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Original Articles

II. Footprints in the Mud: The British Army’s Approach to the Battlefield Tour Experience

Pages 15-26 | Published online: 24 Jun 2006
 

Notes

1 Estimate by the author made in 1999, based on the quantity of enquiries serviced by the Army Tactical Doctrine Retrieval Cell (TDRC), Upavon, and correspondence with British military attachés in France, Belgium, Spain, Italy and the USA.

2 Christopher Duffy, Frederick the Great: A Military Life (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1985) p.12.

3 David W. Lloyd, Battlefield Tourism (Oxford: Berg 1998) p.20.

4 Joyce Popplewell (ed.), A Gloucestershire Diarist: Lt‐Col AB Lloyd Baker of Harwicke Court: The Early Years 1897–1919 (Gloucestershire: Thornhill Press 1993) pp.111–16.

5 Scrapbook in the South Wales Borderers Museum, The Castle, Brecon.

6 Historical Notes at the Vimy Canadian Memorial Park visitor centre.

7 The Times, 12 Dec. 1923.

8 ‘Gun Buster’ (J.C. Austin), Return via Dunkirk (London: Hodder & Stoughton 1940) pp.35–6.

9 IWM Annual Report 1938.

10 C.L. Potts, Gordon & Michael, A Memoir (privately printed in 1940), letter of 10 March 1940, p.96.

11 Jean Paul Pallud, ‘Hitler on the Western Front’, After the Battle Magazine, No. 117 (Battle of Britain Press 2002) pp.3–33.

12 ‘Panzermeyer’ SS Brigadeführer Kurt Meyer, Grenadiers (Winnipeg: J.J. Fedorowicz 1994) See Chapter One.

13 Charles Carrington MC, Soldier From the Wars Returning (London: Hutchinson 1965) p.136.

14 Brigadier Peter Macdonald, Corners of My Mind (London: Petmac Publications 1998) p.180.

15 ‘Moltke’s Staff Rides’ in the Royal United Service Institute Journal (Aug. 1913) pp.1077–1100.

16 David Alan Rich, The Tsar’s Colonels. Professionalism, Strategy and Subversion in Late Imperial Russia (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP 1998) pp.105–8

17 William G. Robertson, The Staff Ride (Washington DC: Center of Military History 1987).

18 Farrand Sayre, Map Manouevers and Tactical Rides, 5th edn. (Springfield 1911) 210pp; William H. Waldron, Tactical Walks (Washington DC: US Infantry Association 1917).

19 Brian Bond, The Victorian Army and the Staff College 1854–1914 (London: Eyre Methuen 1972) pp.175–80.

20 Quoted in ibid. p.250.

21 For example, A. H. Marindin, Staff Rides: With Hints on Writing Appreciations and Reconnaissance Reports, (London: Rees 1907) 104pp; Frederic J. Trench, Manoeuvre Orders: Notes on Writing Orders at Field Days, Staff Ride Games and Examinations, 10th edn. (London: Clowes 1911) 115pp.

22 Hew Strachan, World War I. Volume One: To Arms (Oxford: OUP 2001) Chapter 3, pp. 161–207; Robert T. Foley, Alfred von Schlieffen’s Military Writings (London: Frank Cass 2003).

23 This author possesses a copy of the Southern Command Tour of the Battlefield of the Aisne, September 1914 (London: HMSO 1930).

24 Papers in the author’s possession.

25 For example, in Historical Illustrations To Field Service Regulations, Vol. II, by Bt Major HG Eady MC, psc, RE (London: Sifton Praed 1926); and Military History and Principles of War, Course 518C, Metropolitan Services College St Albans, 1936.

26 Staff College records, now in the JSCSC Library, Watchfield.

27 Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, At Ease. Stories I Tell to Friends (London: Robert Hale 1968), reprinted by TAB Books 1988, Chapter 4.

28 Gp. Capt. Peter Gray, ‘Why Study Military History?’ in idem (ed.), Military History Into the 21st Century (SCSI Occasional Paper No. 43, Dec. 2001) pp.7–21.

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