8 DIVISION 25 Infantry Brigade, Brigade Machine Gun Company and Brigade Trench Mortar Battery

5 June 1915 - 1 January 1916 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/1732)

448 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Brigade Machine Gun Company and Brigade Trench Mortar Battery: 5 June 1915 - 1 January 1916 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/1732), 25 Infantry Brigade, 8th Division, covering December 1915 to April 1918 across 437 pages. It names 52 places across 64 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries 40 reports, narratives and plans, 45 Operation Orders, six appendices, twelve maps and four diagrams. Among the papers are: Operation orders for Offensive operations; 25th Machine Gun Company Amendments and Additions to operation order No.22; Table "A" issued with 8th. Division order No. 190 Appendix A4; Company Orders. 25 Machine Gun Company. Appendix C.1; Company orders 25 M.G. Coy; After orders; 25th Infantry Brigade No. G. 1/11. Appendix I Relief orders; The attack Before Ypres; 25th Machine Gun Company. operation order No. 6; 25th Infantry Brigade instructions No. 8; Instructions in Connection with 8th Division No. G 96/30; Barrage Table for 25th Machine Gun Company Battery 'C'.The diary opens at Sercus on 30 December 1915. 1915 is spent at Sercus. 1916 at Millencourt, Vermelles, Croquoison, Burbure and Fouquereuil. 1917 is the most travelled year, 35 places against 19 in the next busiest, and is spent at Westbecourt V 14, Villars Guislain, Croquoison, Camp 12 and Rancourt. 1918 at Dead End, Irish Farm and Gauchewood. It closes at Gauchewood on 21 April 1918. Millencourt is where it spent longest, 69 days across three separate stays, it came back to Vermelles four separate times, and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 31 days at Croquoison.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Millencourt Trenches, Epinette Wood, Irish Farm and Riverside Wood.In 1916 it is also recorded at Sailly, Line of March, Flesselles, St. Gratien, Millencourt Trenches, Henencourt, Riencourt, Bethune, Camp Citadel and Sandpit. In 1917 it is also recorded at Camp. 117, Camp 17 Trenches, Manancourt, Riverside Wood, Equincourt, Epinette Wood, Heudicourt, Lieramont, West World Moislains and Sailly Lorette.

• 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: 9781474507288
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press