Selected Bibliography

Primary Sources
Irish Archives
The National Archives of Ireland, Dublin
•  Royal Irish Constabulary: registers of service
•  Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary: registers of service
•  Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA series)
•  Department Taoiseach (TSCH series)
Trinity College Dublin Archives
•  MUN/V/5, MUN/V/6, MUN/V/24
•  MSS 2723-2724, Eric G. Hart collection
•  Dublin University Calendars
Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Dublin
•  TCPK/5/3/9, Kirkpatrick Newspaper Archive
Irish Franciscan Archive, Dublin
•  Eugene Hoade collection
Military Archives, Dublin
•  Bureau of Military History: Witness statements, 1913-21
Kilkenny County Archives, Kilkenny
•  Maidenhall-Laviston collection

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Erasmus Smith Trust Archive, Dublin

•  Dublin High School archive
Police Service of Northern Ireland: Police Museum, Belfast
•  Royal Ulster Constabulary service record card collection
•  Michael O’Rorke collection
PRONI
•  D1581 James Pollock papers

British Archives
The National Archives, Kew
•  Cabinet papers: CAB/24.
• Colonial Office series: CO/429; CO/430; CO/537; CO/733; CO/762;
CO/850; CO/877; CO/904; CO/919.
•  Home Office series: HO/45; HO/144; HO/351.
•  Treasury series: T/160; T/161; T/172.
•  War Office series: WO/35; WO/100; WO/363; WO/364; WO/372.
The Middle East Centre Archive, St Antony’s College, Oxford
•  GB165-0365 Palestine Police Service Records Card Collection
•  GB165-0224 Palestine Police Old Comrades’ Association papers
•  GB165-0161 Jerusalem and East Mission papers
Personal papers
•  GB165-0001 Richard Adamson
•  GB165-0034 Humphrey Bowman
•  GB165-0044 Raymond Cafferata
•  GB165-0358 Percy Cleaver
•  GB165-0079 Wyndham Deedes
•  GB165-0082 James Delacy
•  GB165-0099 Susanna Emery
•  GB165-0101 John Faraday
•  GB165-0139 Thomas Haycraft
•  GB165-0188 Harry Luke
•  GB165-0197 Angus McNeill
•  GB165-0405 Desmond Morton
•  GB165-0231 James Pollock
•  GB165-0253 Alan Saunders
•  GB165-0255 Frank M. Scott
•  GB165-0281 Charles Tegart
Palestine Police Oral History Project
•  GB165-0394 Bertie Braddick
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•  GB165-0386 Victor Cannings

•  GB165-0391 John Card
•  GB165-0390 Martin Duchesne
•  GB165-0388 William Gibbons
•  GB-165-0404 Gerald Green
•  GB165-0402 James Hainge
•  GB165-0392 Robert Hamilton
•  GB165-0389 Frank Jones
•  GB165-0412 Roy Leadbeater
•  GB165-0403 Geoffrey Owen
•  GB165-0395 Roy Rodrick
•  GB165-0396 Francis Russell
•  GB165-0403 John Tyrrell
•  GB165-0393 Edward Wells
The Commonwealth & Empire Museum, Bristol
• 
Palestine Police Archive: personnel files; pension records; miscellaneous
papers (uncatalogued)
Bodleian Library, Oxford—Commonwealth & African Collections
•  MSS.Ind.Ocn.s.372, Hilda E. Bates collection
•  MSS.Ind.Ocn.s.270, Roy Bingham collection
•  MSS.Brit.Emp.s.447, Henry Blackall collection
•  MSS.Afr.s.1850, William Browne collection
•  MSS.Afr.s.1872/24, H. G. Calwell collection
•  MSS.Brit.Emp.s.284, John Chancellor collection
•  MSS.Brit.Emp.r.4, P. A. Clearkin collection
•  MSS.Brit.Emp.r.21, Colonial Office desk diaries 1899-1915
•  MSS.Afr.s.1995, Maurice de Courcy Dodd collection
•  MSS.Brit.Emp.s.415, Ralph Furse collection
•  MSS.Afr.1872/75, R. S. F. Hennessey collection
•  MSS.Afr.s.2229, W. F. P. Kelly collection
•  MSS.Afr.s.785, E. K. Lumley collection
•  MSS.Afr.s.487, Martin Mahony collection
•  MSS.Brit.Emp.s.482. t.6, Sir William Lindsay Murphy collection
•  MSS.Afr.s.2456, Manus Nunan collection
•  MSS. Ind.Ocn.r.6, G. J. O’Grady collection
•  MSS.W.Ind.s.23, ff. 19-30, W. K. O’Mahony collection
•  MSS.Afr.s.670, Hugh B. O’Neill collection
•  MSS.Brit.Emp.s.385, John William O’Regan collection
•  MSS.Medit.s.38, John James O’Sullivan collection
•  MSS.Afr.s.2337, Joseph Sweeney collection
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British Library, London

