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Road Wood 63, 63–4

  Roberts, Chris XVII, 21, 161

  Roberts, Garry 134

  Roberts, Private Frank 89, 134, 135, 238–9, 242

  Robertson, Brigadier General James 31, 86, 87, 164, 174, 191, 194, 200, 202–3, 205, 220, 222, 245

  Romanian Medaille Barbatie Si Credinta 116

  Rosenthal, Major General Charles 27, 30–1, 60, 73, 81, 141, 163, 164, 171, 172, 178, 194, 200–1, 202–4, 207, 210, 213, 216, 235, 245, 248–9

  Rouy-le-Grand 7

  Royal Air Force (RAF) 181

  Royal Military College Sandhurst 30

  Rupprecht Trench 118, 123

  S

  Sadler, Peter 58

  St Christ 128, 129, 130

  St Clair, Major William 171

  St Denis 17, 84, 92, 96, 98–9, 102, 129, 173, 174, 175, 204, 208–9, 216

  sugar factory 13, 17, 90, 92, 98–9, 102, 112, 112–16, 170, 208

  St Denis Wood 73, 106, 114, 201, 202, 213

  St Radegonde 12, 96, 101, 102, 170, 172, 201, 208

  St Radegonde Wood 173

  Sale, Captain Frederick 33

  Saunders, Captain James 111

  Saunders, Dick 147

  Save Trench 19, 70, 77

  Scanlan, Lieutenant Colonel Jack 211, 213, 242

  Scarpe River 8

  Somme, to 231

  Schwerdtfeger, Captain 45

  Scutari Trench 95, 126

  Second Battle of the Marne 4

  Senior Officers’ School Aldershot 30, 111

  Serbian Order of the White Eagle 194

  Serle, Geoffrey 109

  Serle, Sergeant Walter 109, 238–9

  Shearwood, Arthur 155

  Shearwood, Lieutenant Ernest 155

  Shearwood, Harry 155

  Shearwood, Robert 155

  Shearwood, Sarah 155

  Sheffield, Gary 4, 5

  Sheldon, Jack 47

  shell shock 132–3

  Short Magazine Lee Enfield rifle 35, 38

  signallers 193–7

  2nd Divisional Signal Company 193

  5th Divisional Signal Company 196, 197

  Silesie Trench 125, 129, 179

  Simpson, Charlie 143

  Skinner, Private Charlie 70

  Slaughter, Lieutenant Thomas 34, 104

  Sloss, Bruce 154

  Sloss, James 154

  Sloss, John 154

  Sloss, Roy 154

  Smith, Lieutenant William 97

  Smythe, Second Lieutenant Percy 82, 85, 86–7, 92, 220

  Somme Canal 55, 125, 184, 187, 190, 191

  Somme River IX, XVIII, 5, 22, 24, 39, 52, 129, 184–5

  Bray bend 6, 7, 55, 219

  crossings 185–8, 188, 189–90, 200–1, 206

  marshes 22, 55, 68–9, 81, 96, 105, 185, 187

  Midelton’s Track 186, 186–7

  Monash plan 54, 55, 198

  sound ranging 160

  Sowden, Matthew Claremont 149

  Sowden, Private Claude Australia ‘Aussie’ 145, 147, 149

  Staehler, Lieutenant 60

  Stanley, Peter xv, 40, 136, 141, 215, 230

  Men of Mont St Quentin: between Victory and Death XVIII

  Stevens, Paul 163

  Stewart, Brigadier General James 31, 39, 99, 100, 102, 116, 173, 175, 176, 195, 206, 207–11, 213, 214

  Strang, Alex 147

  Strang, David 149

  Strang, Donald 147

  Strang, Mary 148

  Strang, Robert 148

  Sutton, Richard 149

  Suzanne Château 215

  T

  tanks 162

  Tennant, Gilbert 156

  Terraine, John 247

  Third Ypres see Passchendaele Offensive

  Tortille River 19, 21, 69

  Tortille Trench 90, 123

  Towner, Lieutenant Edgar 92

  Travers, Tim 43

  trench systems 19

  Trench wireless set 193

  Tugwell, Padre Frederic 137

  Tyquin, Michael XIV

  U

  Uber Alles Trench 19, 73, 74, 77, 87, 117, 172, 202

  Urquhart, George 156

  V

  Varna Trench 87

  Verdun 4

  Vickers machine-guns 33, 36, 37, 160

  Victoria Cross (VC) 8, 43, 63, 90, 92, 98, 99, 102, 126, 137, 146

  eight Mont St Quentin-Peronne VCs 93, 141–2

  Villers-Bretonneux XVI, 2, 4, 5, 80, 132

  Australian National Memorial 156

  von der Marwitz, General 49

  von Friedeburg, General 43

  von Richthofen, Manfred 181

  W

  Watson, Major Stanley 193–4

  Watson, Minnie 147–8

  Weathers, Lance Corporal Lawrence 126

  Web Gilbert, Charles 249

  Western Front

  end of Great War 246

  Hundred Days 5, 36, 132, 247

  1918 map 3

  Wilkins, Hubert 177

  Wilson, Henry 234

  Wilson, James 149

  Wilson, President Woodrow 236

  Wilson, Trevor 39, 160, 234

  Wilson wireless set 193, 195

  Winter, Denis 232

  Winton, Alfred 144

  Winton, Davie 144

  Wisdom, Brigadier General Evan 31, 117, 119, 123, 124, 177–8, 189, 199, 206

  Woodward, Captain Oliver 133–4