41 DIVISION 124 Infantry Brigade, Brigade Machine Gun Company and Brigade Trench Mortar Battery

16 June 1916 - 31 August 1916 (First World War, War Diary, WO95/2644/3)

336 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Brigade Machine Gun Company and Brigade Trench Mortar Battery, 124 Infantry Brigade, 41st Division, covering June 1916 to October 1917 across 329 pages. It names 28 places across 37 dated entries.Alongside the daily entries the volume carries five reports, narratives and plans, twenty-six Operation Orders, two appendices and two maps. Among the papers are: Relief No 1. dt 5/8/ numbered 1 to 16 (3 of them); Operation orders Cmdg. 124 M.G. Coy; Operation order No. 124th. Machine Gun Company.The diary opens at Grantham on 16 June 1916. 1916 is spent at Grantham and Papot. 1917 at Reninghelst, Meteren, Tatinghem Training, Ganspette Training Area and Trenches Bluff. It closes at Teteghem on 31 October 1917. Reninghelst is where it spent longest, 45 days, including a single unbroken stay of 29 and it came back to Voormezeele three separate times.Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Trenches Bluff, Trenches Bluff Sector and Ridge Wood.In 1917 it is also recorded at Field Steenvoorde, Micmac Camp, Field Voormezeele, Field Reningheist, Voormezeele, Arneke, Trenches Bluff Sector, Ridge Wood, Thieushouk and Mont-Des-Cats.

• 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: 9781474525701
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.12.2015
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press