Asian and African Studies
•  MSS.EUR/C235, Kathleen Tegart, ‘Charles Tegart and the Indian Police’
India Office Records
•  MSS.EUR/D516, Robert Siggins Kennedy papers
•  MSS.EUR/D932, Asher Leventon papers
•  MSS.EUR/C400, Gerald Pakenham Stewart papers
•  MSS.EUR/E356, Arthur John Stanley papers
•  IOR/Q/11/1 No.27, H. T. Reilly correspondence
Imperial War Museum, London
Personal Papers
•  Sir Henry Wilson papers
•  Sydney Burr papers
•  J. V. Faviell papers
•  Percy McElwaine papers
Sound Archive
•  Michael Burke (10125)
•  Richard Charles Catling (10392)
•  Reubin Haig Kitson (10688)
•  Paul MacMahon (16689)
•  John Rymer-Jones (10699)
•  Colin Imray (12910)
Other
• Cave, Joy, A Gallant Gunner General; the Life and Times of Sir H.  Hugh
Tudor, K.C.B., C.M.G. (Misc. 175, Item 2685)
Churchill College, Cambridge
•  Winston Churchill papers (CHAR 2; CHAR 17)
Royal Air Force Museum, London
•  Hugh Trenchard papers
Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Cambridge
•  Percy Bramley papers
Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum, Winchester
•  Walter Congreve diaries
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service, Stafford
•  Walter Congreve papers
Wirral Archives Service, Wirral
•  Raymond Cafferata papers
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Other Archives
Israel State Archive, Jerusalem
• Police—Government of Israel files, 1920–1948 (ID 17.0)
Central Zionist Archive, Tel Aviv
•  Correspondence on defence of Palestine, 1920–26 (Z4/42436)
•  G. H. Williams, British Gendarmerie: correspondence, 1925–32 (J95/247)
•  Palestine Police: Weizmann-Spicer correspondence (Z4/32386)

Newspapers and Periodicals

Belfast Telegraph
Belvederian
Blackrock College Annual
Castleknock Chronicle
Clongownian
Columban
Connacht Tribune
Constabulary Gazette
Cork Examiner
Corona
Davar
Doar Hayom
Erasmian
Falastin
Hapoel Hatzair
Irish Catholic
Irish Ecclesiastical Record
Irish Independent
Irish News
Irish Press
Irish Times
Jewish Chronicle
Journal of the Irish Medical Association
Kerryman
Munster Express
Palestine Bulletin
Palestine Police Magazine
Palestine Police Old Comrades’ Association Newsletter
Palestine Post
Palestine Weekly
RIC Magazine
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Southern Star
The Standard
Studies
The Times
Trinity News
United Irishman

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A 118, 127, 139, 159, 165,

Ahern, Mary, 218 168–174, 180
Allen, Thomas, 93 Arabs, attitudes towards, 107–110,
Amery, Leo, 6 122, 171
Amritsar massacre (1919), 27, 163,
226, 244, 252
Anti-imperialism B
anticolonial campaigns, 154, 170, Balfour Declaration, 25, 27, 108, 117,
242–246, 253–255, 261 162
Irish, 10, 18, 98–103, 243, Bamford, Thomas, 179
246–248, 254, 260–264 Barker, Alfred, 176
Antisemitism, 2, 106–107, 115, 117, Barry, Kevin, 115, 121, 254n124,
119 258
Anti-Zionism, 2, 106–108, Barry, Rose, 218
116 Bentwich, Helen, 37
militant, 3, 26, 62, 161–162, Bentwich, Norman, 37
164–165, 170, 179 Bingham, Roy, 242
Antrobus, Maurice, 223n159, Binsley, Jack, 64, 71, 109, 130, 149,
239 172
Arab Revolt, 1936–1939, 13, 62, 64, Blackall, Henry, 187, 200, 244, 249,
68–69, 72–74, 108–109, 116, 251, 253, 260

