21 DIVISION Headquarters, Branches and Services Commander Royal Artillery

1 January 1917 - 30 June 1917 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/2137)

696 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 Commander Royal Artillery, 21st Division, covering January 1917 to June 1917 across 681 pages. It names 11 places across 19 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries three casualty and personnel returns, 76 reports, narratives and plans, 92 Operation Orders, three defence schemes, nine appendices, seventeen maps and six diagrams. Among the papers are: Casualty Return for April, 1917 Appendix (26.B.); Casualty Return for May 1917; 21st Division Hostile Hire and Intelligence report; 21st Divisional Artillery Intelligence report No. 3; 21st Divisional Artillery Daily Intelligence report No. 16; Preliminary instructions As to the Movement of the Division in Certain Eventualities.; Report on Gun Positions; Report on Reconnaissance of Position F11b41 and O.P for Source; Report of Reconnaissance in Accordance with B.M. 203/3; Table issued with 21st. Div. Art. O.O. No. 17 Dated 14/2/17 Relief of 6th. Div. Art; Box Barrage-Stationary; March Table issued with 21st Divisional Artillery operation order No. 21.The diary opens at Chateau Des Pres Sailly-Labourse on 1 January 1917. 1917 is spent at Hamelincourt, Chateau Des Pres Sailly-Labourse, Adinfer Wood, Amettes and Wormhoudt. It closes at Adinfer Wood on 30 June 1917. Hamelincourt is where it spent longest, 67 days across four separate stays, including a single unbroken stay of 31.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Chateau Des Pres Sailly-Labourse and Adinfer Wood.In 1917 it is also recorded at Noeuf-Berquin, Hazebrouck, Bethune, Frevent, Lucheux and Bavincourt.

• 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: 9781474511865
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press