GUARDS DIVISION 2 Guards Brigade Irish Guards 2nd Battalions and Guards Machine Gun Company

17 July 1915 - 28 February 1918 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/1220)

522 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Irish Guards 2nd Battalions and Guards Machine Gun Company, 2 Guards Brigade, Guards Division, covering July 1915 to January 1919 across 506 pages. It names 245 places across 342 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries one casualty and personnel return, thirteen reports, narratives and plans, twelve Operation Orders, two defence schemes, five appendices, three maps and nine diagrams. Among the papers are: 2nd Battalion Irish Guards. nominal roll of officers; Orders for a Minor Enterprise to Be carried out by the 2nd. Battalion Irish Guards; Report on a Minor Enterprise carried out by the 2nd. Battalion Irish Guards on the night; Routine order for Machine Gun Teams in Trenches.; Appendix I. special orders for Relief. Company order for Relief 11th-12th May; Order for attack on Morning of 15th Sept. 1916.; Time Table attached to operation order No. 16; 2nd Guards Bde. Machine Gun Company instructions No.1; 2nd Guards Bde. Machine Gun Coy. instructions No: 2; Amendments in instructions No. 4 (Dumps etc); Instruction action of other Troops; 2nd Gds Bde. M.G. Coy. instructions No. 1.The diary opens at Warley on 17 July 1915. 1915 is spent at Acquin, Warley, La Gorgue, Vermelles and Borecq. 1916 at Mericourt En Vimeux, Laleu, Morlancourt, Poperinghe and La Gorgue. 1917 at Gouzeaucourt Wood, Laventie, Billets Mericourt L'Abbe, Monchiet and Porchester Camp. 1918 at Cologne, Arras, Criel, Line Coy. Hqrs at H.b.c.2.7 and Lesves. It closes at Cologne on 31 January 1919. Cologne is where it spent longest, 48 days, including a single unbroken stay of 48 and it came back to Laventie eight separate times.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Gouzeaucourt Wood, Elverdinghe Chateau, Trenches, Haie Wood Combles, Opposite Hohenzollern Redoubt, Trones Wood, S. Pierre Vaast Wood Maurepas and Priez Farm.In 1915 it is also recorded at Santhampton, Havre, Lumbres [S.W. Of St. Omer, Avroult, Dohem, Auchy-Au-Bois, Linghem, Burbure, Houchin and Haquin. In 1916 it is also recorded at Laventie, Left Section Left Sector Gds. Divn, L. Sector L. Sector Gds. Divn, Merville, Pont Du Hem, L. Sectn. R. Sector Gds Divn, L. Sectn. R. Sector Dn, L. Sectn. R. Sector Gds Dn, St. Sylvestre and Nr. Wormhoudt. In 1917 it is also recorded at Maltz-Horn Camp, Corbie, Maurepas, L. Sector L. Sector Gds. Divn, Line St. Pierre Vaast, S. Pierre Vaast Wood Maurepas, S. Pierre Vaast Maurepas, Line as Before, Briqueterie and Treux. In 1918 it is also recorded at In the Reserve Line, Left Sub Sector Of Left, In Support, Support, Cambrai, Maubeuge, Vieux Reng, Bienne Les Happart, Charleroi and Presles.

• 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: 9781474502054
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press