7 DIVISION 91 Infantry Brigade Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment 1st Battalion, Brigade Machine Gun Company and Brigade Trench Mortar Battery

3 April 1915 - 31 January 1916 (First World War, War Diary, WO95

746 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, Brigade Machine Gun Company and Brigade Trench Mortar Battery, 91 Infantry Brigade, 7th Division, covering January 1916 to November 1917 across 725 pages. It names 129 places across 230 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries 75 reports, narratives and plans, 69 Operation Orders, seven appendices, one map and three diagrams. Among the papers are: Narrative of operations 3rd Ti 6th October; 2nd Battn. "The Queen's" Regiment narrative of operations October 24th-October 37th, 1917; Narrative of operations Against Croisilles 2nd April 1917; Appendix VII 91st Infantry Brigade attack on Bullecourt May 1917 narrative of the Action; March Table 1 (Issued with 91st Infantry Bde operation order No. 6); Instructions for Carrying out the attack on the N. E. Conrner of Delville Wood; 3.5.35 H Q Face Herewith Instruction for Taking Junction of Ale Alley & N. E. Corner; Instructions for attack on N. E. Corner of Delville Wood; Operation order At Bullecourt May 10th-15th May 1917; Report on Visit to Vth Army Infantry School June 8th 1917; Relief Table. Incoming Detachments Will Arrive in the order Named and Be Led Th Their; Relief Table Parties Will a rrive in Undermentioned order.The diary opens at Riencourt on 1 January 1916. 1916 is spent at Bray, Vaux-En Amienois, Encle Belmer and Riencourt. 1917 at Tangier Camp, Bucquoy, Courcelles, Mailly-Mallet and Puchevillers. It closes at Camisano on 30 November 1917. Bray is where it spent longest, 100 days across twenty-one separate stays and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 98 days at Bucquoy.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Bray To Trenches, Mansel Copse, Logeast Wood, Bray Trenches, Grantown & Trenches, Trenches To Bray, Trench Duty B. 2 Sub-Sector and Trenches.In 1916 it is also recorded at Le Mesqe, Corbie To Bray, Cardonette, Trenches To Bray, Bray To Trenches, In Trenches, Bray To The Trenches, Bray On the Somme, Bray To Bois Des Tailles and Bois Des Tailles. In 1917 it is also recorded at Bertrancourt, Beaumont Hamel, Mailly Maillet, Lyndhurst Camp, Bolton Camp, Puisieux, Albert, Hamelincourt, Ervillers and Courceles Le Comte.

• 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: 9781474506731
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press