34 DIVISION 102 Infantry Brigade Northumberland Fusiliers 20th and 21st Battalion (Tyneside Scottish)

10 January 1916 - 31 January 1918 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/2462/4)

872 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Northumberland Fusiliers 20th and 21st Battalion (Tyneside Scottish), 102 Infantry Brigade, 34th Division, covering January 1916 to January 1918 across 849 pages. It names 108 places across 164 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries four casualty and personnel returns, 83 reports, narratives and plans, 197 Operation Orders, nine appendices, eight maps and two diagrams. Among the papers are: Killed; N.C.Os. & Men killed; N.C.Os. & Men Missing; Further report on raid carried out by 20th (S) Bn. Northd. Fus. (1st Tyneside Scottish); Appendix "A" for operation order R/3; Appendix "C" operation orders of 20th (S) Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers (1st Tyneside; Appendix "A" 102nd (Tyneside Scottish) Brigade & 34th Division operation orders Volume; Left Group R.A. scheme for Dummy raid on night of 6/7th October 1916; Continuation of operation order No. 65; Appendix "C" operation orders of the 20th Northumberland Fusiliers (1st Tyneside; Operation order, Cmdg. 23rd Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers; Operation orders No 25 Cmdg 23rd Battn Northumberland Fusiliers.The diary opens at Sandhill Camp Longbridge Deverill on 10 January 1916. 1916 is spent at B 2 Subsector, Albert, Rue Marle and Lahoussoye. 1917 at Roisel, 51. B. S. W. 1/20,000 Vis-en-Artois 1/10,000, Hervilly, Black Line and St Nicolas. 1918 at Heninel. It closes on 27 January 1918. B 2 Subsector is where it spent longest, 38 days across fifteen separate stays and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 30 days at Heninel.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include B 2 Subsector Front Trenches, Trenches I.26.5 to I.20.1, Cologne Farm and Assault On Trenches.In 1916 it is also recorded at Campagne, Steenbecque, Rouge du Bout, Estaires, Rouge de Bout G36.a8.6, Dump House G. 9.0, Fort Rompu, Trenches I.26.5 to I.20.1, Trenches I.26.5 to I.20.2 and Trenches I.26.5 to I.21.2. In 1917 it is also recorded at B 2 Subsector, Rue Fleurie, Divisional Reserve Erquinghem, Thieushouk, Steenbecque, St Hilaire, Bours, Magnicourt-En-Comte, Bethonsart and Ecoivres.

• 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: 9781474525183
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.12.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press