GUARDS DIVISION Headquarters, Branches and Services General Staff

1 January 1916 - 31 May 1916 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/1191)

1020 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 General Staff, Guards Division, covering January 1916 to May 1916 across 1,000 pages. It names 5 places across 12 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries one casualty and personnel return, 61 reports, narratives and plans, twenty-eight Operation Orders, six defence schemes, twenty-seven appendices, four maps and thirteen diagrams. Among the papers are: Casualties from April 21st to April 29th Inclusive; Lessons Drawn from the Various Minor operations carried out by the 2nd Army Up to the 9th; Duties of Divnl & Intelligence Officer; Instructions for Intelligence Duties Second Army; XIVth Corps Intelligence; Guards Division Intelligence report; Guards Division Summary of Intelligence May 8th 1916; Intelligence Observations; Table a Proposed Infantry Reliefs in XIth Corps; March Table issued with Guards Division operation order No. 18; Report on the Gas attack on December 19th 1915 Submitted to the A.D.M.S. 6th Division; XI Corps orders.The diary opens at La Gorgue on 1 January 1916. 1916 is spent at Poperinghe, La Gorgue, Esquelbecq and Hazebrouck. It closes at Esquelbecq on 31 May 1916. Poperinghe is where it spent longest, 65 days across three separate stays, it came back to Esquelbecq four separate times, and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 31 days at La Gorgue.In 1916 it is also recorded at La Gorgue and Hazebrouck.

• 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: 9781474501736
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press