^*The title of this division is misleading. There were only eleven Regular divisions at this time, numbered 1 to 8 and 27 to 29; those numbered 9 to 26 were the first of the New Army divisions.

^* When quoting survivors of the battle, their rank, unit and decorations, if any, of 1 July 1916 will be given.

^*Wherever possible, the informal battalion titles will be used to retain the atmosphere of the period.

^* A brigade contained four battalions and a division contained three brigades. The Ulster Division’s artillery was eventually raised in London.

^*Lancashire, fifty-six; Yorkshire, forty-eight; Northumberland, nineteen; Durham, eleven.

^* The New Army battalions were numbered after the Territorials. For example, the 2nd Royal Berks were Regulars, the l/4th were Territorials and the 6th was a New Army battalion. The Territorials are easily identified, for all their battalions have a prefix. The l/6th Royal Warwicks (from Birmingham) was a pre-war battalion; the 2/6th and 3/6th were raised during the war.

^* Later, in March 1915, the army accepted men between five foot and five foot three in height (five foot three had previously been the minimum) for the unique Bantam Division. The Bantams had a certain advantage when holding trenches in France; tall men were always in extra danger from German snipers. The division did not take part in the battle on 1 July 1916, but, as the 33th Division, it did well in later stages of the Somme Battle. It became an ordinary division in 1917 due to lack of suitable reinforcements.

^* Known in 1914 as the Notts and Derby Regiment.

^* This passage is taken from History of the 7th Battalion, Green Howards, a narrative extract from the Green Howards Gazette. In 1914 this regiment was known as the Yorkshire Regiment.

^† From The History of the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th Manchesters.

^* Battalion commanders were known to their men as ‘the c.o.’ or ‘the Colonel’ although the rank held was that of lieutenant-colonel.

^* During the war, seventy-five per cent of the Bermudan Rifles became casualties; forty men were killed or died of wounds. Some remained with the 1st Lincolns after the war and one became its c.o. in 1930.

^* One effect of this was a rush to the altar as reluctant men tried to avoid conscription by getting married. There was an increase of twenty-five percent in the number of marriages in 1915. New Zealand was the only Dominion country to follow Britain’s lead in introducing conscription.