5 CAVALRY DIVISION Headquarters, Branches and Services Royal Army Medical Corps Assistant Director Medical Services

1 January 1917 - 31 January 1918 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/1162/3)

146 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 Royal Army Medical Corps Assistant Director Medical Services, 5th Cavalry Division, covering January 1917 to January 1918 across 140 pages. It names 21 places across 35 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries three reports, narratives and plans, six Operation Orders and one appendix. Among the papers are: Routine orders (Medical) Brevet-., F.R.C.S., I,M,S, 5th Cavalry Division.The diary opens at Dargnies on 1 January 1917. 1917 is spent at Dargnies, Heuchin, Nobescourt Farm, Monchy La Gache and Guizancourt. 1918 at Monchy and Bouvincourt. It closes at Bouvincourt on 31 January 1918. Dargnies is where it spent longest, 82 days across three separate stays, it came back to Heuchin four separate times, and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 43 days at Monchy La Gache.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Nobescourt Farm.In 1917 it is also recorded at Peronne, Villers-Bretonneux, St Pol, Poperinghe, Renescure, Fressin, Outrebois, Querrieu, Fins and NE of villers-Plouicw.

• 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: 9781474501187
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 27.04.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press