11 DIVISION 33 Infantry Brigade Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) 9th Battalion

1 July 1916 - 31 July 1917 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/1813)

682 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the 9th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment), 33 Infantry Brigade, 11th Division, covering July 1916 to July 1917 across 665 pages. It names 55 places across 75 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries three casualty and personnel returns, 129 reports, narratives and plans, 100 Operation Orders, six defence schemes, three appendices, thirty maps and three diagrams. Among the papers are: War Diary Appendix I casualties for month of September 1916 Officers-off Strength; 9th (S) Bn. the Sherwood Foresters Strength Table Details of casualties Etc; 9th. (Service) Battalion the Sherwood Foresters. Monthly nominal roll of officers; 33rd Infantry Brigade. Brief report of operations to secure the Area R 32 C; 33rd Infantry Brigade Daily Intelligence report; 11th. Division Intelligence Summary No. 1 from 6 a.m. 25th. April, to 6 a.m. 26th April; 33rd Inf. Brigade Summary of Intelligence; Annexe to 11th. Division Intelligence Summary No. 2; 11th. Division Intelligence Summary No. 3 from 6 a.m. 27/4/17 to 6 a.m. 28/4/17; Lincoln R. Border R. S. Staffs R. Sh. Fors. M. Gun Co. T.m. Bty. Signals. Staff Officer; Notes for Patrols Going out from 9th Sh. Foresters Tonight 10/11 May; Annex to 11th Division Intelligence Summary No. 7.The diary opens at H.T. Oriana on 1 July 1916. 1916 is spent at Mesnil Domqueur, Englebelmer, Gouy En Artois, Buineville and St. Pierre Divion. 1917 at Famechon, Coulonvillers, Orville, Fricourt and Westoutre. It closes at Trenches North of Ypres on 29 July 1917. Mesnil Domqueur is where it spent longest, 65 days, including a single unbroken stay of 38 and it came back to Englebelmer five separate times.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Trenches North of Ypres, The Trenches St Thiemal, Joseph Trench, Constance Trench and Trenches War Morchies.In 1916 it is also recorded at Marseilles, Somewhere In France, St Pol, Petit Houvin, Agnez-Lez-Duisans, Berneville, Arras, Battn H.Q I.R Berneville, Etree Wamin and Acheux. In 1917 it is also recorded at St. Pierre Divion, Englebelmer, Puchevillers, Longuevillette, Candas, Vauchelles Tes Authie, Bouzincourt, Courcelette, Bapaume and Trenches War Morchies.

• 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: 9781474508056
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press