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Kedward, Lt Idwal
Senior subaltern in Gwatkin's Company: VB 5
described: VB 9-10, 23; MP 178-9
family and civilian life:
bank clerk: VB 16, 18
aunt in Croydon: VB 18
and Craddock's sister:
engaged: VB 20-1, 51, 189, 201, 231
married with two children: MP 180
character:
apparently romantic sentiments about:
love and marriage: VB 20-1
father's prayer-book: VB 19-20
home: VB 18-19, 44
in fact, coolly rational ambitions about:
love and marriage: VB 231
ambition: VB 18, 21-2, 51, 177-8, 231, 241-2
as army officer:
subaltern:
general references to: VB 5, 20, 23-4, 34, 46, 56, 99, 177, 188, 203, 210, 217
strictness over organising the billet: VB 7-10, 12
and the ragging of Bithel:
enthusiastic part in: VB 29-32
efficient handling of aftermath: VB 34-6
on Anti-Gas course: VB 56; MP 179
the arrest of Bithel:
chosen as escort for seniority: VB 213-6
anxious over subsequent neglect: VB 223-4
Company Captain:
promotion to: VB 226-8, 233, 235-6
first actions as: VB 228-31, 233-4, 244-5
in liberation of Europe:
action near Caen: MP 178
in Holland: MP 177-82
Regimental pride: MP 182
rivalry with Gwatkin:
frequently critical of with respect to:
high opinion of himself:
as banker: VB 16; MP 181
militarily: VB 16-17, 19, 73
susceptibility to love: VB 22, 208
weakness as Company Commander:
the exercise in support: VB 82, 84-6
increasing clerical inefficiency: VB 185, 230, 244
the code-word fiasco: VB 220
handling of the Bithel arrest: VB 223
NJ sees as reflected in different appearance: VB 12-13
cause of the episode with the bren-carrier: VB 65
doubts reciprocated by: VB 14, 73-4, 236
climax in replacement in command of Company:
obvious satisfaction: VB 226-7, 236, 240-1
sharp treatment on hand-over: VB 228, 244-5
reversal of policy: VB 229
relationship with NJ:
introduces to:
the Company in billets: VB 7-12, 23
Gwatkin: VB 12, 15-16
and Company affairs:
early source of information on: VB 16-17, 19, 21-2; MP 180-2
amazement at memory of: MP 180-2
shares room with: VB 28, 51, 56, 203
drinks at M'Coy's with: VB 189
respected by as:
good officer: VB 13, 22, 35-6, 82
liked by men: VB 74
frank in treatment of:
concerns about age: VB 19, 233
rebukes over Platoon's performance: VB 230
announcement of posting:
glad to see going: VB 243
makes sign for galantine: VB 244
business more important than talk of old times: MP 182
at meeting in Holland:
has completely forgotten: MP 179
over-formal with: MP 179-2
seen by as representative:
of Company life: VB 119
of his "old" war: VB 248, 253; MP 179, 182
contrasted by with:
Gwatkin: VB 12-13
Odo Stevens: VB 122
and other characters:
Bithel:
admires prospect of: VB 19
and the ragging of:
enthusiastic part in: VB 29-32
efficient handling of aftermath: VB 34-6
critical of over:
drinking: VB 36, 211, 215-6
the Deafy Morgan incident: VB 77
Breeze: VB 21-2
General Liddament: VB 79, 104
Keef, Captain
DAPM at Div HQ 55
described: SA 206
as DAPM:
rank as Captain Commanding Military Police: SA 56
incidents involved in:
transport control on three-day exercise: SA 55-6
the Diplock affair: SA 75, 188, 204, 206-7
Biggs's suicide: SA 221
and other characters:
Bithel: SA 173, 179
Widmerpool: SA 55-6, 75, 206
Kernével, Captain
An officer at the French military attaché's office: SA 93
described: SA 93; MP 144-5
character:
Breton:
learnt French as foreign language: MP 144-5
uninterested in Proust: MP 196, 243
reminds NJ of old regiment: MP 144
convivial:
generous with wine: MP 145, 243-4, 246
sense of humour:
story of Leprince: MP 244
amusement over MBE: MP 246
military career:
long service on staff of military attaché: SA 93-4; MP 144-6, 245-6
promoted from Lieutenant to Captain: SA 93; MP 144
