38 DIVISION Divisional Troops Divisional Trench Mortar Batteries

5 April 1916 - 31 January 1919 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/2546/4)

222 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Divisional Trench Mortar Batteries, Divisional Troops, 38th Division, covering April 1916 to January 1919 across 212 pages. It names 39 places across 53 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries one casualty and personnel return, eleven reports, narratives and plans, seven Operation Orders, three appendices and one diagram. Among the papers are: Casualties; Intelligence Summary Right Group 38th. D.A; 38th Divisional Trench Mortar Batteries. instructions No. 1; Instruction. No. 2. Appendix "A"; Report on Days Bombardment; Right Artillery. Instruction No. 1; S.O.S. orders Left Group Medium Trench Mortars; S.O.S. orders Right Group Medium Trench Mortars; 38th Divisional T. M. Batteries. order No. 1. Appendix II (b).The diary opens at Gore on 5 April 1916. 1916 is spent at Laventie, Gore and Le Sars. 1917 at Aulnoye. 1918 at Mesnil, Englefontaine, Varennes and St. Janter Beizen. 1919 at Behencourt and Corbie. It closes at Behencourt on 31 January 1919. Casualties is where it spent longest, 63 days across three separate stays, it came back to Varennes four separate times, and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 30 days at Laventie.In 1918 it is also recorded at Erquinghem, Steenwerck, Outersteene, Le Souverain, Godewaersvelde, Gezaincourt, Rainecheval, Work Of, Varennes Herissart and Herissart.

• 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: 9781474518499
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press