7 DIVISION 22 Infantry Brigade Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment 1st Battalion and Royal Warwickshire Regiment 2nd Battalion

1 January 1914 - 30 November 1917 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/1664)

728 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment 1st Battalion and Royal Warwickshire Regiment 2nd Battalion, 22 Infantry Brigade, 7th Division, covering September 1914 to October 1916 across 716 pages. It names 67 places across 117 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries five casualty and personnel returns, four reports, narratives and plans, two appendices and one diagram. Among the papers are: Casualty Returns; Strength and Casualty Returns; 1st/Bn South Staffordshire Regt. Daily Casualty Return; Report on operations 10th/14th March; Report on operations carried on/by the 1st S. Staffordshire Regt. Between 10th-14th March; From, Garrison H.Q. Clipstone Camp, Notts. 1st Battalion, South Stafford Regiment Diary; Extract from 22nd Brigade orders dated 18th December 1914..The diary opens at Lyndhurst on 18 September 1914. 1914 is spent at Fleurbaix, Lyndhurst, Merville, Trenches Nr Fleurbaix and Merris. 1915 is the most travelled year, 60 places against 31 in the next busiest, and is spent at Fleurbaix, Laventie, Camps En Amienios, Essars and Woburn Abbey. 1916 at Morlancourt, In Trenches, Camps En Amienois, Dernacourt and Yzeux. It closes at Papot on 7 October 1916. Fleurbaix is where it spent longest, 91 days across six separate stays, it came back to In Trenches thirteen separate times, and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 40 days at Lyndhurst.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Trenches, Trenches Nr Fleurbaix and Fleurbaix Trenches.In 1914 it is also recorded at Bailleul, Merris Merville, Fleurbaix Trenches and Merville-Fleur-Baix. In 1915 it is also recorded at La Gorgue, Meteren, Cornet Bourdois, Rue Des Chavattes, Les Caudrons, La Bourse, Manqueville, Busnette, Verquin and In Trenches. In 1916 it is also recorded at Fourdrinoy, Vaux, Ponte Noyelle, Bois Des Tailles, Bussy-Les-Daours, Bois de Tailles, Heilly, Forceville, Meteren and In Support.

• 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: 9781474506670
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press