8 DIVISION Divisional Troops Durham Light Infantry 22nd Battalion Pioneers, Durham Light Infantry 1/7th Battalion Pioneers, 218 Machine Gun Company, Machine Gun Corps 8 Battalion and Divisional Works Battalion Royal Engineers

12 January 1916 - 28 Februar

600 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Durham Light Infantry 22nd Battalion Pioneers, Durham Light Infantry 1/7th Battalion Pioneers, 218 Machine Gun Company, Machine Gun Corps 8 Battalion and Divisional Works Battalion Royal Engineers: 12 January 1916 - 28 February 1917 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/1702), Divisional Troops, 8th Division, covering January 1916 to May 1919 across 586 pages. It names 129 places across 180 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries two casualty and personnel returns, twenty-three reports, narratives and plans, twenty-one Operation Orders, one defence scheme, seven appendices and seven maps. Among the papers are: Appendix "A". Evacuation of Wounded-Left (8th) Division &; Appendix "A". Evacuation of Wounded-Right (34th) Division; Report on operations of No. 5. Platoon "B" Coy. 22nd Bn Durham L.I. May. 26th to evening; Movement Table to Accompany 57th Brigade order No. 13; Administrative instructions in Anticipation of AN Offensive; 19th Division order No. 51.; Amendments and Additions to 19th Division order No. 51; Amendment to Appendix I, 19th Division order No. 51; Amendment to "List of Strong Points" circulated with 19th Divnl Engineers order No. 13; Amendments and Additions to Appendix I of 19th Division order No. 51; Special order of the Day,; Move Table 'A' attached to 8th. Division order No. 160.The diary opens at Camp 12 on 12 January 1916. 1916 is spent at Noyelles, Hornoy, Briqueterie, Divion and Camp 12. 1917 at Nieppe, Maurepas, Ypres, Pioneer Camp and Nurlu. 1918 is the most travelled year, 87 places against 55 in the next busiest, and is spent at Ypres, Villers Au Bois, Bethencourt Sur Mer, Neuville St Vaast and Tournai. 1919 at Irchonwelz. It closes at Irchonwelz on 12 May 1919. Irchonwelz is where it spent longest, 132 days across four separate stays, including a single unbroken stay of 59 and it came back to Ypres five separate times.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Waterlot Farm, Savernake Wood, Vaux Wood and Belgian Chateau.In 1916 it is also recorded at Maurepas Ravine, Bavelincourt, Annequin, Burbure, Citadel Camp, Waterlot Farm, Waterlot Fm, Bricqueterie Montauban, Hangest and Camp III Bray. In 1917 it is also recorded at Savernake Wood, Suzanne, Maurepas Ravine, Southampton, Le Havre, Bray, Moislains, Villers Guislain, Vaux Wood and Camp 12 Near Chipilly. In 1918 it is also recorded at St. Jean, In the line Passchendaele, Rear H.Q. Dead End Ypres, Steenvoorde, Passchendaele, Longuenesse, Somme, Castel, Fourdrinoy and Ferriers.

• 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: 9781474506984
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press