1 CAVALRY DIVISION Divisional Troops 8 Light Armoured Battery, Cavalry Pioneer Battalion and Royal Army Medical Corps 1 Cavalry Field Ambulance

5 August 1914 - 31 August 1919 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/1104)

554 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the 8 Light Armoured Battery, Cavalry Pioneer Battalion and Royal Army Medical Corps 1 Cavalry Field Ambulance, Divisional Troops, 1st Cavalry Division, covering August 1914 to August 1919 across 540 pages. It names 236 places across 360 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries one appendix and one map.The diary opens at Aldershot on 5 August 1914. 1914 is spent at Noote-Boom, Haute Rives, Neuve-Eglise, Croix de Poperinghe and Aldershot. 1915 at Wormhoudt, Noote-Boom, Hondeghem, Chateau Mile South of Allette and Bayenghem Lez Seninghem. 1916 at Chateau 1 Mile S of Allette, Menty, Querrieu, Labourse and La Neuville. 1917 at Montechor, Menty, Merville, Courset and Bailleul Aux Cornailles. 1918 at Cappy, Mouriez, Serny, Amplier and Maretz. 1919 at Heppendorf. It closes at Heppendorf on 31 August 1919. Menty is where it spent longest, 253 days across nine separate stays and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 179 days at Chateau 1 Mile S of Allette.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Chateau 1 Mile S of Allette, Chateau Mile South of Allette, Chateau near Allette, Wood 2 km N.W. Vlamertinghe and Aix Farm Bernes.In 1914 it is also recorded at Southampton, Harve, In the Train, Jeumont, Givry, Quiverain, Bertry to Flavy Le Martel, Flavy Le Martel, Noyon and Lassigny. In 1915 it is also recorded at Ypres, Staple, Poperinghe, St Jans-ter-Bizen, Hazebrouck, 1Mile W of Ypres an Vlamertinghe road, 1 mile S of Vlamertinghe, Vlamertinghe, Vermhoudt and Wood 2 km N.W. Vlamertinghe. In 1916 it is also recorded at Fouquereuil, Bisley, Winchester, Southampton, Shipboard, Le Havre, Neufchatel, Abbeville, Conde-le-Folie and Albert. In 1917 it is also recorded at Montreuil, St. Omer, Samer, Coupelle-Neuve, Bois De La Haie, Moves & Transfer, Rocourt, Hermaville, Field Near Agnieres and Athies. In 1918 it is also recorded at St. Christ, Meraucourt, Flechin, Aix Farm Bernes, Prosle, Misery, Morchain, Manicourt, Cerisy and Bussy-Les-Daours. In 1919 it is also recorded at Heppendorf Germany.

• 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: 9781474500180
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 27.04.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press