9 DIVISION South African Brigade 3 South African Infantry Regiment

3 April 1916 - 25 April 1916 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/1782)

236 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the South African Brigade 3 South African Infantry Regiment, Divisional Troops, 9th Division, covering April 1916 to September 1916 across 227 pages. It names 32 places across 42 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries twenty-five reports, narratives and plans, 33 Operation Orders, three appendices, two maps and one diagram. Among the papers are: Intelligence report; Intelligence report Left Sector from 6. a.m 22/5/16 to 6.a.m 23/516; Daily Intelligence report; Daily Intelligence report Row Lock; 3rd S.A. Inf. Transvaal Rgt. Intelligence report from 6. a.m. 13/5/16 to 6 a.m. 14/5/16; Intelligence; Patrol report; Embarkation order; Embarkation order G.- Cdg. 3rd. S.A.I. Sidi Bishr 12.4.16; Instructions; 1st South African Infantry Brigade Annexure to operation order No. 50; Reliefs Time Table.The diary opens at Solum on 3 April 1916. 1916 is spent at Alexandria, Delville Wood, Villier Au Bois, Fresnicourt and Steenwerck. It closes at Grand Rullecourt on 30 September 1916. Alexandria is where it spent longest, 24 days, it came back to Steenwerck four separate times, and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 17 days at Delville Wood.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Delville Wood, Front Line Trench, Silesia & Support Trenches, Cabaret Rouge Trenches, Copse Valley and Carency II. Trenches.In 1916 it is also recorded at H.M.T. Megantic, Marseilles, Le Bizet, Noote Boom, Strazelle, Strazeele, Quernes, Breilly, Etinehem and Bois Celestins.

• 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: 9781474507783
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press