1 CAVALRY DIVISION Headquarters, Branches and Services Commander Royal Artillery

10 August 1914 - 19 September 1919 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/1101/1)

772 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Headquarters, Branches and Services Commander Royal Artillery, 1st Cavalry Division, covering August 1914 to September 1919 across 757 pages. It names 124 places across 188 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries one casualty and personnel return, thirteen reports, narratives and plans, 56 Operation Orders and eight appendices. Among the papers are: Casualty Clearing Stations list 1; Percentage of instructions again Enteric in 1st Cavalry Division.; Operation orders 1st Cavalry Division. Appendix No. 3; Operation orders 1st Cav. Divn. Appendix No. 4; Orders for Regimental Medical officers; Orders for Mounted Pack Section; Medical Arrangements, Dismounted Divisions. order No. 15; Amendments to Medical Arrangements, order No. 26; Medical Arrangements. 1st Cavalry Division, order No. 30; Routine orders by Colonel S. de C. O'Grady, C.M.G., D.S.O., A.M.S., A.D.M.S., Cavalry; Cavalry Division British Army of the Rhine. Amendment to Medical Arrangement order No. 56.The diary opens at Aldershot on 10 August 1914. 1914 is spent at Le Nieppe, Bailleul, Neuve Eglise, Villers En Prayeres and Aldershot. 1915 at Samer, Le Nieppe, Esquelbecq and Ecques. 1916 at Samer, Allonville, Canaples, Escarbotin and Rollencourt. 1917 at Samer, Condette, Busnes, Merville and Flamicourt. 1918 is the most travelled year, 46 places against 29 in the next busiest, and is spent at Flamicourt, Gueschart, Beauval, Heuchin and Tertry. 1919 at Bergheim. It closes at Bergheim on 19 September 1919. Samer is where it spent longest, 369 days across eight separate stays, including a single unbroken stay of 183 and it came back to Bergheim ten separate times.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Auxi le Chateau and Chateau Bois de Ploegsteert.In 1914 it is also recorded at Le Havre, Maubeuge, Aibes, Givry, Quievrain, Gastins, La Haute, Pargnan, Braine and Chelers. In 1915 it is also recorded at Poperinghe, Ypres, Wormhoudt, Westvleteren, Luiet Crossing Ypres-Vlamertinghe Road, Esquelbecque, Liettres, Vaudricourt, Drouvin and Labuisserie. In 1916 it is also recorded at Willeman, Argoules, Frohen-Le-Grand, Domart-En-Ponthieu, Querrieu, Bresle, Pont Noyelles, Le Quesnoy, Treux and Friville-Escarbotin. In 1917 it is also recorded at Quillen, Wavran, Humberville, St Nicholas, Haut Avesnes, Anvin, Auchel, Wormhoudt, Le Meillard and La Contay. In 1918 it is also recorded at Potte, Curchy. 17.K.3, Morlancourt, Bussy Les Daours, Fouilloy, Daours, Amiens, St. Saveur, Auxi le Chateau and Flers.

• 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: 9781474500142
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 27.04.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press