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Bond, William, 88, 97, 115, 123–124
Bourke, John Paget, 204
Bramley, Percy, 26
Breen, Dan, 99n134, 246
Brierley, J. N., 147
Briscoe, Robert, 99–101
British Army, 10, 23–24, 27, 29, 35,
63, 67, 69–71, 111, 116, 136,
140, 154–155, 160, 170–172,
175, 199, 205, 257–258
Irish regiments, 5, 61, 72, 134,
137–138, 150, 258; Irish
Guards, 31, 64, 72, 94, 179
British Colonial Service (BCS), 6,
17–18, 20, 138, 149–150, 206,
234, 257, 259, 261, 263
Administrative Service, 191,
200–201, 215–216, 229, 233,
236
Eastern Cadetships, 6–8, 191, 219,
228–229, 233
Education Service, 211, 217
Engineering Service, 195, 206–207,
211–213, 263–264
female enlistment, 216–219, 224
Irish enlistment in, 9, 11, 17, 187,
191–224, 228, 266
Legal Service, 150, 191, 194–195,
198, 200–202, 204, 210–211,
216, 233, 240, 261
Medical Service, 106, 191,
193–194, 198, 200–201,
206–210, 213–214, 217,
221–222, 233–234, 242
Northern Irish enlistment, 220–222
Nursing Service, 216–219
recruitment, 7–9
British Labour Liaison Office
(Dublin), 85, 99–100, 102, 218
British Section of the Palestine
Gendarmerie, 11–12, 15–17, 20,
23–63, 81, 118, 131–132,
137–138, 153, 155–157,
160–165, 175, 178, 180–181,
185, 231, 265
Irish enlistment in, 5, 41–49
Brown, David McCulley, 94
Browne, William, 242, 246
Bryan, Dan, 100
Burke, Michael, 88, 110, 114
Burkitt, Denis, 222
Burr, Sydney, 109, 166
Burton, George, 112
Byrne, Joseph, 201, 232
Byrne, Patrick, 87
C
Cafferata, Raymond, 81, 125, 141,
170, 173, 176
Calwell, Hugh Gault, 221
Canavan, Dermot, 263
Carew, Hallowell, 35, 58
Casement, Roger, 138, 235, 248
Catling, Richard, 109, 111
Cawley, Patrick, 95, 110, 112, 120
Chancellor, John, 66, 106, 117,
171
Churchill, Winston, 23–25, 27–30,
32–33, 35–38, 45–46, 51, 53,
168, 202
Clarke, Loftus Ottway, 197, 243,
247n95, 249–250
Clauson, Gerard, 28, 51–52, 156
Clearkin, Peter, 213, 222, 232,
243n78, 248, 250–251
Collis, Maurice, 241, 254–255, 267
Colonial Office, 5, 8, 24, 34, 50–51,
66, 79–81, 84, 132, 138, 156,
163, 195, 198, 201–202, 206,
208, 210, 212, 217, 223–224,
230, 234–240, 265–266
Middle East Department, 24,
27–30, 33

