2 DIVISION 6 Infantry Brigade Headquarters

1 January 1918 - 31 March 1919 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/1357)

614 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Headquarters, 6 Infantry Brigade, 2nd Division, covering January 1918 to March 1919 across 601 pages. It names 63 places across 78 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries six casualty and personnel returns, 37 reports, narratives and plans, 106 Operation Orders, one defence scheme, four appendices and eight maps. Among the papers are: Casualties for February; Casualties for March 1918; Report raid by 17th. Royal Fusiliers on night 28/29 June 1918. Appendix E; Narrative of operations of 6th Infantry Brigade from 22nd March to 3rd April 1918; Movement Table with 6th Inf. Bde. order No. 341; Posts is the Seaforth-Highland Ridge Line to be Marked by Pioneer Battalion is the Event; Movement Table to Accompany 6th Infantry Brigade order No. 345; To All Recipients of 6th Infantry Bde order No. 347. App D; 6th Infantry order No. 352 Appendix a; March Table to Accompany 6th Brigade order No. 359; March Table to accompany 6th Inf. Brigade order No.361; Table Showing Probable Dates of relief in Left Sector of 2nd Division Front.The diary opens at Rocquigny Camp on 4 January 1918. 1918 is spent at Ayette, Trenches E.of Ayette, Barly, Rocquigny Camp and Duren. 1919 at Leichlingen, Duren and Merode. It closes at Merode on 31 March 1919. Leichlingen is where it spent longest, 71 days, including a single unbroken stay of 47 and it came back to Ayette four separate times.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Trenches E.of Ayette, Trenches W Of Boyelles, Blaireville Quarry, Barly Chateau, Villers Au Flos Chateau and Maricourt Wood Fill.In 1918 it is also recorded at Metz, Rocquigny, Villers Au Flos Chateau, Beaulencourt, Ligny Thilloy, Lacoupe Gueule, Mailly Maillet, Beaussart, Englebelmer and Mesnil.

• 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: 9781474503624
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press