8 DIVISION Headquarters, Branches and Services General Staff

1 June 1917 - 31 December 1917 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/1677)

756 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, 8th Division, covering June 1917 to December 1917 across 738 pages. It names 17 places across 31 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries five casualty and personnel returns, 104 reports, narratives and plans, 69 Operation Orders, two defence schemes, six appendices, 46 maps and eleven diagrams. Among the papers are: Medical Arrangements. Evacuation of Wounded. Appendix "C"; Casualties for July, 1917; 8th Division. Casualties-1st March 1917 to 31st August, 1917; Narrative of operations carried out by 8th Division on 1st/2nd December, 1917; 8th Division No. G. 93/185 Lessons Learnt and Deductions from the Operation, on July 31st; Move Table "A" issued with 8th Division order No. 196; Table "B" attached to 8th Division order No. 196; March Table "A" to Accompany 8th Division order No. 199; Gas Attack, Gas Alert, and Gas Shell Bombardment. Appendix "A"; 1 Battalion in attack formation for attack on Blue Line; Table I Creeping Barrage Time Shrapnel 75th Graze; Table II. Standing Barrages.The diary opens at Heilly on 1 June 1917. 1917 is spent at Steenwerck, Scottish Camp, Wizernes, Ypres and Bomy. It closes at Ypres on 31 December 1917. Steenwerck is where it spent longest, 79 days across four separate stays, including a single unbroken stay of 31 and it came back to Scottish Camp five separate times.In 1917 it is also recorded at Merris, Caestre, Winnipeg Camp High 3.4, Scottish Camp G23a9.6, Scottish Camp Moving To Caestre, Watou, Ypres and Wizernes and Wizernes and Ypres.

• 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: 9781474506793
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press