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My second and third squad drills – the first at the Corps’ dingy premises 6 Upper Baker Street, the second at the camp at Wembley Park. A fine bright day but plenty of mud at Wembley. The corps has here a range of sleeping huts made very ingeniously out of old railway carriages. The main body marches from the Regent's Park and arrives just as we conclude our drill.

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Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series , Volume 50: PARLIAMENT AND POLITICS IN THE AGE OF ASQUITH AND LLOYD GEORGE , May 2016 , pp. 177 - 207
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References

1 Unidentified.

2 Harold Trevor Baker (1877–1960): called to the Bar 1903; Lib. MP Accrington 1910–1918; Financial Secretary to the War Office 1912–1914; Warden of Winchester College 1933–1946.

3 Charles Edward Troup (1857–1941): Permanent Under-Secretary at the Home Office 1908–1922.

4 Arthur Locke (d. 1932 at age 59): civil servant.

5 Thomas McKinnon Wood (1855–1927); London County Council 1892–1909; Lib. MP Glasgow St Rollox 1906–1918; Parliamentary Secretary to Board of Education 1908; Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1908–1911; Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1911–1912; Secretary of State for Scotland 1912–1915; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1916.

6 Lucas Henry St Aubyn King (1895–1915): CH's nephew; of the Fourth Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps; killed by shellfire near Ypres.

7 Harmsworth's fuller account of the fall of the government appears to have gone missing within his own lifetime.

8 John William Gulland (1864–1920): Lib. MP Dumfries Burghs 1906–1918; Junior Lord of the Treasury 1909–1915; Parliamentary Secretary (later joint) to the Treasury and Liberal Chief Whip 1915–1916.

9 William Crooks (1852–1921): elected to London County Council 1892; Lab. MP Woolwich 1903–1918, Woolwich East 1918–1921.

10 Herbert Nield (1862–1932): Con. MP Ealing 1906–1931; knighted 1918.

11 William Maxwell Aitken (1879–1964): Canadian businessman; newspaper magnate, owner of Daily Express from 1916 and founder of Sunday Express in 1918; Con. MP Ashton–under-Lyne 1910–1916; knighted 1911, cr. baronet 1916, Baron Beaverbrook 1917; Minister of Information 1918; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1918; Minister of Aircraft Production 1940–1941; Minister of Supply 1941–1942; Minister of War Production 1942; Lord Privy Seal 1943–1945.

12 Henry William Forster (1866–1936): Con. MP Sevenoaks 1892–1918, Bromley 1918–1919; Financial Secretary to the War Office 1915–1919; cr. Baron 1919; Governor-General of Australia 1920–1925.

13 Rufus Daniel Isaacs (1860–1935): called to the Bar 1887; Lib. candidate for North Kensington 1900; MP for Reading 1904–1913; Solicitor General 1910; Attorney General 1910–1913; Lord Chief Justice 1913–1921; Viceroy of India 1921–1926; Foreign Secretary 1931; knighted 1910; cr. Baron Reading 1914; cr. Marquess of Reading 1926.

14 John Swanwick Bradbury (1872–1950): economist and civil servant; Joint Permanent Secretary to the Treasury 1913–1919; cr. Baron 1925.

15 Walter Cunliffe (1855–1920): merchant banker; Governor of the Bank of England 1913–1918; cr. Baron 1914.

16 Brien Cokayne (1864–1932): Deputy Governor of the Bank of England 1915–1918, Governor 1918–1920; cr. Baron Cullen of Ashbourne 1918.

17 Hartley Withers (1867–1950): City editor, The Times 1905–1910, Morning Post 1910–1911; merchant banker 1911–1915; Director of Financial Inquiries at the Treasury 1915–1916; editor, The Economist, 1916–1921.

18 Hugh Chisholm (1866–1924): financial editor of The Times 1914–1920.

19 John Alfred Spender (1862–1942): prominent Liberal journalist; editor of the Westminster Gazette 1896–1922; biographer of Asquith and Campbell-Bannerman.

20 Edmund FitzAlan-Howard (1855–1947): styled Lord Edmund Talbot 1876–1921; 2nd son of the 14th Duke of Norfolk; Con. MP Chichester 1894–1921; joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury and Chief Whip 1915–1921; Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1921–1922; cr. Viscount FitzAlan 1921.

21 Arthur Herbert Drummond Ramsay Steel-Maitland (1876–1935): Con. MP Birmingham East 1910–1918, Birmingham Erdington 1918–1929, Tamworth 1929–1935; Chairman of Unionist party 1911–1916; Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies 1915–1917; Secretary for Overseas Trade 1917–1918; Minister of Labour 1924–1929; cr. baronet 1917.

22 John Boraston (1851–1920): assistant secretary of Liberal Unionist organisation 1887–1891; Liberal Unionist Chief Agent 1891–1912; Principal Agent for combined unionist party 1912–1920.

23 Arthur Peters: Labour party national agent 1908–1919.

24 Horace Perkins Hamilton (1880–1971): civil servant; Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade 1927–1937; Permanent Secretary to the Scottish Office 1937–1946; knighted 1921.

25 Maurice Horsley Whitelegge (1889–1978): civil servant.

26 Gerald Bellhouse (1868–1946): civil servant; Chief Inspector of Factories 1922–1932; knighted 1924.

27 Harold Alfred Vyvyan St George Harmsworth (1894–1918): eldest of the three sons of Harold Sidney Harmsworth; killed in action.

28 Robert Arthur Montgomery (1848–1931); retired in 1910 after a long military career but was re-employed upon the outbreak of war and served as Director-General of Recruiting in 1915.

29 Pyotr Lvovich Bark, later Peter Bark (1869–1937): Russian Minister of Finance 1914–1917; exiled to London after the revolution; knighted 1935 for services to banking.

30 Michael Edward Hicks Beach (1837–1916): Con. MP for East Gloucestershire 1864–1885, Bristol West 1885–1904; Chief Secretary of Ireland 1874–1878 and 1886–1887; Secretary of State for the Colonies 1878–1880; Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the Commons 1885–1886 and 1895–1902; President of the Board of Trade 1888–1892; cr. Viscount St. Aldwyn 1906 and Earl St. Aldwyn 1915.

31 Guy Francis Laking (1875–1919): first Keeper of the London Museum from 1911 until his death; succ. as 2nd baronet 1914.

32 Edward George Villiers Stanley (1865–1948): Con. MP for West Houghton 1892–1906; Junior Lord of the Treasury 1895–1899; Financial Secretary to the War Office 1901–1903; Postmaster General 1903–1906; Director-General of Recruiting 1915–1918 and author of the so-called ‘Derby Scheme’ to promote enlistment; Ambassador to France 1918–1920; succ. as 17th Earl of Derby 1908; known as the ‘Uncrowned King of Lancashire’ because of his importance to the county's political and associational life.

33 John Arbuthnot Fisher, (1841–1920): became a full Admiral in 1901 after a long naval career, and an Admiral of the Fleet in 1905; Second Sea Lord 1902–1904; First Sea Lord 1904–1910, 1914–1915; chairman of the Board of Invention and research 1915–1918; cr. 1st Baron Fisher 1909. His recall as First Sea Lord by Churchill upon the outbreak of war was followed by a disastrous clash between the two men, which helped trigger the creation of the Asquith coalition in May 1915.

34 Malcolm Delevingne, (1868–1950): entered the civil service 1892, rose to be Permanent Secretary at the Home Office1922–1932; knighted 1919.

35 Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge (1860–1951): Permanent Secretary at the Board of Education 1911–1925; knighted 1913.

36 i.e. 22 and 23 November.

37 Oxford preparatory school.