8 DIVISION Headquarters, Branches and Services General Staff

1 January 1918 - 30 June 1918 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/1678)

610 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 January 1918 to June 1918 across 597 pages. It names 21 places across 23 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries six casualty and personnel returns, 39 reports, narratives and plans, 80 Operation Orders, five defence schemes, seven appendices, eighteen maps and six diagrams. Among the papers are: 8th Division. casualties during operations West of the Some from 23rd March to 2nd April; 8th Division. casualties in officers and Other Ranks during operations Between the Aisne; Report on raid carried out by 2nd Battalion, Middlesex Regt., 23rd Infantry Brigade; Narrative of operations carried out by 8th Division 8.30 a.m. 21st March to 10 p.m. 2nd; No. 14/186. to, VIII Corps. Chinese Attacks; March Table "A" issued with 8th Division order No. 264; Table "A" to Accompany 8th Division order No. 270; (1) instructions for O.O. Right Battalion, Right Brigade; (2) instructions for O.O. Left Battalion. Right Brigade; Order of Battle-Villers Bretonneux 23-4-1918; Annexe to 8th Div. order No. 280. Table of Accommodation; March Table to Accompany 8th Division order No. 280.The diary opens at Ypres on 1 January 1918. 1918 is spent at Ypres, Canal Bank Ypres, Roucy, Steinvoorde and Moving Sec I.15. It closes at Friville on 30 June 1918. Ypres is where it spent longest, 31 days, including a single unbroken stay of 31.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Canal Bank Ypres.In 1918 it is also recorded at Abeele, Wizernes, Cottenchy, Cavillon, Bertangles, Glisy, Vaux-en-Amienois, Chery Chartreuve, Bergeres Les Vertus and Pleurs.

• 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: 9781474506809
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press