Figures in italic indicate pictures.
Aboukir Bay, Battle of, 1800 142
Afghan War:
First, 1839–42 222–3
Afghanistan 41, 104, 105, 108, 210, 222–3, 247, 300
Agincourt, Battle of, 1415 233
Albuhera, Battle of, 1811 32, 253
Aldington, Richard: Death of Hero 199
Alexander, 4th Duke of Gordon 294, 295
Alexandria, Battle of, 1801 162
Alma, Battle of, 1854 163, 238, 256, 276
Almansa, Battle of, 1707 73, 171
American War of Independence, 1775–83 40–1, 51, 83, 130, 195, 223, 226
Anglo-Burmese War, First, 1824–6 105
Annand, 2nd Lieutenant R.W. ‘Dickie’ 279, 282
Arab Revolt, Palestine, 1936–9 134
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 254, 261
Arras, Battle of, 1917 44
Arroyo dos Molinos, Battle of, 1811 184
Assaye, Battle of, 1803 287, 290
Astiz, Commander Alfredo 194
Balaclava, Battle of, 1854 276
Ball, Albert 236–7
Barossa, Battle of, 1811 98
Baskeyfield, Lance Sergeant John Daniel 207, 210, 212
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment 230
Belfast Regiment 192
Bentinck, Lieutenant Colonel Henry 163
Berkshire Regiment 227
Bermuda Regiment, The 86–7
Billière, General Sir Peter de la 276, 277
Blunden, Edmund: Undertones of War 199
Boar’s Head, Battle of the, 1916 198
Boer War, 1899–1902 20, 24, 30–1, 63, 64–5, 97–8, 118, 120, 142, 175, 188, 224–5, 247, 287, 298, 304, 319
Bombay (European) Regiment, 2nd 277, 305
Bombay Light Infantry Regiment 277
Border Regiment, The (34th and 55th) 181–91, 182–3, 186–7
Boulden, Drummer Ernest 97–8
Bourne, Colour Sergeant Frank 123, 126
Boyne, Battle of the, 1690 148
Brandywine, Battle of, 1777 226
British Expeditionary Force (BEF) 46, 76, 238, 257, 316
Bromley, Captain Cuthbert 112, 121
Brooklyn, Battle of, 1776 226
Buffs, The (Royal East Kent Regiment) (3rd) 6, 28–38, 30, 34–5, 163
Burges, Lieutenant Colonel Daniel 138, 167, 169
Burma 23, 66, 77, 90, 105, 130, 134, 135, 143, 181, 207, 219, 230, 279
Cain, Major Robert Henry 49, 207, 210
Cambrai, Battle of, 1917 154–5
Cameronians, The (Scottish Rifles) (26th and 90th) 139–47, 140, 144, 207
Cape St Vincent, Battle of, 1797 97
Cardwell, Edward 4, 6–7, 11, 51, 61, 141, 189, 277
Carne, Lieutenant-Colonel J. P. 160, 162, 169
Carter, Company Sergeant Major Nelson Victor 198, 201
Cathcart, Mary 141–2
Childers, Hugh 5, 6–7, 11, 51, 61, 141, 189
Cholmondeley’s Regiment 185
Cold War, 1947–89 218
Coldstream Guards 50, 163, 273
Connaught Rangers, The 304
Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans 195
Cornwell, Bernard 315; Sharpe’s Fury 98
Corunna, Battle of, 1809 247
Cowpens, Battle of, 1781 51
Crimean War, 1853–6 18, 34, 38, 51, 59, 118, 142, 147, 163, 175, 185, 191, 232, 238–9, 247, 251, 256, 263, 276, 281, 300, 324
Culloden, Battle of, 1746 10, 32, 109, 117, 149, 185, 270
Cumberland, Duke of 96, 109, 117, 149, 185, 245–6
Dering of Surrenden, Sir Edward 130
Devonshire and Dorset Regiment 99–100, 167
Devonshire Regiment, The (11th) 93–101, 94–5, 99
Distinguished Service Order (DSO) 237
Doyle, Sir Francis: ‘A Private of the Buffs’ 33
Drayton, Michael: The Battaile of Agincourt 233
Duke of Beaufort’s Musketeers 96
Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry 109, 169, 245
Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire) 167
Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment, The (King’s Lancashire and Border) 67, 189, 250
Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, The (West Riding) (33rd and 76th) 7, 170–80, 172–3, 176–7
Durham Light Infantry (68th and 106th) 273–82, 274–5, 279
East Anglian Regiment 79, 90, 230
East Devonshire Regiment, 20th 120
East Norfolk Regiment 73
East Surrey Regiment 25
Egerton, Corporal Ernest 59, 237, 242
Egypt 116, 162, 202, 203, 230, 278, 284, 287
English Civil War, 1642–9 82
Essex Regiment, The (44th and 56th) 222–32, 224–5, 228–9
Falkirk, Battle of, 1745 269
First World War, 1914–18 5, 11, 14–15, 16–17, 18, 22–3, 26, 27, 29, 32, 36, 37, 38, 42–3, 44–5, 46, 48, 49, 54, 58, 59, 60, 62–3, 65, 68–9, 70, 71, 72–3, 80, 81, 86–7, 91, 92, 93, 100–1, 110, 111, 113, 116, 120–2, 131, 136, 138, 141, 146, 147, 152–3, 154–5, 156, 157, 158, 166–7, 168, 169, 176–7, 179, 180, 186–7, 188, 190, 191, 198, 199, 200, 201, 211, 212, 218–19, 221, 227, 228–9, 231, 232, 234–5, 237, 238, 240–1, 242, 247–8, 250, 251, 252, 256, 257, 258, 262, 263, 264, 271, 272, 278, 279, 280–1, 282, 283–5, 289, 290, 291, 296–7, 298, 299, 300, 301, 304, 308, 313, 318, 323, 325 see also under individual battle name
Fontenoy, Battle of, 1745 40–1, 96, 117
Forbes, Lieutenant Colonel Gordon 194, 286
Fraser, George MacDonald 181–2, 293
Freyburg, Captain (later Lieutenant General Sir) Bernard 20–1
Gainsborough, Thomas 141–2
Gallipoli Campaign, 1915–16 15, 16, 72–3, 112, 113, 152, 227, 230, 293, 308
Gandamak, Battle of, 1842 222–3
Gibson, Colonel John 162–3
Gloucestershire Regiment, The (28th and 61st) 45, 138, 159–69, 160–1, 164–5
Gordon Highlanders, The 97, 292–303, 296–7, 302–3
Graves, Robert: Goodbye to All That 61–2
Hallamshire Volunteer Rifle Corps 265
Highland Light Infantry, The (City of Glasgow Regiment) (71st and 74th) 283–91, 284
Highlanders, The 286–7, 294, 298
Honourable East India Company 4, 152, 174, 192, 277, 290, 305
Horse Guards 50
Hook, Third Battle of the, 1953 67, 71, 178
Hope, Lieutenant William 51, 53
Imjin River, Battle of, 1951 39, 159, 162
India 41, 44, 66, 83, 94, 102, 103, 104–5, 108, 109, 134, 152, 171–2, 174, 185, 188, 206, 222, 223, 227, 240, 268, 269, 270, 278, 286, 287, 293, 305, 308
Indian Mutiny, 1857 41, 44, 102, 109, 195, 240, 270, 277
Inglis, Lieutenant Colonel William 253
Inkerman, Battle of, 1854 163, 239, 247, 256, 276
Ireland 7, 8, 14, 82, 76, 108–9, 134, 148, 268, 285, 304–5, 306, 308, 309, 312, 315
Irish Free State 5, 152, 304, 309
Irish Parliamentary Party 312
Isandlwana, Battle of, 1879 123, 126, 206
Jacobite Risings 10, 32, 39, 97, 108, 109, 117, 148–9, 174, 185, 223, 246, 269, 286
James II, King 39, 50, 61, 108, 148
Kano-Sokoto Expedition 21–2
Kenyan Emergency 99
Kershaw, John 23
Khartoum, siege of, 1885 202,
203 King’s Own Regiment, 4th 189
King’s Own Royal Border Regiment, The (KORBR) 189
King’s Own Royal Regiment, the (Lancaster) 189