Colonial Police, 16, 71, 78, 88, 182,
200, 215
Ceylon Police, 147, 150n21, 157
Colonial Police Service, 66–67, 150,
181, 183–184
Hong Kong Police, 151, 155,
181–182, 184
Irish enlistment in, 145–155, 266
Jamaica Constabulary Force, 147,
152–153, 181, 184
Malaya Police, 154, 182
Shanghai Municipal Police, 148,
151n25, 152–155, 181, 184
Trinidad Police, 147, 152
Colonial policing
counterinsurgency, 159–176
Irish model, 17, 155–176, 185
police brutality
Black and Tannery, 31, 101,
102n144, 118, 153,
161–166, 168, 171–176,
185, 201, 242, 246
brutalization thesis, 31–32, 165,
175
Conway, Patrick, 263
Congreve, Walter, 25, 27, 29
Cosgrave, Thomas, 75, 112
Courtney, Roger, 109
Crean, Diarmuid, 235, 261
Crowley, Maurice, 97
Crown Agents for the Colonies,
64–65, 72, 76, 79, 81, 83–85,
95, 98–99, 105, 125
Cunningham, Alan, 110
D Forde, Thomas, 73
Dane, Louis, 225, 227, 252
Darling, Harold, 180, 184
Davis, Thomas, 72–73
De Valera, Éamon, 98–100, 237, 253,
261, 263
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Deevy, John, 180
Delaney, Joyce, 219
Department of External Affairs (Irish),
18, 85, 98–100, 223
Devlin, Patrick, 240
Dignan, Cecil, 39, 48, 57, 181
Dillon, James, 98–101, 119
Dobbs, Neil Osborne, 215
Dodd, Maurice de Courcy, 197, 245,
248
Dowbiggin, Herbert, 64, 67, 126,
157–160, 178–179
Draper, Timothy, 93
Duff, Douglas, 12, 40, 43, 106,
161–163, 173–175, 178
Dufferin, Lord, 252–253
Dyer, Reginald, 27, 226, 244
E
Ellis, Sidney, 139, 142
Evans, Peter, 241, 256n134
F
Fails, John, 43, 45–46
Faraday, John, 174
Farran, Roy, 167–168, 170
Fergusson, Bernard, 170
Fisher, Warren, 6–8, 201
Fitzgerald, Michael, 169, 174, 232
Fitzpatrick, John, 91, 115, 122, 124
Flood, John E., 235–236
Foley, Charles, 242
Foley, Gerald, 34–35, 55, 131,
157–158, 177–178
Freeburn, Thomas, 88, 110n21, 112,
118, 123n80, 124
Furse, Ralph, 7–9, 200, 202, 205n81,
207n85, 214, 219, 223–224,
228–229, 232, 235–239
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G and imperial services’ recruitment,
Gallagher, Gerald, 215
Garda Síochána, 88, 95, 99–100, 102
Gray, William Nicol, 125, 170
Greenwood, Hamar, 43, 46, 201
Griffin, John Bowes, 187, 215
H elite education, role in recruitment,
Hackett, Patrick, 55, 157, 174, 179
Hallinan, Eric, 204, 215, 253–254,
259
Hamilton, Robert, 89
Harrison, Walter, 35, 39–40
Heffernan, Patrick, 192–193, 197, 259
Hennessey, John Pope, 228, 235
Hennessey, Robert, 106, 221–222, 247
Higgins, Michael, 47, 58, 140
Hoade, Eugene, 1–4, 15, 18, 105,
115, 118, 128, 130
Hogan, Michael, 187n1, 216
Holmes, Robert, 46–47, 58
Horne, Edward, 123, 130, 132, 137,
141, 178, 180
Humphreys, John, 86, 120
I 149, 196
India Office, 24, 152, 195, 198–199,
227, 234
Indian Civil Service (ICS), 5, 7, 229,
231, 235, 257, 259, 261
Irish enlistment in, 9, 17, 188–191,
195–196, 198–199, 225–226,
228, 266
Indian Medical Service (IMS)
Irish enlistment in, 17, 188–190,
193, 196–197, 199, 222, 241
Indian Police Service, 62, 130, 146,
149, 152–153, 184
Irish Defence Forces (IDF), 92–95,
99–100, 126
92–93, 236
Irish imperial servants
anticolonialism and, 242–246,
251–255, 266
aristocratic-gentry element, 67–68,
154, 195–196, 197n45,
200n58, 202, 266
150, 154, 188–189, 191–193,
195, 202–208, 215–216,
220–221, 229–230
enlistment, motivating factors for
career prospects, 67, 71–73,
75–76, 78, 88–89, 97, 149,
196–197, 211, 213, 222, 266
economics, 38–42, 63, 65, 67–68,
70–72, 74–75, 86–91, 94–95,
154, 193–196, 209, 266
humanitarian aspect, 214, 222,
266
pro-British loyalties, 67, 74, 96,
202–203, 219, 266
quest for adventure, 66, 73–74,
78, 91–94, 97, 149, 154,
196, 213, 222, 266
social advancement, 71, 77–78,
social-imperial networks/
endo-recruitment, 67, 74,
96, 150–151, 154, 196–197,
215–216, 218, 222
racial attitudes of, 18, 111–118,
121–122, 243, 245–251
Irishness
impact of
on imperial careers, 14–15, 18,
124–143, 227–228,
232–233
on imperial services’ recruitment,
134, 226–227, 230–231,
235–240, 266

