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Category: Morale
Sir Andrew Clark (GS) 12.12.17. - panic.
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Category: Rationing and Food Shortages
Ada Reece (DF) for details of panic buying and sharp enterprises in 1914 -Diaiy 5.8.14, 6.8.14, 13.8.14.
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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Attitudes under Shellfire/Danger
H.Juggins (GS) Memoir, Ch.11 - under shellfire for first time
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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Senior Officers and Staff
J.W.B.Russell (GS) Letter 13 & 17.8.15 The wretched Brigade Staff in a panic lest their HQs be given away by troops moving about. Transcript of diary, 14.9.15 for Brigade and Div. staff "causing unintentional amusement in the folly of their orders". Use of coloured sandbags and bits of rags such as petticoats on outside of parapets!
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Category: Cambrai - November 20th - December 7th 1917
J.R.Tibbles (GS) RAMC Capt - War Experiences Vol.? 29-31 la-l0a. (purpose and preparations). Vo.D 11a-29- (Nov.20th),
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Category: Bombardment
C.M.Murray (GS) Many diary entries - see summary e.g. 26.6.16 - 28.7.16. Modern guns and explosives make warfare "more and more cruel as time goes on. One wonders that whole regiments do not panic when they are asked to go into an inferno, the full meaning of which they do not know ... the wounds inflicted by bursting shells ... are too fearful to contemplate, while only 1 in ten can expect to return unscathed" (p77)
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