4 DIVISION Headquarters, Branches and Services General Staff

1 August 1917 - 31 December 1917 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/1447)

438 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 General Staff, 4th Division, covering September 1917 to December 1917 across 429 pages. It names 10 places across 14 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries twenty-eight reports, narratives and plans, 89 Operation Orders, ten defence schemes, one appendix, 39 maps and two diagrams. Among the papers are: Warning order; Movement Table issued 4th Division operation order No. 58; Battalion attack Two Companies Each on Two Platoon Front; Battalion attack Four Companies Each on one Platoon Front; Special order; Table 'A' to Accompany 4th Division order No. 60; Addendum No. 1 to instructions No. 1; Addendum No. 1 to instructions No. 2; Distribution of Troops (Reference 4th Division order No. 61); Preliminary orders for Machine Gun Barrage; Amendments to Table "A" Accompanying 4th Division order No. 67 Dated 9th October 1917; March Table issued with 4th Division order No. 69 Dated 13th October.The diary opens at Basseux on 9 September 1917. 1917 is spent at Arras, Basseux, Proven, Elverdinghe and Duisans. It closes at Arras on 31 December 1917. Arras is where it spent longest, 69 days across four separate stays, including a single unbroken stay of 30.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Canal Bank C19a00.In 1917 it is also recorded at Basseux Proven, Proven Welsh Fm, Welsh Fm, Canal Bank C19a00 and Poperinghe.

• 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: 9781474504812
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press