Catholicism and, 132, 227–228,
234
Irish character stereotypes,
135–137, 226–240
drunkenness, propensity towards,
132, 137–138
‘Irish subversive,’ 18, 138–139,
206, 234–242, 266
temperamental issues, 134, 137,
226, 228–229, 231–232,
266
Irish-imperial identity, 255–260
varieties of Irishness, 14–15,
192–193, 202–206, 242, 252,
254–255, 257, 267
Irish Republican Army (IRA), 2, 12,
42–49, 99, 101–102, 121,
164–165, 170–172, 192,
237–238, 240, 244–246, 262,
265
Irish Revolution, 2, 12, 114, 118–119,
154, 164, 174, 198–202,
243–246, 251, 254
J 120, 124, 126. 128
Jabotinsky, Vladimir, 99, 119
James, Eric, 176–177
Jeans, John, 156, 164
Jeffries, Charles, 6n17, 16–17, 145,
155, 159, 214, 237, 257n136
K Moore, Martin, 96, 102n144, 112,
Kauntze, William, 232
Kealy, Joseph, 122, 181
Keane, Sir Michael, 195n35, 204,
261
Keith-Roach, Edward, 132, 169n101
Kisch, Frederick, 50, 158
Koestler, Arthur, 71, 111
Kyles, James, 176
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L
Leventhal, A. J. (Con), 239
London Metropolitan Police (LMP),
36, 102, 131, 152, 158, 160
Lugard, Frederick, 248
Luke, Harry, 161
Lumley, Edward, 201, 206, 213, 249
M
MacDonnell, Anthony, 252
MacMahon, Paul, 93, 96, 110, 114,
120
MacMichael, Harold, 69, 166, 171,
173–174, 176n127
Madden, Robert Richard, 234
Manning, Richard, 116, 150, 247
Mavrogordato, Arthur, 132, 164
McCahey, James, 181
McClements, Alexander, 89, 112
McConnell, Michael, 48, 55, 79,
130–131, 178–179
McDonnell, Michael, 116–118, 232,
241, 254–255, 267
McGrath, Patrick (Pat), 112, 114,
McNeill, Angus, 12, 34, 40, 50, 52–53,
161–163, 165, 168, 173, 178
McQuillan, Frank, 263
Meinertzhagen, Richard, 28, 30, 34,
38, 50, 161
Montagu, Edwin, 226, 243, 244n81
Montgomery, Bernard, 171–172
123, 258n142
Morton, Geoffrey, 64, 175
Munro, Jim, 157–158, 176–177
Murphy, Gerald, 88, 114
Murphy, J. W. W., 112, 173
Murphy, Lillian, 218
Murphy, Richard, 259–260
Murphy, William Lindsay, 259–260
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N civilianisation, 64, 158–160, 168,
Newbolt, Francis, 236–240
Nolan, Hugh, 180, 184
Nunan, Manus, 240, 256
O 83–97, 105–106, 265–266
O’Byrne, Brendan, 261
O’Connor, Michael, 201, 214
O’Donnell, Charles J, 235, 247, 252
O’Donnell, Frank Hugh, 247
O’Donoghue, Paud, 261
O’Dwyer, Michael, 196–197,
225–226, 243, 249, 251–252,
260
O’Grady, G. J., 213, 249, 251
O’Hora, Liam, 103.
O’Kinealy, Peter, 228, 252
O’Mahony, Joseph, 209
O’Meara, Eugene, 249
Ormsby-Gore, William, 37, 232,
241n72
O’Rorke, Michael, 55, 177, 179–180,
183, 185
O’Shea, David, 105, 122, 134
O’Sullivan, John J., 102, 180
O’Toole, John, 155, 184
P Royal Air Force, 24, 31, 51, 93
Palestine Gendarmerie, 26–27, 156
Palestine Police, 3, 17, 26–27, 37, 45,
48, 54–55, 61–64, 69, 80–81,
102, 121, 130, 132, 140, 148,
156, 160, 170, 173, 178, 181
Irish enlistment, 61–62
British Section (BSPP), 3–5,
13–15, 17, 20, 54–55, 58,
61–103, 105–143, 167–172,
181, 183, 232, 256, 258,
263; Antisemitism in, 98,
111–115
171
conduct and discipline, 132–142
counterinsurgency, 159–176
intra-force relations, 122
Irish enlistment in, 3–4, 13, 62–79,
Irish contribution to, 177–181
promotions, 124–130
Mobile Police Striking Force, 159,
169–170
Police Mobile Force, 75–76,
159–160, 170, 179
Snatch squads, 167–168, 170,
173
Perowne, Stuart, 107–108, 127n89
Plumer, Herbert Onslow, 54, 106, 157
Plunkett, Oliver, 116
Pollock, James, 116–117
Power, John, 87, 101, 111, 114, 120,
123–124
Q
Quickfall, Dennis, 91, 112, 123
Quigley, Eugene, 61–62, 131, 179
R
Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC), 5, 23,
28, 30–43, 49–51, 54–57, 61, 67,
73, 101, 164–165, 168–169,
172–177, 179–180, 185,
201–202, 265–266
Auxiliary Division (ADRIC), 5, 23,
28, 30–31, 34–35, 40, 49, 81,
131, 153, 155
and Colonial Police recruitment, 12,
16, 145–155
and Colonial Police training,
151–152, 155–158, 179

