38 DIVISION Divisional Troops 121 Brigade Royal Field Artillery

1 January 1916 - 1 April 1919 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/2546/3)

262 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the 121 Brigade Royal Field Artillery, Divisional Troops, 38th Division, covering August 1916 to April 1919 across 253 pages. It names 59 places across 77 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries fifteen reports, narratives and plans, thirty Operation Orders, eight appendices and one map. Among the papers are: 121st Brigade R.F.A. March orders; Appendix (1) operation order; Appendix (2) operation order; Operation Order. Area for tonight firing July 9/10th Appendix (3); Operation order Appendix (4); Table "B" Barrages; Barrage "E"; 38th Divisional Artillery Draft operation orders; A raid will take place on the Enemy's trenches on the night of through the gap existing; Raid "B" Amendments; A raid will take place at C.13.b.9.7 on the night of the 13th-14th Oct; Amendment to Artillery raid Programme.The diary opens at Sailly-Au-Bois on 3 August 1916. 1916 is spent at Brielen, Fired, Ypres, Elverdinghe and Proven. 1917 at Trois Tours, Armentieres, Brielen, Wissant and Elverdinghe. 1918 is the most travelled year, 38 places against 18 in the next busiest, and is spent at Aulnoye, Harponville, Armentieres, Englebelmer and Fins. 1919 at Pont Noyelles and Glisy. It closes at Glisy on 1 April 1919. Brielen is where it spent longest, 105 days across six separate stays and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 79 days at Pont Noyelles.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Elverdinghe Chateau, Paul Jacques Farm, Mouchoir Copse, Trois. Tours Chateau and Mortho Wood.In 1916 it is also recorded at Authie, Hem-, Zeggers Cappel, La Brique, Poperinghe and Watou. In 1917 it is also recorded at Trois. Tours Chateau, Elverdinghe Chateau, Hamhoek and Left Group 38 DA AD 308. In 1918 it is also recorded at Haverskerque, Near Armentieres, Erquinghem, Steenwercke, La Creche, Bailleul, S. Jans. Cappel, Berthen, Abeele Hamhoek and Reninghelst.

• 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: 9781474518482
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press