Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War (109 page)

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‘If ever a German’ ibid.

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‘They’ve got their cavalry’ Craster p.57

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‘The departure was a’ Terraine p.193

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‘We didn’t know where’ Ascoli p.140

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‘the damned French army’ ASC1938 Harper letter 8.9.14

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‘which all seems to point’ IWM 88/51/1 Edgington diary

Chapter 8 – Tannenberg: ‘Alas, How Many Thousands Lie There Bleeding!’

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‘Russian society had not’ Kondurashkin p.8

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‘Think of me’ Knox p.46

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‘you soldiers ought’ ibid. p.45

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‘big, red-bearded’ ibid. p.103

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‘The yellow and purple’ Ksyunin A.
Narod na voine (iz zapisok voennogo korrespondenta
) [People at War: From the Notes of a War Correspondent] Petrograd 1916 p.69

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‘a hundred half-savage’ Reed p.186

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‘When a Russian officer’ Ksyunin p.5

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‘The Belobeevsky infantry’ Samborn, Josh
Daily Life in Russian Poland
p.49

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‘soldiers knew that’ ibid. p.50

263
‘in the guise of buying’ Samborn, Josh
Unsettling the Russian Empire
p.304

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‘with the goal’ ibid. p.305

264
‘After occupying Kalitz’ Samborn
Poland
p.52

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‘Where can we’ Palmer and Wallis p.36

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‘Across its vast’ See Koenigswald, Harald von
Stirb und Werde. Aus Briefen und Kriegstagebuchblättern des Leutnant Bernhard von der Marwitz
, Breslau Korn Verlag 1931 pp.29–33

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‘Nikolai Gumilev’ Gumilev, Nikolai
Zapiski Kavalerista
[Diaries of a Cavalryman] Moscow 2007 p.23

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‘Johann Sczuka’ Borck/Sczuka p.17

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‘On their wanderings’ ibid. p.18

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‘Capt. Lazarev’ Littauer p.136

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‘But it is
only’ Kondurashkin p.41

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‘the soldiers were relieved’ Littauer p.137

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‘We didn’t know’ ibid. p.129

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‘a cavalryman is used’ ibid. p.138

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‘Vladimir Littauer’ ibid. p.144

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‘Two Hussar squadrons’ ibid.

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‘He rebuked’ Borck/Sczuka p.21

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‘savagely mauled’ Pohlmann p.282

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‘not a stone’ Mihaly pp.32, 55

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‘This town is completely’ Kessler p.106

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‘Prittwitz’s staff’ Reichsarchiv (ed.)
Der Weltkrieg 1914–1918
Vol. II Berlin Mittler 1925 p.321

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‘Where do you’ Knox p.59

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‘Officials at the post office’ Reichsarchiv p.324

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‘The position is very’ Knox p.87

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‘he did not know’ ibid. p.74

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‘I had never imagined’ Nowak, Karl Friedrich (ed.)
Die Aufzeichnungen des Generalmajor Max Hoffman
Vol. 1 Berlin Verlag für Kulturpolitik 1930 p.54 9.9.14

281
‘To gain this critical’ Reichsarchiv Vol. II p.243

281
‘The Kaiser, with his’ Herwig
Marne
p.xvi

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‘Our hearts are full’ Schädla diary 31.8.14

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‘The Emperor trusted’ Knox p.82

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‘that it does not matter’ ibid. p.80

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‘Passing through Johannisberg’ Reed p.119

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‘An elderly couple’ Borck/Sczuka pp.26–7

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‘Loyal Germans all’ ibid. p.23

Chapter 9 – The Hour of Joffre

1 PARIS AT BAY

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‘More than 50,000 people’ Guard p.9

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‘The Parc de Belleville’ ibid. p.66

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‘It was considered’ ibid. p.39

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‘The five hundred men’ Bertie diary 16.8.145

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‘Many domestic titles’ ibid. pp.10, 12, 15, 21, 45

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‘I wonder he doesn’t’ Painter p.224

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‘From what mad optimism’ Gide 25.8.14

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‘The Germans seem sure’ Bertie diary 30.8.14

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‘Bertie complained’ ibid. 3.9.14

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‘it is sad to see’ quoted Englund, Peter
The Beauty and the Sorrow
Bloomsbury 2011 p.73

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‘evidently a very’ Lloyd George p.154

288
‘Gallieni had retired’ Gallieni, Joseph
Mémoires du Maréchal Gallieni: Défense de Paris, 25 Aout–11 Septembre 1914
Paris Payot 1928

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‘One afternoon a crowd’ Strong p.128

2 SIR JOHN DESPAIRS

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‘Ah, Napoleon’Lloyd George Vol. I p.156

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‘showed little interest’ Spears p.312

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‘Our people have done’ Asquith to VS 27.8.14 p.215

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‘The Belgians … are really’ Asquith to VS 25.8.14 p.195

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‘It is extraordinary’ Bonham-Carter p.216

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‘If [the] French cannot’ IWM papers of N. Macleod 05/63/1

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‘our men had done’ ibid.

