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A UCHINLECK

T HE L ONELY S OLDIER

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Philip Warner (1914-2000) enlisted in the Royal Corps of Signals after graduating from St Catharines, Cambridge in 1939. He fought in Malaya and spent 1,100 days as a guest of the Emperor in Changi, on the Railway of Death and in the mines of Japan, an experience he never discussed. A legendary figure to generations of cadets during his thirty years as a Senior Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, he will also be long remembered for his contribution of more than 2,000 obituaries of prominent army figures to The Daily Telegraph.

In addition he wrote fifty-four books on all aspects of military history, ranging from castles and battlefields in Britain, to biographies of prominent military figures (such as Kitchener: The Man Behind The Legend, Field Marshal Earl Haig and Horrocks: The General Who Led from the Front) to major histories of the SAS, the Special Boat Services and the Royal Corps of Signals.

The D-Day Landings was republished by Pen & Sword Books to mark the 60th Anniversary of this historic event and was adopted by The Daily Telegraph as its official commemorative book.

By the same author:	* * *
Alamein	A Guide to the Castles in the British Isles
Army Life in the 1890s Battle of France Battle of Loos	Horrocks: The General Who Led from the Front, (republished by Pen & Sword, 2005)
Best of British Pluck	The History of the Harlequins
Best of Chums	Invasion Road
British Battlefields 1: The North	The Japanese Army of World War II
British Battlefields 2: The South	Kitchener: The Man Behind the Legend
British Battlefields 3: The Midlands	Making Model Forts & Castles
British Battlefields 4: Scotland	The Medieval Castle in Peace & War
Daily Telegraph Book of British Battlefields	Panzer Passchendaele
British Cavalry	Phantom (republished by Pen & Sword, 2005)
Castles in Britain (illustrated edition)	Political Parties
Civil Service	Roman Roads
Crimean War D-Day Landings (republished by Pen & Sword, 2004) Dervish	Secret Forces of World War 2 (republished by Pen & Sword, 2004) Sieges of the Middle Ages (republished by Pen & Sword, 2004)
Disputed Territories	Soldier: His Life in Peace and War
Distant Battle	Special Air Service (Official History)
Famous Scottish Battles	Special Boat Service
Famous Welsh Battles	Stories of Famous Regiments
Field Marshal Earl Haig Fields of War: Letters Home from the Crimea	Vital Link: Official History of the Royal Corps of Signals World War I: A Narrative
Firepower	World War II: The Untold Story
The Great British Soldier Growing Up in the First World War	Zeebrugge Raid

A UCHINLECK

T HE L ONELY S OLDIER

PHILIP WARNER

First published in Great Britain in 1981 by Buchan & Enright Publishers Ltd

Published in this format in 2006 by
Pen & Sword Military
An imprint of
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
47 Church Street
Barnsley
South Yorkshire
S70 2AS

Copyright Philip Warner, 1981, 2006

Copyright Philip Warner Estate, 2006

ISBN 1 84415 384 3

ISBN 978 1 84415 384 8

The right of Philip Warner to be identified as Author of this work has been asserted by
him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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available from the British Library

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CONTENTS

Appendices:

MAPS

... I am become a name;

For always roaming with a hungry heart

Much have I seen and known; cities of men

And manners, climates, councils, governments,

Myself not least, but honourd of them all;

And drunk delight of battle with my peers,

Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.

From Ulysses, Alfred, Lord Tennyson

---

of the life and career of Field-Marshal
Sir Claude Auchinleck

21 June 1884 Born at Aldershot 18961901 Wellington College

JanuaryDecember 1902 RMA, Sandhurst

March 1903 Joins KSLI in India while awaiting posting in Indian army

April 1904 Joins 62nd Punjab Regiment

19067 Frontier duties at Gyantse, Tibet

1907 Commands 2nd Detachment, Sikkim

1908 Benares

1909 Captain and Adjutant

1912 Assistant Recruiting Officer, North Punjab

4 August 1914 Outbreak of First World War

28 October 62nd sail for France, but diverted to defend Suez Canal

3 February 1915 62nd drive off Turkish attack on Canal

12 July 62nd embark for Aden

21 July Sheikh Othman battleTurks defeated Operations against Turks and Arabs

31 December 62nd land at Basra for Mesopotamian campaign

7 January 1916 Join forces under Gen Aylmer attempting to relieve Maj-Gen Townshends division besieged in Kut-al-Amara

8 January 62nd in Sheikh Saad battle

21 January Attack on Hanna Redoubt. 62nd suffer heavily. A. made Acting Adjutant

8 March Attack on Dujaila Redoubt. After heavy casualties and death of Lt-Col Commanding A. takes command of remaining 12 officers and 235 ORs

29 April Townshend surrenders Kut with 12,000 prisoners

August 1916March 1917 62nd in operations (now under Gen Maude) to recapture Kut. A. temporary Regimental Commander 8 February 1917. Fall of Baghdad 11 March 1917. Operations north of Baghdad

Summer 1917 A. Brigade Major to 52 Brigade

2 November 1918 Turkey signs Armistice

Summer 1919 GS02 in Mosul

August 1919 GSOl operations in Kurdistan

Late 1919 Promoted Brevet Lt-Col, sent to Staff College, Quetta on 1 years course

Late 1920 1 years home leave. Married Jessie Stewart of Kinloch Rannoch, Scotland, 1921

192125 DAA and QMG, Simla

192527 2 i/c 1/1st Punjabis (formerly 62nd Punjabis)

1927 1 years course at Imperial Defence College, London

192930 CO 1/1st Punjabis. Promoted full Colonel

193033 Instructor, Staff College, Quetta

193336 Commander, Peshawar Brigade. Operations against Upper Mohmands, 1933. Promoted Brigadier. Operations against Mohmands, 1935

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