Vimy Ridge: A Canadian Reassessment

Index

341 Index Aboriginal soldiers, Canadian, 165 Acheville, 244 Adamson, Lt-Col Agar, 194, 201, 203, 205 Adshade, Private Weldon A., 331 Aisne Valley, 52 Aisne, Second Battle of the, 10, 240 Aitken, Capt Alan Anderson, 214 Aitken, Sir Max, 214 Aitkin, Lt, 199 Albany Crater, 199 Alberich, Operation, 10, 227 Albert County, New Brunswick, 247 Alderson, Lt-Gen Edwin, 6, 7, 37, 38, 41 Alexander McKay School, Halifax, 269 Allen, Ralph, 299 Allenby, General Edmund, 25, 251 Allward, Walter, 1, 3, 270, 279, 281, 283, 291, 293, 315 South African War Memorial, Toronto, 281 Bell Memorial, Brantford, 281 Alston, Major William, 91 Ambulance Corner, 185 Amiens, 315 Amiens, Battle of, 17, 39, 42, 140 Ancre River, 8 Anderson, Hastings, 21 Anderson, Lt-Col Samuel, 90 Andros, Lt-Col Ralph Craven, 194, 199, 203, 205, 206 Anzac (Australian and New Zealand) Corps, 8, 31, 251 Arleux-en-Gohelle, 239, 248-50, 262 Artillery preparations for, 243-44 Armstrong, Capt Arthur Chester, 142 Arras, 10, 52 Arras, Battle of (1914), 53 casualties, 54 Arras, Battle of (1917) 2, 10, 15, 16, 20, 23, 26, 251 casualties, 16, 252 Artillerie Weg, 134 Artillery, 22, 23, 105-24 106 fuse, 113 ammunition dumps, 113 Canadian Counter Battery Office, 110, 111 counter battery preparations, 113, 117-18 Counter-Battery Staff Office, 23 creeping barrage, 109, 116 effects of, 106, 115 Forward Observation Officers (FOO), 117 friendly fire, 109 meteorological reports, 111 shortage of shells, 106 Artois, 57-58 Artois Offensive, 2nd, casualties, 56 342 INDEX Asquith, H.H., 35 Aubers Ridge, 58 Aubigny, 140 Audette, Adelard, 271 Australia, 17 Aux Rietz Cave, 173 Aux Rietz, 143, 173, 185 Avion Switch, 184, 231 Bacmeister, General der Infanterie Ernst August Max von, 230 Bain, J.A., 116 Balfourier, General M., 56 Basso Trench, 219, 222 Battalion organization, 68, 69, 82 Battalion Training, 75 Batter Trench, 219, 222 Battle Exploits Memorials Committee, 280 Bauld, Lt-Col D.S., 176, 243 Baupaume Gap, 52 BE2 aircraft, 111 Beaurains, 266 Bedknobs and Broomsticks (Disney film), 15 Bell, Lt-Col A.H., 179 Belleville, Ontario, 246 Bell-Irving, Major Roderick Ogle, 243 Bent, Lt-Col Charles, 158 Berton, Pierre, 16, 66, 212 Bertonval Ridge, 53 Betts, Lt F.C., 164 Bird, Will, 193, 194, 198 Bishop, W.A. “Billy,” 111 Black Line, 77, 156, 159, 172, 176-77, 199 Black Trench, 221 Black, Sergeant Ernest Black, 114 Bloater Trench, 206 Blue Line, 77, 158, 160-61, 180-81 Blue Trench, 203 Blunt Trench, 203 Bois Carré, 158, 162 Bois de Bonval, 180-81 Bois de la Ville, 181-82 Bois des Alleux, 128 Bois du Goulot, 180-81 Bonar, A.A., 109 Bonnie Dundee, 178 Borden, Sir Robert, 36, 43, 89, 316 Bothwell, Major S.J., 133, 332 Boyd, Major Henry, 91 Bracken Trench, 203 Bradford, Ontario, 140 Bramshott Camp, Hants, 213 Brindle, Walter, 268 British Army, manpower requirements, 70 British Expeditionary Force (BEF), 5, 15-18, 20, 24-25, 31, 58, 66, 239 British (United Kingdom) Forces Armies First, 6, 21-22, 57-59, 66, 94, 242, 251, 313 Second, 18 Third, 21, 24, 25, 58, 144, 158, 242, 251 Fifth, 251 Artillery 5th Divisional Artillery, 172 28th Army Field Artillery Brigade, 172 63rd (Royal Navy) Divisional Artillery, 196 64th Heavy Artillery group, 172 70th Heavy Artillery group, 172 72nd Brigade, Royal Field artillery, 164 93rd Army Field Artillery Brigade, 172 Royal Horse Artillery, 21 Royal Horse Artillery, 5th Brigade, 163 Brigades 13th, 23-24, 172, 182-83, 185 26th, 24 28th, 24 63rd, 242 95th, 79 Corps IV, 59 VI, 17 VII, 24 IX, 87 XIII, 17 XV, 21 INDEX 343 XVII, 17, 88, 144, 158 Divisions 2nd, 242-43, 250 4th, 16, 24, 45 5th, 25, 172, 252 7th, 172 9th (Scottish), 16, 24, 45 12th, 24-26, 242 18th (Eastern), 44, 98 24th, 77 29th, 38 34th, 23-24, 26, 242 37th, 242 47th, 59 51st Highland, 77, 158, 159, 314 63rd Royal Naval, 214, 242, 250 Regiments East Surrey Regiment, 1st Bn, 73, 76, 252 East Kent Regiment (The Buffs), 8th Bn, 75 Essex Regiment, 2nd Bn, 78 Gordon Highlanders, 1/4th Bn, 161 Highland Light Infantry, 2nd Bn, 250 King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 1st Bn, 75 King’s Own Scottish Borderers, 2nd Bn, 180, 181, 182 Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Regiment, 2nd Bn, 250 Royal West Kent Regiment, 1st Bn, 180, 181, 182, 214 Royal Fusiliers, 1st Bn, 74...