Tommy's Ark: Soldiers and Their Animals in the Great War. Richard Van Emden (44 page)

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Other Reading

Baker, Peter Shaw,
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Baynes, Ernest Harold,
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Cooper, Jilly,
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Interviews conducted by the author with the following Great War veterans:

Andrew Bowie

Ben Clouting

Frank Deane

Norman Dillon

Alfred Finnigan

George Gadsby

William Golightly

Fred Hodges

Fred Lloyd

Harry Patch

Robert Renwick

Dick Trafford

Photographs

Imperial War Museum, London:
By kind permission of the picture library of the Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, London, SE1 6HZ.

Q53386; Q26623; Q1629; Q3223; Q1451; Q448; CO1414; Q10958; Q11517; Q3210; Q11269; Q6400; Q11250; Q10949; Q3249; Q8715.

First Plate Section

Page

1. Full page– Stephen Chambers (
hereafter
SC)

2. All photos – author’s collection (
hereafter
AC)

3. All photos – AC

4. Top – AC; bottom – Imperial War Museum (
hereafter
IWM)

5. Top left – IWM; top right – SC; bottom left and right – AC

6. & 7. Double-page spread – Stewart Simpson

8. Top – AC; middle and bottom – Stuart Arrowsmith (
hereafter
SA)

9. All photos – SA

10 & 11 All images – AC

12. Top left – AC; top right – Andrew Read (
hereafter
AR); bottom – IWM

13. All photos – AC

14. All images – AC

15. Top – IWM; bottom left – AC; bottom right – AR

16. Full page – SC

Second Plate Section

Page

1. Full page – IWM

2. Top – SC; bottom – IWM

3. All photos – AC

4. Top – IWM; bottom – AR

5. Top and middle – IWM; bottom – AR

6. All images – AC

7. All photos – IWM

8. & 9.
Double-page spread – IWM

10. All images – AC

11. All photos – IWM

12. Top – AC; bottom – IWM

13. Top – AC; bottom – IWM

14
.
Top – AC; bottom – AR

15. Top – AC; middle and bottom – AR

16. Full page – AC

A Note on the Author

Richard van Emden has interviewed over 270 veterans of the Great War and has written thirteen books on the subject including
The Trench
,
The Last Fighting Tommy
(both top-ten bestsellers) and
The Soldier’s War
. He has also worked on more than a dozen television programmes on the Great War, including
Prisoners of the Kaiser
,
Veterans
,
Britain’s Last Tommies
, the award-winning
Roses of No Man’s Land
,
Britain’s Soldiers
and
A Poem for Harry
.

By the Same Author

Tickled to Death to Go

Veterans: The Last Survivors of the Great War

Prisoners of the Kaiser

The Trench

Last Man Standing

All Quiet on the Home Front

Boy Soldiers of the Great War

Britain’s Last Tommies

The Last Fighting Tommy

(with Harry Patch)

Famous

The Soldier’s War

Sapper Martin
(Editor)

First published in Great Britain 2010