28 DIVISION 85 Infantry Brigade East Surrey Regiment 2nd Battalion, Buffs (East Kent Regiment) 2nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) 3rd Battalion, Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) 3rd Battalion and 1/8th (T.F.) Battalion

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Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the East Surrey Regiment 2nd Battalion, Buffs (East Kent Regiment) 2nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) 3rd Battalion, Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) 3rd Battalion and 1/8th (T.F.) Battalion, 85 Infantry Brigade, 28th Division, covering December 1914 to October 1915 across 693 pages. It names 77 places across 216 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries three casualty and personnel returns, sixteen reports, narratives and plans, four Operation Orders, eight maps and one diagram. Among the papers are: 1/8th Bn Middlesex Regt. nominal roll of officers with Battn; 8 Middlesex casualties Noon 22nd Noon 29th May; 8 Middlesex casualties 2 am, 24/5 to 27/5 noon; 31 Middlesex Regiment narrative of Events 22nd April-3 May; D C 8. Mx Rgt. narrative; 8th Bn Middlesex Reg narrative of events from 22nd April to 3rd May 1918; Report of A.Co from 22nd April-3 May 1915; Narrative of Events April 22nd-May 3rd; Order for the Occupation of trenches At Ypres Cmdg 31 Middlesex Regt; Table of Reliefs for trenches at Ypres; Order in Occupation of trenches Lt. Comdg 3 Middlesex Regt; Orders for the move to and occupation of trenches at Zonnebeke Comdg Middlesex Reg.The diary opens at Devonport on 23 December 1914. 1914 is spent at Winchester, Morn Hill Winchester, Home Hill Camp Winchester and Devonport. 1915 at Dranoutre, Locre, Rossignol, La Clytte and Winchester. It closes at Sidi Bishr on 31 October 1915. Dranoutre is where it spent longest, 100 days across eleven separate stays, including a single unbroken stay of 29 and it came back to Locre nineteen separate times.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Wood East Of Poperinghe, Farm E Of Poperinghe, Chateau Rosendal and Dump Trenches Fosse.In 1915 it is also recorded at Line Of March From Winchester To Southampton, Graville Rest Camp, Le Havre, Havre, Line Of Route Between Havre And Hazebruck, Hazebruck, Goix Rouge, Hazebrouck, Feletre-Caestre and Fletre.

• 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: 9781474524674
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.12.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press