8 DIVISION 24 Infantry Brigade East Lancashire Regiment 2nd Battalion

1 July 1916 - 31 January 1918 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/1720)

872 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the 2nd Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment, 24 Infantry Brigade, 8th Division, covering January 1917 to June 1917 across 859 pages. It names 7 places across 7 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries four casualty and personnel returns, 80 reports, narratives and plans, twenty-four Operation Orders, seven appendices, nineteen maps and nine diagrams. Among the papers are: Casualty State 28971 Pte Tripper killed; Casualty report "B" Coy Veer H.Q; 2/East Lancs Observers Casualty report; Precis of orders of 69th Inf. Bde; Scheme for Company raid; O.C. Bde by order; Amendments No. 1 to 8th Division instructions No. 3; 8th Division Instruction No. 4; 8th Division Instruction No. 6; Extracts Form 8th Divn Instruction No. 2; Amendment No. 1 to 8th Div. instructions No. 2; 24th Infantry Brigade instructions numbered 1 to 6 (4 of them).The diary opens at Camp 107 on 1 January 1917. 1917 is spent at Corbie, France, Ville Wood, Billets Vaux and Camp 107. It closes at Corbie on 30 June 1917. Corbie is where it spent longest, 29 days, including a single unbroken stay of 29.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Ville Wood.In 1917 it is also recorded at Camp 13 and Villers Guislain.

• 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: 9781474507172
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press