2 DIVISION 99 Infantry Brigade King's Royal Rifle Corps 1st Battalion

29 November 1915 - 1 February 1919 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/1371/2)

494 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the 1st Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps, 99 Infantry Brigade, 2nd Division, covering November 1915 to March 1919 across 483 pages. It names 169 places across 225 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries two casualty and personnel returns, sixteen reports, narratives and plans, two Operation Orders, four appendices and two maps. Among the papers are: 1st Battalion, the King's Royal Rifle Corps. roll of officers Present with Battalion, or; 1st Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps. roll of officers; Report on raid carried out by 1/K.R.R.C. on the night of 25/26th Sept; Report on operations Undertaken by the 1st. Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps. 14.8.18; 1st Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps operation orders; Amendments to operation orders for 10th March; 23rd Battalion Royal Fusiliers narrative of Events Sept. 1st 1918 to Sept 9th 1918; Special order of the Day.. Sir. J.H.G. ng. KCB, KCMG,MVO. Third Army; Special order of the Day Haldane, VI Corps; Orderly Room.The diary opens at Annequin on 29 November 1915. 1915 is spent at Le Preol, 1/2 Batt. Beuvry 1/2 Batt Trenches, Annequin, 1/2 Bat Bethune 1/2 Bat Trenches and Harley SE. 1916 is the most travelled year, 93 places against 55 in the next busiest, and is spent at Cabaret Rouge, Coulonvillers, Gonnehem, Camblain L'Abbe and Bouvigny. 1917 at Annequin, Auchel, Herzeele, Ovillers Huts and S.W. of Roclincourt. 1918 at Left Sub, Barastre Camp, La Cauchie, Metz and Equancourt. 1919 at Nettesheim, Fliesteden, Rommers Kirchen, Busdorf and Burtin Petit Sains. It closes at Rommers Kirchen on 31 March 1919. Cabaret Rouge is where it spent longest, 93 days, including a single unbroken stay of 93 and it came back to Annequin eight separate times.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include 1/2 Batt. Beuvry 1/2 Batt Trenches, Brigade Support Havrincourt Wood, 1/2 Bat Bethune 1/2 Bat Trenches, Breslau Trench, Bethune-Arras Road Trenches, Delville Wood and Longueval, Montouban Alley and Mailly Maillet Wood.In 1915 it is also recorded at Annezin, Beuvry, Annequin N, Sub Section B Trenches by Pont Fixe, Bellerive, Fontes and Gonnehem. In 1916 it is also recorded at Gonerhem Festecbert Rue D'Epinette, Festibert Rue D'Epinette, Sub Section C.I, Fes Choquause, Les Choquaux, Givenchy Village Line, B 2 Sub Section, Le Quesnoy B2 Givenchy, Les Cattes and Ruitz. In 1917 it is also recorded at Berneuil, Terra Maisnil, Senlis, Bruce Huts, Bouzincourt, Wolfe Huts, Courcelette, Albert, Creighten's Post Tent Camp and Amplier. In 1918 it is also recorded at Trenches & Barastre Camp, Barastre Camp Trenches, Trenches & Metz, Brigade Support Havrincourt Wood, Villers Plouich, Highl and Ridge, Mailly Maillet, Forceville, Lealvillers and Beauval.

• 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: 9781474503853
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press