King’s Own Scottish Borderers, The 7
King’s Regiment, The (Liverpool) (8th) 61–71, 64, 65, 68, 69, 189
King’s Royal Rifle Corps, The 227, 314–15
Kitchener, General Lord Herbert 62, 98, 238
Kohima, Battle of, 1944 23, 77
Korean War, 1950–63 39, 45, 56, 67, 77, 78, 159, 160, 161, 162, 164, 165, 178, 254, 261, 279–80
Krithia, Second Battle of, 1915 113
Lancashire Fusiliers, The (20th) 56, 112–22, 114, 115, 118, 119
Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers) 250
Legge, George (later Lord Dartmouth) 50
Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond, Charles 192, 194
Light Infantry Regiment 280
Long’s Regiment 223
Loyal (North Lancashire) Regiment, The (47th and 81st) 243–52, 244, 248–9
Lugard, Sir Frederick 21–2
Madras European Regiment 152, 305
Magersfontein, Battle of, 1899
287 Maida, Battle of, 1806 163–4, 166, 247
Malplaquet, Battle of, 1709 10, 141
Manchester Regiment, The 67, 97
Market Garden, Operation, 1944 189
McKenna, Colour Sergeant Edward 269
McNeill, Colonel (later Major General Sir) John Carstairs 195–6, 198
Middlesex Regiment, The (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) (57th and 77th) 4, 253–64, 254–5, 258–9
Military Medal 127
Minden, Battle of, 1759 117–18
Monmouth, Battle of, 1778 226
Mons, Battle of, 1914 46
Moran, Lord: The Anatomy of Courage 3
Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough, Henry 19, 245–6
Mysore War, First, 1767–9 269
Napoleonic Wars, 1803–15 98, 118, 163, 185, 199, 253, 268, 273, 276, 315
National Service 5, 77, 79, 175, 178
NATO Rapid Reaction Corps 167
Neuve Chapelle, Battle of, 1915 318
New Orleans, Battle of, 1815 215
Newfoundland Regiment, The 230
North Staffordshire Regiment (the Prince of Wales’s) 210
Northern Nigerian Regiment 21
Opium War:
First 1839–42 185
Outram, General Sir James 270
Owens, Private W.B. 62–3
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, The (43rd and 52nd) 213–21, 214, 216–17
Paget, General Sir Bernard 218
‘pals’ battalions’ 113–14, 198, 250, 278, 285
Parachute Regiment 100
Passchendaele, Battle of, 1917 156
Peninsular War, 1811 32, 41, 51, 76, 83, 97, 118, 145, 163, 184, 207, 213, 226, 247, 253, 315, 318
Perthshire Light Infantry, 90th 141–2, 207
Pilkem Ridge, Battle of, 1917 279
Plains of Abraham, Battle of the, 1759 195, 246
Plassey, Battle of 1757 269
Platt, Lieutenant Colonel John 102, 104
Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians), The 304
Prince of Wales’s Own Regiment of Yorkshire 178
Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment 4, 25, 36, 199, 261
Pritchard, Charlie 131–2
Pulteney, Major General Harry 109
Quatre Bras, Battle of, 1815 163
Queen’s Lancashire Regiment, The 189, 250
Queen’s Own Buffs 36
Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders 63
Queen’s Own Highlanders 298
Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment 36, 227
Queen’s Regiment, The 199, 261
Queen’s Royal Regiment (West Surrey), The (2nd) 19–27, 21, 24
Ramensky, Johnny 55–6
Ramos, Admiral Don José de Córdoba y 97
Randle, Captain John Niel 77
