4 CAVALRY DIVISION Lucknow Cavalry Brigade Headquarters, `U' Battery Royal Horse Artillery, 1st King's Dragoon Guards, 29 Lancers, 36 Jacobs Horse, Brigade Signal Troop, 12 Cavalry Machine Gun Squadron and Royal Army Veterinary Corps Mobile Veterinary Sec

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Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Lucknow Cavalry Brigade Headquarters, `U' Battery Royal Horse Artillery, 1st King's Dragoon Guards, 29 Lancers, 36 Jacobs Horse, Brigade Signal Troop, 12 Cavalry Machine Gun Squadron and Royal Army Veterinary Corps Mobile Veterinary Section, Divisional Troops, 4th Cavalry Division, covering January 1917 to April 1918 across 671 pages. It names 174 places across 390 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries seven casualty and personnel returns, twenty-four reports, narratives and plans, twenty-eight Operation Orders and eleven appendices. Among the papers are: Casualties 19th March 1917; Casualties 20th March 1917; Casualties 22nd March 1917; Report on raid by the enemy on No. 9 Post on 14.6.17; March Table to Accompany Lucknow Cavalry Brigade order No. 1 of 14th May, 1917; Relief Table issued with 4th Dismounted Brigade operation order No. 9; III Corps Operations. Instruction No. 9. Third Stage; III Corps Operations. Instruction No. 10. instructions to the Lucknow Cavalry Brigade; March Table to Accompany order No. 3; Copy of Cavalry Corps order No. 24, dated 24th Novr. 1915; Relief Table; Warning Order..The diary opens at Moyenneville on 1 January 1917. 1917 is the most travelled year, 264 places against 49 in the next busiest, and is spent at Devise, Le Mesnil, Hamelet and Moyenneville. 1918 is spent at Devise, St. Sauflieu, Tel-El-Kebir, Loeuilly and Marcelcave. It closes at Aveluy on 30 April 1918. Devise is where it spent longest, 367 days across twenty-eight separate stays, including a single unbroken stay of 69 and it came back to Le Mesnil thirty-one separate times.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Ruelles Wood, Trench Line Villers-Guislain, Quarry 11.a.3.3, Ronssoy Wood, Trenches A.1 Subsector, action by St. Leger Mill, Logeast Wood and By Vapencourt Chateau.In 1917 it is also recorded at Vaux-En Amienois, Chepy, Quesnoy Le Montant, Hymmeville, Chaussoy, Miannay, Daours, Citadel Near Fricourt, Hardecourt and 700x S.E of Morval. In 1918 it is also recorded at Hesbecourt, Standing Camp Field Devise, Villeret, Bayonvillers, Marcelleaux, Wiencourt, Namps-Au-Mont, Tilloy, Saint Sauflieu and Marseilles.

• 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: 9781474501156
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 27.04.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press