9 DIVISION Headquarters, Branches and Services General Staff

1 June 1917 - 31 December 1917 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/1740)

648 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 General Staff, 9th Division, covering June 1917 to December 1917 across 635 pages. It names 17 places across 22 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries four casualty and personnel returns, 60 reports, narratives and plans, 35 Operation Orders, ten appendices, twenty-four maps and three diagrams. Among the papers are: Estimated casualties; Casualties on 12th October 1917.; Total casualties 12th-25th Octr. 1917. Appendix D; Report on raid carried out by 10th A. & S. Highlrs. on night 18th/19th August, 1917; Report on raid by 10th Arg. & Suth. Highrs. on Yorkshire Bank on the Evening of 30/8/17; 9th (Scottish) Division. plan of attack; 9th (Scottish) Division. narrative of Operations, 12.10.17;. Medical narrative of the 9th Division operations on 12th Oct. 1917. Appendix B; 26th (Highland) Brigade. narrative of operations on October 11th., 12th. and 13th. East; 9th Division. report on Encounter with enemy Patrol on 2/8/17; Minor operations Patrol operations by 7th Seaforth Highs and 10th Argyll & Sutherland; Fighting Patrol.The diary opens at Roellecourt on 1 June 1917. 1917 is spent at Little Wood Ytres, Roellecourt, St Idesbalde, Hucqueliers and Sorel Le Grand. It closes at Sorel Le Grand on 31 December 1917. Little Wood Ytres is where it spent longest, 30 days, including a single unbroken stay of 30 and it came back to Achiet-Le-Petit three separate times.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Little Wood Ytres.In 1917 it is also recorded at Roellecourt St Nicholas, St Nicholas, Achiet-Le-Petit, Poperinghe, Menin Ghte Ypres, Winnezeele, Arneke, Brake Camp, Wormhoudt and Malo Les Bains.

• 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: 9781474507356
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press