8 DIVISION Headquarters, Branches and Services Adjutant and Quarter-Master General

1 July 1917 - 18 June 1919 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/1682)

712 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 Adjutant and Quarter-Master General, 8th Division, covering July 1917 to April 1919 across 692 pages. It names 46 places across 64 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries sixteen lists of honours and awards, 65 casualty and personnel returns, 59 reports, narratives and plans, four Operation Orders, four appendices, one map and six diagrams. Among the papers are: 8th Division list of Decoration Awarded for Gallantry and Devotion to Duty; 8th Division. list of Decorations Awarded for Gallantry and Devotion to Duty. N.C.os; Officer Casualties. operations 30.7.17-4.8.17; 2nd Battn. Lincolnshire Regiment. killed; March Table "A" issued with 8th Division order No. 264; Administrative instructions issued with Reference to 8th Division order No. 267; March Table "A" to Accompany 8th Division order No. 269; Routine orders, 8th Division; To Accompany 6th Division order No. 262 Table "A"; Routine orders, 8th Division Appendix; Appendix "B" to 8th Division order No. 1; The the 5th French Army Mentions in the orders of the Day of the Army the 2nd Battalion.The diary opens at Scottish Camp on 1 July 1917. 1917 is spent at Steenwreck, Scottish Camp, Wizernes, Bomy and Canal Bank N.E. of. Ypres. 1918 is the most travelled year, 39 places against 11 in the next busiest, and is spent at Chateau D'Acq, Canal Bank Ypres, Tournai, Hiville Escarbote and Marchiennes. 1919 at Enghien. It closes on 12 April 1919. Enghien is where it spent longest, 92 days across four separate stays, it came back to Canal Bank Ypres five separate times, and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 31 days at Steenwreck.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Canal Bank Ypres, Chateau D'Acq and Chateau D'ac.In 1917 it is also recorded at Caestre, Steenwerck, Wattou and Canal Bank Ypres. In 1918 it is also recorded at Steenwoorde, Steenvoorde, Abeele, Wizernes, Villers Carbonnel, Foucaucourt, La Motte, Marcelcave, Doucart and Moresil.

• 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: 9781474506830
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press