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‘Published first British’ Clarke p.68

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‘One proclaimed
himself’ Guard p.107

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‘Norman Macleod’ IWM 05/63/1 3.9.14 Macleod papers

3 SEEDS OF HOPE

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‘Uncertainty about British’ Terraine p.216

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‘On the night of 31 August’ Spears p.316

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‘The great towering cuirassiers’ ibid.

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‘Gen. Joseph de Maistre’ ibid. p.319

302
‘They looked like ghosts’ ibid. p.318

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‘The mayor of a hamlet’ Lintier p.43

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‘Above all they have’ Hirschfeld letter of 12.9.14 p.180

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‘I was seized by’ Sulzbach p.26

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‘One of our lorries’ IWM 06/61/1 Hacker diary 22.8.14

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‘I wonder if that’ Harcourt-Vernon MS IWM 07/63/1

307
‘On 3 September, Gallieni’ Gallieni p.68

307
‘his head reminded me’ Spears p.384

308
‘He refuses a blindfold’ Allard, Capitaine Jules
Journal d’un gendarme 1914–1916
Présentation d’Arlette Farge Bayard Éditions 2010 p.60

308
‘Joffre spent’ Spears p.394

308
‘The French are most’ Haig p.68

308
‘we could hold a position’ ibid.

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‘his black uniform’ Spears p.401

310
‘Unshaved, and scarcely’ Bloem, Walter
The Advance From Mons 1914
Peter Davies 1930 p.101

310
‘Charles Péguy’ Smith et al. p.41

311
‘Here was a vivid’ Painter p.222

311
‘At once he began’ Spears p.414

Chapter 10 – The Nemesis of Moltke

1 THE MARNE

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‘a small active man’ Haig p.104

319
‘Lt. Paul Tuffnau’ Palmer and Wallis p.26

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‘It was extraordinary’ Flood p.51

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‘we passed Jimmy Rothschild’s’ Tennyson IWM 76/21/1

322
‘Orders to the provost-marshal’ Corns and Hughes-Wilson p.119

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‘The most exciting thing’ Baring p.54

324
‘Have all taxis’ Blond p.172

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‘ploughing its way’ Lintier p.71

325
‘Never mind’ Blond p.186

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‘At the attack on Etrepilly’ ibid. p.193

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‘Our pursuit could not’ Bridges p.94

332
‘everyone much more’ William Edgington IWM 88/52/1

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‘It’s a precious slow’ Craster p.76

332
‘heavy defeat’ Sheffield p.83

332
‘his nerve is wonderful’ Tennyson MS IWM 76/21/1

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‘What’s that?’ Lintier p.156

336
‘This could not be’ Herwig
The Marne
pp.302–3

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‘rumours have reached’ IWM 76/21/1 Tennyson MS 17.9.14

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‘My God, how could’ ibid. p.302

337
‘The nervousness’ Mombauer p.264

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‘The army blamed’ Strachan p.262

338
‘Following a report’
Stahl und Steckrüben
pp.365–6

338
‘This much is
certain’ Gudenhus-Schomerus p.87 23.9.14

338
‘Gertrud Schädla’ Schädla diary 3.9.14

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‘The general news’ Grey to Percy Illingworth 14.9.14 Illingworth papers

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‘The enemy will not’ Lacouture p.31

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‘This would be’ Cœurdevey pp.35–6

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‘The whole situation’ Hopman 15.9.14 p.43

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‘incredible folly’ ibid. 17.9.14 p.439

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‘we have experienced’ Desfontaines p.133

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‘The massive, historic’ Reichsarchiv Vol. IV p.270

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‘The army was not defeated’ Ludendorff
Das Marne-Drama
Munich 1934 p.1

342
‘What a question’ Givray, Jacques (
Capitaine Plieux de Diusse) Journal d’un Officier de Liaison (La Marne -: – La Somme -: – L’Yser
) Paris Jouve 1917 p.86

