1 DIVISION Headquarters, Branches and Services Adjutant and Quarter-Master General

19 August 1914 - 31 December 1915 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/1235)

1110 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Headquarters, Branches and Services Adjutant and Quarter-Master General, 1st Division, covering August 1914 to December 1915 across 1,086 pages. It names 265 places across 277 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries two lists of honours and awards, twelve casualty and personnel returns, 175 reports, narratives and plans, six Operation Orders, four maps and three diagrams. Among the papers are: Roll of officers and other Ranks Recommended for French Decorations; Proposed distribution of decorations; List of officers and other ranks who reported at Compeigne and who have been sent to Base; Casualties. 1st Division 14th September, 1914,; Casualties instructions; 1st Division. Additions to Divisional Standing Orders. (Appendix I.); Routine Orders,, 1st Division; Army Orders.-September, 1914; Subject:- instructions for entrainment; Instructions for Entrainment; Orders Henderson, K.C.E.,, 1st Division; Routine orders Henderson,,, 1st Division.The diary opens on 19 August 1914. 1914 is the most travelled year, 256 places against 14 in the next busiest, and is spent at 1/2m. E. of Bourg, Halte, Merris, Bethune and Hooge. 1915 is spent at Vaudricourt, Mazingarbe, Bethune, Marles Les Mines and Hinges. It closes at Mazingarbe on 31 December 1915. Vaudricourt is where it spent longest, 64 days across three separate stays and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 31 days at Bethune.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Chateau Drouvin and Chateau Boesinghe.In 1914 it is also recorded at Q.9/19/3 Bde, Q10/203 Bde, 11/1 Bde 19, 12/2 Bde S.5, Q.23/nil all & QMG "D", 26/Sc 7 2 Bde, 27/101 Bde 6, 29/R.q Lfc, 30/Q53 Capl Cillen and 43/H2 3 Bde. In 1915 it is also recorded at Marles, Locon, Gosnay, Verquin, Chateau Drouvin and Drouvin.

• 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: 9781474502221
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press