I have used many websites and independent sources for information on the First World War and for general reading. These include:
Hull and East Riding Institute for the Blind (HERIB), www.herib.co.uk
Kingston Upon Hull War Memorial 1914–1918 – The Story of Hull in World War One, www.ww1hull.org.uk: website for details of the Hull Pals and Zeppelins over Hull.
The Hull People’s Memorial, www.hull-peoples-memorial.co.uk: with thanks to Alan Brigham for valued information on aspects of the First World War and the memorabilia in the remarkable Hull People’s Memorial Gift Shop and Museum.
Blind Veterans UK, www.blindveterans.org.uk: with thanks to Robert Baker, information and archives officer.
BBC World War One at Home, Endell Street, London: Only All-female Run Military Hospital [audio], 3 Feb 2014, www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01rjcsv: deeds and words of the suffrage military hospital in Endell Street, London.
EyeWitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com: gas attack.
Scarlet Finders, www.scarletfinders.co.uk: British military nurses, QAIMNS and TFNS.
The Long, Long Trail – The British Army in the Great War of 1914–1918, www.longlongtrail.co.uk
Firstworldwar.com – A Multimedia History of World War One, www.firstworldwar.com
My grateful thanks to Professor Martin Goodman for allowing me to use details from his excellent and informative book Suffer and Survive: The Extreme Life of J. S. Haldane (London, Simon and Schuster UK Ltd, 2007).
Thanks are also due to Tony Kaye of T. S. Kaye and Sons, Yorkshire tool merchants, for permission to use details from his company’s archives.
And my grateful thanks, as always, for the guiding hands of my efficient and supportive team at Transworld Publishers.
This is a work of fiction and any inconsistencies or inaccuracies contained within it are mine.