8 DIVISION Divisional Troops Northampton Yeomanry, C Squadron, Divisional Mounted Troops, Divisional Cyclist Company and 5 Brigade Royal Horse Artillery

1 January 1914 - 31 December 1916 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/1693)

440 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Northampton Yeomanry, C Squadron, Divisional Mounted Troops, Divisional Cyclist Company and 5 Brigade Royal Horse Artillery, Divisional Troops, 8th Division, covering January 1914 to December 1916 across 430 pages. It names 53 places across 86 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries five reports, narratives and plans, one Operation Order, three maps and one diagram. Among the papers are: Operation orders by Lt Col H Wickbam; Instructions for Action 8th Divisional Artillery; Instructions 8th Divisional Artillery for Action night 18th-19th December, 1914; Instructions for Actions 8th Division and attached Artillery; Further instructions for Action 8th Division and attached Artillery After the Capture.The diary opens at C. Lines on 1 January 1914. 1914 is spent at South lynch Near Winchester, Levantie, Lestrem, 8th Divisional and Rouge Croix. 1915 at Grand Bois, Lestrem, Croix Barbee and Rouge Croix. 1916 at Grand Bois, Bethune, Boisrault, Ginchy and Grand Rullecourt. It closes at Boisrault on 31 December 1916. Grand Bois is where it spent longest, 168 days across eight separate stays, it came back to Rouge Croix ten separate times, and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 81 days at South lynch Near Winchester.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Ollincourt Chateau.In 1914 it is also recorded at "A" & "E" Lines, "B" Lines, "A" Lines, D. Lines, Fosse. Pasdecalais, Croix Barbee, Hursley, Havn, Havre and Estaires. In 1915 it is also recorded at Lestrem Parade Lestrem, Fosse. Pasdecalais, Rue De Bacquerot, B. Lines. H. Q, Croix Blanche, R du Layes, Rue Bataille, "Z" Battery Wire Cutting 21st-to 24th, Le Croquet and Blaringhem 24. In 1916 it is also recorded at Noyellette, Ollincourt Chateau, Olincourt, Agnicourt, Cuinchy, Novelles, Noeux Les Mines, Philosophe, Cambrin and Lapugnoy.

• 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: 9781474506908
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press