1 CAVALRY DIVISION Headquarters, Branches and Services

11 August 1914 - 31 December 1914 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/1096)

1012 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Headquarters, Branches and Services, 1st Cavalry Division, covering August 1914 to December 1914 across 991 pages. It names 38 places across 46 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries three casualty and personnel returns, seventeen reports, narratives and plans, 98 Operation Orders, 42 appendices, sixteen maps and one diagram. Among the papers are: Summary of casualties 20th and 21st October 1914; Statement Showing Percentage of casualties by Units, from Commencement of Campaign to 1st; Report on operations At Messines on 20th-23rd October 1914; Summary of Cavalry Corps Patrol reports Up to 8.a.m; Intelligence Summary No. 48; App 38 report of the Action at Moncel 13 Miles N.W. of Provins on Monday 7th September; Operation order No 24 French G., etc., British Expeditionary Force; Operation order No 25 French G., etc. Commander-in-Chief, British Forces in the Field; Report on the Action of the 1st Cavalry Division About Ploegsteert; Appendix 3(a). the Following Deals with the French attack on Messines Under; Order No. 69 Pour la journee du 4 Novembre; Order No. 75 Pour la journee du 10 Novembre.The diary opens at Aldershot on 11 August 1914. 1914 is spent at Le Nieppe, St Jans Cappel, Villers-en-Prayeres, Neuve Eglise and Quievrain. It closes at Le Nieppe on 31 December 1914. Le Nieppe is where it spent longest, 34 days, including a single unbroken stay of 31.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Regersburg Chateau, Chateau Champs, Chateau N Of Ploegsteert and Chateau Bois De Ploegsteert.In 1914 it is also recorded at Le Havre, Maubeuge, Aibes, Givry, Villeneuve-Sous-Dammartin, Gournay, Chateau Champs, Jouy Le Chatel, La Haute and La Voue Le Pretre.

• Reihe: War Diaries - Facsimile Reprints of Official War Office WO95 Documents
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Militärgeschichte Besondere Kriege und militärische Feldzüge Erster Weltkrieg
• ISBN: 9781474500098
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 27.04.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press