39 DIVISION Divisional Troops 228 Machine Gun Company

2 September 1914 - 28 February 1918 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/2577/5)

344 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the 228 Machine Gun Company, Divisional Troops, 39th Division, covering September 1914 to February 1918 across 333 pages. It names 22 places across 108 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries six reports, narratives and plans and six appendices. Among the papers are: Appendix No 3 instructions for Barrage fire; Appendix No 5 operation orders; Operation order by Capt J a Rayds Comdg 228 M.G. Coy. Appendix No. 2; Operations orders, Comdg. 228 M.G. Coy. Appendix No. 3.The diary opens at Hollebeke on 2 September 1914. 1914 is spent at Hill 60, Hollebeke and Berthen. 1917 at Hollebeke, Berthen, Tower Hamlets, Menin Road and Le Havre. 1918 at St. Julien, Gouzeacourt, Gouzeaucourt, Morcourt and Haut Allaines. It closes at Gouzeacourt on 28 February 1918. St. Julien is where it spent longest, 31 days across fifteen separate stays, it came back to Hollebeke sixteen separate times, and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 5 days at Le Havre.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Canal Bank Hill Top and Menin Road Sector To Ridge Wood.In 1917 it is also recorded at Poperinge, Hilltop, Canal Bank Hill Top, Piebrouch, Tower Hamlet, Carnarvon Camp, Menin Rd, Menin Road Sector To Ridge Wood and Between Caestre & St. Sylvestre Cappel. In 1918 it is also recorded at Gouzeaucort.

• 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: 9781474519083
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press