20 DIVISION 59 Infantry Brigade Headquarters

1 October 1917 - 26 May 1919 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/2114)

760 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Headquarters, 59 Infantry Brigade, 20th Division, covering November 1917 to May 1919 across 741 pages. It names 37 places across 56 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries one list of honours and awards, five casualty and personnel returns, 283 reports, narratives and plans, 100 Operation Orders, four defence schemes, nine appendices, three maps and three diagrams. Among the papers are: Honours & Awards. Other Ranks; Nominal roll of officers killed in 1916; Officer wounded in 1916; Casualties. Other Ranks 1916; Report on raid by 2nd Sco. Rif. on the Rly. Embankment in W.34.Q June 23rd 1918; 59th Infantry Brigade Intelligence Summary. Period 6 a.m. Oct. 7th to 6 a.m. Oct. 8th; Intelligence Summary. No. 20. 61st Infantry Brigade. Appendix; 59th Infantry Brigade Intelligence No. 15. Period 6 a.m. July 20th to 6 a.m. July 21st; Addendum to 59th Infantry Brigade Intelligence Summary No. 51; Warning order; Move Table for Personnel, issued with 59th Infantry Brigade operation order No.69; Table "B" Move Table for Transport, issued with 59th Infantry Brigade operation order.The diary opens at L.34 central on 22 November 1917. 1917 is spent at Wardrecques Station, Torcy and L.34 central. 1918 at Ablain St. Nazaire, Beaulieu, Avion Section, Lievin and Villers-Brulin. 1919 at Amplier, Toutencourt and Pas-En-Artois. It closes at Pas-En-Artois on 26 May 1919. Amplier is where it spent longest, 65 days across three separate stays, it came back to Ablain St. Nazaire eight separate times, and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 31 days at Toutencourt.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Red Trench.In 1918 it is also recorded at Wardrecques Hazebrouck 5A, Sercus Area Hazebrouck 5a, Villers St. Christophe, Auroir, Toulle, Rouy-Le-Petit, Waucourt, Hourges, Domart and Quevauvillers. In 1919 it is also recorded at Toutencourt, Somme and Amplier, Somme.

• 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: 9781474511735
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press