Rathbone, Basil 63
Regiment of Foot, 12th 267
Regiment of Foot, 23rd 273
Regiment of Foot, 24th 130
Regiment of Foot, 25th 194
Regiment of Foot, 27th 148–9, 269
Regiment of Foot, 28th 162–3
Regiment of Foot, 34th 181, 184, 185
Regiment of Foot, 35th 192, 194
Regiment of Foot, 43rd 213
Regiment of Foot, 45th 233
Regiment of Foot, 47th 243
Regiment of Foot, 61st 163
Regiment of Foot, 65th 265, 268
Regiment of Foot, 68th 273, 276
Regiment of Foot, 76th 174
Regiment of Foot, 77th 256
Regiment of Foot, 81st 243, 247
Regiment of Foot, 84th 265, 269–70
Regiment of Foot, 100th 294
Regiment of Foot, 107th 192, 195
Regiment of Foot, 108th 152
regiments, British Army: 1685–2010, history of 1–8 see also under individual regiment name
Rifle Brigade, The (Prince Consort’s Own) 314–25, 316–17, 320–1
Roger, Neil ‘Bunny’ 322
Rommel, General 56
Rose, Princess Margaret 106
Royal Anglian Regiment, The 79, 87, 90, 230
Royal Bombay Fusiliers, 103rd 305
Royal Cypher 39
Royal Dublin Fusiliers, the 304–13, 306–7, 310–11
Royal Engineers 135
Royal Flying Corps (RFC) 56, 236–7
Royal Fusiliers, The (City of London Regiment) (7th) 50–60, 52–3, 57
Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment, The 167
Royal Green Jackets 220
Royal Hampshire Regiment, The 25, 36, 199, 261
Royal Highland Fusiliers 288
Royal Indian Engineers 102
Royal Indian Navy 102
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, The (27th and 108th) 148–58, 150–1, 154–5
Royal Irish Fusiliers, The 156
Royal Irish Rangers, The 156
Royal Kent Regiment 36
Royal Lancashire Militia, The 120
Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, The (10th) 82–92, 84–5, 88–9
Royal Madras Fusiliers, 102nd 305
Royal Munster Fusiliers, The 304
Royal Norfolk Regiment, The (9th) 72–81, 74–5, 78
Royal North British (later Scots) Fusiliers, 21st 28
Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, The (5th) 39–49, 42–3, 46–7, 56, 120, 277
Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, 1st Battalion of the 45
Royal Regiment of Scotland 7, 9, 11, 288, 298
Royal Regiment of Wales, The 132–3, 135
Royal Roussillon Regiment 195
Royal Scots (1st) 7, 9–18, 12–13, 19, 76, 261
Royal Sussex Regiment, The (35th, 107th) 192–201, 193, 196–7
Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers 56, 120, 126
Royal Welch Fusiliers, The 7, 135, 273
Royal Welsh Regiment 132–3, 135
Russian Civil War, 1917–22 257, 258–9
Salamanca, Battle of, 1812 163, 226
Sale, Lieutenant Colonel (later General Sir) Robert 105, 107
San Sebastien, siege of, 1813 246–7
Scottish Rifles, 2nd 142
Second World War, 1939–45 3, 6, 17, 21, 23–4, 26–7, 32, 37–8, 48–9, 55, 57, 59, 66–7, 71, 76–7, 80, 81, 90, 91–2, 99, 101, 111, 121, 122, 124–5, 134, 136, 143, 146–7, 157–8, 166, 169, 180, 188–9, 190, 196–7, 198, 201, 207, 211, 212, 218, 219, 221, 230, 231–2, 241, 248–9, 251, 252, 260, 263, 271, 272, 279, 281, 282, 288, 289–90, 291, 293, 299–300, 319, 323–4, 325
Seringapatam, Battle of, 1799 171
Sevastopol, Battle of, 1854–5 163, 256, 276
Seven Years War, 1754–63 39, 82, 117, 174, 267
