24 DIVISION 17 Infantry Brigade Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) 8th Battalion

1 February 1918 - 30 April 1919 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/2208/2)

366 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the 8th Battalion, Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment), 17 Infantry Brigade, 24th Division, covering February 1918 to April 1919 across 354 pages. It names 75 places across 95 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries twenty-one reports, narratives and plans, 80 Operation Orders, nine appendices and one map. Among the papers are: Rough plan of attack; Patrol orders for night 29th/30th Aug. 1918; Amendment No 1 to operation order Nos. 5 & 6; Distribution of 17th I. Bde order No 225; Table "A" issued with 17th I. Bde order No 225; Amendment to 73rd Infantry Brigade order No. 160; Table "A" issued with 17th I. Bde order No 227 dated 26/2/18; Amendment to 17th Inf: Bde order No. 231; Administrative instructions for the Entrainment of the 24th Division, (Less Artillery).; March Table "A" to accompany 17th Infantry Brigade order No. 232; March Table "B" to accompany 17th Infantry Brigade order No. 232. dated 30/4/18; Relief Table "A" (issued with 17th Inf: Bde order 233 dated 11th May).The diary opens at Templeux Quarries on 3 February 1918. 1918 is spent at Les Brebis, Baisieux, Magnicourt, Montecourt and Pende. 1919 at Baisieux. It closes at Baisieux on 30 April 1919. Baisieux is where it spent longest, 142 days across six separate stays, including a single unbroken stay of 31 and it came back to Les Brebis nine separate times.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Trenches-Les Brebis, Les Brebis Trenches, Maroc Trenches, Anneux-Rumilly Trench and Rumilly Trench-Niergnies.In 1918 it is also recorded at Bernes, Montigny, Hancourt Montecourt, Montecourt Vendelles, Vendelles, Le Verguier, Montecourt-Li Court, St. Christ, Licourt-Chaulnes-Omiecourt and Omiecourt.

• 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: 9781474513036
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press