GUARDS DIVISION Divisional Troops Royal Army Service Corps Divisional Train (11, 124, 168 & 436 Companies A.S.C.)

1 December 1917 - 6 May 1919 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/1211)

642 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Royal Army Service Corps Divisional Train (11, 124, 168 & 436 Companies A.S.C.), Divisional Troops, Guards Division, covering December 1917 to May 1919 across 624 pages. It names 177 places across 318 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries 91 reports, narratives and plans, 54 Operation Orders and one diagram. Among the papers are: Table "A" (Issued with Guards Division order No. 170); Order for Move of Division to Line; Guards Division Instruction No. C. R. 2. Division in Corps Reserve; March Table issued with Guards Division Warning order No. 1; Guards Division Instruction No. C. R. 1. Division in Corps Reserve. Action in XVII Corps; Order for 22nd March 1918; Table to Accompany Guards Division order No. 188; Movement Table (Issued with Guards Division order No. 195); Movement order; Order., A.S.C. Guards Divisional Train Wednesday, 24th April, 1918; Refilling arrangement are as following. 26 April. 1918. and until further orders; Working order.The diary opens at Arras on 1 December 1917. 1917 is spent at Arras. 1918 is the most travelled year, 227 places against 31 in the next busiest, and is spent at Arras, Bavincourt, Cologne, Carnieres and Gouy. 1919 at Cologne, Duren, Kreuzau, Bocklemund and Erenfeld. It closes at Chelsea Barracks on 6 May 1919. Arras is where it spent longest, 419 days across eighteen separate stays, including a single unbroken stay of 62.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include La Bazecque Farm, Bazecque Farm and Francesse Chateau.In 1918 it is also recorded at Summer Time, Blaireville, R1 Head Agnes-Les-Duisant K.12.SL.51/C, Beaumetz, Beaunetz, Bauincourt, Gouy-R1head Bavincourt, Bavinicourt, R. Gouy-En-Artois Bavincourt and Gouy-En-Artois. In 1919 it is also recorded at No. 10 Bawacks Cologne, Bocklemund Cologne, Ehrenfeld, Kerpen, Cologne Duren, Blatzhein, Colonge, Antwerp, Board and Tilbury.

• 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: 9781474501873
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press