The Making Of The British Army (107 page)

Natal Native Contingent
(i)

Zulus
(i)
,
(ii)

South African army (Second World War),
(i)
st Division
(ii)

South Armagh
(i)
,
(ii)

Soviet Union

Cold War threat
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

pact with Nazi Germany (1939)
(i)

Red Army
(i)
,
(ii)

support for North Korea (1950)
(i)

at war with Japan
(i)
n
Soyer, Alexis, patent portable stove
(ii)

Spain

lack of cooperation with British
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

occupied by France
(i)

wars with Britain
(i)

see also
Peninsular War; War of Spanish Succession

Spalding, Major (104th Foot)
(i)

Spanish army, Moore and Wellington’s problems
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

Spanish Netherlands
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

see also
Netherlands, the

Spears, Lt (
later
Maj.-Gen.) Edward (11th Hussars)
(i)

Special Air Service (SAS)
(i)
,
(ii)
n
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
n
,
(v)

Basra
(i)

Falklands War
(i)

Indonesian Confrontation
(i)
,
(ii)

Kenya (Mau Mau)
(i)
&
n

Malayan Emergency
(i)

Northern Ireland
(i)
,
(ii)

Parachute Regt and
(i)

Sierra Leone hostage rescue
(i)
n
Special Forces (SF)
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)

Special Reserve (1914)
(i)

see also
militias Spencer, Maj.-Gen. Brent
(i)

Spicer, Pte (
later
Lt-Col.)
(i)

Spion Kop, battle (1900)
(i)
,
(ii)
n
Spratt, Sgt Jack (2

Para)
(i)

staffwork
(i)
,
(ii)
1904

reforms
(i)

Camberley Staff College
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Crimea (1854–6)
(i)

Prussian and German army
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

three services staffs centralization (1980s)
(i)
n
Stair, FM John Dalrymple, earl of
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Stalin, Josef
(i)

allied ‘second front’ commitment
(i)

Japan and North Korea
(i)
n

Stalingrad (1942–3)
(i)

Stanhope, Philip Dormer,
(i)
th earl of Chesterfield
(ii)

Stanhope, Philip Henry,
(i)
th earl
(ii)

Stanley, Brig.-Gen. (temp.), the Hon. Charles
(i)
n

Steenkirk, battle (1692)
(i)
,
(ii)

Stephenson, Capt (Natal Native Contingent)
(i)

Sterne, Laurence,
Tristram Shandy
(i)
,
(ii)
n

Stewart, Lord Charles, cavalry commander
(i)

Stewart, Robert
see
Castlereagh

Stirling, Lt (
later
Col. Sir) David (SAS/Scots Gds)
(i)

Stirling, Lt-Col. William (Bill) (SAS)
(i)

Stirling Castle, regimental depot
(i)

Stirrup, ACM Sir Graham ‘Jock’
(i)
n

Stockbrokers’ Battalion (10 RF)
(i)

Stuart, Prince Charles Edward (the ‘Young Pretender’)
(i)
,
(ii)

Stuart, Prince James Edward (the ‘Old Pretender’)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Stuart,
(i)
/Lt James (Scots Gds)
(ii)

Stuart, Maj.-Gen. John
(i)
n
,
(ii)

Stumme, Lt-Gen. Georg
(i)

Sudan, campaigns against the Mahdists (1883–5, 1896–8)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Suez Canal
(i)
,
(ii)
n

Suez intervention (1956)
(i)
,
(ii)
&
n

Suharto, Maj.-Gen. Mohammed
(i)

Sukarno, Ahmed
(i)

Sun Tzu
(i)

Sunni insurgents, Iraq
(i)
,
(ii)

Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force
(i)
&n

Sutton Coldfield, Fusilier depot
(i)

Swiss Guard (Vatican City)
(i)
n

Sword beach (
Overlord)
(i)

tactical formations, linear
(i)

Taiping rebellion (1860)
(i)

Talana Hill, battle (1899)
(i)
,
(ii)
n

Talavera, battle (1809)
(i)

Taleban
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Tallard, Camille d’Hostun, duc de, Marshal
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Tangier
(i)
,
(ii)

Tangier Regiment of Horse
(i)
,
(ii)

Tank Museum (Bovington)
(i)
&n

tanks (AFVs)

8th Army
(i)
,
(ii)

in action, 1916–17
(i)
,
(ii)
n

capabilities
(i)

Centurion
(i)
n
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Challenger
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Comet
(i)

DD (duplex-drive) Sherman
(i)

Experimental Mobile Force
(i)
,
(ii)

German (Second World War)
(i)
,
(ii)
&
n
,
(iii)

invention
(i)

Iraqi T55
(i)

mine clearance tanks
(i)

number available (1939)
(i)

poor quality of
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

see also
armoured forces

Tapfheim (Bavaria)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Tatham-Warter, Maj. Digby (2 Para)
(i)
&n

Taylor, A. J. P.
(i)

Taylor, US Gen. Maxwell
(i)
,
(ii)

Tel-el-Kebir, battle (1882)
(i)

television
see
media coverage

Templer, Gen. (
later
FM) Sir Gerald

High Commissioner for Malaya
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
n

requirements as CIGS
(i)

Territorial Army (TA)

cuts, post-1960s
(i)

integration with regular army
(i)

Queen Victoria’s Rifles (TA)
(i)

Territorial Force (TF)

Haldane reforms
(i)

Kitchener’s New Armies and
(i)
,
(ii)

London Scottish
(i)

prepared for continental war
(i)

reinforcements for BEF
(i)
,
(ii)

Ypres (1914)
(i)

see also
militias

tertia, Civil War armies
(i)
,
(ii)

Tewfik, Khedive of Egypt
(i)

Thackeray, William Makepeace
(i)

Thatcher, Margaret
(i)
,
(ii)
n
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Thirty Years War (1618–48)
(i)
&
n

Thompson, Sir Robert
(i)
n

Thorneycroft, Lt-Col. Alexander
(i)

The Times
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
n
,
(vi)

Tippoo, Sultan of Mysore
(i)

Tobruk
(i)

siege (1941)
(i)

Tootal, Lt-Col. Stuart (3 Para)
(i)

Toqueville, Alexis de
(i)

Torres Vedras, Lines of
(i)

Toulouse, battle (1814)
(i)

Trafalgar, battle (1805)
(i)

trained bands
(i)

‘transition with security’ strategy
(i)
,
(ii)

transport, mechanized
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)