remains with Free French in London after liberation: MP 144, 243
awarded MBE:
problems over: MP 243
citation confuses CIGS: MP 244
and NJ:
remembered by from first meeting: SA 93-4; MP 144
keeps in touch with afterwards: MP 245-6
and other characters:
Masham: SA 93-4; MP 144
General Philidor: MP 146
Szymanski: SA 93
Kielkiewicz, General
Polish Chief-of-Staff: MP 21
military career:
in Austro-Hungarian cavalry: MP 30
Polish Chief-of-Staff: MP 21, 31, 33, 69, 71
removed from post after War: MP 219
character:
has heard of Kafka: MP 37
speaks French better than English: MP 69
and other characters:
Finn: MP 69
Michalski: MP 31
Pennistone: MP 33, 37
Widmerpool: MP 21
Killick, Professor
An Oxford don: BDFR 8
philosophy don: BDFR 8
represents passage of time to NJ:
rugby player when NJ an undergraduate: BDFR 8
old when met after War: BDFR 8
invitation to dinner:
given: BDFR 9
forgotten in trip to Manchester: BDFR 9
Klein, Jimmy
A cousin of Rosie Manasch: BM 68
and Lady Peggy Stepney:
long in love with: BM 68; MP 118; BDFR 110
eventually third husband of: MP 118; BDFR 110
at Donners-Brebner: BDFR 109
cousin of Rosie Manasch: BDFR 109
acquaintance of Widmerpool: LM 66; BDFR 109
Kniveton
An ex-student of Sillery's: BDFR 10
part of Sillery's list of attempts to remember NJ: BDFR 10
Kucherman, Major
Belgian Military Attaché: MP 90
described: MP 93-4
career:
civilian life:
industrial magnate:
head of major textile firm: MP 93, 161
coal owner: MP 93
interests in Far East: MP 93
in Belgian Government: MP 161, 184, 220
as Military Attaché:
appointment to replace Lannoo: MP 90, 92
ranked Major: MP 92
respected by:
Bob Duport: MP 192
Finn: MP 92-3, 95, 200
Gauthier de Graef: MP 95
Pennistone: MP 93
and the army of the Resistance:
the problem: MP 184, 196-8
intrigues with NJ to use Donners: MP 198-200
Gauthier de Graef deputises for: MP 92, 161, 184
Bruylant replaces as: MP 220
and NJ:
interest in father: MP 94, 151
amuses by:
reaction to V1: MP 149
idiosyncratic use of English: MP 149, 151, 199
joins intrigue with: MP 198-200
and other characters:
Clanwaert: MP 95, 99
Sir Magnus Donners:
contrasted with: MP 93
has visited at Stourwater: MP 94
uses connection with to influence Churchill: MP 198-200
Hlava: MP 102
Prince Theodoric:
knew before War: MP 149
concern for future of: MP 149-50
opinions expressed on:
Chu and chinamen: MP 160
military traditions in families: MP 150-1
political implications of:
Resistance factions in the Balkans: MP 149-50
von Stauffenberg and the Officers' Plot: MP 149-50
Kydd, Alaric
An avant-garde novelist: BDFR 127
published by:
Clapham: BDFR 166
Quiggin & Craggs:
poached by: BDFR 162, 167
hopes of to profit from controversy: BDFR 127, 134-5, 166
increasing doubts felt by: BDFR 162, 165-6
causes loss to: BDFR 220
character:
arrogance: TK 219-20; HSH 87, 103
homosexuality: BDFR 127, 135; TK 12; HSH 101
published work:
"Sweetskin":
prosecution for obscenity:
concern for possibility of: BDFR 134-5, 143, 165, 197, 220
eventually brought to court: BDFR 167, 220
case dismissed: BDFR 220, 254
own reaction to: BDFR 220
poor quality of:
felt by Quiggin: BDFR 165
slated in Trapnel's unpublished review: BDFR 166-9, 178-9
ridiculed:
in Trapnel's parody: BDFR 178-9, 198
in court: BDFR 220
eventual success of: BDFR 254
"Sea Urchins" (presumably): TK 12
and the literary scene:
not at Venice Conference: TK 12
at Soviet Embassy lunch: TK 219-20
overlong speech at a Donners Memorial dinner: HSH 87, 101, 103
living abroad: HSH 87
and other characters:
Mark Members: TK 12
Shernmaker: BDFR 134-5
Quentin Shuckerley: TK 12
Trapnel:
as author: BDFR 143, 166-72
as source of loan: BDFR 162-3
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