1 DIVISION Headquarters, Branches and Services General Staff

1 January 1917 - 31 December 1917 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/1232)

576 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Headquarters, Branches and Services General Staff, 1st Division, covering January 1917 to December 1917 across 560 pages. It names 26 places across 40 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries 37 reports, narratives and plans, 63 Operation Orders, five defence schemes, eight appendices, twenty-three maps and three diagrams. Among the papers are: To accompany III Corps operation order No.168 dated 5.1.17; Provisional plan for Relief of III Corps by 1st Anzac Corps; Addendum No.1 to III Corps operation order numbered 1 to 170 (5 of them); Addendum No. 1. to 1st Division order No. 188; Amendment No.1 to 1st Division order No.l90; Table "A" to accompany III Corps operation order No. 170; Table "B" to Accompany Addendum No. 2 to III Corps operation order No. 170; Amendment No. 2 to 1st Division order No. 190; III Corps operation order No. 175; Warning order; Appendix No. 1 to III Corps Warning order No. G.O.3181 Dated; 1st Division order No.192.The diary opens at Villa Rocher Albert on 1 January 1917. 1917 is spent at Le Clipon, Chuignolles, Mericourt and Woesten. It closes at Woesten on 31 December 1917. Le Clipon is where it spent longest, 52 days, it came back to Chuignolles four separate times, and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 30 days at Le Clipon Camp.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Chuignolles to Becquincourt Mill, Becquincourt Mill To Chuignolles, Couthouve Chateau and Chuignolles To Mericourt Chateau.In 1917 it is also recorded at Baizieux, Mericourt Sur. Somme, 1st Division G 277/15/G, Chuignolles to Becquincourt Mill, Becquincourt Mill, Chuignolles To Mericourt Chateau, Villers Bretonneux, Berthen, Hazebrouck and Coudekerque Branche.

• 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: 9781474502191
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press