^* A Temporary Ambulance Train was one brought specially into service to cope with large numbers of lightly wounded men. It could carry 1,000 sitting patients.

^* Both letters are from Public Record Office, WO 95/447.

^* From the diary of the late Maj. Vignoles, kindly lent by Maj. C. H. Emmerson, M.C., of Grimsby.

^*He was Capt. H. Price, a surveyor from British Columbia. His grave is in Albert Communal Cemetery.

^†Lieut-Col. Dan Burges was later given another battalion in Greece. In 1918 he lost a leg but won the Victoria Cross. After the war he was, for ten years, Governor of the Tower of London.

^*The battalion, officially the 11th Suffolks, was recruited entirely in the city and county of Cambridge and will be referred to as ‘The Cambridge Battalion’.

^* I cannot guarantee the exact wording of the passages quoted above but I am satisfied that they are reasonably accurate.

^* Public Record Office, CAB 45/188.

^* When the calendar was reorganized in 1752, eleven days were lost; this resulted in the Boyne now being celebrated on 12 July.