Sherwood Foresters, The (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) 45th and 95th 233–42, 234–5, 239
Shipp, John 174–5
Shujah, Shah 105
Shuttleworth, D.W. 175
Sikh War, First, 1845–6 83
Simpson, Sergeant Moses 184
Smith-Dorrien, Horace 238
Smith, James Alexander 188
Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry, The 109
Somerset Light Infantry, The (Prince Albert’s) (13th) 102–111, 103, 106–7
Somme, Battle of, 1916 15, 21, 44, 55, 63, 87, 93, 116, 134, 153, 186–7, 198, 230, 237, 250, 278, 285, 302–3, 319
Sorley, Charles Hamilton 319
Souter, Captain Thomas 222–3
South Staffordshire Regiment, The (38th and 80th) 202–12, 204–5, 208–9
South Wales Borderers, The (24th) 123–38, 124–5, 127, 128–9, 131, 132–3, 167
Special Air Service (SAS) 130, 277
22nd Regiment 277
Spion Kop, Battle of, 1900 118
St Eloi, Battle of, 1916 42–3
Staffordshire Foot, 1st 202–3, 207
Staffordshire Volunteers Foot, 80th 202, 203, 206, 207
Stirlingshire Foot, 75th 294
Stuart, Prince Charles Edward 32, 109, 148–9
Stubbs, Sergeant Frank 113
Tangier Regiment, 2nd 189
Territorial Army 5, 15, 22, 23, 61, 77, 86, 90, 96, 113, 134, 227, 230, 265, 308
Territorial Force (later, Territorial Army) 5, 54, 63, 72, 142, 170, 236, 256, 257, 288
Thirty Years War, 1618–48 10
Thompson, Lady Butler, Elizabeth 163
Tinghai, Battle of, 1840 185
Tipu Sultan 171
Tolkien, J. R. R.: The Lord of the Rings 116–17
Toulouse, Battle of, 1814 166
Tower of London 50, 51, 54, 156, 184
Trained Bands of London 28, 50
Tsan-koo-lin-sin 33
Ulster Defence Regiment 156
Victoria Cross 11, 14, 18, 20, 27, 38, 41, 44, 49, 51, 59–60, 63, 71, 77, 81, 90, 92, 98, 100, 101, 111, 112, 121–2, 126, 128–9, 130, 137–8, 143, 145, 147, 158, 162, 167, 169, 180, 188, 191, 195, 198, 201, 206, 207, 211–12, 221, 232, 236, 237, 238, 241–2, 247, 251–2, 256, 257, 263–4, 269, 270, 272, 276, 279, 281–2, 290–1, 292, 293, 294, 300–1, 304, 313, 318–19, 324–5
Victoria, Queen 108, 163, 174, 222, 256, 318
Waikato Campaign, 1863–5 269
War of Austrian Succession, 1740–8 29, 96–7, 223
War of the League of Augsburg, 1688–97 20
War of the Spanish Succession, 1701–14 96, 141, 170–1, 194
Wars of the Roses, 1455–87 265, 267
Wassall, Private Samuel 206
Waterloo, Battle of, 1815 145, 149–50, 163, 174, 207, 215, 295
Wavell, Field Marshal Archibald, Lord 3
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of 41, 51, 118, 149, 171, 174, 207, 287
Welsh Guards 50
West Essex Foot, 56th 226–7
West Middlesex Foot, 57th 253
Westmoreland Foot, 55th 181, 185
White, Field Marshal George 293
Wilhelmsthal, Battle of, 1762 39, 45
William of Orange, Prince 39, 108, 117, 139, 148
Wimberley, Major General Douglas 260–1
Wingate, Major General Orde 66, 207
Wolfe, Major General James 195, 246
Wollen, William Barnes 222, 223
Woodroffe, 2nd Lieutenant Sidney Clayton 318–19
Worcester and Sherwood Foresters, The (29th and 45th) 210, 240
Worcestershire Regiment, The 83, 227, 240
Wright, Lieutenant (later Brigadier) Wallace Duffield 21–2
York and Lancaster Regiment, The (65th and 84th) 265–72, 266
Yorkshire Regiment, 3rd Battalion, 7, 178