Operation Michael (Michael-Schlacht)

O’Ryan, Major-General John F.

 

Painsipp, Corporal Albert C.

Patton, General George S.

peaceful penetration

Pear Trench

Péronne

Pershing, General John J. ‘Black Jack’

Australian Mission

Chipilly Ridge

George V, visit of

Haig, and

Hamel victory, reporting on

Hindenburg Line, assault on

Monash, and

post-war career

reaction to Hamel assault

Picardy

Pierregot

Plummer, Second Lieutenant Elmer

Polygon Wood

Pope, Corporal Thomas Alexander

America, return to

awards and honours

post-war

Port Lyttleton

Powell, Corporal Raymond H.

Pozières

prisoners of war

Allied soldiers

German soldiers

psychological factors

victory at Hamel, impact of

 

Quennemont Farm

 

Ramsay, Ida

Rawlinson, General Sir Henry

American involvement at Hamel

August offensive

character

Flexicourt conference

Hindenburg Line, assault on

Monash’s plan for Hamel

praise of American troops

Villers-Bretonneux meeting

Read, Major-General George W.

Hindenburg Line, assault on

withdrawal of American troops

Richthofen, Baron Manfred von

Rietie, Henry

Robinson, Perry

Roman Army

leadership

Rosenthal, Major-General Sir Charles

Royal Air Force

Number 9 Squadron

Roye

Rule, Lieutenant Ted

Russian Front

 

St Mihiel

St Quentin Canal

sally ports

Sanborn, Colonel Joseph B.

America, return to

awards and decorations

Chipilly Ridge

George V, visit of

Hamel, after

Hamel, at

post-war

Schabinger, Corporal Andrew C.

Schram, First Lieutenant Frank E.

Searle, Corporal Vivian

Searle, Craig

Searle, Elizabeth Annie

Searle, Ian Ray

Searle, Private Ray

Searle, Sergeant-Major Edward George ‘Ned’

American troops, and

Australia, return to

awards and decorations

bayonet, using his

character

Hamel assault

Hindenburg Line, assault on

post-war

Shaw, Corporal Frank

Shearer, Private James

Shelly, Private Harry

Simonson, Captain Paul

Sinclair-Maclagan, Major-General Ewen

Australian Mission

Hamel assault

Somme

August offensive

Spring Offensive

Stokes, Kerry

Stokes Mortars

Streeton, Arthur

stretcher-bearers

supply lines

ammunition drops

Symons, Lieutenant

 

tanks

American troops, and

Amiens, Battle of

Bullecourt, at

communications, battlefield

fake, use of

German (A7V)

Hamel assault

Hamel plan

Mark IV

Mark V

recovery of lost

Vaux, training day at

Texas

trench warfare

digging in

German trenches

 

United States Army see also American Expeditionary Forces

standing forces

 

Vaire-sous-Corbie

Vaire Wood

Vaux-en-Amiénois

Victoria Cross (VC)

Villa, Pancho

Villers Bocage

Villers-Bretonneux

August 1918 meeting

 

Wackett, Captain Lawrence

Watson, Win

Weaver, Captain J. R.

Weimer, First Lieutenant Herman H.

White, General Brudenell

Wilkins, Captain George Hubert

Wilson, Sir Henry

Wilson, Woodrow

Wolf, Brigadier-General Paul A.

 

Yagle, Lieutenant Harry

Young, Sydney B.

 

Zyburt, Corporal H. G.