39 DIVISION Headquarters, Branches and Services Royal Army Medical Corps Assistant Director Medical Services

27 February 1916 - 31 March 1917 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/2571)

734 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 Royal Army Medical Corps Assistant Director Medical Services, 39th Division, covering February 1916 to March 1917 across 721 pages. It names 78 places across 161 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries eight casualty and personnel returns, one daily state of sick and wounded, 48 reports, narratives and plans, twenty Operation Orders, four appendices, one map and two diagrams. Among the papers are: Casualties of C Cheshire Regt; Casualties in 1st Camps. Regt. 3 Days in Frenches; Scheme for Forward Move 39th Division Evacuation of wounded Appendix No1; Shelling of Bethune and the of the Sick and Wounded. Appendix No 4; To the A.D.M.S 39th Div 31 report on Camp 3 & 4; To the A.D.M.S 39th Division (2) report on Camps 5. 6; R.A. order No. 1. 39th Division. Appendix No3; R.A. order No. 2 39th Division. Appendix No5; Report on Erection and Reconstruction Work Doe in Connection with Laundry and Divisional; Report on the Disposal of Refuse in the 39th Divisional Area; Special R.A. order 39th Division Appendix No 1; Divisional Routine order.The diary opens at Amettes on 27 February 1916. 1916 is spent at Locon, Lucon, Acheuy, Esquelbecq and Blaringham. 1917 at L'Abbe Farm, Reminghelst, St Sixte, Esquelbecq and Reminghirst. It closes at Reminghelst on 31 March 1917. Locon is where it spent longest, 67 days across fourteen separate stays and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 30 days at Reminghelst.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include L'Abbe Farm and Loan Farm.In 1916 it is also recorded at Boeseghem, Blaringhem, Lestrem, Havre, Bushey, Abbveille, Calaise, St Omer, Hazebrouck and Steenbecque. In 1917 it is also recorded at Bollezille and Volkerinckhove.

• 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: 9781474518925
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press