GUARDS DIVISION 3 Guards Brigade Guards Machine Gun Company

3 December 1915 - 28 February 1918 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/1224/2)

72 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Guards Machine Gun Company, 3 Guards Brigade, Guards Division, covering December 1915 to February 1918 across 62 pages. It names 103 places across 208 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries one appendix and one map.The diary opens at Rouge Croix on 3 December 1915. 1915 is spent at Marais Laventie, Pont Du Hem and Rouge Croix. 1916 at Ypres, Etrejust, Pont Du Hem, Treaux and Laventie. 1917 is the most travelled year, 133 places against 65 in the next busiest, and is spent at Forest Camp, Plaistow Camp, Le Transloy, Boesinghe and Arras. 1918 at Arras and St. Nicholas. It closes at Arras on 28 February 1918. Ypres is where it spent longest, 64 days across five separate stays, it came back to Forest Camp nineteen separate times, and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 31 days at Etrejust.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Billon Farm, Trones Wood, Haie Wood, Bronfay Farm, Combles & Haie Wood, Maltzhorn Farm and Trones Wood Siding.In 1916 it is also recorded at Marais, Estaires, La Gorgue, Lestrem, Beau Marias Camp, Bavinghove, Rictveld, Watou, Vlamertinge and Hazebrouck. In 1917 it is also recorded at Maltzhorn Farm, Bronfay Farm, Haie Wood, Trones Wood Siding, Plateau Siding, Treux, Billon Farm, Maurepas, Fregicourt and Combles.

• 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: 9781474502108
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press