GUARDS DIVISION 2 Guards Brigade Headquarters

1 January 1917 - 31 March 1919 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/1218)

768 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Headquarters, 2 Guards Brigade, Guards Division, covering January 1917 to March 1919 across 750 pages. It names 113 places across 126 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries seven casualty and personnel returns, 56 reports, narratives and plans, 60 Operation Orders, three defence schemes, six appendices, four maps and five diagrams. Among the papers are: 2nd Guards Brigade. casualties for the month of January, 1918; 2nd. Guards Brigade. casualties for month of April, 1918.-3rd. Bn. Grenadier Guards; Report on raid carried out by 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards on night of 27th/28th; 2.G.B. No. 816/G. Subject:- Training with Contact Patrol.; Movement Table attached to Amendment to 2nd. Gds. Bde. order No. 81; Movement Table attached to 2nd. Guards Brigade order No. 81; Orders for the Division While in XIV Corps Reserve Area.; Warning Order.; Order for Parade 11 a.m. Jan. 8th; Report on Sector Taken Over by 2nd. Guards Brigade, Jan. 10th. 1917.; Detailed report of Warning Saved on Germans on the Morning of 19/1/17; For Organized Counterattack Brigade form Reserve Line. Appendix a.The diary opens at Bois Dore on 1 January 1917. 1917 is the most travelled year, 67 places against 52 in the next busiest, and is spent at Billon, Ville, Herzeele, Warlus and Houlle. 1918 is spent at La Bazeque, Trois Ponts, St. Hilaire, Larbret and X Roads Blaireville. 1919 at Cologne and Aachener Strasse, Cologne. It closes at Aachener Strasse, Cologne on 31 March 1919. Cologne is where it spent longest, 60 days, including a single unbroken stay of 60 and it came back to Herzeele four separate times.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Billon Farm, Trieu Chateau, Saules Farm, Saulty Chateau, Rabbit Wood, Gouzeaucourt Wood, Chasseur Farm and Boesinghe Chateau.In 1917 it is also recorded at Bois Dore To Corbie, Corbie, Berner's Cutting, 2.G.B. No. 485/G. App 37, Douage Wood, Ville to Billon Fm, Billon Farm, Billon Fm. to Bois Douage, Bois Douage and Clery Les Ommecourt. In 1918 it is also recorded at Warlus-Arras, Arras, Rue Des Gauguiers Arras, Northumberland Lines, Boiry St Rictrude, Blaireville, Cross Roads Blaireville, Saulty Chateau, Hendecourt and Boiry-St-Martin.

• 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: 9781474502030
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press