2 ‘STALEMATE IN OUR FAVOUR’

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‘Everything is going well’ Harris p.50

345
‘I am deeply thankful’ Spears p.469

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‘As a man I do not’ IWM 76/21/1 Tennyson MS

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‘The advance proceeded’ Kendall, Paul
Aisne 1914: The Dawn of Trench Warfare
Spellmount 2012 p.342

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‘We had an awful’ ibid. p.99

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‘It is a terrible place’ ibid. p.152

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‘We stop a lot of’ IWM 07/63/1 Harcourt-Vernon MS

349
‘I tried to sleep’ Craster p.89

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‘Meanwhile the bodies’ ibid. p.90

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‘A week ago … we’ Harris p.63

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‘We were subject to’ Craster p.94

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‘The men are splendid’ ibid. p.96

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‘Major Zeppelin’ Knoch p.78

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‘in this war the last’ Guard p.125

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‘it was impossible to rely’ Haig p.70

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‘On the 20th he’ ibid. p.72

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‘Had we but known’ Kendall p.344

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‘Troops are beginning’ IWM T.H. Cubbon

352
‘I have seen attacks’ SB S7, 97/2–3 Kaisen collection

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‘Fancy a thousand’
New York Times
13.9.14

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‘one does not take’ Reimann, Aribert
Der große Krieg der Sprachen. Untersuchungen zur historischen Semantik in Deutschland und England zur Zeit des Ersten Weltkrieges
, Essen Klartext 2000 p.181 4.10.14

353
‘it is terrible’ Gudenhus-Schomerus p.89 21.9.14

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‘We are so benumbed’ Kresten Andresen quoted Englund p.30

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‘On 16 September, Sir John’ IWM 07/63/1 Harcourt-Vernon MS

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‘I think the battle’ Royal Archives GV Q832/72

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‘This trench- and siege-warfare’ Herwig
The Marne
p.216

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‘One day very like’ Craster p.103

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‘It beats me’ Guest to Percy Illingworth 21.9.14 Illingworth papers

Chapter 11 – ‘Poor Devils, They Fought Their Ships Like Men’

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‘The living spaces’ Hipper diary 7.9.14, Wolz p.203

357
‘Very great excitement’ ibid. p.99

357
‘If it comes off’ ibid.

357
‘One profound’ Young, Filson
With the Battlecruisers
Cassell 1921 p.121

357
‘The German “High Seas Fleet”’ Wolz p.344

358
‘Following the outbreak’ Seligmann
New Weapons for New Targets
p.328

358
‘Boredom feeds depression’ Stumpf p.14 13.8.14

358
‘Everywhere people
express’ ibid. p.15

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‘On 9 August, a German’ ibid. p.13

360
‘This … was a salutary’ Wolz diary p.115 21.8.14

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‘Morale slides because’ ibid. p.100

360
‘The naval mind was’ Young p.54

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‘It does not make us’ Knobloch diary p.328 22.8.14

361
‘She [the
Emden
] is undoubtedly’ Wolz p.357 24.10.14

361
‘The Navy are very bad’ Shelden, Michael
Young Titan
Simon & Schuster 2013 p.300

361
‘At Coblenz on 18 August’ Hopman p.411

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‘It was quite clear’ Young p.84

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‘If he does that’ ibid. p.85

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‘They Want to Starve’ Healey, Maureen
Vienna and the Fall of the Hapsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I
CUP 2004 p.38

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‘They control the oceans’ Wolz p.345 25.8.14

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‘If we were to risk’ ibid. p.100

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‘The dark shapes’ Young p.126

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‘I would have preferred’ Wolz p.121

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‘The least informed’ Young p.120

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‘In the clear seawater’ Palmer and Wallis p.234

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‘young, distinguished-looking’ Young p.6

366
‘the most publicised’ Gordon, Andrew
The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command
John Murray 1996 p.27

368
‘I see no reason’ Seligmann
Naval Intelligence
p.517

369
‘I always had a feeling’ Wolz p.332 22.10.14

370
‘Every salvo they’ Bywater, Hector
Cruisers in Battle
p.56

370
‘A most extraordinary’ King-Hall, Stephen
A North Sea Diary 1914–1918
pp.54–5

371
‘She had settled’ Bywater p.57

372
‘As we approached’ Chatfield, Lord Ernle
The Navy and Defence: An Autobiography
Heinemann 1942 p.125

373
‘a brilliant episode’ Churchill
Great War
Vol. I p.306