2 DIVISION 5 Infantry Brigade Connaught Rangers 2nd Battalion, Highland Light Infantry 2nd Battalion and Highland Light Infantry 9th (Glasgow Highland) Battalion (Territorial)

4 August 1914 - 30 April 1916 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/1347)

582 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Connaught Rangers 2nd Battalion, Highland Light Infantry 2nd Battalion and Highland Light Infantry 9th (Glasgow Highland) Battalion (Territorial), 5 Infantry Brigade, 2nd Division, covering August 1914 to November 1919 across 564 pages. It names 231 places across 404 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries six reports, narratives and plans, three Operation Orders, four appendices, four maps and three diagrams. Among the papers are: Preliminary. report on enemy raid on night 12/13 Feby 1917; Oc C Coy raid Front Coy; Operation orders 2nd Bn Highland Light Infantry February 8th 1917; Operation Orders.. J.C Grahame,, 2nd. Bn. Highland Light Inf; 2nd. Bn. Highland Light Infantry report on Mirer operation; 5 Infantry Brigade order No 333.The diary opens at Aidershot on 13 August 1914. 1914 is spent at Boulogne, Molensaarelhoek, Polygone Wood, Near Ypres and Gorre. 1915 is the most travelled year, 119 places against 93 in the next busiest, and is spent at Bethune, Givenchy, Cuinchy, Beuvry and Annequin. 1916 at G.H.Q St Omer, Coupigny, La Pierriere, Noyelle En Chaussee and Coigneau. 1917 at Allouagne, Le Preol, Dieval, Staubin and Bouzincourt. 1918 at Left Subsector, Bavincourt, Vacquerie, Right Front and Beaulencourt. 1919 at Worringen Am Rhein, St Omer, Langey An Rhein and Dunfermline. It closes at St Omer on 28 November 1919. Bethune is where it spent longest, 100 days across twenty-five separate stays and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 78 days at G.H.Q St Omer.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Trenches Cuinchy, Polygone Wood, Trenches Colincamps Courcelles, Courcelles Vicinity Of Dorothy Trench, Velu Wood, Nonne-Boschen Wood, Enemy Trenches and Trenches Arleux.In 1914 it is also recorded at Hazebrouck, Godewaersvelde, Poperinghe, Near Boesinghe, Near St Julien, Nonne-Boschen Wood, Ballieul, Bailleul and Richeburg St Vaast. In 1915 it is also recorded at Near Richebourg St Vaast, Les Choquaux, Essars, Near Fesuibert, Gorre, Pont Tourmant, Marais, Maris, Loisne and Rue Du Bois. In 1916 it is also recorded at Bourecq, St. Hilaires, Les Choquaux, Bellerive, Village Line, Le Touret, Essars, Festubert, Hingette and Fosse 10. In 1917 it is also recorded at Novelles-En-Chaussee, Beaumetz, Ovillers, Senlis, Wolfe Huts, Albert, Wolf Camp, Courcelette, Robempre and Gezaincourt. In 1918 it is also recorded at Manancourt, Metz, La Vacquerie Left, Ytres, Barastre, Bertincourt Haplincourt Line, Red Line, Villers-Au-Flos, Ligny-Thilloy and Courcelette. In 1919 it is also recorded at Worringen Am Rhein Germany, Southampton and Le Havre.

• 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: 9781474503518
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press