IRA campaign against, 44–49,
58–60, 63
Royal Navy, 36, 237
Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), 31,
58, 65, 73, 78, 152, 160
Special Constabularies, 46, 58
Rymer-Jones, John, 75, 79, 160, 176,
179, 181
S
Samuel, Herbert, 24–25, 29, 32, 50–51,
53–54, 106, 156, 160, 163
Sarsfield-Hall, Edwin, 194–195, 242
Saunders, Alan, 66n 18, 169,
173–174, 176
Sheedy, Arthur, 93
Shuckburgh, John, 24, 33–34, 37,
202, 238
Sidley, William, 153, 155, 184
Slevin, Brian, 184, 187
Sparrow, Robert, 16, 148, 151
Spicer, Roy, 64, 66–67, 70–72,
126–127, 158, 168–169, 171,
174, 179n142, 181
Stack, Austin, 44, 235, 261
Stewart, Weston, 3, 165
Sudan Political Service (SPS)
Irish enlistment in, 195, 230–231,
242
T Ziff, William, 98–99, 102, 119
Tegart, Charles, 62, 69, 149, 159,
168–169, 173, 184, 244
Tesseyman, Cyril, 157, 177
Traill, Anthony, 193, 230
Trenchard, Hugh, 51–52
Trinity College Dublin (TCD),
149–150, 194–195, 201,
220–222, 230–231, 236, 238–239
Indian Civil Service school, 189,
198–199
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role in imperial services’
recruitment, 189, 193,
205–206, 208, 216
Tudor, Hugh Henry, 12, 28, 30,
33–35, 37–38, 45–46, 50–51,
156, 165
personal life, 52–54
Tynan, Patrick, 63, 87, 101, 110
Tynan-O’Mahoney, Gerald, 56
W
Waterfield, Percival, 239–240
Wauchope, Arthur, 116
White, George, 139
Whitton, Cuthbert, 219
Wickham, Charles, 160, 170
Wilkinson, John, 155, 179
Wilson, Henry, 25, 27, 29–30, 34,
52–53
Wingfield, Mervyn Patrick (9th
Viscount Powerscourt), 67–68,
195
Winter, Ormond de l’Épée, 34
Wright, Anthony, 87, 109, 113
Y
Young, Hubert, 27, 38
Z
Zionist Insurgency, 62, 79, 102,
111–114, 119–120, 122, 139,
160, 166–169, 172–173,
180–181
Haganah, 3, 79n64, 120
Irgun Zwai Leumi, 3, 79n64, 99,
102, 111n29, 119–120, 139,
167, 244
LEHI (Stern Gang), 3, 79n64, 120,
167, 180n146, 244