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Contents

Cover

Title page

Copyright

Prologue

The Origins of ‘Tommy’

Part One THE DISCOVERY

Finding the Thuillier Photographic Plates

Identifying the Tommies

The Backdrop

The Vignacourt Bread Boy

How the Thuilliers Took Their Photographs

Louis and Antoinette Thuillier and the Town of Vignacourt

Identifying British Regiments

We Are Seven

The War

Part Two THE TOMMIES

York and Lancaster Regiment

The Prince of Wales’ Own West Yorkshire Regiment

The Battle of the Somme – July

The Pals

The Leeds Rifles

The Liverpool Pals

The Stretcher-bearers

The Stretcher-bearer

The Durham Light Infantry

Shot at Dawn

The Bantams

Faithful in Adversity – the RAMC

The Fusiliers

Military Police

The Suicide Club

The Lewis Machine Gun

The Irish

The Padres and the Chaplains

The Concert Parties

The Army Services Corps

The Labour Corps

The Scots

The Black Volunteers

The Sappers

‘They Had No Choice’

The Gunners

Sport

The Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry

The Crosses

The Royal Sussex Regiment

Armistice Day

Shocked

Notes

Bibliography

Index of Names

Acknowledgements

About the Publisher