GUARDS DIVISION 3 Guards Brigade Welsh Guards 1st Battalion

17 August 1915 - 28 February 1919 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/1224/1)

780 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the 1st Battalion, Welsh Guards, 3 Guards Brigade, Guards Division, covering August 1915 to February 1919 across 765 pages. It names 214 places across 310 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries nineteen reports, narratives and plans, 46 Operation Orders, four defence schemes, four appendices and two maps. Among the papers are: Narrative of Operations. 23-25 August, 1918. 1st Battalion, Welsh Guards; 3rd Guards Brigade orders for Guards Division Infantry Tactical Exercises; Scheme of defence R. Sector. 3rd Gds Bde; Scheme of defence R. Section Copy No. 8; March Table issued with operation order No.38; Amendment to March Table issued with operation order No. 39; B.M. 141. Reference March Table issued with operation order No. 39; 1st Bn. Welsh Guards. Reference operation order No. 45; Administrative Instructions. issued with 74th Infantry Brigade operation order No. 61; Report on the taking over & holding Ginchy from midnight, 9/10 Sept. to 11 p.m. night; B.M 179. Reference operation order No.73. Routes and hours of starting are as follows:-; Time Table-Relief of Battalion in Forward Area.The diary opens at London on 17 August 1915. 1915 is spent at Arques, Laventie, Vermelles, La Gorgue and Allouagne. 1916 at St. Maulvis, Wormhaudt, La Gorgue, Hougoumont Rue De Bacquerot and Poperinghe. 1917 at Heuchin, Marquaix, Halle, Mericourt-L'Abbe and Arras. 1918 at Quesnoy Farm, Cologne, Blaireville, Barly and Arras. It closes at Cologne on 28 February 1919. Quesnoy Farm is where it spent longest, 75 days across seven separate stays, it came back to Laventie eleven separate times, and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 70 days at Cologne.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Quesnoy Farm, Chateau Brieland, Trenches East Of Morval, Lancashire Trench, Trones Wood, Bronfay Farm, Bleuet Farm and Front Line Trenches Langemarck.In 1915 it is also recorded at Havre, Abbeville, Stomer, Roquetoire, Fontes, Haillicourt, Loos, Labourse, Chapel Notre Dame de Consolation and Sailly la Bourse. In 1916 it is also recorded at White Hse. Rue de Bacquerot, Laventie, Estaires, Calais, Wormhoudt, Camp Near St. Jans Ter Biezen, a.30 Wood Camp Poperinghe, Ypres, Potijze and Canal Bank Ypres. In 1917 it is also recorded at Ville Sur Ancre, Billon Farm Camp 107, Maurepas, Priez Farm, Billon Farm Camp 16, In The Line Fregicourt Sector, Fampoux In The Line, Line At-Sailly?, Sailly-Saillisel and Maurpus. In 1918 it is also recorded at Left Support, Left Front Line, Fampoux, Roeux, Boisleux St Marc, Boisleux Au Mont, Gordon Camp, Berneville, Mercatel and Boyelles.

• 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: 9781474502092
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press