39 DIVISION Headquarters, Branches and Services Commander Royal Artillery

2 March 1916 - 5 December 1916 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/2569)

718 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, 39th Division, covering March 1916 to December 1916 across 703 pages. It names 15 places across 35 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries one list of honours and awards, two casualty and personnel returns, 208 reports, narratives and plans, 32 Operation Orders, two appendices and three diagrams. Among the papers are: Appendix "E" honours & awards; Appendix "B" nominal roll of officers 39th Divisional Artillery; Appendix "D. casualties; Instructions with Reference to 39th Divisional Artillery; Arrangements for Instruction of 39th Division Artillery by 8th Division Artillery; 8th Divisional Artillery operation order No. 1; 39th Divisional Artillery. operation order No. 6; March Table to Accompany 39th Divisional order No. 1; Amendment to operation order No. 7. Para. 9; Preliminary instructions for the Artillery defence of the 39th Division Front; Report of Hostile Artillery Fire; Report of Hostile Artillery.The diary opens at Milford on 2 March 1916. 1916 is spent at Locon, Esquelbecq, Acheux, Lynde and Robecq. It closes at St. Sixte on 26 December 1916. Locon is where it spent longest, 130 days across ten separate stays and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 69 days at Esquelbecq.In 1916 it is also recorded at Le Havre, Abbeville, Lacon, Bethune, St Michel, Thievres, Hedauville and Camp Bouzincourt.

• 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: 9781474518901
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press