To End All Wars_ A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 - Adam Hochschild [221]
"I have lost a son": "Orbatus" to the editor, Times, 2 September 1916.
[>] "Haig took me into": "Diary of Lord Milner's Visit to France, Nov. 11–19, 1916," Milner Papers, Bodleian Library, Oxford, dep. 353, pp. 77–98.
[>] "We are the Bantam sodgers": Allinson, p. 142.
[>] "seemed to have lost": Private Pinkney, testifying at Stones's court-martial, WO 71/535, quoted in Corns and Hughes-Wilson, p. 163, and Putkowski 3, p. 44.
"in a very exhausted": Sergeant Foster, testifying at Stones's court-martial, WO 71/535, quoted in Corns and Hughes-Wilson, p. 164, and Putkowski 3, pp. 44–45.
[>] 89 percent of the death sentences: Corns and Hughes-Wilson, p. 450.
"I have personally been": Corns and Hughes-Wilson, p. 167; Putkowski 3, p. 50.
confirmed the sentences: The record of Stones's court-martial is in WO 71/535, and that of Goggins and McDonald in WO 71/534. See also Putkowski and Sykes, pp. 156–159; Corns and Hughes-Wilson, pp. 157–175; and Putkowski 3, p. 36f, the most extensive account.
[>] "until we reached": "A reminiscence of the Great War—for Liberty. How Some Durham Lads were 'Shot at Dawn.' British Militarism in Operation," Forward (Glasgow), 15 April 1922. Reprint of article from Railway Review, 3 February 1922.
"To-night here on the Somme": Russell 1, pp. 97–98.
[>] "My own disposition": Cecil, p. 270.
16. BETWEEN THE LION'S JAWS
[>] "I am sending out": Joseph Stones to Isobel Stones, 12 December 1916, quoted in Putkowski 3, p. 67.
"The court recommend": WO 71/485, quoted in Corns and Hughes-Wilson, pp. 141–144.
[>] "noted" under Haig's comments: WO 71/485, quoted in Corns and Hughes-Wilson, pp. 141–144.
"Reports of large numbers": E. Sylvia Pankhurst 1, p. 311.
military executions: John Peaty, "Haig and Military Discipline," in Bond and Cave, pp. 205, 209; Oram 2, p. 13. Oram 1, p. 186n5, offers an estimate of total British executions of more than 400, but this appears to include some after the Armistice. It is possible that additional German executions may not have been recorded in the last weeks of the war.
"Apart from the number": Lt. G. V. Carey, Gilbert, p. 178.
243 "I confirmed the proceedings": Haig 1, 11 January 1917, p. 267.
"As a military prisoner": "A reminiscence of the Great War—for Liberty. How Some Durham Lads were 'Shot at Dawn.' British Militarism in Operation," Forward (Glasgow), 15 April 1922. Reprint of article from Railway Review, 3 February 1922.
[>] "Dear Rochester": Tom Hickey and Bryan Maddocks, "Debts of Honour," Rochester Papers.
"Bath-rooms, smoke-rooms": [Albert Rochester,] "With the R.O.D. in France,"
Railway Review, 23 July 1922. I am grateful to Julian Putkowski for sending me this series of articles by Rochester.
[>] "fully alive to his": Haig Diary, 5 January 1917, quoted in De Groot 1, p. 286.
"It gives me great": George V to Haig, 27 December 1916, quoted in De Groot 1, p. 283.
[>] "endured cold and hunger": Stevenson, p. 282.
selling food and medicine: Frank G. Weber, Eagles on the Crescent: Germany, Austria and the Diplomacy of the Turkish Alliance (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1970), pp. 119–121.
[>] the Germans sank: Trevor Wilson, pp. 428–429.
"In five months at this": Churchill 1, p. 742.
[>] "the bullying and unscrupulousness": Milner to Ian Colvin, n.d., quoted in Marlowe, p. 275.
alarmist reports: Most of these are in dep. 377 of the Milner Papers, Bodleian Library, Oxford. Copies of some also appear in the Addison Papers at the same library and in two of the National Archives files on the Wheeldon case, DPP 1/150 and HO 144/13338.
"It is impossible": William Melville Lee, "Notes on the Strike Movement Now Developing in the North and West of England," pp. 3–4, 15 December 1916, Milner Papers, dep. 377.
the agents who penned: Rowbotham, pp. 44–46.
[>] "a quadruple line": Lee, "Notes on the Strike Movement," p. 11, 15 December 1916.
"We are undoubtedly": Lee, "Notes on the Strike Movement," Appendix 1, p. 7, 12 December 1916.
"What the working classes": Lee, "Notes on the Strike Movement," Appendix 11, document