19 DIVISION Divisional Troops South Wales Borderers 5th Battalion Pioneers, Machine Gun Corps 19 Battalion and 246 Machine Gun Company

14 July 1915 - 28 February 1918 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/2071)

480 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the South Wales Borderers 5th Battalion Pioneers, Machine Gun Corps 19 Battalion and 246 Machine Gun Company, Divisional Troops, 19th Division, covering July 1915 to July 1919 across 468 pages. It names 151 places across 195 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries two reports, narratives and plans and one Operation Order. Among the papers are: Narrative of operations; 5th Battalion South Wales Borderers (Pioneers) Manuscript Return.The diary opens at Perham Down on 14 July 1915. 1915 is spent at Gorre, Le Sart, Lacouture, Le Touret and Cornet Malo. 1916 at Albert, Cornet Malo, Scherpenberg and Aveluy. 1917 at Butterfly Farm, Staples, Blaringhem, Courcelles and Lottinghem. 1918 is the most travelled year, 103 places against 32 in the next busiest, and is spent at Rombly, Valheureux, Francheville, Rieux and Sarcy. 1919 at Berneuil, Bernaville, Valheureux, Le Havre and Fienvillers. It closes at Bailleul on 19 July 1919. Valheureux is where it spent longest, 90 days, including a single unbroken stay of 62 and it came back to Gorre four separate times.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Butterfly Farm, Mailly Wood West, Fanny's C/T Bell Farm Tramway, Baizeux Wood, Mametz Wood, Fricourt Wood, Fork Avenue and Fork Avenue Cable Line Central Avenue.In 1915 it is also recorded at Southampton, Le Havre, Saint Omer, Tilques, Hazebrouck and Hamet Billet. In 1916 it is also recorded at Vielle Chapelle, Molinghem, Enquin-Les-Mines, Rainneville, Long Valley, Advanced Position, Baizeux Wood, Becourt Wood, Mametz Wood and Fricourt Wood. In 1917 it is also recorded at Fork Avenue Unseen Support, Bouquemaison, Croisette, Pernes, Bourecq, Steenbecque, Vieux Berquin, Caestre, Brecon Camp and Ypres. In 1918 it is also recorded at Hawes Camp, Fork Avenue, New Reserve Line-Sailor Reserve C/T Fork-Kabul-Couillet, Metz Dump Fork Avenue, Ytres Station, Central Avenue Fork Trench Ytres Station, Fork Trench Ytres Station, West Fork Avenue Cable Line Central Avenue, Sailor Reserve Fork Trench Ytres Station and Ostrich Lane Cable Line Central Avenue. In 1919 it is also recorded at Southampton.

• 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: 9781474511155
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press